Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-10-20
GRANT FOR MAYOR.
Another Change in kaIeido-
scopic Gotham Politics.
STRAUSS SENDS IN A WITHDRAWAL,


Conditions Cause of the Change a Diff
ference Between Hill and Strauss-Rep-
resentative Reed. at Chicago. Disavows
Some Alleged Remarks-The Situation
from His Point of View.
NEW YORK, Oct. 20-Nathan Straus, the
phllanthropist who was nominated by
Tammany hall rs its candidate for mayor,
mas formally announced his refusal to ac-
cept the nomination, and after declaring
chat he could not accept and ought not to
DC nominated, Hugh J. Grant has been
talked into filling the vacancy on the ticket.
Strauss sent "a letter to James J. Martin,
chairman of the Tammany executive COM
'nittce, stating his reason for withdraw
ing from the race which is, so it is stated,
the stand talon by Senator Hill in favor
OF permitting the committee of seventy
and William II. Grace to print the names
of the reform candidates for county offices
on the regular Democratic state ticket 1t
had been pointed out to Straus that if this
was done many Democrats would vote
that ticket in preference To the Tammany
ticket, and that Tammany's candidates
would lose in this way between 1900 and
10000 votes, or enough to insure their de-
feat.
Hill Insists Directing the Work.
AT Straus' request his political sponsors
In Mayor Gilroy's committee of eight on
Tammany's campaign made an effort to
get Hill to refuse his consent to this pro-
position. They had talk with Hill, who
was then in Albany, over the ng-distance
telephone, and then announced that SEN
ator Hill was disposed to resent their ifA
tcrfercnce; that in fact, the senator did
not care what Strauss or anybody else
thought of the propriety of his action, rs
he had been forced into the fight against
his OWL wishes, and he was determined to
make the race now on lines laid down by
himself alone, Strauss withdrawal re-
suited in the Immediate calling together
of the Tammany executive committee,
and the work of finding a man to fill the
ticket was begun
Grant Accepts on Conditions.
There were two names talked about
ex-Mayor Grant and Richard Croker
Grant having the call by long shot. The
ex-1nayor said in the morning that he
would not accept nomination, but he
changed his mind after IA long conference.
tification, said: MY determination to
accept is based upon conditions which
will hereafter state, so that there can
be no mistake about my position l had
determined never to take public office
again, but as l favored the nomination of
MIR. Strauss feel that am somewhat re-
sponsible for his being named Ny CON
ditions are that such candidates now on the
ticket whose candidacy l regard as inju-
dicious, shall be removed from the tick
ct"
New Platform for the New Man.
The committee then escorted Grant to
Tammany hall, where he was received
with tremendous applause. 1t was an
nounced that new platform had been
prepared expressly for Grant. A large
part of it is devoted to dcnunciation of the
A. z. A
The doings Of the day have emphasized
the peculiar political conditions here.
Strauss refuses to run because Hill re-
fuses to take his name off n Democratic
ticket that has for mayor Republican,
while there is another Democratic ticket
which is headed by Wheeler Democrat
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