New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20
WORTH SAID TO HAVE QUIT.
REPORT IN CIRCULATION THAT HE
HAS ABANDONED LOW

-, OF LOSING HIS GRIP ON THE COUNTY OF
vrrrs GIVEN As REASON FOR HIS RE-
TURN TO THE ORGANIZATION CAMP
A MESSAGE TO WOODRUFF FOL
LOWED A TIP ABOUT THE
SENATOR'S INTENTIONS
uss Jacob Worth attempted 10 make his peace
r,,h Thomas c. Plat by abandoning his edvo-
..cv Of Seth Low? That is the absorbing ques-
.,on which kept the politicians guessing yester-
a.r Much good testimony is presented TO prove
era, he has done that very thing. and forceful
.,d logical reasons are given why just such
.,nersault might be expected Of him. The con-
a,rances sure to follow such a remarkable per-
,ornoancr just at this time important. while
.,s desert.on OF Low by the man who has come
"a be recognized his leading advocate in
p-cotlyn and the return OF the County Clerk 10
,be Plat fold would so complicate an already
rerplezing situation that all estimates hitherto
I'D on the results OF tomorrow nights pri-
varies would become vaue,ess.
IT'S understood that Worth IS no longer fight
,,g FOR Low. on Saturday evening he sent this
,nsormat!on by one Of his most trusted adherents
"a lieutenant Governor Woodruff. This mes
age was an admission OF defeat. and was quick
a request for his old chair at the Plat family
table II meant that the lash welded by Wood
ru~ had cut deeply and often, that the chas-
element had been effective, that the bad son
,sd been forced 20 acknowledge the error Of his
vavs and was anxious for the father 20 kill the
tatted calf Whether or not the fatted calf Will
be killed Is the next question.
on Saturday afternoon. Immediately after the
meeting OF the Republican State Committee. a
committeeman. who is close personal friend OF
Worth came 70 him and told him in confidence
that Plat had informed him in confidence that
low would never become the nominee OF the Re
,uh,can CITY Convention especially II at
tempt were made to force him upon the conven-
,,on The Senator did not intend that this infor
nation should reach Worths ears hut the loyal
+vofthe committeeman 10 Worth was so strong
that The committeeman decided the pointer
would BE- so valuable 70 Worth that he could not
refrain from giving it TO him.
He did this that Worth might waste no time
IN struggling to nominate friends who would be
doomed to defeat on Election Day by having
their names placed on a ballot headed by
straight Republican nominee for Mayor
WORTH AND THE OLD CONDITIONS.
The shrewd County Clerk was. It IS said. not
SLOW 70 recognize the value Of the tip and 1t
was not long after that he sent his messenger
TO the camp Of Woodruff in the Clarendon Hotel.
II was an unconditional surrender with sequel
20 the effect that Worth's main fight would from
that time on be first Of all to secure the nomi-
NATION Oh Controller Palmer for Sheriff. and
then OF as many more of his men as he could
win with. Worth thus made an opening for
truce. which Woodruff. as Platts orderly, might
accept or reject, as he pleased. What would
pleas Worth most would be an offer for res
toration Of the old conditions. with the Platt
and Worth forces arrayed once more against
Willis Atterbury. Appleton and their associates
who before the present campaign. openly adver-
tsed themselves as the only authorized foes OF
Plat and Worth.
Worth's reported abandonment Of Low does
not mean that he is now opposed TO Low. on
the contrary, II means that he comedies the i'm
possibility of forcing Low upon Platt and con-
sders that the best way TO secure Lows NOM
nation is TO give the organization full respon-
sbility in the matter The resolutions Of the
New-York County Committee. the address OF
the State Committee and the desertion OF
Fischer Sharkey and other Patt men In Kings
have been interpreted by him suggestions
that he is fighting larger game than he has am
munition for and that-when ne is dealing with
q man whose force outnumbers his own II is
more diplomatic to say please than 10 raise
aloft battle-axe andsay You must"
PREDICTIONS OF DEFEAT
An intimate friend OF Worth practically ad-
ntted last night that Worth will be beaten to-
morrow night unless the Plat who have
left him because OF his hostility to the State
organization come back 10 him. Whatever
happens in the County Convention. Lows friends
in the Greater New-York will be most concerned
about the idea that there is now no organized
Low campaign within the Brooklyn Republican
organization.
None Of the principals concerned in the Brook
Ign fight would talk yesterday with newspaper
men. Mr.. Woodruff admitted that he had
ceived a message from Worth, but would say
nothing about ii. County Clerk Worth and
Sheriff Buttlng refused TO he sten. The Claren-
don Hotel headquarters were deserted through
out most of day, but the Woodruff people
who were there asserted confidently that they
would win over Worth. no matter what hap
pened before the primaries.