NEW YORK MAYORALTY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 233, 6 November 1909, Page 1

NEW YORK MAYORALTY.

[ iIK. GAYNOK'N AL'^XKIUTV. ► Mr, Justice Gaynor, wiio was elected * -Mayor of New \oik 011 Wednesday, jil"'t**r > a Jong career in oxpusiiijr hands, par- ; tieularly Tammany hand.-, suddenly Mcame lainmany's candidate in ih/eleetion. This seems hard u> oxpu.u, mil perhaps the fact that lite tonuvl of municipal go\ernment with a vearh budget- of J.')0 : 00U.0U0 dollars at "stake, and that Tammany wanted tu win mi any terms, may explain a lot. .Mr.♦ Justice Gaynor is said to a man ol the utmost austerity. According to an Amereian writer: "'For fourteen years. Gaynor lias beeu wearing the robes ol a Supreme Court justice. It is said that he lias *0 expedited legal proceed iugs that ho tries twite as many cas"s as any of his associates, lie is regarded by many lawyer* as harsh and severe upon them, but they admire -his legal ability while denouncing his temper. Judge Gavnor says in his' own defence: "It isn't the lawyer 1 see in court; it's the litigant 'Mind him, pale with anxiety and eating up his substance in dragged-out legal expenses. It is for his sake ] use all my authority to compel a more rapid determination of cases." Judge Gaynor has been outspoken, despite his judicial position, 1:1 ! denouncing corporate aouse and politic il I chicanery. Jiut lie has boon rigid in his demand that all movements in vindication of law must proceed along lawful lines. Here is his creed: "Crimes'and vices are evils to the community; but it behoves a free people never to forget that they have more to fear from the one vice of arbitrary power in government than from all other vices and crimes combined. It debases I everybody, and brings in its' train ail | other vices and crimes. Societies, an I private enthusiasts for the 'suppression 'of vice 1 should read history, and learn the supreme danger of trying to do all at once, by the policeman's eluh what can be done at all only very gradually hy the slow moral development which conies principally from our schools and churches. It would be difficult to speak with perfect forbearance of the Grange pretence that the police could not enforce the law if they kept within the liw themselves." It. will be interesting to see how Mr.: Justice Gavnor as a Tammany Mayor •Maintains his principles.