New-York tribune., 1900-08-05
LIVELY FIGHT Likely.
CONTEST FOR THE GovERNORsHIP
NOMINATION WAXING WARM,
TAMMANY WONDERING IF CROKER WILL
STAND FOR COLER"-EDWIN NJ. SHEP-
ARDS NAME AGAIN-NIXON
TALKED OF FOR MAYOR

: ARDS NAME AGAlN-NlhON
TALKED OF FOR MAYOR.
! VIII Mr.. Croker revise his opinion of Con-
i troller Coler and let him for Governor?
That is the absorbing question in local Demo-
cratic circles Mr.. Croker has held Mr.. Coler
! in light esteem for more than year. When
Controller Coer limiting that Corporation
Counsel Whaen. Mr. Croker's personal friend,
acting from unworthy motives in con-
Tossing judgment against the city in hundreds
of cases where there was at least ground for
suspicion that the city was being robbed Mr..
Croker to his personal friends expressed him
self with more force than discretion. Mr.. Gro
l1ers friends at that time and since then, told
OF the "oId man. calling the Controller a 'po-
Htical fakir" and 1t also said that Mr..
Croker mpugued the motives of MIR Coer and
said he was playing to the galleries"
Now, the Hill men, backed by members of the
National Committee. want MIR. Coler to head
the ticket Will Croker stand for it?' That's
what the Tammany small fry are asking. FROM
present indications there will be the liveliest
kind of a fight at the State Convention. and the
wise ones already predicting that the
Croker Mclaughlin Erie County combination
will go to pieces. The machine men in Brook
lyn. particularly those holding office are begin
ming to talk about Edward NJ. Shepard as
candidate, asserting that he Will. If nominated
poll ss many independent votes in Brooklyn as
Controller Coler would. In the time all
over the State the friends of Hill are quietly
pushing along the Coler boom exDectinc that il
will be formidable by the time the conven-
ton is called 10 order that the Brooklyn mans
nomination will be practically unanimous.
Croker holds the purse strings of the organi-
zation Tammany Hall Is about the only organ
ization that can produce money for campaign
purposes. Executive Chairman Mcclure has
ambitious campaign plans, but little money to
carry out his designs. Croker is taking good
care that he doesn't get any New-York City
money. The word has been passed around that
it is too early to contribute to the State Com
mittee. This is Croker's trump card and 1t is
expected that a number of candidates will be
"sprung' between now and September II.
The report was current yesterday that Lewis
Nixon, the East River Bridge Commissioner
would be the next Democratic candidate for
Mayor. Within week it is likely that Mr.
Nixon will be talked about as en- eligible candi-
Gate for Governor. AT the Kansas City Con-
|ention Croker threw out q feeler by suggesting
his name for the VicePresidency. The talk
about Mr.. Nixon as a candidate for Mayor"
said politician, "is probably to make the pub
lie better acquainted with him. so that he may
he brought out as a candidate by Croker when
the State Convention meets, If Croker wants him
to be- Meanwhile, the machine leaders
trying to smother the Coler talk and giving
encouragement to Senator Mackey, of Buffalo;
eX-Justce Earl and others.
a"ank Campbell, chairman Of the State Com
m~ee. will have charge of State headquarters
the first three days OF the coming week, Mayor
Mcguire having gone back to Syracuse.
A letter from Perry Belmont was received at
headquarters yesterday. Mr.. Belmont said that
he would support the Democratic ticket and Of
fered his services to the State and National
committees He said that he would speak for
Bryan and Stevenson. Mr.. Belmont at the last
meeting of the State Committee, covertly an
tagonized Bryan, and some time ago had con
troversy with Bryan the silver question.
Before leaving the Fifth Avenue Hotel for the
New England coast where he is spending the
summer, ex-senator Arthur P. German. of Mary
land, said yesterday that he was totally un-
aware that he was to have charge Of the Eastern
branch Of the Democratic National Committee
and he seemed to regard the report as joke
A report was circulated to the effect that MIR
German would take active part in managing
the campaign in the East.