The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-02
CITY CAMPAIGN ASPECTS.
xlMMINY BOUND TO BE "REGU.
LlR,D oUIG8 POINTS OUT.

D. rt.s the Etsht with nryanisu over AEain-
Mayer strong Might Have CousuItea the
Party About the How Peiice Cornunissioner
As to strosE"s Candidacy. ASK stronE.
President ouigg Of the Republican County
Committee was limpinE about Manhattan
Beach yesterday with q twinge OF rheumatic
Rout- Mr.. ouigG's govt Is q recent afniction.
He had \ talk with Mayor Strong about It on
Friday and they snapped remedies. Tho Mayor
told Mr.. ouirR that Ricbneld Springs is II good
place for equity persons. Tho Mayor used q
theological adverb with his adjective.
Mr.. Quigg's a~fiiction 10 not 20 severe that Il
incapacitates him from attending to the game of
politics. and ho had some things to say about
the approaching municipal campaign.
Every day" said he. makes the fact clearer
that the issue on which the voters of the elcctor-
ate Of the Greater New York will cast their vote
next November will bo the Same issue ON
which they cast their votes last Novem.
Der. Tho very effort Of Tammany Hall
to avoid that situation renders II the
moro inevitable. The suggestion has been
made in certain quarters that the present leader
or leaders Of Tammany are not satisfactory to
the rank and flo Of the organization, and that
1t has been decided to procure the services Of q
former leader in the coming campaign. That
former leader 10 recognized as a gold standard
man and q friend Of the so-called conservative
as we. ali know, that he and. ali the
their cardnial creed the belief that Tam:
many Hall ought to remain. under all
zation, shifting its position from time to Time
regarding public issues as may. become neces-
s fsryy. a. S. prSissfSyis s i Ss,i Eeg N init Gold i i Is %sil knS MN
Croker advised that Tammany should stand for
the Chicago platform"
ment Of Col. George Moore Smith as Police
Commissioner T. Mr.. Quigg was asked. He re-
."The statute under which the Board of Police
COMMISSIONER exists describes that body as BIZ
the only one in the city which is rendered parti.
san by law. What tho statute means when the
word partisan is used is shown by the fact that
msndaticn Of The reeosnised heads q the two
1 rIsh I: a %s CAREFUL sSaR % Q, he Ss i lssstGsst o. Of the the
said Of Mayor Strong's obligations not to con-
slider craftsmanship with regard to other appoint
ments he is by law commanded to consider it
here. and l think it would have teen in the public
interest had, the Mayor. before making the APP
pointment. invited some suEgestion from our
We should have recommended tor appointment,
but tho prescribed statutory relations OF the
office TO the political organizations are such as
suitable. Nevertheless 1 should think Col.
Smith would make an excellent Police Com
II may make my reference to the relationship
OF q Police COMMISSIONS TO the political organ.
fzation he is Supposy . represent clearer by
stating that around Gle, Ion times a great many
things GO On which tho law IoroidS, and which
become known to the head OF the County Com
mittee through the election district organize
lions. There ought to be somebody in the Police
Board who can be made the repository Of cont
Dental communications regarding such mat
ters"
nomination of Col. Strong for Mayor on the Re
publican ticket . was the next question. and
Mr.. Quigg answered as follows:
Mayor Strong says there's nothing in 1t. He
ought to know"
Senator William B. Allison OF Iowa is at tho
Oriental Hotel. where Senator Plat ana Mr..
QuiRE are staying. SO are Congressman R Il.
Hit of Illinois. Chairman of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee. and Congressman Cousins
OF Iowa. who is the guest OF Mr.. Quigg. All
these and Senator Platt werc entertained at
dinner LIST evening by Henry Clews, Senator
Allison being the guest OF honor. Others ut the
dinner were Mrs. Plat. Mrs. Hit, Mr.. and Mrs.
kessler, Mr.. and Mrs. Livingston. Mr.. and Mrs.
Warren, and Mr.. Potter.
John Q. Sheehan for Tammany Hall says that
1t isn't much of an issue, Tut eN-ENcise Com
missioner Julius hamburger declares that tho
Liquor Tax law is 20 he the great issue in the
Literary Association SO in a long speech deliv-
cred at Odd Feilowe' Hall. in East Ninth street,
yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Harburger devoted
his entire speech to denunciation OF the Liquor
Tax law, and in the course of II issued u general
challenge to State Senator John Raines to de-
bate the merits OF the measure nywher and at
any time prior to the Greater New York election.