The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-11
REPUBLICAN CITY SLATE.
BROoELYN NEW PROPOSED FOR
oLCOIIys RUNNING YATES.


nate his = Oicett Favored ~ Leaders.
The Republican candidates for municipal
offices OF Greater New York In the highest favor
yesterday were:
For Mayor. District Attorney W. NJ. K. olcott
OF the borough OF Manhattan.
For Comptroller, Silas h. butcher or Mayor
Frederick w. wurster OF the borough of Kings.
For President Of the Council, R Ross Apple
ton OF the borough Of Kings.
The boom for District Attorney olcott will be
launched tonight at q meeting OF the Republi-
cans Of the Twenty.1rst Assembly district,
where Mr.. Olcott resides. He will then be for
mally placed in nomination by his Republican
friends and neighbors OF the district. Should
Mr.. Olcott be nominated by the Republican
City Convention in Carnegie Hall on Sept.
% he will mako a campaign which will
DO memorable. Mr.. Olcott had another
interview with Senator Plntt yesterday. and
no also had further talks with Presi.
dent QuiRg Of the New York Republican County
Committee. Assistant Corporation Counsel
Frank Sperry Of the borough OF Kings also had
a long talk with Senator Plat, in which the
Brooklyn situation was gone over. Mr.. Sperry
10 considered to be one Of the warmest personal
friends Of Mayor Wurstcr.
The story was persistently circulated and per
slstently denied yesterday that the Citizens
Union leaders were holding back their nomina-
tions for Comptroller and President Of the Coun.
oil and for the offices on tho county ticket in or.
der 10 effect a combination with the Republi-
cans. President Quigg was asked whether any
overtures of this sort had yet been made. Mr..
Quigg said mono had been.
"Of course" he added. that Is the plain pur.
pose Of their omission TO make such nomina.
tons. They want to engage us in one Of those
horrid things they call a'dea.' When we in.
vited them to come into a conference out Of
which. II they had accepted the in INVITATION, 1t
was a moral certainty that a result would have
been obtained entirely crsditable and sat;
ter, eontendine, tina. the .Rep1blican party
tics, and that that was the issue on which they
were going to nominate Low. Thereupon hav.
permit the fact TO become known that IL we will
lncorse Low they will indorse our candidates
sincerity reveal; the V motive 1e' when has guided III ed
lhe Citizens In their whole unpatrio.ic course.
a dnsy FIX Won't 1binri have We a +, Union sI,o. unless ,hs thsy
atty candidate under obligations TO them and to
ta q only. Their scheme is a greedy grab for
And ;his is planned in the name of reform"
Then the Republicans will not have relations
with thC Citizens Union unless the whole ticket
and platform. each in its entirety, can be con.
Certainly not, repli q Mr.. ouigg. III the
Citizens Union had been honest In is expressed
u " U ROOu government OF new 1OFk- IL
would have come right in with the Republican
party; not TO 6%uiiy'rag and insult US but TO CO
The door has been open to them ali along. The
ss eeni here, ps and e ts; and a'w .Iss' fns
10 which the moral and rational elements
OF every community appeal in every crisis. AID
Union, however. have undertaken to smash the
R tn}9 party. 70 disrupt its organization. to
10 lead them in this undertaking a man who has
twice before been conspicuous in q similar
that speak the sentimen. Of ninety nett:
R Rnaer, out NJ OF eyyer yer hundred Republican
viii not tolerate this outrage. There is just one
thing worse than the success OF TammAny Hall,
ana that is the destruction OF the only party and
ire only party organization through which the
oeleat OF Ianmany at any time can be made
is it definitely decided tina, Mr.. olcott will
be the Republican candidate r.
so far as the Judgment of the Republican
4, is pretty general! dxed upon Mr.. oioott. The
idea OF his nomination is received every where
mire. E III. o SPat0Ef He hs ss ooSdScs akf; .h anS great ea.
once that he now occupies with such success as
general"
himself in the good opinion Of Republican, by
ssk!nE their nomination in his letter accepting
1t would seem as though he would make
matters worse by any such course as that. How
could he accept the nomination OF a party
which asserts that the chief evil OF municipal
politics is their connection with national parties
Ard then ask a national party TO nominate him'
out open trenchery to the party. whose nom
matte he has already takenl They say
How. then. can he II his candidacy $ an honest
S1p5ei Sc sor OF their pnFPSSss POSE, Up to the moment
not committeG himself 'f to t hhSH'I ,nspl,ip ne Rnd
se!t;S "tticient creed. On the contrary. he had
publicly contractci w III the people that he
I Womb n n . L Thai NJ M n a IN nNaE h. Gould
/. not What he I meant i dHn a sSs' he t1' ne anii
now asking. He said hal he could not ~ fate
the Citizens nomination until it was shown
among the friends OF good government He
did not mean that the Republicans were not tho
he cannot want their nomination. Ii he did not,
let him keep his pledge. He knows now that his
candidacy is not a %unifyins force among tho
the only menace in the dread of which the
cause OF good government stands. He knows
and withdraws his disunifying candidacy the
nomination OF a satisfactory loader will be i'm
his pledged What could be more hopeless than
the candidacy OF q man who opens his campaign
The Young Mems RepnSiican ciSS .. the
Twenty-fourtn Assembly district adopted reso-
"hssty and depioraGle action OF the citizens
Union in nominating seth Low for Mayor and
harmony The attitude Of the Republican lead.
ers in this emergency was applauded.
Similar resolutions were adopted by the reRu.
lar Republican organization of the Twenty.
sixth Assembly district at q meeting held the
same night
Republicans Assembly Nomination In wayne.
LYONS. n. Y. Sept lo.-The Wayne County
Republican Assembly Convention was held this
afternoon in Palmyra. irving I. Greenwood OF
Newark was nominated by acclamation. Mr..
Greenwood Ia q very prominent Plat Republi.
can and Is high In Masonic circles. He Is the
choice OF Barnet II. Davis, President OF the Fish
and Forest Commission; OF Judge Charles T.
Saxton, and Justice janice W. Dunwell, tho
Republican triumvir 10 OF Wayne county.
Syracuse Republicans ana Cius Uaite e. .
Ticket.
SYRACUSE, Sept 10.-The Citizens Union to-
night Endorsed the Republican city ticket nomi.
mated in convention on Wednesday. and the Re-
publican Convention Endorsed Donald Dey, the
Citi@ens' nominee for Mayor.
Tho PoSf. Congressman Belden's newspaper.
and the official organ of the Mckinley Ieauuc'