The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-09
GOTHAM POLITICS
Fornes Tells What He Thinks
of Certain Leaders.
CIRCUIT ADDS A WORD
Expects to Run on His Record
as an Officer.

New York, Oct S-M. Linn Bruce chair
man of the county Republican committee
issued a statement today in which M
said:
The anti Tammany ticket is now com
plete. The mistakes have been eliminated
and ali friends and supporters of hon
est, clean and high-class city govern
ment are now united and aggressive II
the tight to prevent return to power OF
the combination for personal gain known
as Tammany Hall.
I'VE shall fight this combination OF
every issue. Tammany is the common
enemy, and against Tammany we shall
wage war to the end. The anti-Tammany
forces enter the campaign confident OF
victory
Without the rumored opposition Of Mr..
Fornes or Mr.. circuit, the full fusion
ticket was filed and accepted at the
bureau of elections today by George R.
Manchester, secretary Of the county con-
vention.
President Fornes, of the board of al
dermen issued a statement tonight con-
tanning the following:
Because / consented to have my can
didacy endorsed by the regular democra-
tic organization, l am declared unworthy
Of going before the electorate on the
fusion ticket and by whom? By Mr..
Bruce, recently from Delaware county and
now chairman of the Republican county
committee; Mr.. Plat, the Easy Boss of
the Republican party and whose fetal
life has been conspicuous chiefly for his
successful brokerage in public offices in
order that his henchmen might strengthen
him in the primary contests of the Re-
publican party; by Mr.. Odell, a partisan
Republican governor, who, previous TO
mis- election to that exalted Office was
distinguished chiefly for his ability to
control legislation through the unsavory
meshes of the lobby, and whom the people
Of this city repudiated at the last cleo
ton by the most overwhelming defeat
that any candidate for public office ever
suffered at it's hands These are the men
and these are the forces which have cast
a blight over the cause of fusion and
struck the deadiest blow at non-partisan
municipal government which it has ever
received
MIR. Grout says:
All parties, all newspapers agree that
[ have been an honest and efficient comp
troller. l shall stand for reelection on
that record. which all have approved.
Before L went away on my vacation I
made known to some fusion managers the
very details of my private business af
fairs which made me unwilling to con-
tinue in Office. l accepted at Mr.. Lows
personal request, and in spite of every
other inducement and argument. Then
| was offered an endorsement by the
Democratic party. did not ask It, l did
not bargain, deal or dicker for It, / was
not bought, sold or gagged. / made no
concealment of my belief that If taken
sanely by the fusionists. such endorse
ment would help Mr.. Low. And l am
abused, outraged, expelled. Why? Be
cause 1 say that the campaign should be
fought by argument, by proof, by appeals
to reason. not by denunciation, bitter
words and appeals to passion. l shall
ask every tax payer whose bin has been
less to remember that it would not have
been less if / had not been employed The
position of the Republican machinists and
of Mr.. Cutting has become the acme Of
partisanship.'