Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1909 — GAYNOR IS JOHNSON [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GAYNOR IS JOHNSON

Bannard Second and Hearst Third. TIGER IS NOW A CRIPPLE Herman C. Baehr, Republican, Wins In Onin Metropolis. New York, Nov. 3.—William J. Gaynor has been elected mayor of New York by a plurality approximating 75,000. The indications are that he will be alone in his own particular kind of political glory in tne board of

estimate and apportionment which spends the city’s money. In the next four years New York city will spend, approximately, a billion dollars. That money will be spent, under the direction and by the votes of a hoard made up of a Tammany mayor, a Republican president of the board of aldermen, a Republican comptroller, possibly a Repnolican president of the borough of Manhattan, Re-

publican presidents of the boroughs of Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens and, possibly, a Republican president of the borough of Richmond. The vast sum to be spent will not, by any means, be under the control of Tammany hall. It was a bitter pill for Tammany to swallow —to lose the board of estimate ahd apportionment. Bui with that gone, there were visions of the fees in the sheriff's office, had Christie Sulilvan gotten votes enough. But Sullivan appears to have fallen outside the breastworks and the Republican candidate, Shea will administer the office of sheriff and apportion the fees. Tammany hoped to annex the district attorney’s office when it put up a high class man and an able lawyer in George Gordon Battle to run against former Judge Charles S. Whitman. But even the protection of the district attorney’s office seemed to have been deaied the Tammany aggregation. The returns seem to indicate that Whit naan has beaten Battle.

WILLIAM J. GAYNOR.

CHARLES S. WHITMAN.