The sun., 1901-06-18
STAND OF CITIZENS UNION:
rovwrTTED TO NO CANDIDATES.; WILL
SUGGEST A NUMBER.


SUGGEST A NUMBER.
s.v.,.i for Each once Will Advocate Re
nomination Of Good judges, Resard'ess
a, Psrty-Formai Reply to Charges OF
Boss,.m Circuiated BY Herman Rider.
The Citizens Union Committee OF 100
..hich vas appointed by the April convention.
and which In turn appointed COMMITTEES OF
smolvs 10 carry on the negotiations with the
o,ber bodies Interested in the overthrow OF
Tammany this fall met last evening at
,he headquarters OF the Union. 81 Union
Sorors East. and listened TO the report
oftbe subcommittee This report was made
80 the chairman Of the sub-commit-
zoo Col. Willis L. Ogden. He said that
al ~ tho meetings Of the conference had
heen marked by the utmost harmony and
,bat "a the time went on his opinion that
,bs outcome Of the fight against tho Hall
would be successful was strengthened. SO
FAR there had been no talk Of candidates
N the conference, and he was Of the opinion
Nbat there was no faction in the movement
that was committed to any man for Mayor
or for any other office on the general ticket.
All Of the other men in the COMMITTEES said
that they believed thet the conferees had
would be greatly to the credit OF the allies.
When the report came up for the action OF
the full committee It was voted unanimously
to accept 1t and leave the committee
to carry out its plans on the lines that had
Teen followed so far, After the report had
be.n made by the committee X. Fulton CNt.
ting, chairman Of the Committee OF 100 ana
Of the City Committee Of the Union. onered
''e R,soi ed That the Committee OF 100 ap-
proves OF the efforts OF It's Executive Ooin-
nttee to promote cooperetion among Id or
ganizations willing to work for the good
government Of this city, ,oo :.
ResoIsd. That the Committee OF 100 in
structs its Executive COMMITTEES to prepare
conference In due time q list OF names oi
several candidates for each OF the enersi
Cf'ces 70 be filled at the election III Novem-
her. ,,,.
in thus instructing the Executive Commit
tee, the Committee OF 100 expressly disclaims
any intention to dictate candidates to the
It's purpose is .twofold: First. 70 attest the
Committee Of zoos disinterestedness by.
declaring It's readiness TO accept any one OF
several candidates for each office. and, sec
ond, to refute the unfounded charges that
have been made. that the conference has
been already captured by psTtisan agents, J ;.
ailay all fear that the conference may de-
generate into factional struggle Tor the
nomination OF representatives, oi the various
II Is the hope OF the Committee OF
100 that among the names OF citizens
thus presented the conference, may ma
those OF men so emnently fitted ior ofioe'
and so acceptable as candidates to all parties,
as to enable IL to arrive az a general ana
early agreement upon union ticket 10 De
submitted for consideration 10 the Doules
represented in this conference.
When this resolution was offered II was
explained that the reason for II was tina 7
there had been an attempt on the part OF
some Of the men who are anxious TO see the
anti-Tammany movement go to pieces 10
make II appear that there was some one man
in the community who had got control OF the
conference. and who was going to use IL 10
his own advantage. The members OF the
Union have resented the attacks that have
been made on them by Herman Ridder. who
has not hesitate to charge that they were
In the control OF Senator Thomas {. Platt,
and they thought that the time had come TO
make a demonstration that would silence the
reports that he has put In circulation. 50
this resolution was adopted with unanl-
John " Weed OF Queens offered the fol-
That the Conferees appointed by the
Committee Of 100 be Instructed to urge upon
the conference the denomination Of Judges
alty, without distinction OF party.
This, too, was adopted unanimously, There
are four Justices Of the supreme Court 10
OF them two. Clarke. and blanchard, are
Republicans appointed by Gov. Roosevelt
to All vacancies. and the others, O'Brien
rH these, It is said that o'Brien viii be renomi-
mated by TaInmany unless he Il called on
~ make the running for Mayor Lawrence
+ declared TO be too near the age limit 10
make him availa Bile for another nomination;
and OF course Tammdny Will have nothing
to do with Clarke and Blanchard
hedging all hands to work and fight against
any man who should accept nomination from
Tammany Hall Ia the original draft OF this
resolution this broad pledge was qualified
by the words except judicial candidates.
but this clause was stricken out after Oh 3
that the fusion ticket should be straight from
top to bottom Republicans who feel this
way are going to urge their views on the con-
ference On the other hand, the Citizens
Union wants to indorse Tammsny man
whom II likes and 1t IL anxious to get the other
4 prominent Republican of the Conference
Committee said last evening that he did not
look for any trouble on this point because
there was a real desire on the part or all
the men in the conference and In the rganiza-
tions that they represented TO have solid
and a perfect union against Tammany
DO YOU think that there will be two ju-
dietary tickets. one representing the ideas
Of the Citizens Union and the other the ideas
Of the other parties to the conference was
asked Of this man.
4 certainly do not expect anything Of the
comes there will be- one ticket supported by
all There seems to be an idea in Tammany
that IL can work up strife In the ranks of its
foes hy the circulation Of false and malicious
stories There are men In the movement who
have seen enough Of the political world TO
are not TO be fooled by the Hall and its