The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-28
BIG POLITICAL CAME
CAMPAIGN IN GREATER
NEW YORK LOOMS UP
AGAIN
CONFERENCE
New York Republican Visiting St.
Paul COnfesses That Chances
for Union Are Not
Promising.

Politicians in New York are eagerly
looking forward to the anti-Tammany
conference to be held on Sept. 8. at which
time the real situation i'll the New York
municipal fight will be revealed. and
after which some pretty accurate esti-
mates of the result can be made Little
else is being talked in New York at
present" So says Edgar l.. Porter,
prominent Republican worker in New
York. just returning from the far West
The campaign for control Of Greater
New York is in many ways more In
tense than even a presidential campaign.
and i'll some respects it is fully as i'm
portant. / have been surprised to find
what a large interest attaches TO our mu-
niclpal affairs even this far away from
home. The coming municipal fight will
be of even greater Importance than was
the first great mayOralty contest in
Greater New York. We are anticipating
with interest this conference which will
probably inform us as to how far we may
expect to escape the mistakes of three
years ago. There is some doubt as to the
possibility of having a straight out-and-
out anti-Tammany fight Everything
looked promising for such a fight when
Seth Low was nominated, but eventually
the anti-Tammany forces We're split into
three factions with three candidates. Mr.
Platt was blamed for this condition Of
affairs, inasmuch as he refused to support
Seth Low. During the past month many
conferences have been held between Platt
and the Low supporters and Mr. Platt
has at last said that he Will support the
ticket named by the Citizens union. even
if the nominee be Mr.. Low. Nevertheless
Mr.. Piatt will strive nightly to see that
Low is not the candidate
P1att says he believes that the
wisest policy is TO nominate a
reform Democrat Others insist that
he desires this because he knows that il
will mean a Republican Independent cam
didate in the field, which will again plit
the anti-Tammany forces Controller
Bird Golfer has all along been suggested
as the best equipped candidate for the
antl-forces, and a vigorous boom in his
behalf has developed. The great diff
Guilty is, however. to name a man who
will harmonic the factions Seta Low
cannot secure the support Of large eie-
ment of Republicans who demand the
recognition of the spoils system, which
Low will not encourage. When Tom
Reeds name was suddenly mentioned it
promised way out of the difficulty, but
Reed has declined to consider the matter
minute. Reed would be an ideal anti
Tammany candidate, for he would Doll
an immense Independent Democratic
vote. His own Independent position in
the last campaign commehds him to the
very people who support Low, while his
reputation as shrewd practical politician
makes him solid with the crowd that Is
so typically represented by Gov Cd IL.
The determination of anti-Tammany
forces to get together and present
single candidate in spite of Mr. Plat. has
caused Tammany little uneasiness, and
it is said that if they are pressed too
nard they Will swallow a bitter pill by
naming Bird COler as the Tammany can
didate. Coler would undoubtedly accept
such nomination. The present indica-
tons seem to be somewhat against a
satisfactory solution of the problem ana
there is a promise of another divided
fight against the Croker administration.
Even united fight Tammany will be
a hard and uphill fight. Any division Of
forces will mean complete failure Tae
chances seem to favor Tammany