New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-27
CRITICISM OF COLER.
LETTERS IN TRIBUNE MAYORALTY BAL
LOTING UPHOLD AND DECRY
HIS CANDIDACY.

The choice Of Bird s Coer as a Mayoralty
candidate in The Tribunes balloting continues
to be a subject treated at length in the letters
received with the ballots naming the various
candidates. Some of the letters criticise him
harshly while others maintain that his candi-
dacy cannot be bettered. Some of the letters
received follows:
To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: l wish to protest most vehemently against
the proposition to have the Republicans n0 non ma
issue. will be Tammany against ant i Ta
Voters in NeWYorE civ are Republicans In cali
ing New-York Democratic city you have got to
ard New-York is overwhelmingly Republican
Should the tail then be allowed to wag the dog
the one-quarter Of anti-Tammanyites to rule the
an of ssn Chin h
ter cam do shaPe and Ss
the other public ofticsls in any three States put
dominate CoIer for Mayor? Most assurtdly not
1t might the loss and overturning in the
in the last. Coers advocacy of Bryans election
would be disastrous to the Nation and particularly
disastrous to the citizens OF New, York He knew
PAY higher interest its bonds if BRYAN was
elected but that factories by the score would
charged He knew that rms on savings banks
dollars and did not want to be paid back in 50
He knew that arrangements were then being
made to call LIN in all moTtgages and require the In,
Clauses. and that the gold would then be at
premium. He knew that these and kindred actions
would start panic the like of which this country
has not for years. and yet he travelled the
length and breadth of this State urging people
to vote for Bryan And being the chief financial
officer of New-York he certainly influenced hun
Do you call that being honest? Is that being
faithful to the best interests Of the city? No;
such course is nothing less than simon
pure Tammany Hallism. When COler urged voters
to go for Bryan he urged them to follow course
that he knew was wrong. And he did 1t to make
himself regular and 50 keep in with Tammany
and the regular organization of his party. Why, IL
the Republicans should elect Coler to be Mayor
he would join Tammany Hall in less than one
year and go to using all of the power and patron
the independents then to nominate for Mayor a
whom the Republicans cannot fnd0rse is to
play into the hands of Tammany. Facts are
stubborn things and the independents as well as
IT exists whether they like it not. And that
situation briefly is:
First-No man can defeat the Tammany candi-
date for Mayor unless in addition to the nOmina-
ton and hearty support of the regular Republican
organization.
Second-That organization cannot nominate a
Bryan candidate or any man who spoke and
Thrd-That. therefore, Independent Republi-
must be the fusion nominee against Tammany
or Tammany Hall will win.
Furthermore, to make success certain the NOM
pendent nroclivities, but who took active
part in the last Mayoralty campaign, whose
didaCy will not stir up anew the animOsities and
bitterness engendered by the Low-Tracy strike. We
Editor when the time comes you may rest
sured the MAN HorSebP ck'' will appear. But
his name will not be Coler. z. c. G..
New-York Nov. %, 1900. Lifelong Republican.