The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-16
OUT AND OUT AGAINST LOW
DISTRICT ATTORNEY JEROME
 BREAKS HIS SILENCE.
Declares Mayor oaunot be Reelected
 Because of His Uniovabis Personality, Egotism and General Disgust for Him
 in His Own Party-Has No Capacity ; s$ 'o&=
whntever as . Leader.

whatever as Leader.
 Lakeville, Conn.,, Sept. 15.-District Attorney Jerome. tonight gave out for publication a letter written by him to Charles c. Nadal of the Citizens union, in which he says:
 q have satisfied myself by careful in- quiry that the great mass of people to whom we must look for support in the coming campaign believe that MT. Low cannot be reelected and that while they may give hearted support to him for the sake of the cause they cannot overcome their dislike and dis gust for him. Inquiry satisfies me that this attitude on the part of the people is not due so much to what MT. Low has done or left undone, as to the un- lovable personality of the man himself. Egotism, -complacency and consti- tutional limitations are not the ele- ments to make a leader nor do they at tract the support of an American cleo torate.
 If MT. Lows unpopularity was the result of what he had done or left un- done in carrying out the principles to which he was pledged, no one but coward and knave would ever sug- gest the idea that he should not again be our candidate but this is not the case. The cause is greater than any man and the feelings and interests of any man must be ruthIessly sacrificed when they conflict with 1t
 How characteristic his letter of ac- ceptance is, absolutely destitute of ey- cry indication of capacity for leader shipand God knows we need leader ship badly enough and 1t is it's lack that has caused us to drift into the present condition, for it is nothing but | drifting that we have done The con I ference, he writes, is to take the respor- sibiIity; there are to be an abundance of holes into which the T stamped all over the letter can crawl if the event is untoward. See, too, his seemingly dis ingenious attitude, But President Roosevelt. a man more appreciative oi political conditions, should know that the very sernblance of presidential sup. port and advocacy would entirely alien. ate the independent democratic vote without which Mir Low cannot bt elected.
 But ie is has been deliberately fos- tered certainly no effort has been made to check the notion that MT, Low is ap- proved by the president and that the presidents influence is behind him and each day this idea is hurting a mar loved by many who are opposed to him politically and irl state wherein his own time of trial. he will desperately need every friendly influence he can have l T do not mean that the president in dividually approves of MT, Low or his candidacy. I have no authority or in- formation to speak on such subject
 but I have most excellent reason to believe that the president with perfect appreciation of the dignity of his posi- tion has abstained wholly from any ex- oression of approval even to MT. Low himself.
 T have no patience with this tall, about logical candidates. What does il meang I understand candidates and l strong candidates and republican and democratic candidates and others of this sort. but the only real meaning ir the minds of the people who resort tc I the term logical candidates is a can. I didate whom they don't want but can. not get rid of. In this case MT. Low is surely the logical candidate, of the Cit. izens' union.
 You know or ought to know that the I republican district leaders believe witt
 practical unanimity that MT. Low can
 not be elected and that very much more than a majority have expressed them. selves in substantially the language
 used by one of them to me, We canno help his nomination. Put him up ant let him get 1t on the back of the neck. | You know in your own organization Ithat, not only with the leaders, but witt the rank and file also, Mir. Low is the
 most unpopular candidate you can SC.
 lect. To summarizes:
 "One-Mr.. Low should not be nomi.
 mated because of his personal unpopu.
 larity, caused, not by his adherence tt the principles of reform, but springins from the personal character of the man
 Had the. antagonism to him arisen be- lcause of his adherence to and enforce ment of reform principles no .decen lman could doubt but that he should bt lrenominated. %
 'Two-The sincerity that was in ou
 campaign of 1901 gave us the victory
 Should MT. Low be. renominated undei
 the existing conditions we should com lmence the campaign patiently insineere fly.
 Through this reply to you have en Ideavored to say what I believe ant
 what a very large majority of the per
 sons supporting our movement are say ing in private. And you must re1nem
 Der I am not a member of any politica
 organization and have never been, ex.
 cept some years ago to the Good Gov
 ernmert club. The position is no
 whether I am crank, or knave, or
 fool, or a candidate, but whether the
 things have said are true"