The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-12
JEROME is OUT AGAINST Low
tND WAY SPEAK HIS MIND Ar
THE e.. 4. CONVENTION.
YES Back In I.akeyille After q Day OF on.
fersnces With the Fusion Leaders
Hears the Mayor VIE Attack Him
n Tie Doesn't Line lp-"TOo Bad. {"

ferenccs win the Fusion Leaders
Hears the Mayor VIE Attack Kim
u Tie Doesn't Line lp-"Too Bad"
District Attorney William Travers Jerome
discovered during his eighteen-hour stay
in town Yesterday that. to use his own
phrase, "the public mind is instructed"
1t was widely published yesterday that
Mr. Jerome had come down from his coun-
try home at Lakeville, -to force Low OF the
fusion ticket" There were one or two
other matters in New York which served
as sufficient excuses for his coming But
Mr. Jerome's real reason for coming to
New York was to find out what was going
on in the fusion party. IAkeville is long
way from the BOwery
Mr. Jerome scrupu!ously performed { g
things which furnished the ostensible rea-
sons for his visit to New York He had
talk with number Of his friends at his
Rutgers street house late on Thursday
night, and he heard reports from men who
knew, or thought they knew, what the state
OF mind Of the fusion managers and of
Mayor Low was.
MIR jerome gave his friends the assurance
hat he had not yet forged any thunderbolt
powerful enough to overcome the inert ia
Of tho Incubus which the District Attorney
has long felt 10 Ike imposed upon the fusion
campaign by the candidacy of Mr.. Low.
He also gave notice to Mr.. Lows political
friends ii this conference that, sooner or
later. it would surely become necessary
for him to state il unequivocal terms what
Ne thought the influence Of MIR. Lows
personality on the ticket amounted to.
Whiu he himself had never wanted the
omi alton, Mir Jerome said. there had
been a time when he might have been per-
SHADED to abandon the District Attorneys
oftice to take the lead in the fight to keep the
ity out Of Tammany's hands. The time
when he could honorably accept the nomi-
alton. however, seemed TO him to have
rassed when 1t became apparent that MI
Low could not he -painlessly removed"
from the situation. He could not start a
movement to force Low out and then take
The place himself.
1t was Mr.. Jerome's intention, by coming
quietly TO the city on Thursday night, to
find out just how much Of blast, if any.
must be set of under Mr.. Low to remove
him from the nomination. and then to re-
turn to Lakeville and study out whether it
was worth lille. He found that a number
Of newspaper men who had been in his con-
fdence at Lakeville had taken his return
to the city as signal for setting of the
blast. ard that his visit was quite the po-
itical event pf the day.
He was hardly settled over his eggs and
coffee vest erday morning before prominent
fusion leaders began calling him on the
telephone. He told them all that he didn't
want to talk politics, that he was in the
city to straighten out his Office affairs and
to buy machinery for his Lakeville machine
shop, and that he really couldn't make
any appoint ments to talk politics. But
he couldn't shake them of so easily They
must see him, and later they did
Mr.. jerome escaped from the telephone,
sailed down to Fulton street with friend,
and there INDUCED in luxurious two hours
of looking over edged tools, vises low
pressure cylinders and things. He pur-
chased several files and drills and "a loose
jaw for shaper,' tucked the whole lot
,.nder his arm and sauntered uptown oward
he Crimina! Courts Building. Opposite
,ity Hall Park he stopped. He looked
puizzically over at the windows of the
Mayors Office
Why don't you &C over and have a talk
with the Mayor about himself and straighten
he whole thing QUIZ asked the friend who
WAS with hin.
Mr.. Jerome smiled his vickedest smile
and shook his head.
IL is al awfuly hot day lie said. at
would We cruel TO increase the discomfort
Resides. l am here to straighten out the
county detective sta1 and to buy ma
chnerv
Nevertheless, it had been suggested
seriously to the District Attorney the
evening before that he call upon the Mayor
snd come to an understanding with him
ale this course said they thought that
,eant courtesy had been pa id to the District
Attorney as one Of the foremost fusion
battle leaders two years ago. He has not
tsen invited into any conferences. His
views have not been asked for Yet he has
consistently gone to the Mayor when any
hing in the Mayors administrator seemed
advice from the District Attorney. 1t was
urged upon Mr. Jerome that a showdown
tetveen himself and the Mayor would
dear the air.
Mr., Jerome seemed to feel. however.
that hs had no right to assert his opinion
that the Mayor ought not to run unless he
Was ready 10 suggest a better candidate
He has talked with his friends about the
possibility Of getting Gustav II. Schwab.
Borough President Swanstrom, William II.
Baldwin. Jr., or some other man to make
The race. But his long absence In Iakeville
la, kept him from close touch with any Of
these men or the numerous others whom
he considers more available as leaders Of
2 live and spirited campaign than is Mr.. !
| ow
As soon a.. Mr. Jerome reached his Office
r" found that despite his desire 10 keep I,
clear Of politics. hn was not going 70 b, abs,
% do it First of all. F Norton Goddard !,
9as there. Mr.. Goddard has Mayoralty !
-endldate Il whom he thinks a whole Iot !
Flo has asked 'hn atteuti ion Of many eminent :
PERSONS Ia the remarkable qualities Of this !
ardidate # Mr. Jerome had come n ,
own looking for candidate Capt Goddard /.
~ As doubtless ab!eto place ono before him
lie talked with opt Goddard for almost ,
IN hour Meanwhile every telephone wire (
lnnnr into ~. Building vas hot When !
'1nt Goddard came out he looked hot. too /
Nr Jerome ashei our through crowd
n newspaper men saving that he had
Nothing n saw and didn't mean to say any
hing thar he wouldn't tell what he was
going 70 do or what he thought OF Seth low
n the possibilities Of fusion success
He went 10 lunch with Mr.. Lincoln Stef-
ens an old friend, who seemed TO he amused
about sonnet hing all the time the two could
rs observed in conversation
After lunch he went husLing downtown
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