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Show TAMMANY STILL l COHTHBL f THE CITY McCarren Faction in New York . Has No .Show When Ticket J.s Named. NEW YORK, Sept. HO. The Demoerntie convention for tho city of New York tonight to-night nominated the. following tleket: For mayor .Justice William J. Gaynor of Brooklyn. For comptroller Robert M. Moore of Manila ttan. For president of the board of aldermen John F. Calvin of Manhattan. The Tnmmany cohorts were so strong that they overrode with onse the opposition opposi-tion faellon headed by Senator lJ:url:k U. McCarren of Brooklyn, who hopvd 10 secure the rcnominatlon of Comptroller .Met?.. The convention nominated tor Ibis office Robert M. Moore, president of tli1 Commercial Trust company, ibe Tammany Tam-many selection. Jn the mayoralty fighl, Justice Guvnor's Guv-nor's chief opponent will be Otto T, Uan-nard. Uan-nard. president of the New York Trum company, who was nominated by tin- Republicans Re-publicans a few da."3 ago and wlio 1ms some assurances of support fr no iho fuslonlsts. There remain foe pon.vil.IPty that the Independence league will make the contest a .triangular one by naming a separate ticket. Gist of Platform. Tho convention adopted n platform ch -nounclng the recent tariff legislation and objecting to Interference In local affairs by the legislature. It advocated municipal ownership and the building of additional subways by the clly. There was no mention or even Indirect reference in the pat form to the retiring administration of Mayor McClel'an. who led the party to victory fo.ir yea .3 -ik-This rather astonishing omission called forth considerable comment. Outside the n:ayoraIly fight, chief ir.t-.":est in tlx-campaign tlx-campaign will center In the contest for dhitilet attorney, who will be: nominated at a sijciate convention l.-.ter. Iibtnici Attorney Ji roine's attack on 'uslieo fiay-nur fiay-nur early in Uic week males .1 unlikeiy tieit. his candidacy for rc-eloeo:i v. jl! r -ceivo Democratic Indorsement. TJie attack at-tack received scornful but brief mention from several of the speakers tonight. The Republican candidate for mavor. Mr. Bannard, was also referred lo. One speaker spoke of Mr. Bannard as an unknown un-known man. whose nomination was forced upon the Republicans by "the Taft family." lie continued: "The issue Is drawn clearly shall tho people of New York select their own mayor?" The speaker dwelt at length on the Indorsement In-dorsement which Mr. Bannard received from President Taft. Sketch of Candidate. Justice Gaynor is fS years old. lie bo-came bo-came nationally known nearly a score of years ago for his work In breaking up rings in the Democratic party and for his action in securing the conviction of John Y. MclCane. known as the "Czar of Coney island." for election frauds. in national politics a consistent and life-lobg Democrat, Justice Gaynor was nominated for the .supreme court by the Republicans and independents of this city, and since that time has twice declined de-clined nomination for governor, offered him by his own party. Justice Gaynor, in a statement tonight, said : "I have not asked for the nomination, and it comes to me without oven a suggestion sug-gestion of any pledge, understanding or condition whatsoever. We have reached the end of an old and the beginning of a new era In the government of this great city, which should be an object lesson for good Instead of a bad example to tho elites of the nation. 'L'nlawfnl and annoying interference, oppression, lawless force and violence, awles. arrests and Imprisonments, dishonesty, dis-honesty, and corruption. aj-.e doomed- In this city. It means a government 6f lawn and not of men. It must not be turned Into a government or men and not of laws. I he vice of arbitrary power Is a greater menace to a f.ree. government than all other vices combined." |