The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-19
FOR ANTI-TAMMANY UNION.
REPUBLICANS TO FOLLOW UP COL
LIS'S SUGGESTION.

All Organizations Opposed to the Ruie OF tho
Tiger TO He Invited 10 Discuss the Means or
Defeating It-Provisionn city to
Meet next Nondny-Mr. Low In Town, but
Hns NothinE. to say About Hls Candidacy.
Sheriff Buttling of Kings county, in his ca
pacity as Secretary OF The Provisional Republic
can City Committee Of tho Greater New York.
Issued n call yesterday for II meeting Of that
committee. to be held next Monday evening mt
the headquarters Of the Republican County
Committee, l Madison avenue. Tho members
OF the ommit; are Frederick S. Gibbs Of New
York county, Jacob Worth OF Brooklyn. II. c.
johnson of Queens, and Hugh Mcl'obcrts Of
Richmond, with President Quigg Of the New
York County and sheriff Buttling
respectively Chairman and Secretary of the
Greater New York Republican Conference Com.
mittee, e~x.ofiCio members. Tho purpose of the
meeting ia to fix n date and place for the hold
ing of the Republican City Convention and to
call on the Republican organizations in the sew
oral counties affected to send delegates thereto
on the basis agreed on by the Conference Com.
mittee at its first meeting.
Tho date for the convention has been prac-
tically agreed on. 1t will be Sept. %. IL the
wishes of the New York county leaders, OK.
pressed in caucus, are respected. and, as New
York county Republicans have a controlling
vote in the City Committee, there Is little pros
pect that they will stultify themselves by chang
ing the date they have already agreed on. New
York's vote is controlling in the committee, be-
cause on every proposition Mr.. Gibbs ana Presi-
dent Quigg have tho right to cast as many votes
as there will be delegates in the City Convention
from New York county. The county will send q
majority Of the delegates to the convention.
Mn ~ rn, oil al@rtnl lv thA
Republican County Committee Mt its meeting on
Tuesday night, recommending that the City
Committee propose n conference with all anti
Tammany organizations with a view to select
ing the same day for holding all anti.Tammany
nominations, will also DO considered ut this
meeting. The adoption OF the recommendation
may DO taken AS u matter of course, and all
organizations which are striving to prevent the
rehabilitation of Tammany Hall will be invited
to discuss the best means OF attaining that end.
Gen. Coils in explanation of his resolution. said
yesterday:
II considered that something should be done
toward bringing about a union of the anti-Tam-
many forces of Greater New York. recognized
the fact that u hard fight against Tammany is
ahead and that a union would make ~Tammany's
defeat certain, so / determined to do what l
could to effect a union.
"The reception of the resolution by the Coun-
ty Committee shows that tho Republicans sim
cerely desire to unite all the anti. Tammany ele-
ments. They don't insist on having their own
way in everything. l know that the feeling in
the organization is in favor of making all rea-
sonable concessions to effect q union. and 1
think the Citizens Union should feel the same
way. The Republicans do not insist on naming
any particular candidate. They want to meet
the representatives of other anti-Tammany Or
CARNATIONS, talk over the situation with them
like gentlemen. and agree on the strongest
tie s!SS.o :. M do.,r. ON y. ponn,,,
cans to exclude Seth Low from consideration.
He should be considered with other men, and
All should unite on the man who seems most
likely to win.
III the plan outlined in my resolution is car
RED out; am sure we will agree on r union
ticket. Let all the anti-Tammany conventions
meet on the same day. appoint conference COM
mittees. and adjourn, as we did in 1894. Then
the conference committees can agree on a ticket
and platform and the conventions can finish the
work. That is the sensible way to go about tho
The statesmen of the Citizens Union. Chair
man Reynolds of the Executive Committee,
Secretary John c; CLARK. and others; AFFECTED to
Hcan County Committee in paving the way for a
union of all the anti-TaIninany organizations.
MIR. Reynolds remarked that. 1T is gratifying
to see the tendency toward amiability which tho
County Committee is developing" He added
means that Mi. low will be nominated by them"
Mr. Reynolds thinks that he has developed a
BCntUl6 (which VIII force tne heDlDlcAn 0FUnn-
izetion to accept Mr.. Low for its mayoralty can.
didate. lie revealed it yesterday when he said:
nominating s'i by p efRfpn a candid En eae f subject nibo OF
places-Aldermen, Councilmen. and the like"
This suggestion that the Citizens Union will
endanger the election even of candidates for leg
tslative places by placing independent candi-
dates in the field is expected to frighten the Re
publican leaders and force them TO accept the
nomination of the President of Columbia Cni-
versity. On this subject a Republican leader
"They are welcome to adopt such methods If
they wish. II Will only serve 10, show some de-
luded individuals the mistake they make when
they imagine that municipal politics can be sep
araIed from those of the State and nation. The
political complexion Of the United States senate
of the Legislature on this fool proposition of he
Citizens' Union. Anything to make this point
would succeed better than Mr.. iteynolds's threat
TO run a full ticket for every place to he filled"
Secretary Clark said of the resolution propos-
Ing n conference: " can say most positively
that the Citizens Union will not participate in
any conference such as that proposed. A con.
ference could not change our position. We can
moi. violate our declaration OF principles. which
declares against conferences with political
parties, and we are so pledged TO the nomina.
ton q Mri Low that we could accept no other
1t is said that Mr.. Low himself is not of the
same mind as his enthusiastic friends of the
Union on this subject OF conference, and that he
would Ike TO he represented at IA, conference
such as has been suggested. il not by the Citi-
Zens' Union. at least by some one who could OK
press his views and wishes. Such an arrange
shcht' "ohii utTuIy DC COnSenltu 10
by the Republican organization, as the invita-
tion is only. to. organizations which purpose
making nominations for the coming campaign.
Mr.. Low was in the city yesterday. having rome
to some business connected with building ope.
rations at Columbia University. To a reporter
WHO saw him at University Heights no said that
ne had no desire TO be interviewed on the polit-
zeal sitnation; that he was busy with contrac-
tors and would return to Bar Harbor to-day.
The Citizens Union statesmen declared that
they had not seen their candidate; had no in,
timation that he was coming to the city; did not
expect him TO call on them or communicate with
him in any way. The fact is Mr.. Low is wait
ing to DO officially informed of the result
of the canvass in his behalf, and will com.
municate with his managers regarding tho stu.
alton after he has received that report. The
form of the report has not vet been decided on,
Owing 10 delay in the preparation Of tho sterc,
opticOn slides. the magic lantern show promised
for the Chatham Square neighborhood tonight
has been indefinitely postponed.