The evening world., 1894-10-08
TO DROP NAMES OF GRACE MEN
The New Slate Will Be Decided
Upon at a Meeting To-
Morrow Morning.
THIS 10 BE THE LAST EFFORT.
II II Fails, The Xxx. viii Issue a
Statement and g. Gut
Of Business.

The Executive Committee OF the Xxx.
will make a last. supreme effort to-
morrow to arrange a ticket that will
be acceptable to the anti-Tammany
organizations, and with which they hope
to defeat whatever ticket Tammany
Hall may put up or indorse.
In this last effort, however, one thing
seems pretty certain. and that Is that
not a single Grace-Fairchild mans name
will appear upon the remodelled ticket
The Xxx. seem to think they have
been sold out by the Grace-Fairchild
combination. The took up the iatter's
candidate, John w. Con, and while not
pressing him for Mayor gave him that
which he himself longed for-the nomi-
nation for Recorder. With two excep-
| lions 1t gave Mr.. Grace every other
place on the local ticket. Still the lat
| ter was not satisfied.
Now the Xxx. looks upon the Grace
Fairohild crowd as boiters and pro-
poses to treat them as such.
The Grace Fairchild people viii hold
their convention TOMORROW night and
nominate a ticket. The leaders will
The Xxx. will go ahead now and
ignore all that the Grace-Fairchild men
may do.
Intre was an INFORMAL gathering OF
some members of the Xxx. to-day at
the Chamber OF Commerce rooms on
Nassau street. Some OF the morning
papers had announced q meeting there.
but that was a mistake.
Chairman Cnaries stewart Smith was.
however, on hand, and when William
Travers Jerome, Gustav III. Schwab.
soou R0S Soppes and ID II Wss decides ssse p
send out for a few more Of the Execu-
tive Committee, Gen. Horace Porter
and one or two others were summoned.
The Executive Committee, or a quo
rum OF it, got together. and for nearly
two hours debated the situation.
Then the meeting adjournl@. and Chair
I'VE have done nothing; We know
nothing. in fact, nor will we. until II
o'clock tomorrow morning. At thar
hour we will all get together and make
be acceptable.
II do not wish to discuss the action Of
Mr.. Grace or the gentleman acting with
Charles steckler and Julius Haryier.
and ex-sheriff james O'Brisn. called al
MEMBER me- Of the LXX. after the meet.
Ex-sherifr oBrien. who had separately
seen every member Of the Executive
hide his feelings. He said he had urged
upon all the necessity Of dropping
the Grace Falrchild names from the
ticket below that of Recorder. He was
satisfied that he had carried his point.
Gustav Schwab when seen Immediately
after the conference, said:
1T will be impossible for US to have
any ticket ready for publication befors
to- morrow morning at II o'clock. All ]
can say is that from the office OF Record.
err down the old ticket will be remodelled
New names win probably be selected for
MIR Schwab did not think thsre was
much truth In the story that the Ger
man-An.erican reformers had split up.
They have not held a meeting since
the conference OF yesterday" said he
They will meet, however. on Thursday.
Then we will know where we are at"
In case the Committee Of Xxx. actual
ly decides upon ticket tomorrow
morning a second conference Of all the
organizations--the Grace-Fairchild peo-
pie excepted-will at once be called to
indorse II.
That the Republicans are expecting
such a move is evident from the fact
that their convention will not be re-
convened until Wednesday night.
II the LINKS remodelled ticket Is re-
Jected. II Is very probable that that body
will issue a statement setting forth the
reasons for Its failure and go out OF