SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
Special Correspondence Gaynor's Speech Unsettles Politics New York. May 15, 1910. THE attack on Mr. Hearst, made by Mayor Gaynor at the publishers' banquet in the Waldorf hotel on the evening of...
...But the Hearst men say that Gaynor's attack on their chief will never be forgiven nor forgotten...
...Naturally, the Republican organization sympathizes with Hearst who was directly responsible for the defeat of Tammany and the election of the Republican officials...
...The Gaynor speech has had a remarkable effect upon the local Republican situation...
...Friends of Congressman William Sulzer in Tammany have suddenly become very active in pushing his candidacy for the democratic nomination for governor...
...These Republicans have been working in harmony with the mayor upon all public questions, but the public has been giving Gaynor the credit for all reform, notwithstanding that many of the big reforms now being carried forward were directly inaugurated by the Republican officials...
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...The city administration, aside from the mayoralty, is largely in the hands of the Republicans...
...Gaynor men have said in confidence that it would be better for Gaynor to have this fight out right away than to wait two years...
...The specific local question as to whether Charles F. Murphy's closest advisor, Daniel Coha-lan, was paid $48,000 by the McClellan administration or by the Gaynor administration—for legitimate legal services, seems to have been blanketed by the greater question which the average man puts this way: Did Mayor Gaynor by that speech take his name from the list of leading candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination...
...Even now, Gaynor men say the wounds will be healed before the next Democratic national convention...
...Of course the Gaynor speech has greatly changed the political sitution in New York...
...Tammany leaders are mum as oysters and all through the organization the command has been sent to keep silent and wait...
...Now other names are coming to the front...
...It is admitted that Gaynor has lost prestige...
...Hearst polled 154,000 votes in the election last fall...
...Henceforth the Republicans will try to get credit for themselves, and thus pave the way for a regular Republican mayor to succeed Gaynor...
...The concensus here seems t be that uaynor has lost much and Hearst has gained much...
...Hearst, made by Mayor Gaynor at the publishers' banquet in the Waldorf hotel on the evening of April 20, was, by accident of circumstances, of national rather than local interest...
...Politicians have been saying for some time that a death fight between Hearst and Gaynor was inevitable...
...The speech seems to have marked the political parting of the mayor and his Republican colleagues...
...Up to the time of the speech, the mayor had so completely dominated the Democratic situation that no other name could get the attention of the Democratic voters...
...Politicians do not forget that Mr...
...This Hearst army reems to have been aroused by the Gaynor :peech.—P...
Vol. 2 • May 1910 • No. 20
