The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-20
TO COMBINE FORCES.
Subcommittee Of Five Appointed
by the Chosen Seventy.
Anti-Tammany Organizations In
vited to Another Conference.
A Ticket to BE Chosen on which
All viii Agree.

The Committee of Seventy is getting
down TO work, and If the present pro-
gramme is carried out will open its anti
Tammany campaign IN ueau earnest
within a day or two.
Chairman Charles Stewart Smith, OF
the Executive c.. mlttee, which was
chosen at yesterdays meeting, announce
to-day that a subcommittee OF hVe mad
been appointed, of which he himself was
chairman, whose purpose would be To
combine the antiTammany force.
This Committee, he said, would con-
fer with all the other organizations OPP
posed to Tammany Hall, in order to
effect, II possible, the nomination OF "A
ticket upon which all the opposition
could agree Work would be com
menced at once, and the result would
be given to the public at the earliest
possible moment.
Who the members Of this Conference
Committee were besides himself. MIR.
Smith declined to say at present, giving
as a ground for his refusal that the
gentlemen were all very much occupied
Just now and did not want to be over
run with reporters. 1t was very prob
able however, that the announcement
would be made this afternoon, as "a
special meeting of the Executive Com
mittee Is called for O'Clock at the
Chamber OF Commerce.
1t was rumored that the other mem
bers of this committee were Gustav
H. Schwab, w. Harris Roome, simon
Sterne and Horace Porter, while the
names of w. Travers Jerome, Everett
p. Wheeler and q. l.. RiveJ were also
mentioned. Several of these gentle
whether they had been appointed to this
committee or not.
The first outcome OF this organization
of the Committee Of Seventy will be
another conference of the anti-Tam-
many 'orces, ard II is said that such "A
meeting will be called at the Coleman
House Tomorrow night. Represents
tives from all the different organizations
opposed to Tammany will be present,
as at the first meeting, with the add
tional delegation representing the Com
mittee OF Seventy Something definite
in the way OF plan OF campaign and
the selection Of n ticket 1t IL believed
will be the result of this second con-
ference.
The Executive Committee of the LXX,
has decided to have meeting every
afternoon from this time on until cleo
ton day. AS permanent headquarters
has not yet been secured those meet
ings will be held for the present at the
Chamber Of Commerce.
One Of the first things, however to
be done will be the selection and fitting
up or suitable headquarters ~nlCn VIII
be convenient for the majority of the
Committee. 1t will probably be located
uptown, somewhere In the neighborhood
OF Madison Square.
The daily meetings of the Executive
Committee will be secret, but Chairman
Smith said this morning that he would
give out to the public all Information
that was deemed advisable, and which
would not in his Judgment. interfere
with the object in hand.
I'VE are anxious to take the press ant
the public into our confidence" he said
but 1t would not do to have all oul
meetings open. We have nothing to con
ceal, however. and are simply out tC
make the best figt we can against Tam
many"