New-York tribune., 1901-11-03
SHEPARD DODGES UNGER.
REPLIES TO Mr.. CUTTING, BUT WON'T
SAY WHAT HE THINKS OF
TAMMANY CANDIDATE FOR
DISTRICT ATTORNEY


DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
At his Brooklyn headquarters yesterday Mr..
Shepard talked about his critics. He said he had
prepared letters to ex-Mayor Hewitt and r. Fulton
Cutting IN answer to letters from them published
yesterday morning. Mr.. Shepard said he did not
| intend TO answer Carl schurz any more
Mr.. Schurz,' said he. may say anything he
pIeases about my political Judgment 1 am not
obliged to agree with MIN. have most unaualifed
admiration and confidence IN him. but think he
Is wrong this time
Mr.. Shepard wss asked why he had singled out
ex-senator Cantor the only one of the fusion
candidates to attack by
II have not dealt with the character OF any or
the candidates. he said ''as bearing the COM
position of the fusion ticket. 1 have quoted the
characters of MesSrs. Sheehan and Cantor as given
by practically entire press supporting Seth
Low. 1 have made assertion Of my own about
them
Certain extracts from the speech of Senator
Depew at Durlands Riding Academy last night
read Mr.. Shepard He commented thus:
III Senator Depew said that he is certainly
picturesque"
The Senator says you perfectly willing 70
talk about the Tammany Hall Of hundred
years ago. but you will not speak of the Tammany
of to-day was suggested to M-- Shepard
IF Senator Depew said that he is not picturesque
He is Incorrect
The Democratic candidate was asked what he
thought about his picture being olSpiayeu IN NC
Gurk's and other disreputable
Il don't wish to discuss that" he answered 1T
is hardly relevant"
Replying to Mr.. Hewitt's addition to his first
letter answered IN part by Mr.. Shepard the other
day. Mr.. Shepard wrote yesterday:
I have read all of Mr. Hewitt's letter. I have no.
ticed IN political campaigns that feeling grows
more intense toward the end, argument is too apt
that am suffering rapid Liberalization Of char
/ election
Is over, whatever may be the result, ne more than
temper. will regret what he now sees fit to say
of me.
When. he says that no imputatons were made
upon him & for his Tsassd 5 of Toms
to Office Che never was elected otherwiseJ by Tam
many Hall votes his memory is sravely at fault.
cMr. Hewitts) letter Of October lsSs when inputa-
tons such as are now made upor me were made
upon % ,h.n Hal Hal aominat.oP
mated by the yoT condemn politicians and
have not found this fact to be any bar to the
public duty am not 50 impracticable as to refuse
the methods by which society at any given time
citizen because the machinery of politics is not to
I again appeal from the Abram s; Hewitt of 1901
to the Abram s. Hewitt Of 1886. Mr.. Hewitt says
universal suffrage But it is he who puts himself
of municipal elections. that ignorance should be
excluded from control. and that the city business
some other principle # an popular suffrage" That
IS to say. he himself confirms the very thing said
The radical dqeEsnee between M Hewitt and and
essential honesty fairness and political competence
Of the masses 9f men even the INA masses Sc Of the
ton the world over has been that the more demo
cratic government has been the less corrupt it has
been.
To Mr. Cuttings letter Mr. Shepard has sent this
reply:
printed in this mornings papers. You quite missed
sad a pSin h Mhaf That Se h eke up IN
The OF osn a6 s6eaa6 cSe 6y the
CofTey and the gentlemen of the Citizens Union:
did not tine ea of h
Citizens. Union. This said solely upon the public
the various fusion conferences.
for Coroner Mr.. O'Brien: candidate for Sheriff: Mr.
Candidate foT District Aftorney We're nominated
Citizens Union To this / replied that / accepted
shall always accept, as entirely and unre.
fact within your knowledge; You did not; however,
In 5ead the say prefrenc o
original wish of yourself or the other
public and undisputed statements. made during the
partisan members of your Union insisted that the
candidate should be Democrat and that you and
hsE to res do not Sl yoa
to say thai those pu6ie statemepfs -,S were SIN in
bury and Jerome make but small part of the
Citizens Union
The same thing Is true in Brooklyn. where The
Brooklyn Eagle (St Clair Mckelway. the EDITOR,
the chief supporter Of President Low In BROOKLYN.
speCt to the entire fusion ticket other than the
Mayor that the fusion candidates dis
into being as a consequence of dealing and bicker
ing; that the candidates now on the fusion ticket
with President Low "exacted price for their sup
port that places that ticket were the price
has but sisnifcance-they are out and want
to get Ie 1na e rsa for Ra hat
" In mind a dgnihed. judicial. patient adminstra-
ton OF the office of District Attorney. l did not
believe that the Citizens Union would to-day say
that the selection of Mr.. Jerome was wise one
sertion that nothing but dignity, judicial minded
ness and patience are necessary for the District
Attorney. I agree with you that honesty and
courage are equal superior requirements |
said. that having IN view the qualities which
speciied did not believe the Citizens Union would
say that the selection was wise
Jerome and Unger. 1 have not the advantage OF
acquaintance with either OF those gentlemen. ex-
cept only that I have once or twice seen MI Unger
upon political platforms .
NV Judgment to the dignity judicial minded
ness and patience of Mr.. Jerome has been derived
solely from perusal of his speeches Even II II
should not either to him or as to Mr. tnger In
the absence of proper acquaintance with their pro-
fessional equipment character express any opin-
Very certainly 1 will not accept statements as to
either coming from sources which have. my
self and matters about which have a direct and
personal knowledge made misStatements perVerSe
and malicious.
Nor shall / enter into the merits OF candidates in
the various boroughs, except only to point out as
shall again do tonight. the temporfzing and futile
manner In which the fusion ticket is made a
manner certain result in the failure of the lofty
purpose you have had In mind That believe TO be
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