The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-25
NIXON TO STUMP FOR FUSION,
ACCORDING TO HIS FRIENDS-HAS
LUNCH WITH JEROME.
After Election. Report Has II. They Two
VIII Try and Purify Tammany From
Inside That Ancient Institution,
or VIII Start q New Democracy.

or VIII Start New Democracy.
Lewis Nixon and District Attorney Jerome
lunched together yesterday afternoon at
the downtown Delmonico's in Beaver street.
Last night Mr.. Nixon's friends uptown
said unequivocally that Mr.. Nixon was
going to take the stump for fusion this fall
and that later he and District Attorney
Jerome were going to try to make Tam
MANY Hall into a decent Democratic or
ganization.
They would either carry of its MEM
bership into a new Democratic organi-
zation, the Nixon optimists said last night,
or they would force the decent folks in
side of Tammany Hall to lop of the I'M
clean members of the organization and In
vite the Nixon-Jerome style OF Democrats
to come in and be comfortable.
Mr., Jerome did not tell his friends any
of these things last night, though he talked
with them with some freedom about his
conversation with Mr.. Nixon. He said
that Of course he and Mr.. Nixon had talked
politics at luncheon, that they would not
have been two normal citizens OF New York
city in this present season If they had not
| talked politics.
| 1t was understood by Mr.. Jerome's friends
that the conversation had dwelt largely
| upon the present unpleasantness of Tam
many Hail as an abiding place of decent
Democrats. not only in city but Wits II state ate
Mr.. jerome would only say.
we lunched together because Mr. Nixon
had some things he wanted to say to me
and had some things / wanted to say to
him, and we knew no pleasanter way to say
them. What we talked about, If may say
| 80, Is our own business
A good many. wise people who heard that
, Mr. Nixon and Mr. Jerome had lunched
together connected the meeting with Mr.
Jerome's recent assaults on the candidacy
of Mayor Low and his widely expressed
disgust with what he has called the Jam
EN- through methods OF the fusion man
ayers.
They suspected, they said, that Mr.:
| Jerome, disappointed with the failure OF
his attempt 10 Gust Mayor Low from ms
nomination, was negotiating with Nixon
with view to some measure concerning
this falls campaign.
A remark of Mr.. Jerome, when he was
on his way to lunch with Mr.. Nixon yester-
day morning, was regarded as significant.
He said that he did not know exactly what
Mr.. Nixon wanted to see him about, but
that whatever it was it was not likely TO
affect any campaign of immediate interest.
Then he said:
Lewis Nixon is gentleman. No gentle
man could possibly assume that my ex-
pressed determination 10 support the fusion
ticket with Ill my heart was nsincere. In
deed, it would be exceedingly embarrassing
and unpleasant for me to sit down at table
with a man capable of expressing any such
idea for II he did express it the table would
cert ainlv be kicked over"
| In talking about the meeting OF Mr..
Nixon and Mr.. Jerome yesterday, poll
ticians recalled several recent Incidents in
Mr.. NiHon's own history. 1t Is now some
time since a general organization OF Nixon
clubs began all over the city. Thirty OF
them have been organized so far
Each one of these clubs, as soon as or
gained, has sent a demand to Charles F
Murphy. the leader Of Tammany Hall, that
Nixon be made Tammany's candidate ioI
Mayor. Mr.. Murphy has been moved to
make several calls at Mr.. Nixons Office
at 43 Cedar street.
At the first Of these talks Mr.. Murphy,
according to Mr.. Nixon's friends. asked
Mr.. Nixon 10 act as chairman of the city
convention of Tammany Hall and to give
that distinction and air of political right
eousness to the proceedings which Tam
many always considers desirable.
Mr. Nixon, with his eye on pile Of Nixon
Club enrolment eblanks. declined. Next
time Mr.. Nixon was asked to take the Tam
many nomination for the Borough Prcsi-
dency. He declined this honor also, and
with some asperity
Mr.. Murphy returned to the charge for
the third time and was finally convinced
that Mr.. Nixon wanted only one nomination
, from Tammany Hall, and that the biggest
: Mr.. Murphy is said to have told Mr. Nixon O,
, ready promised the nomination to George.
The friends of both Nixon and jerome
agree that the probable motive Of Mr.
Nixons seeking Mr.. Jeromes counsel was
that he felt that Mr.. jerome was a shrewC
J observer of Tammany methods and was
sure to be a valuable tactical adviser in any
fight on the present regime in Tammany
Hall
MIR. Jerome has said repeatedly that he
, has, always been ready to aid any one in
any party who wanted to make his party
better, whether that party was Democratic
Republican, Citizens Union, Prohibition Of
, Socialist Labor.
Fusionists said last night that mas
much as the table was not kicked over
E and nasmuch as Mr. Nixon was announced
as a fusion speaker by his friends, the,
, guessed that Mr.. jerome had given Mr.
Nixon some characteristic and valuable
advice.