The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-25
NEW WORRY FOR THE GIFTS.
THEY WILL HAZE TO SCRAMBLE
NOW To "FILL UP oUR TICKET"
Forgot That the Two Parties Will Not Noni-
nate Assembiymen. Councilman, nnd Alder
men Until Oct. 4 and 0-HhVe Nothing to
anv or Tr,cy,s r,ndIdacy and Ita Emect.

FORGOT That the Two Parties VIII Not Noni-
nate AssembIymen. Counciinien, ana Alder
men Until Oct. = and 0-HaVe NothinE TO
Say OF Tracy's Candidacy ana its Erect
The Cts announced purpose to put a full
ticket in the field" was interpreted later by
Cit Reynolds as meaning that they would fill
up a full ballot by selection Of the best men
from other ickcts-Assemblymen, Council
men, and Aldermen, for instance. They have
been so busy thinking that they forgot to mo-
ticc that the party nominations for Assembly
men. Councilmcn. and Aldermen will not be
made until week after next. Reynolds
seems TO have fancicd that tho City Con-
ventions to be held on Sept. % and 80 would
nominate full tickets. lie and his colleagues
decided to call n meeting Of tho Committee on
Organization, tho original $50 now increased
to about 800, for Oct. l, to nominate their full
ticket. The game was to approach first the
regular Republican nominees for minor offices
and ask them to subscribe to the principles of
tho Cts. OF course they wouldn't do so, and
the Cts would then indorsc tho Tammany
candidates and ask the people to see how gen.
crous they had been in giving the Republicans
a chance. There would be a few cases where
they would put up independent candidates in
order 10 cover up their little game.
Yesterday Mr.. Reynolds discovered that the
Republican and Democratic tickets were not
to be allied up until Oct. 4 and @ respectively
and that the Cts can't indorso on Oct. l NOM
nations that have not been made. Tho files
and clippings of newspapers were scanned, and
Simon, the polyglot messenger, gazed sorrow
fully at Mr.. Reynolds, moaning the while:
'IIow did he did iti'
Mr.. Reynolds didn't know. The situation
was discussed for two hours at an adjourned
meeting of the Executive held at
81 Liberty street yesterday afternoon. The
Cts dare not postpone the meeting OF tho Com
mittee on Organization, lest they should give
to tho public another evidence of the panic
they are in. which has been in no wise lessened
by Gen. Tracy's agreement to run as the Re
publican candidate for Mayor. Therefore
they decided yesterday to hold the meeting at
3 4. NJ. on Oct. / in Hardman Hall. 1 West
Nineteenth street, the programme being TO
nominate a Comptroller and President OF the
Council TOR indorse the candidates of one of the
partics), and then adjourn until the Repnbli-
can and Democratic tickets have been filed
out. But after the LIST of October every day
means a great deal when nominations are to be
considered. The Cts must make II separate
petition of nomination for each one OF their
candidates. Attached to each, OF these for
candidates to be voted upon by the city at
large must be 1000 names; 10 each OF those for
county officers and members Of the Municipal
Assembly 1000 names. al. TO each OF those
for members Of the state Assembly 800 names.
These petitions must be filed not less than
twenty days, before election. so that the Cts
NAAi iaN liNNAV of'A I" 'N'N - w "f h"N pN's
tons. At first glance 1t would not seem a very
difficult matter to get 800 names in an Assem-.
bly, district for a petition. but, as II Cit said
yesterday:
at will be easy enough to get two or three
hundred. but the last two hundred or one hun,
dred are going to come most awful hard and
cost Il heap of money. And we are not spend
ing money recklessly."
How much this is worrying the Gifts is
shown by the remarks OF another one OF the
chosen. who said that even Reynolds didn't
think 1t was going to be such a snap to get
mo for tho nnn,ipotinIg IA 4 tppa nA H. Nyna
for the Low petition"
Not Il Cit could be got to talk yesterday about
Gen. Tracy or venture to suggest what MIR.
Low would do in his present embarrassing sit
uation. All that was done was to get out a new
campaign document. They went back four
teen years and dug out the Endorsement of Can
didate Low by the Brooklyn Republicans in
1853. Even the Cts wonder why this was
done at this time, for Poet Glider confesses he
can find no parallel between the situation then
and now. All the Cts will say is Our candi-
date will not withdraw"
The Richmond County Citizens Union yes
terday announced that Seth Low had signifcd
his intention OF delivering one of his first cam
paign speeches on Staten Island.