New-York tribune., 1901-10-27
DolilieaI Notices.

can. and because his nomination will make the
administration of Greater New York correspond
in party relation and prestige with the admins
tration at Washington and Albany.
Here We have candidate for Controller
chosen because he claims the name of Democrat
and is agreeable to Michael ]. Coffey. Here
borough chosen because he claims the name OF
Democrat and is agreeable to John c. Sheehan
and ex-Sherif OBrien. Does this. fellow-citi-
IONS, make nOn- partisanship? 1t may make bi-
partsanshp or tri-partisanship or muIti-parti-
sanship. or. rather. it may make a bi-factonal
nomination or a tri-factional nomination or
multi-factional nomination.
1T represents what is the worst and most
odious form of partisanship. 1t represents the
singular vagary of the late Mayor Strong. who
fancied it TO be his duty to farm out the places
among the different organizations who had sup
ported him so that each should have it's share.
All this is odious caricature of the ideal doc
trine of non partisanship, which the men of the
Citizens Union, and others like them. have cher
ished for years.
SPEAKS OF FUSION AND CANT
mo. let the Republicans and their allies Of
Democratic factionists clear their minds of can't
or let the voters of our great city themselves
clear away the cant. The candidates. of Messrs
Low and Grout and Cantor represent PARTISAN
ship, and the worst kind of partisanship II
they shall succeed, New York will have a mot
ley administration. whose intentions and strug-
giles. even if throughout good as Mr.. Low
would be glad to make them, must be ephem-
eral in Influence for good. Before the next two
years are over the fusion would be disintegrated
ana In discredit, and. as / have already said
the Democratic organizations of these five bor-
oughs would be put under the EXTREMIST temp
tation to make nominations which do not repre-
sent their best inspiration, and for the very
reason that, after such an administration as the
fusion would bring, it would be easy TO elect
any candidate. whatever his equipment or
morale. so long he had the regular Demo-
cratic nomination.
"Fellow-citzens. your minds are, I believe
set upon different, higher and larger pur-
pose. 1t suits our adversaries TO ignore the
large amount of good work and good financial
administration, and of wise constructive work.
done under this administration which, without
They blacken everything. whether there be rea-
son or no reason You do not wish me AT the
other extreme. and indeed. you forbid me, to
initiate their policy of partisan. unfair and ex-
aggerated assertion
Il suppose that the present administration Of
this city, like every political or business admin
istration of several years since free government
began. requires investigation. conducted reso-
lutely and fearlessly. The mere lapse of time
makes this necessary. l shall not meet the Re
publican campaign outcry by campaign asSer-
tions of immaculate perfection When you
yielded to the request of the Kings County
Democracy that 1 should be the nominee you
did so with clear understanding that, in my
opinion. the administration of this city should
be made better, and that where 1t needed re-
form (and. no doubt. like other political admin
istratons the world over. 1t does need reform),
IL should be reformed.
II regret to refer to myself but the fact is
that for my capacity in such work. whatever 1t
is and for the certainty of my intention TO ac-
complish IL, IL / elected. you have chosen
to lead in this campaign.
For your eyes set upon the future. You
believe that much can be done within the next
two years to make better the general lines and
details OF city administration, and to do that
work which I have called creative and construc-
tive, and upon which the more wonderful future
Of this wonderful city must chiefly depend Our
adversaries seem to think II wrong on your part
and on mine. but 1 deny that II is wrong. to re-
joice that resolute administration by Mayor
chosen your nomination OF the affairs OF
Greater New York, such you generously be-
lieve l would give. administration honored
here and honored throughout the land and the
world. would bring TO the Democratic Party
useful and fruitful prestige, consistent In every
way with the highest public service. / shall
not pretend that my abilities are equal to the
enormous and multifarious problems Of the
Mayoralty. l say, however, and without
any reservation or evasion. that II be Mayor
you may depend on my sincere and answering
determination TO make my administration ac-
cord with my declarations OF the past
Il noticed In one OF the Fusion newspapers OF
Tuesday evening a new argument for my COM
petitor. 1t was pointed out that II I were
elected 1 would inevitably become the next
Democratic candidate for Governor. Here was
a curious concession OF something should not
venture TO claim for myself There is assertion
that IL l be elected I will make such Mayor
as that the Democratic Party OF the State will
think II right and polite to accord me a very
distinguished honor. The writer then assumed
that nothing after my nomination could prevent
my election to the Governorship. and then
pointed out that disaster would overtake the
city, in that on my promotion from the May
orally one of your honored leaders would as
President OF the Board OF Aldermen, take my