The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-24
GOTHAM BOSSES
TALK POLITICS
Developments in the Contest For
Mayor.
M'IAUeHLlE'S HAMMER OUT
CITIZENS UNION PARTY TORN
BY DIsSENSIONS.

New York, Sept. Z3.-Hugh McLaugh-
lin. Democratic leader of Kings county,
authorized a statement today in view
OF the conflicting reports circulated for
some time regarding the position Of the
Kings county Democracy on the pro-
posed nomination of Congressman
George 3. Mcclellan for the mayorai-
~. that he was willing to say that it
is true that the Kings county Orgauiza-
ton regards the proposed nomination
of Mcclellan as inadvisable because of
Mr.. McClellan's intimate relation to
the leader Of Tammany Hall and the
fact that he is not known to the pub
lie as a strong man personally. Should
Leader Murphy insist on McClellau's
nomination in the face of the Opposi-
ton of Kings county he would, in Mr..
McLaughlin's opinion. Incur a wholly
unnecessary risk of defeat at the polls.
Were the reports true, as stated in
some newspapers, that Mr. Murphy
had offered the nomination TO Mr.. Nc
Clellan. the veteran leader of the Kings
county Democracy said he should have
to conclude that Murphy had fallen
back on the old Tammany tactics Of
TWeed's time, which brought nothing
but ruin to the party"
Kings county, he said, insists
upon uONuAAk except NlidL the nominee
shall be q Democrat likely to attract
and not repeI independent voters; d
man whose recognized integrity. whose
force of character would furnish assur-
ance to the people that honesty and not
graft would flourish under his admins
tration."
G. o. P. Happy Family.
r. Fulton Cutting, president of the
Citizens Union. and a leader in the
fusion movement against Tammany,
today replied to the letters given out
last night by District Attorney Will
liam Travers Jerome on the question Of
Mayor Lows nomination. Mr.. Cutting
declares that the publication of Mr.
Fulton's amazing letters" had done
him great service. since he now knew
the source Of the persistent reports of
the alleged antagOnism of Citizens
Union district leaders to Mr.. Lows
nomination. Mr.. Cutting added that
Mr.. FultOn's letter of the three en-
bodied i'm MIR. JeTOme's communication.
rejecting upon the conduct of the dis
trict attorneys department, expresses
an opinion which is shared by very few
of his fellow citizens
Secretary Thomas A Fulton Of the
Citizens Union, whose correspondence
with Mr.. Jerome the latter made pub-
lie. resigned his Office today at meet
ing of the union. Mr.. Fulton made an
address explaining his actions and POI
sitiOn. and then left the meeting and
waited while the members of the ex-
ecutive committee debated on the uues-
ton as to whether or rot to accent his
resignation which he had offered in his
speechs When the meeting broke up F.
g Huntington, secretary of the execu-
tive committee, said that a resolution
had been offered by r Fulton Cutting
who presided accepting Mr. Fulton's
resignation and thanking him for his
past services to the Citizens Union
The resolution was adopted with the
understanding that Mr.. Fulton should
later send in a formal letter of resigua-
ton, which should be accepted in turn