Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-10-23
NEW YORK'S CONTEST
A Few Facts in Connection With
The Complicated Fight in the
MayOraIity Election
QUITE A COMPLEX SITUATION,
Unioue Position of GrOut and l'orueS,
Nominated by FusiOnlsts and En-
dorsed by Tammany.

New York, oct 18TH average
mayoralty campaign In the Greater
New York is an interesting event, add
ing more or less to the gayety of ma
tons, but the contest this year IL
unique even In the political history of
this cosmopolitan city. The essential
issue is. as IL has been IN various CAM
paigns in recent years, whether the adj
mlnistration OF municipal affairs, In
yolvlng expenditures of nearly 100000
900 annually, shall be in the hands ot
the Democratic Tammany society or
whether il shall be intrusted TO other
HANDS,
lne main issue has. however, been 50
beIogseu by eNtlaoruluary compica-
tons and strange-hdeed grotesque--
situations that even the astute NeW
AOrker, who Is supposed ~ know MS
politics better than ne uOes ms prayer
BOOK, is quite at loss to know where
he rs at.
In eiucidation of the present COM
pleX situation It Is necessary to hark
back 10 the mayoralty election 81 Two
years ago, when the RepuDlicans ANA
citizens onion formed a iuslOu against
Tammany, whicn had been IN power
during the previous four years, ana
nominated seth Low tkepuDlcan) iOr
mayor, Edward M. GroW lDemocraO
for comptroller and Charles Y, bornes
WemocraD Tor president OF the alder
manic board. THESE were elected by a
majority OF about 10000 over the TAM
many candidates, VINO were supported
By the hlng county Democracy whose
IA. 10. a. tod u.NH IN
Mclaughlin, the sage OF NihougnDy
street.
AT the opening of the present cam
paign the Republicans, under the lead
trsnlp OF NJ. Linn Bruce and Timothy
l.. W oourun, ana the titLens Union,
with X. Fulton Cutting as their leader,
renewed their faith in lusion and re-
nominated Messrs Low, Grout ana
Fornes
Then Tammany under the present
| leadership OF Charles +, Murphy,
known as the silent Man Of -FOUR
teenth Street, because OF his disinch-
| nation to be interviewed took the CEN
| ter OF the stage. Tammany wanted Tor
mayor Congressman George b. McClei-
| Ian, son OF the famous general of that
name, and, presumably to help his can
yass and cut the ground under the
|
| Grout and Fornes.
Against this program the Kings
! county Democracy, which Is usually
| allied with Tammany IN local politics,
| protested with yigor Mcclellan was,
however, nominated, and Grout and
Fornes were Endorsed. This apparently
was quite too much for the sage OF
Willoughby Street who, though prld'
ing himself on his regularity, with.
held the glad hand from Grout and
Fornes, though supporting Mcclellan
I'm the meantime the fusionists had
served notice on Grout and Fornel
that they must not accept the indorse
ment of Tammany and II they did 50
must get OF the fusion Ticket. They
however accepted the Tammany IN
dorsement and stubborn refused Il
resign the fusion nominations Finally
the Republicans and Citizen Unionists
ignoring the protests OF the former
nominees, agreed upon other candi
dates, rescinded their previous action
and named as the fusion candidates
Frederick w, IIinrichs for comptroller
and Edward j. Mcclure for presiden
of the board Of aldermen. both beinl
Democrats
So the case is made up and goes e
the jury of New York's 100000 sover
eigns. Whatever the verdict may be
It Is, as Sir Lucus O'Trigger would say
"A pretty quarrel as II stands"