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Show HEARST'S EEPLY TO GAYNOR. W. R. Hearst of the New York American has 6nt the Standard an "echo" of the Gaynor sensation at the publishers' banquet in New York. Hearst presents the history of the warrant paid by the City of New York to Attorney Cohalan for $48,000. This is the war. rant which Mayor Gaynor exhibited and on which he based his charges of Hearst's trickery because the date on the warrant, as published pub-lished in fac simile in the New York American, did not show plainly as having been passed upon and issued by his predecessor in office, and that, as a matter of fact, he did not pay it. Mr. Hearst now shows that, in fact, Gaynor did pay it, and this in spite of warning received. Mr. .Hearst quotes ex-Mayor McClellan as saying that he held up the warrant and directed that Martin, his chief clerk, should call the attention of the incoming mayor to the warrant as probably excessive. Mr. Hearst uses this fact, which is after all the main fat in the controversy, to great effect. Mr. Hearst shows that the nomination of Mayor Gaynor by Tammany was brought about by Daniel Cohalan, the beneficiary of the warrant. In a cablegram, Mayor McClellan says he had this warrant brought back to him from the finance department of the city, for investigation. in-vestigation. In the rush of leaving office, he had no time to investigate inves-tigate the warrant, but directed the chief clerk to call Mr. Gaynor's attention to it at once when he came into office. There is no positive evidence that the clerk did this, but Mayor McClellan says that he has no doubt that the chief clerk obeyed his instruction. As the Standard stated the day after Gaynor's attack, Mr, Hearst was surrounded by bright, capable men and the prospects were the Mayor would experience many a heartache before the sen-fation sen-fation he started had ceased to disturb his mind. Hearst's reply makes a further explanation from Gaynor absolutely necessary, if the Mayor is to escape the charge of intentionally perpetrating a deception in order to cover up an improper use of public funds. |