The sun., 1901-09-05
COLER'S NAME OFF The LIST.
CITIZENS UNION WONT RECON-
MEND HIN FOR MAYOR.


Tor Hayor
s,-E Low Of Manhattan.
CtoscI FosItH PEABODY Of Manhattan.
Gyopot /. Rivxs Of Manhattan.
JosN pEviII wAnxHR of Manhattan.
Far 'osnproiicr
,u,.tTs \ fAiRcuiLp OF Manhattan.
i,NFs NckEss Of Brooklyn.
.u,rLFs 4 SCHIERtx OF Brooklyn
d., y,s.,dsai ~ ne Board ~ Aldermen
NoHruN GopDARD Of Msnh,ttan.
rr.N,ts NtNIoN GREENS OF Manhattan,
LAWSON PrHDT Of Manhattan,
.,or.E H,vES PrTSAs Of Manhattan.
I,uts REYNOLDS Of Manhattan
These are the names Of the mon Who will
le recommended 10y the Citizens Union
90 the anii-Tammany conference wisen it
conyen.- TO select candidates for city
,fcials on Monday evening. They were
elected last evening st q meeting of the
tonmittee Of i07 on the conference ap
pointed by the Union City Convention In
April
The name OF Bird \. Coler. u will he OBJ
..ry.d is not In the list. Mr. Coler. be-
rau-e ~ his Irritation with Tammany Hall.
h.s unuillingness to tell whether he is for
,r agin us,- and the strong suspicion that
he /. the Croker candidate for Mayor. was
taken NJ early In the evening and dropped
ou, ~ the -cs,ond-story window OF the
Cuizens' Union headquarters at ~ Union
SQUARE East Some 81 his more violent
admirers announced that they would carry
the aght for him into the Citizens Union
convention and try to force his nomina-
ton there They ssid they thought they
could stampede the convention to him.
The Committee OF i07 represents about
all the elements that make up the CON
v-ntion. An effort to stampede the com
mittae for Sir. Coler was unsuccessful
Nolody who knows anything about the
situation believes that the effort to alta m
i.sle the convention will he more sue
c~s-ful
BEFORE the meeting OF the Committee OF
IOi. N. Executive Committee OF Twelve
uf which Col Willis l.. Ogden. chairman Of
the anti-Tammany conference, IL the chair
man. wa. held. A. a meeting last week
I'M. COMMITTEES voted TO submit a list Of
canCidates for Mayor, consisting Of Low.
Peabody. Riv-s, Goddard. Coler and
Warmer Al ts meeting last night there
vas n lot Of talk Some Of the members
wanted Ia submit the name Of Ashbel p.
bitch. President Of the Trust Company OF
North America. who was Comptroller dur
ing IA. term Of this late Mayor strong and
the candidate for Comptroller Oh the Re-
pubiican ticket In 1891
Mr.. Fitch's name. Il was urged. would
cury great weight among all the Germans
encepa the incon.picuo,t- number domi-
nated by Herman Ridder. II was also
,sid that Mr. Fitch's record In the Finance
D~partment would recommend him to the
voier, ct this time because OF the financial
problem which the city will have to face
on account Of the extravagance and malad-
mini.tration Of rammany Hall.
The name Of District Attorney Philbin
vas also laid before the conference IL
was said for him that he embodied the
dec~nt opposition IN Tammanv corruption
and Tammany vice. The name 81 ex-
Postmaster Charles W Dayton. who was
John G. Sheehan's candidate for the Tam
many nomination for Mayor In 1907 and was
,et aside at that time for Van Wyok. was
also suggested. But none of these names.
recording TO the information which leaked
cut to the reporters. was added to the
raport Of the COMMITTEES Of Twelve. and
hat document went h~fore tho full COM
mittee in its original form.
IA soon as the meeting opened the Coler
hus,lers hogan TO buzz around. They
ven. inside the committee room and out
side tn. committee room. They said that
col Ogden and Ludwig Nilsson. President
~ the Merchants and Manufacturer BoaId
Of Trade, % New York CITY. who had cx-
rre...d their dirbeli.f in the reports of
CoIer'- er-a, popular strength wer" mis-
,sk.n. They brought IN stories about
,,.enbly districts which had elected Coler
delegations. Two ~ thee. they said
wer~ the First and the Edsh'ernth of Kings
county, the home districts II Col Ogden
and Mr. Niss.n They declared that while
Mr Col-rs opponents we're Questioning
h,s good faith and asserting that he ~a-
POLITICAL Janus. the people OF their dis
trict- wore declaring for him.
Nobody paid much attention To thees
fellows They made q whole lot OF noise
but the Coler noise is now appraised NJ its
true value. and so. while they thought they
we're accomplishing a great deal, the hard
headed business men on the COMMITTEES
we're preparing q ti-t Of candidates. any one
Of whom they thought would be winner.
The big committee decided hrst on. after
it, chairman, n. Fulton Cutting, had called
Il to order, that there was no Necessity
In having - long q list of available candi-
dates for the once Of Mayor. and there
fore pr,Ined or two Of them. First OF all
there was an informal vote. and this vote
showed that the COMMITTEES of io1 would
not recommsnd Coler for the nomination
for Mayor or for any other ofhce
The Coler buxxers made q lot of nois.
They sent scouts out To announce that they
had won a great victory. They -aid that
IN vast majority of the committee ~a-
Tor Coler What they hoped To accomplish
hV telling s,orte-- Of this kind IL not quite