Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-12
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Something Definite Next Week.
The present uncertainty regarding eandi-
dates will be to a degree removed by the
end of the week. Wednesday will be the
last day for filing Independent nominations,
and Friday the last day for declining the
same. Friday and Saturday will be the
last registration days, and it should be
possible to figure on men and things with
the beginning Of next week with some
degree of certainty.
On Thursday the Tiger makes his first
howl in the campaign. Robert A. Van
Wyck, its candidate, will be the principal
speaker. Van WSck is definitely desig-
mated as the Tammany candidate because
he is known to be fixture. He firmly
believes he can win and will not be dis
furbed. This is the best information OBJ
tainable at this writing. wild story OBJ
tanned currency today which caused a
thrill of doubt to pass. through the Van
Wyck contingent. 1t was that Judge
William j. Gaynor had been requested to
take the place of Van Wyck on the ticket
the story having its foundation in the fact
that Nathan Strauss and Richard Croker
went to Great harrington, Mass, Sunday
to hold conference with Gaynor Today
it developed that Gaynor had not resided
at Great harrington for some time; that
Croker went away with Strauss simply
yarn as absolutely without truth"
MIR. Van Wyck has a rather unpleasant
task before him on Thursday night and
the consensus of opinion is that he will
dodge it. He has promised on that day
to outline his and TammanyS financial
policy On June "A, last year, Tammany
declared itself opposed to the free and
unlimited coinage of silver In the absence
of the cooperation of the other great ma
tions." On July q. following, Tammany
refused to participate in the proceedings
of the Chicago convention, and were with
difficulty restrained from bolting openly
when the free silver platform was adop: ed
But on September II of the same year
Tammany united in the adoption of q reso-
lution "unreservedly indorsing the Chicago
platform, which embodies more complet ely
the interests of the whole country" The
chief interest therefore, attaching to Mr.
Van Wyck's Thursday performance will
be his declaration for or against Tam
many's last position regarding free silver
Understanding Between Bosses.
On the surface there are indications that
some sort of an understanding has been
arrived at between the so-called bosses,
Croker and Platt. At first these surface
disturbances were sneered at, then laugh
ed at, and then the laugh dwlndled into a
sickly smile of half conviction. These
are the facts-Croker fears George and
Platt fears Low. Over in the borough
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led by one Jake Worth, and sworn 70
drive Platt out of politics. Stupendous
as this undertaking may be, the committee
Is said to be attempting it in all serious
Tess. AT meeting of the nomination
committee Of the citizens on Friday of last
week one Of the members, and there are
but five in the body, said. when the uues-
ton OF indorsing twot republican assem-
TO do with them. They are friendly to
Piatt. and we have made up our minds
to drive Platt out of politics."
1t Is eatd that in recent address to re-
publican workers, Chairman Qufgg OF the
county committee laid out line of ora
torical attack that was solely directed
against Seth Low and the Citizens I:nion
Inc typewritten matter handed out at the
of attacks on, Mr.. Low. No other Candidate
IS assafled except incidentally. On the
other hand Tammany's press agents have
handed out nothing hostile to General
Tracy or to any other republican candidate.
They direct their efforts solely against
Henry George. .
These things set the voters thinking that
the JeHersonian democracy will be Tam
many's chief target during the campaiyn.
while the republicans will shooe exclusfveIv
at the citizens representatives That n is
said, Will be the division of labor in this
ALLEGED scheme to join the "machines' to
CRUSH e. out the Independent movements. If
Warins Officially Notified,
Street Cleaning Commissioner George F.
Waring was officially notified at noon to-
day of his nomination for controller on the
George ticket. He stated that he was not
prepared to tell what he proposed 10 Go,
1t is understood that If Col Warjng 6e-
clines his declination will not be for.
ma]ly made until after the nomination has
been regularly filed. The George Campaign
managers will then have several days in
which to substitute another name. Inde-
pendent NOMINATIONS can be declined any
time up to midnight Friday night and SUBJ
stitutions on Independent tickets can be
made until October 49,
Seth Low formally took the helm Of the
Citizens Union campaign today. Besides
he has mapped out for himself program
that will tax his energies 10 the utmost.
Tomorrow night, for example, he will make
three speeches, and there is haydly a (ay
between. then and October 2S when he
speaks on Staten Island, that he is not
scheduled to address n meeting
Brooklyn had a novel fe1tiire In its politi-
cal campaign tonight The republican ward
organizations came to the Academy OF
Music meeting on behalf of General Tracy
In Illuminated trolley cars. These cars
were, Illuminated by electric globes and
decorated with colors: eacA carried a band
and presented q unique and cheerful spec
tacle.
Awaiting Dnyton's Dceision.
BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK. October l2.-Easily first In
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