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Show Tammany Leaders Say Mayor Will Surely Be Named for Governor. EXPECTATION IS THAT HE WILL DECLINE HONOR Can Then Become Leader of 9 New York Democrats and Presidential Probability. BY ROBERT LEE CARTER. By Leased Wire to The Tribune. NEW YORK. Aug. 20. Mayor Gay-nor Gay-nor will be nominated by the Democrats Demo-crats for governor of New York by acclamation. ac-clamation. This is the news brought by the Tammany members of the Democratic Dem-ocratic stnto committee from the Saratoga Sara-toga meeting of the committee. Hero is how one of the Tammany leaders sizes up the situation: "When the committee disposes of the preliminary business in Rochester on Soptember"2f) or 30 and the time comes to nominate candidates, take it as a prophecy that, about half the men in the hall will rise up and begin to shout the name of Gavnor. No other name wil be mentioned. No other candidato will be foolish enough to try to buck against the sentiment that will bo np parent. Increased Popularity. "Mayor Ofaynor was really the logical "choice before ho was shot. His serious injury, his game struggle and his suffering in the hospital have all served to fan into flame the popularity that has 'been smouldering ever since election. The feeling of the people toward to-ward Mayor Gaynor is reflected in the attitude of the New York press. The Republican popcrs which opposed him II most bitterly were most sincere in their I i tributes to his character and ability I the day after the shooting. 1 , "Tammany Hall docs not want 1 Mavor Gayiior to run for governor. "While the mavor has not been particu-I particu-I larly good to Tammany Hall in the al- . lotment of patronage, he is a Tam- manv mayor just the same, and Tam-I Tam-I inan'v wants to got the credit for his I election and for the carrying out of I his policy. Tammany Hall suffers an icy chill when considering the- pros-J pros-J poets of John Percy Mitchell succeed ing Mayor Gaynor. "Now here is Tammany's hope. Tammany Tam-many knows Gaynor will be nominated. Tammany- hopes Gaynor will refuse. Then it would bo necessary to reconvene recon-vene the conve.nt.ion for the nurpose of V accepting his declination. There is a precedent for this in the case of John B.vd Thatcher, who declined to run ntiev he was nominated. The conven tion icasseniblt'd and nominated David Bennett Hill. ' Ground for Declination. ' , I "Romeinber that Mayor Gaynor had ' pledged himself to servo tho people of New York Git' four .years as maj'or. i , He could put his declination of his noni- ,l ination on tho high ground of tho fnl- ' fillment of a solemn promiso to 5,000,- 000 people. " Naturally, should Maj'or Gaynor be nominated, and should ho refuse to run, J he would be given the privilege of nam- J ing the candidate. He would be the v-) dictator, for the time being, of the Democratic party of tho state of New r, York, h "Should Mayor Ga3nor sacrifice N what looks like a certainty of being ij the governor of New Yorl for the pur- I, pose of remaining in New York City ti and carrying out his common sense C policy, he would become tho Tildcn of F his party. L' "The" road to tho Whito house would be open, because, with the united Kl party back of him, ho would bo accopt- jjj able to run against even such a man I' as Roosevelt. The third term idea I would hurt Roosevelt in running j against a man of Mayor Gaynor 'b ; standing. I) "There is tho situation. You will IT find the march of events leading tho I inox'itable nomination of Mayor Ga3r- nor at Rochester. Wherever Mayor Gaynor goes to convalesce from his j in.fury. that spot will be the mecca of 1 the Democrats of this state, .iust as j Tilden's Gramercy Park homo was the mecca of tho Democrats of his j time." |