New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-19
WORKING FOR HARMONY.
TUE COMMITTEE OF FIFTY STILL IN
BUSINESS

IN RELAXATION OF EFFORT TO SECURE THE
NOMINATION OF Low-UNIoY NOT EIPossI-
BILE IF SLIGHT CONCESSIONS ARE MADE.
The Brooklyn Committee OF Fifty is seeking TO
.wsnaper advertising just now. but that does not
,.an that it has gone out of the business OF try
;ng 70 secure Seth Lows nomination by the Re
,ublican City Convention. Undsmayed by its fail
to induce the Citizens Union 10 delay the
f. ~ its nomination to President Low. the Com
,,..ee has been working theoretically to bring the
psnublicans and the Union together Mr.. Quigs :
.r, bulletins on the progress Of the straight
,,.ke- proposition are proofs that II has not sue
coded but its continued activity Is not less sig
riacant than Mr. Quigg's iterations. Yesterday the
abers Of the committee said that while 1t was too
carly for public announcements, they were willing
10 say that prospects were excellent for union on
Low.
Several conferences have been held with Citizens
Union leaders and with prominent Republicans.
The policy OF the committee has been TO let the
Union and the Republicans put forward their own
suggestions to schemes Of union. and the graft
fling discovery has been made that the sugges-
tons from the sides not so dissimilar that
union will he impossible if concessions can be Sc
cured as it seems that they can from the con-
cilistory expressions made on both sides
Although the Citizens Union managers. when
they talk for publication. insist that they are
planning 10 put full ticket in the field. they have
been advised that such course would be highly
inexpedent and have been persuaded that they
could well afford TO indorse straight Republican
candidates for Controller and President OF the
Municipal Council. as well the Republican
county tickets II a Republican nomination of Low
should be secured. The Republicans would be sat
ished with nothing less than Union support Tor all
the city and county Offices below the first place
on the ticket If they placed Lows name az the
top OF their own column the ballot.
The Republican members Of the committee OF
Fifty have not allowed themselves TO De drawn
into Brooklyn's factional fight They have mad
Invitations 10 enter the lists but they have he'd
a;oof because their programme for securing Low :
nomination provides FOR another kind OF lighting.
FacuOnalism. they believe. would be poor poNtlcS
In a game in which the entire party containing me
two factions is wanted as an ally OF an independents
organization.
bers of the committee have in recent years oeen
opposed 10 the leadership OF Jacob Worth. FOR
this reason Il difficult for them 10 indorte NJ
Worth's canvass, although they believed nat Mt
ton They now believe that BroOkyns delegation
10 the City Convention VIII he largely made UP OF
Low men reckoning that all OF Mr.. Worth Gele-
yates will be for Low and that the oVerW neIrnlNg
preference for Low in the big Republican wards
arrayed against Worth will not permit the anti
Worth men TO ignore the Low issue. even II they
which give the argesr Republican maiorities Low
friends are determined that none nut Out-and-out
Low men shall ne sent 10 the Assembly dlSlricl
conventions which will elect delegates 10 the Ol'y
The members of the Committee OF Fifty saw no
rea con for disCOura in the resolution passed
by the Republican County Committee OF New ! oIk
on Thursday night They DeheEr tnt I-r S!. ~
would have said straight Republican, ticket IN
f,st so many words II the party intended 20 commit
itself absolutely 10 the straight ticket enterprise