New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-31
mitchell PROMISES TO
END MURPHY'S POWER
Tells Gaynor Leaguers He Will
Follow System" Unremit.
tingIy if Elected.
LATE MAYOR HIS MENTOR
Only Way to Redeem City Is to
Free It from the Political
Interference of Tam
many Hall.

Gaynor himself would not have been
more unremitting in his efforts to end the
power of Murphy and redeem the city
from the disgrace OF his prestige and
Tammany Halls than John Purroy
Mitchell, according to the fusion candi-
dates promise made yesterday to two
hundred members of the Gaynor League
who gathered at fusion headquarters.
Gaynor, Mr. Mitchell said, stood upon
his own feet and directed his own course"
He promised 10 do the same. He said:
You were all friends of the late Mayor
Gaynor. and for that l tell you, with all
sincerity. I honor you. | always honor
men who stand by a friend or by cause.
and when you stood by Gaynor you stood
by both a friend and by cause. That
cause is still represented by this fusion
ticket. and l know we'll that the reason
your support has come to me and to my
associates upon that ticket now IS that
you feel that If we are lifted to office by
the franchise of the people in this city we
will carry on that cause as far as IL is
given us to do with our abilities and
powers until we have come to the point
where Tammany's system of misgoyern-
ment In this city has been broken for
ever.
II suppose that knew Mayor Gaynor
as well as any one connected with him in
public life in this administration, and az
we'll as most who were not close personal .
friends of his. / understood much OF HIS
purposes and much Of his work, and I
know the value of a great deal Of that
work 10 the City Of New York; and T
want to say to you that If this ticket Is
elected, as we al confidently believe It
will be, think know in what direc-
lions to look to ind the best things that
were accomplished by Mayor Gaynor and
to save them for the City OF New York
and TO take them and build on them for
the future.
las your chairman mentioned, there
were times when We differed on questions
: OF policy and OF business and when
Mayor Gaynor differed from all Of his
associates in the Board Of Estimate and
there were also times when they differed
among themselves. But there is no one
In this city who can say that while GAY
nor was Mayor there was any one who d.
rected his actions. He stood upon his
own feet and directed his own course
whittier he went.
mo one can say. after reading the last
words he spoke to the people in this CITY,
that he had not made up his mind aoSo-
lutely and finally that the only way for
the redemption OF the government Of this
city from political interferences and prog
titution was to get away from New YORK
all the prestige OF Tammany Hall. That
IS what we propose to do if we are elected
TO office in this city.
while | do not pretend to compare my
ability with that of Mayor Gaynor which
was exceptional and extraordinary, can
saw this to you: lie would not have fol
lowed these men in Tammany-men who
prostituted government in this city TO
their private ends-more unremittingly
and more consistently than / shall follow
them when am Mayor; nor shall stop
I'm my efforts to break down and wipe out
that system until everything has been
done which a Mayor can do TO end the
power of Murphy over the city govern
ment and TO disestablish the power which
has constituted in the past its chief dis
grace"
Controller Prendergast and Borough
President McAneny also spoke.
Among those present were Commission
ers Thompson, of the Department OF
Water Supply; Smith, of the Dock De-
partment: Lederle, of the Health Depart
ment Murphy of the Tenement House
Department: r. Ross Appleton, Davld
Ferguson and Joseph Barondess.