New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-13
pprTJ,fJyARTES OF FUSION.

The dreaded anti-Tammany conference ar
ranged by the Citizens Union has been held
All of the invited except Mr.. Herman Rldder
attended, as well as some who were unln-
yited but nevertheless welcome Everybody
who attended went away happy and without
any sense of loneliness through the failure OF
anybody else TO be present. The conference
did lust what II was meant to do. II
brought together once more representatives
Of the forces which hope again TO WORK
in harmony for good government IN this
city. Nobody was trapped, nobody was com
promised, and it was not intended that any
body should be. It is not yet time to ar
range conventions or talk candidates. 1t is
time, however, for the establishment OF friend
IL relations and mutual understanding of the
disposition Of those whose views and whose
efforts 1t VIII later be necessary to harmonic.
An Invitations committee has been consti-
futed with what even the most tmid must
regard as ample safeguards for the interests
of all parties 10 fusion II viii be able TO give
2 welcome TO anybody not now included in the
auti-Tammany forces who wishes to join IN
tbe good work and IN due time it will bring
everybody together for the campaign Mean
while there is much TO be done by the separate
organizations looking to an effective presen-
tation CT the issues TO the people
Whoever nav finally be selected as the can
7idafes the strength Of the anti-Tammany
movement must depend on the contrast De-
tween tbs methods and results Of Tammany
administration and these achieved by Mayor
Low The plain people must learn me Oil
ference it makes 10 them whether paFements
are improved or left to deterforate whether wee
invades the tenements or the homes OF the
moor are protected from the cadets" whether
yz-x-s.. cold for. a
nrice. Nobody who merely looks at the sur
face OF things or travels in q small circuit
esneciaIly in the weIl-to-do neighborhoods,
has any conception Of what has been accom-
rIished In the last year and q half, and the
contrast that It presents TO oldtime conditions.
Too many OF our people who think they are
representatives Of intelligent public opinion
concern themselves so much with incidents that
they forget what Is vital. They are not pleased
with Mayor Lows manner toward this or that
organization. Like Ar. Ridder, they are dis
gllsted because he did not oppose a piece Of
State legislation which they do not approve
The tenement house law has made them a
rttle trouble. They have had 10 pay some
hack taxes. They are not sure that Tammany
IS so bad after all. At any rate 1t was easy
10 get along with. But all these annoyances,
real or imaginary, are perfectly trivial beside
The tremendous work that has been done by
which every citizen profits unless he is a
rascal with private graft" These are the
things which the people must be made TO
know, and plans should be formed TO give them
that knowledge. All the preliminaries to
reaching out and getting hold Of individuals
should be taken, that when the campaign
opens there viii be vast organized masses of
men ready 70 support the committees.
Nobody wants to precipitate nominations or
conventions. but we may well learn something
from, Tammany. II makes fits tickets at as
late a date rs Senator Plat Or Nr- Sheehan
or any ether practical politician among the