The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-24
LITTLE, SECRET, MEET OF ANTS.
Against Plntt In the Twenty-seventh. but Not
Ali for Low-And In Numbers Few.

Against PIatt In the Twenty-seventh. but Not
Ali fer Low-And In Numbers Few.
Tho INTERPRETATION delegates who wero
elected at the Republican primaries on Tuesday
night In the Twenty-seventh district got together
last night In one of the parlors at the Murray
Hill Hotel. Every man was sworn to secrecy
about the meeting. and nobody outside of the
delegates themselves was supposed to know
anything about IL. There were several reasons
for this secrecy. chief Of which was that
they didn't want to let their weakness DO
known. The ants have been saying ever
since the primaries that they had carried
a majority or at least almost q majority Of the
election distr cts. and that that fact would be
seen when the Assembly District Convention
met on Saturday night to elect delegates to the
City Convention. This was q bluff. kept up
nobody knows why. There were fewer than
thirty persons at the meeting last night. This.
1t was admitted by one of these persons. was
almost the total strength Of the ants in the
district. es
The meeting was presided over by Gherardi
Davis. who Is a relative of Admiral Gherardi.
Lowell Lincoln. Jr., was Secretary. 1t developed
very early in the meeting that. while all Of the
men present were anti.organization men. or
rather anti.the- present-organization men, they
were not all for Low for Mayor by a long shot.
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THE Sun reporter talked denounced Mr.:
Low In the most vigorous fashion. They said
they had been friends OF his, and were
still; they had desired his nomination by the
Republican Convention from the first. but that
since his nomination he and his Cts Union
friends had been so stifinecked, unyompromis-
ing, and at times insulting to tho Republican
party that they could no longer think OF him as
a desirable candidate for the first Mayor Of
Greater New York. They say there 10 only one
thing LEFT. for Mr.. Low to do to retain the re-
spect ofhis Republican friends. namely. to follow
the rule he laid down for himself in his letter to
the Citizens Union in June, when he said he
would not accept u nomination unless 1t
could be proved to him that he would be
the %unifying force necessary 20 defeat Tammany
Hall. These men said that there couldn't be
any doubt about the fact that he wcs tue man
who was standing now in the way of union and
that he himself must see 1t.
The meeting OF the delegates lasted until after
10 o clotk.. In the course OF the evening a COM
mittee OF three was appointed to confer with
the Murray Hill Club and other organizations,
and talk about what ought to be done.
At the conclusion OF tho meeting young Mr..
the names OF the committee. He protested that
nobody had any business to know that there had
been a meeting. and that II anything was print
ed about 1t at all 1t would Just spoil every
"Why." he said. really and truly the public
Is not interested at all In this. and don't you
know. II we nre going to be successful In what
we arc going TO do. II Is necessary that the other
side shouldn't know anything at all about what
we are going to do, not anything. Even II they
Just find out that we met. it might spoil things.
No, l won't toll you n thing"
As there are l35 delegates In The Assembly
District Convention of the Twenty-scventh dis
trict. and as the ants have less than thirty, II
he said that the public wasn't deeply Interested
in the meeting last night.