Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-04
GAyNOR OFF FOR
EUROPEAN TRIP
New York Mayor, After Accept
ing Nomination, Surprises
Friends by Sailing.

NEW YORK, Sept. 4.-Mayor Gay.
nor surprised his friends and politica
enemies alike today by sailing fol
Europe on the steamship Baltic. AS
constituent that he should leave New
York on the eve of his campaign for
reelection was somewhat allayed by
the announcement that his trip would
last only twenty days. The mayor
will return on the same ship, due tc
arrive here September 20. Mayor
Gaynors plans, previously announced
spoke of a vacation trip of two weeks
to the Adirondack, which was to be-
gin today. Nobody knew that he had
gone abroad until after the Baltic
had sailed at noon.
The mayor changed his plans at the
eleventh hour because he believed that
q sea trip would give him greater re-
lief from the throat trouble that has
required at intervals since he was
shot more than three years ago.
: This attempt to assassinate the
MAYOR was made aboard an ocean
liner at Hoboken, which was to carry
him to Europe on trip somewhat
like that which he began today. The
bullet that lodged in his throat three
never has served him for public
speaking since that time.
When notified of his choice as fnde-
pendent candidate for reelection yes
terday ne was obliged to have his
secretary read his answer OF ac-
ceptance.
Before sailing Mayor Gaynor at
tackled his opponents in a lengthy
statement.
why is 1t that the so-called politi-
cal leaders are so ferocious against
me? Murphy and the chaps that sat
down with him at Delmonico's the
other night and guzzled and abused
me until their faces were red, were
ready to eat me up, am told" reads
the statement. And yet I never did
anything to them except what tended
to make them look respectable.
suppose the people of the city know
very well what the grievance is.
did not turn the city departments
over to spoilation. / did not suffer
them to loot the city.
These miserable political grafters
that sat down at Delmonico's and
their associates here and all over the
State now have all the State con-
tracts. The result is the grossest
frauds known in this State for years
alone. Governor Sulzer broke all of
these rascally contracts where the
work was to have begun last spring.
That is probably their biggest spite
against him.
This was the mayors speech &C
cepting the nomination:
"I accept.
what you do this day shall be-
come memorable. You are teaching
the intelligent people of this city how
they may nominate their candidates
for office. If they see fit, and have
the spirit, and not submit to having
candidates imposed on them by a
little coterie of men who follow
politics as a dishonest trade, and have
no other visible means of support.
"How different this vast and i'm
pressive scene Is to the little scene
which occurred in a room at Del
monico's one night a week ago. There
sat at a table eight men to decide
who might run for mayor and other
offices. They were all of one stripe,
and of a kind fit even to cast lots on
the garments of the city. Let me
read their names to you, lest you have
forgotten them:
Charles F. Murphy,
John H. McCooey,
Thomas Foley,
philip Donohue.
Edward E. Mccall,
John Fitzgerald,
arthur Murphy,
John Calvin.
There was no room for any one
except themselves. None of you
were invited. None of you were al
lowed to make suggestion. But
here today all the different people of
a
men, have voice.
Mr. Chairman, in presenting me
with this shovel you stated that the
meaning of it was that work of con-
structing the subways was to go on
vigorously. . 1t means far more than
that. 1t means that the people of
this city are going to shovel all of
these miserable little political graft
ers into one common dump heap"