New-York tribune., 1901-08-29
BOOM PHILBIN FOR MAYOR
FRIENDS SAY HE WOULD NOT TAKE DIS
TRICT ATTORNEYSHIP AGAIN.
HIS NAME TO BE SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED
IN ANTI-TAMMANY CONFERENCE
TALK OF JEROME FOR THE
tOI-NTT TICKET
COUNTY TICKET

District Attorney Philbin has positively as
sured his political friends that in no circum-
stances will he accept nomirul tion for District
Attorney this fall. He told by certain infiu-
entail Independent Democrats Citizens Union
men and independent Republicans that he could
have the nomination on the fusion ticket II he
would take ii.
Failing to persuade him TO accept the District
Attorneyship nomination. his friends in the Citi-
zens Union viii now submit his name 10 the
conferrees as a mayoraIty candidate with the
following reasons for favorable consideration:
The Indictment and successful prosecution OF
criminals in the Police Department
saving Of $4,000 of the taxpayers money in
the single year OF his incumbency of his office.
Fifteen 'rammany sineCures in the District At
torneys office dispensed with since January last.
one thousand more cases brought to trial and
dlsposed OF In the first six months of his term
than under any other District Attorney for a
similar period
Mr. Philbin's friends say that while he would
not turn his hand over to secure the mayoralty
nomination he doubtless would accept II II he
should turn out 10 be the nearly unanimous
choice of the fusion conferrees
1t is not generally known that Mr. Philoins $
fortune was almost wholly swept away few
years ago by a disastrous factory fire, In which
he lost in round figures S125.ooo His position
now as stated yesterday by one of his intimate
friends, is about as follows:
Having made a credtable record in the Dis
trict Attorneys office by bringing about the in
dictment and conviction of dishonest offlcials in
the Police Department at the same time effect
ing a saving of S23 900 for the first six months
of his official term which sum will be turned
back into the city treasury, Mr.. Philbin does not
feel like holding 10 an office that yields him
at the outside $4,000 year. The work is hard.
and his practice as the senior member of the
firm of Philbin Beekman & Menken pays him
more than twice that figure. The county fusion
ticket stands much poorer chance OF election
this fall than the city ticket. and an expensive
and possibly fruitless campaign for the county
ticket has little attraction for him.
..Tbe mayoralty is a different proposition, on
account of it's great importance and the oppor-
tunitv II offers for a man OF Mr. Philbin's ambi-
ton
II can be stated a fact that the Citizens
Union leaders are seriously considering Mr. Phil
hn,s name in connection with the mayoralty.
His aggressiveness in prosecuting the police
cases conyinces his friends that he is bitterly
onposed to rascality in official places. and places
him fairly and squarely in the anti-Tammany
ranks 49, ,
Mr. Philbin's decision not to accept the NOM
in tion for District Attorney, according 10 many
shrswd observers leaves Justice Jerome as the
logical candidate. The Justices friends are
onietIv hut effectively working in his behalf, ana
friends are for him. There is some TAX apout
Assistant District Attorney George w schur-
man for the place, but even Mr. scnufmans
~>ccud mage.