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Show PP!"BBBBBBBBBBBBBBB1 bbbbbY I Prominent People m H I TAMMANY'S MAN FOR MAYOR H f ' I William .1. Gaynor, Justice of tho supromo H 5Sv court, has boon nominated for tho mayoralty of H Now York City by tho Democrats. In tho cam- BBH V'J I,n,K tlmt w111 follow ho will be opposed by Otto H (M SIX Ilannnrd, nominated by tho Republicans and In- BBH i'V awi Vi dorscd by President Taft. Tammany will do Its H xo i wjSSk utmost to elect Justice Onynor. KvSi) If Justice Gnynor wins It will bo n victory of BBH ' C'"' '( Jufc Wr a p'ow w'10 kocntno a school teachor, then a BkV ? fPH'l lawyer, then a political giant who overthrow BH 1 WiirWf Hut'h Mc-T nBlilln, for 25 years tho "boss" of BBH Iv.y'V(-PwW Uroolrlyn; then the Implacable enemy of trusts, BBB Mxk iiW 1B 0 of tho suProino court, and finally mayor. bbb 'clar v 11 wl" bo avlctoryfor n lnan wll lm(1 Hconie(1 B to run for governor when ho might have won, B voyiParftf-l and who once rejected "Uoss" Croker's offer of B Tammany's nomination for mayor of tho tely. B Justice Gnynor Is f8 years old. It was on n stony farm that William B -was born. It was thcro he tolled when a boy in a v. lining battle with pov- B ' crty. Ho went to the district school and grow up Eiinbrowncd nnd Rtrong. B After graduating from tho Whitcstouo academy he taught school in Doston. B Accumulating sufficient funds to permit it, ho moved to Utlca and began studying law In tho olllco of Ward Hunt, who Inter becamo Justice of tho Biiprcmo court of tho United States. As long ago as 1875 Mr. Gaynor moved to Flatbush, L. I., then an Inde- pendent municipality having 40 saloons, but only one operating under a H license. This, he discovered, wns due to corruption in municipal govorn- B ' In 1885 Mr. Gnynor moved to Brooklyn, then held In the despotic polltl-HBBj polltl-HBBj cnl grip of McLaughlin. Brooklyn was expanding. The town of Now Lots, BBJ which had a little institution known as the Long Island Wator Supply Com- J pany, was annexed. Gnynor discovered that tho "McLaughlin ring" had HHJ bought out this company through dummies for $185,000, and had contracted J to turn it over to tho city of Brooklyn through tho mayor for $1,500,000. Ho BBJ denounced the deal ns n swindle |