NEW YORK ELECTIONS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13546, 6 October 1909, Page 7

NEW YORK ELECTIONS.

MAYORAL CANDIDATES

SELECTED

United Preee Aesociation—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, October 4. The anti-Tammany party has selected Mr Otto Banard, president of the New York Trust Company, as its candidate for the New York Mayoralty. Tammany has selected Mr Justice Gaynor. Although he has long denounced the evils of Tammany Hall, he is now its nominee.

Tho New York mayoral election attracts more attention in. the United States than any other single election, save that of the President. Writing in July, the American correspondent of the "Age" said there was no assurance that a Tammany mayor would not be elected. "The elements opposed to the machine are disorganised, and there seoms, from present indications, but little likelihood that they will unite on a man who can win." In his powerful article in "McClure's" indicting Tamniany, which we referred to recently in our leading columns. Mr George Turner says that Tammany s stake at the coming*elections is. "the most tremendous political prise on the Continent—the handling of a municipal expenditure of £30j000,000, and the control of tens of millions more in semi-public expenditures." A thorough defeat would, asserts Mr Turner, mean tho total and permanent oollapee of Tammany.