The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-13
rcARREN IN WAR COUNCIL.
r.vTS TO MAKE A FIGHT IN THE
xJyGS COUNTY COMMITTEE.
g.. and His Friends Decide to Canvass
the District Leaders Of Brooklyn
The Groutiess Banner Flung to the
uree,e-McClellan 10 He Asked Over.

The GrOutleSS Banner Fiun6 70 TIC
nree,e-McC Iellan 10 He Asked Over.
Acampaign banner, whose distinguishing
feature was the absence Of all reference to
.ho offices OF Comptroller and President
y, the Board Of Aldermen and the entire
irrorins of Circuit and Forncs, was I'M
r,r,ed Yesterday morning in front OF Demo-
ratio headquarters in the Thomas Jeffer-
son Building, Court Square, Brooklyn.
Chairman John l.. Shea Of the campaign
oommittee said that no arrangements had
heen made for any mass meetings. He
o,nected, however, to be able to secure the
Academy of Music some day next week for
the initial demonstration.
The campaign committee, he said, would
certainly invite Col. Mcclellan to speak,
rbi,e Grout and Fornes were to be ignored.
Tho fac, that Grout has now turned his
h,ck on the fusionists and is not going
h make any fight to have his name retained
IN N eir ticket has not in any sense Modified
,hs antagonism of the Willoughby street
leaders to his candidacy
lanes Shevlin gave out this statement
in the auction room.
son Saturday, at the ceremony Of notiflca-
porman House, the Murphy Dock Board
nut the brand of regularity on Edward M.
Front for what Grout has done for the Muir
nhv Dock Board since he became Comp
.The Kings county Democratic organiza-
ton does not accept the Murphy Dock
BOARD brand Of regularity. 1t stands for
real Democratic regularity; it's position on
Grout and Fornes is unchanged"
,t-ba 10 an thio atafapnanf
said. MIR. Shevln is talking about some
thing he knows nothing about. l have
never done anything as Comptroller or
otherwise, for the members OF the former
Dock B ..rd.'
Senator McCarren spent several hours
Yesterday in conference with his followers
at his Office in the Phoenix Building. 1t
was decided at the conference that can
vass should be made among the Assembly
district leaders, with view to issuing a
call Tor IA meeting Of the executive COM
mittee and possibly to have new campaign
committee elected. II it is not found
possible to have the executive committee
called the county committee is to be sum-
mouel so as to have thorough thraShing
out Of the whole controversy.
Inasnuch as Mr., Mclaughlin has the
machinery of the organization under his
control, he will probably be able to check
mate the efforts oil McCarren IN that dlrec-
tlOl ~
1t is understood that the motto of the
Willoughbv street machine during the
campaign is to be: mo Red Lights for
Brooklyn" The spellbinders will also be
Instructed to lash Murphy and Tammany
without mercy.
The Brooklyn Citizen which speaks for
Mr.. Mclaughlin said yesterday:
1t is not in the least doubtful that Murphy
has the assistance OF every blackIeg and
sure wav to prevent them from laying their
foul hands on the Kings county organization
Is to bury the Murphy ticket at the polls.
There has been very little betting in
Brooklyn so far on the result of the election.
Hugh Smith, rich contractor, yesterday
announced that he was ready to bet IS 900
that Mr. Mcclellan would be the next Mayor
and S. 900 more that Low would not have q
plurality of 80 900 in Brooklyn,
There are indications that the Twenty
first Assembly district, in which James
p Slime It is the leader, will soon be in line
with the McCarrenites. Elections Com
missioner Mcguire, who is the real leader
in the district, has come out in favor Of the
entire city ticket.
1t has been arranged to hold a meeting
In the district tomorrow night, and there
is no doubt that the nominations oil circuit
and Fornes, as well as of Mcclellan, will
DC Endorsed.
1t was explained by M. Sinnott last night
that there was no intention on the part OF
himself or the other Democrats in the
district to take part with Senator McCarren
in any political contest with the Wiloughby
Street managers, but that they were
complying with the overwhelming senti-
ment of the Democrats in the district in
standing by the party candidates.
At meeting of the Seventeenth Assem-
bly, District Democrats in the clubhouse
in Gates avenue near Throop last night,
John L. Shea, the leader of the district and
chairman of the campaign committed.
had resolution adopted eulogistic of
ment of nearly fifty years The resolution
pledged the veteran leader the undivided
support and confidence of the Seventeenth
Assembly district organization.
A resolution was adopted indorsing
George B. Mcclellan without a reference
to the other two candidates on the city
ticket