The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-03
GEN. TRACY Is IN TO STAY.
REPUBLICAN, GIVE UP HOPE OF 4
UNION AGAINST TAMMANY.

From Now on IL To to ne n Rcd.Hot Campaign
for tho Straight Republican TIcket-OmcinI
Announcement by the Greater New York
Campaign Commlttee-Irs Tracy or George.
The Republican warriors, from Senator Platt
down, gave up all hope yesterday of inducing
the Citizens Union to adopt sound patriotic
motives in the creator municipal campaign.
Since the nomination of Gen. Tracy by the Re.
publican City Convention on Tuesday night last,
eminent Republicans who are friendly TO both
Gen. Tracy and Seth Low have cndcavorcd
to demonstrate to Mr.. Low that the course
adopted by him and bis friends has been
unwise In the extreme. Agrecnbly to the
promise OF tho Republicans. clinchcd by Gen.
Tracy in his speech before the City Convention,
every reasonable effort has been made to induce
Mr.. Low TO forcgo his personal ambition and,
with Gen. Tracy, TO retire, so that a united can.
didatc OF the forces of good government could
he brought to the front. Mr.. Low and his friends
have been impervious to all argument
1t has come to the surface that Mr.. Low has
steadily and painstakingly cherished for n long
time his ambition to be a candidate for Mayoro
Greater New York. II has furthermore come out
that Mr.. Low and his friends never intended that
he should be a"unifying force" except on tho
terms that the Republicans should smash their
organization merely for the leasurc OF support
ing Mr.. Low. The whole Low movement all
along has been only an effort to force the lie.
publican organization into accepting him, with
the purpose that II it did not Mr.. Low would
run anyhow and crafty his ambition, at no
matter what cost.
The Republicans said yesterday that while
fully acquainted with these facts they had DO.
lieved 1t to be their duty in the interest of good
government TO take every step toward harmony.
Their motto has been everything for concilia.
tion." But the Low tactics within the last few
days have been TO misinterpret these over.
lures for harmony, and to base on them
reports. that Gen, Tracy was to retire in favor
OF Mr.. Low. The Republicans have had enough
OF such tactics, and yesterday they determined
tocsin and reiterated the statement in THE Sun
yesterday when he said:
Under no circumstances will l withdraw as
a candidate fr Mayor as long as Seth Low re-
mains in the field"
Senator Plat said: The stories OF Gen.
that have been pursued by these would-bc re-
IoFneTs IS since me- M me .v BEGINNING IN Of the disenssion in
tactics OF mendatity and falsehood. The stories
to to the ln effect that Cen Trey viii retire in favor
the purpose Of weakening Gen. Tracy before the
Gen, Tracy will not retire in favor OF Mr..
Low. He is going 70 remain the candidate fr
Mayor of the Republican organization, u com-
Enthusiastically in favor Of the ticket piaced in
nomination this week at Carnegie Hall. If the
are to-day l would stake everything l have in
the world on Gen. Tracy's success"
Campaign called together all he cnm-
paisncrs AT Republican headquarters, l Madison
committee WAS present. Every man was in
tiunant at the tactics adopted by Mr.. Low and
h frs t,le %ns i to f retira fs M mr. F I%w' r Efet S Ssn:
~paigncrs who confronted President Quigg were:
First Council DistricteJohn j. Collins. Charles H.
~secondLCorneiius Van Cott. Frederick S. Gibbs.
~Third-smith Pine, Jas.row Alexander. C. H. t.
F~ourth-Georss R. Bidwell. Abraham Gruber. Ed.
Firh-w. Ii. Ten Eyck. E. II. Healy. Douglas
5 Ith.E. J, Kal:enbach. R. NJ. Johnson. W :. J. Taylor.
E!Ehth-Theodoro f, willis, p. II Flynn. Michael J.
Sinth-H c johnson, II. Frank Wood
The campaigners were in session from IL in
the morning until / in the afternoon, took n
recess for lunch, reconvened at ., and adjourned
at 1 o'clock. President QuiKg and his associate
campaigners drew up a document which will
set at rest during the campaign the reports OF
T Mfi 6p 'Ur ar ar. 4 Low IF'S FL t toiiow Gss. is st the d ts to
nent, and 1t was adopted unanimously and with
IA rising vote:
Recognizing that the first obligation OF every
friend of good government in the greater city
OF New York Is TO the cause OF united action
against Tammany Hall at tho coming election.
the Republican party has spared no cndeavor to
bring into harmonious relations all elements in
the community which might be united in the
' interest of "a successful campaign and u sound
and patriotic government.
. That these efforts have failed is due solely to
the position Of the Citizens Union. which has
pcrsistently refused and still refuses to consider
any other than the candidacy for Mayor OF one
certain Individual. whose candidacy has been
proved In tho preliminary CANVASS not to be u
~unifying force among the friends OF good gov.
ernmont. whose nomination by the Republican
party has been rem cred impossible by the acts
of himself and his associates, and whose per.
sonal attitude to the question of his own candi.
dacy Is "a chief source OF discord ana disunion.
The Republican City has therefore
ResOired, That the candidates nominated by
. the Republican City Convention:
i For ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS +. Tracy.
t For COmptroHt r-Ashbel =. Fitch,
n Tor President of the Couneii-R. Ross Apple.
l.. ton, will remain in the field until the polls close
on tho night OF election day, and any elector
:, who upon any ground Is opposed to the reatOra
ton OF Tammlny Hall and Organism is urged
v TO give his prompt and active support to these
the only anttTammany candidates who can be
elected.
The work of the campaign Is to DO begun in
It earnest tomorrow morning. Every member OF
the Cay Committee. wno5o names are print,d
above. has be,n made a member OF the Finance
Committee. Before the week is out arrange
OF a battle arc to he perfected. The highest Re
publican AUTHORITIES say that ~ su;,iown OF
say that the real battle Is between Gen. Tracy
" and Henry George, and that as the campaign
proceeds every body Will see that 1t Is.
rs PINGREE,s TENEZUELAN TRIP,
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