New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-27
LOW TO HEAD THE TICKET.
TIE COMMITTEE OF FIFTY PLANNING
INDEPENDENT NOMINATIONS.

INDEPENDENT NOM1NATIONs
WHAT MEMBERS SAY REG, RDINd THE opPosI-
T,oN TO HIM AMONG THE MACHINE ne
PUBrIcANs-wHERE THE SILENT
VOTE co&Es ~
Leading Republican members % The brooklyn
Committee OF Fifty are considering plans for
nominating a full city and county ticket. 70 he
placed In the feid IN case Seth Low Is no; the
candidate Of the Republican organization.
Names will not he considered until later in the
week when both parties will have died out
many more places their lists. Advantage Will
be taken Of the extra days allowed for independ-
ent nominations after the regular parties have
made up their tickets. This course has been de-
cded upon in order that every opportunity may
ba left for the Republicans to accept Low and
place before tho people a ticket which has some
chance Of defeating Tammany. and also in order
that nominees or either OF the party tickets may
be Endorsed II inc committee finds men on either
ticket with whom T. is satisfied.
Until the Republican convention has actually
made lis nomination the members Of the CON
mittee will continue their work Of ondeavorins
to secure Lows nomination by the Republicans
For three weeks they have been working indus
triously to attain this end. no formal confer
ences have been held With the Union or the Re-
publicans but individual members Of the COM
mittee have frequently met the Republican and
Union leaders and tried to haTmonize their con-
ficting views on the duty before them. This
method Of seeking union will be employed mp
10 the last minute. but if ii fails and If the Cili-
zens Union does not withdraw Low. the COM
mittee will wait Just long enough to make sure
that the Republicans will not withdraw their
candidate in favor of Low. and VIII then go
ahead with their nominations.
The committee do-8 not consider that II would
be handicapped in running full ticket by the
lack Of full equipment of party machinery!
The absence of a party organization would ne
in keeping with President Lows adaptation OF
the Citizens Union platform. while any attempt
70 initiate a party organization would. according
10 the committee, rob the movement OF It's nom
partisan character. Although the Committee OF
Fifty IL made UP largely Of Republicans there
would be few designations from 1t II vote were
passed to support Low regardless Of the Re-
publican nomination and to put an independent
ticket in the field.
The RepublIcanr on the committee believe that
with Low and a straight Republican running
against each other the Republicans would surely
be beaten and they have not thought II UNI
reasonable to consider whether Low might not
They say that they are by no means convinced
that Low would be beaten In such contest. Al
INV rate his chances would be as good as those
NJ the regular Republican. and as between Low
and another Republican. both OF whom were
sure to be defeated, these men say they wou'u
vote for Low who was nominated TO De e'ec'eu
rather than for General Tracy, MI O'co'' Vi
any .'reeular" who was nominated simply 10
prevent Mr.. Lows election. Lows Repuphcah-
ism. they say. is good enough for them and they
would not consider that their standing as he-
publicans would be impaired by their support
OF Low. -
The withdrawal of Low by the Citizens Union
"a not expected by the Committee of Fifty. No
gooa reason has vet been shown. they say, WHY
the Union should withdraw Low. although com
n,ic.,,on. NAV arise which would justify such
a course or this point, Theodore L. Frothing-
ham secretary Of the committee, SAID u
Tribune reporter yesterday: ,
"The withdrawal OF Low by the CitlZehs
Irnion is highly improbable. They might as
well go out OF business as Withdraw Low nov
They should not withdraw him at any tiiiie u,i
less they can find another man VINO , mo",v
pledged to Mr. Low and 1t is not prooabie that
they will find such man. There is no man
In my opinion, who can fulfil this requirement.
Why the New-York Republican organization
persistently refuses to recognize this element OF
Lows strength cannot undertake 10 explain
mo man mas yet DeeH iidulcu W Wv 49,
York organization who would prove an &C
ceptable substitute for Mr.. Low as a union
Anita nmany candidate. Neither General
Tracy nor ex-Mayor Schroeder could hoid the
independent voters who have pledged themselves
to vote for him. For this reason alone the
Citz ans Union is justified in keeping him In the
field. Low is unifying force among all the
anti-Tammany voters except the regular Re
pub,icans of New-York, and II is nobodys fault
but their own If they have worked themselves
up 10 such pitch OF excitement over the meth
DDS of the Citizens Union that they Will not
allow themselves TO be satisfied with him.
Jackson Wallace a member OF the Commit
tee of Fifty and OF the Republican General
Committee says the managers of the New-York
machine must not make the mirtake OF believ-
ing that their district captains" and the men
who vote at their primaries represent all the
Republican voters in the city. He points out
that an exceedingly small percentage OF the
voters who supported President Mckinley last
fall attend the primaries. and that in Brooklyn
fully One-half Of those who attended the prima-
the Republican voters who do not always 60 10
the primaries. but whose loyalty to the party
can never be questioned. must not be left out OF
consideration in such an emergency as the pres
ent one I believe that thousands Of these men
want to vote for Low on Election Day the
Republican nominee. but that they will vote
for him as an Independent candidate II they
carno: have his name at the top OF the Repub-
lican column.
The committee will hold meeting this evening
TO decide on the course to be pursued at the vari-
Gus conferences which are on the schedule, and
10 take action on other important matters.
THE CITIZENS UNION LECTURES.