NEW YORK'S MAYOR.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 655, 4 November 1909, Page 7

NEW YORK'S MAYOR.

♦ TAMJIANY WINS. BUT LOSES ON ITS MINOR TICKET, CONTROL OP FUNDS. , I (By Telegr&ph.-Prcss Association-Copyrlrhl.) (Roc. 'November i, 0.26 a.m.) Now York, Novembet 3. i- The contest for tlio Mayoralty of New Tork r resulted in Mr. Justice Gaynor, tho Tammany o candidate, being elected by a plurality of 00,000 votes over Sir. Bnnnurd, tlio Republican g Hearst candidate. The iole was , below oj:pecil tations, Ii There nre indications that Judge Gayiior's d colleagues, who contested the other New York - municipal offices, were defeated through the t Hearst party'e solid endorsement of Tammany's Republican opponents. Beuter reportß that tho Ropublican-Hearet [• claim to havo secured most of tlio 0 minor offices, including a majority on the 1 Board of Estimates and Apportionment, which ■> authorises nil expenditure. This control is particularly important at this election, as inii mense eums are likely to le expended on un- ■ derground railways and -other improvements. 1 [The retiring Tammany Ma} or, Mr. M'Clelr lan, was elected in 1905 by 3485 votes o\er Mr. . Hearst.]! MR. GAYNOR'S AUSTERITY. Mr. Justico Gaynor, after a long career in . exposing frauds, particularly Tammany frauds, suddenly became Tammany's candidate in tho .Mayoral election. This eeenis hard to ex- - plain, but perhaps tho fact that (ho control i of mnnicmal government with n jcnrlv budget > of 150,000,000 dollars was at stake, and that Tarn- . -nany wanted to win on any terms, may ex- , pltin i. lot. , Air. .lustico Gaynor is said to be a man of 'the utmost austerity. According lo an American writer: "For fourteen joars, Gajnor hns , been wearing tho robes of a* Supreme Court i justice, is said that ho has so expedited , legal proceedings that he tries twico as ninny cases as any oi his associates. Ho is regarded by many lawjere a<l harsh v and eovero upon them, but they ndmiio his legal ability while denouncing his tsmpcr. Judge'Qaynoi tats, in i his own defence: "It isn't tho lawjer X seo , m court; it's tho litigant behind him, pnlo with aiikictj snd eating up his snbstanco in dragged-out legal expense. It is for his cake I usa all my authority to compel a mero rapid determination of casos.' Judge Gaynor has JMii outspoken, despite his judicial position, in denouncing coiporate abuse aud political chicanery. But he has beta rigid in his deuand that all movements in vindication of art muafc proceed along lawful lines. Hero is his erred, "Crimes and rioes aro evils to tho ocniinunity i but it behooves a free people never to forget that thoy havo moro to lear from thq one vice of atuitrary power in gOTornmeht than irom all other vices aud crimes combined. It detns?s evtryb'cdy, and bring? m its train all othir vH»s and crimes. Societies, a,id pnvats onlhusinsta for the 'suppression of vice' «hould read Innory, and learn the supremo danger of , y i. nß i "° rll **■ ollcc k' , tiie policeman's emb uliat can he done A ah ouy \eiy gradually by the slow moral dcvelen.nont which comes principally , from our schools and churched It would be difficult to speak with perfect forbearance of tho strange pictenca .hat .the• police: .c'oul<L not ohforce■ the ilaw; if .they .kept, within tho : law themselves."',.: ■: ~;it will -.interesting to see; how.Mr.'.Jus;i_co Gaynor as;a Tammany' Mayor.:maintains.