The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-09
CRITICISM OF I. (. PLATT MT. FOrneS ASSSailS The
 "EaSy Boss" BOASTS FOR MANY OTHERS Attacks 0dell As an Unsav-
 ory Lobbyist. 1r. orout Says Action of the Repub- licans ii The Acme of Partisan
 ship -Hinriehs VIII
 Make the Race.
BOASTS FOR MANY OTHERS

New York. Oct. s.-Comptrollsr Grout Issued long statement today in reply to the actions of the conventions last night. In part he said:
 "An parties, all newspapers. agree that l have been an honest and, efficient comp troller. I shall stand for reelection on that record. which all have approved. Be- fore went away on my vacation made known 10 some fusion managers the very details of my private business affairs which made me unwilling to continue in omce. I accepted at Mir. Lows personal request and in spite of every other ir- ducement and argument.
 Then I was offered an endorsement by the Democratic Party. I did not seek 1t. did not bargain, deal or dicker for 1t.
 Not Bought Nor Sold.
 T was not bought. sold or gagged. I made no conc ealment of my beiief that if taken sanely by the Fusionists, such endorsement would help MT. Low. and am abused. outraged. expelled. Why? Because I say that the campaign should be fought by argument. by proofs, by appeals to reason. not by denunciation, bitter words and appeals to passion. I shall ask every tax payer whose bill this year Is reduced. to remember that 1t would not have been less if had not been comptroller.
 '.As Democrat. shall ask the Dem- ocrats of this city to notice how this sit- uation has been made at the direction of Piatt and his intimates, and to say wheth- CT this Democratic city shall be thus turned over to Piatt I believe that mu- nicipal bssinoss should be managed upon it's merits. I have 90 conducted 1t and will So continue if reelected. The po- sition of the Republican machiHists and of Mir. Cutting has become the acme of partisanship.'
 Mr. drcut rays he w,Ii asiat to the end against his nauts be ' taken on the Fusion ticket.
 President Fornes ef tae Board of Ai- derrpen. Issued q stateTaent this eysnins
 1Er. Fornas ts camatie. Because I consented to have my can. didaey endorsed by the regular Demo. cratic organization. % I am declared uii- worthy of going before the selectofats upon the Fusion ticket, by Mr. Bruce recently from Delaware county, and nov chairman of the Republican county com mittee; by Mir. Platt the easy boss of the Republican party, and whose official life has been conspicuous chiefly for his successful brokerage in public otfices in order that his henchmef might strength. H Republican party; by Mir. Odeii, a parti- san Republican Governor. who previous to his election to that exalted office. was distinguished chiefly for his ability to control leeislation through the unsavory methods of the lobby and whom the peo- pie of this city repudiated at the last election by the most overwhelming de- feat that any candidate for public of flee ever suffered at it's hands. These are the men and these are the forces which have cast a blight over the cause of fu- sion and struck the deadiiest blow at non partisan municipal government which it has ever received"
 Mir. Hinrichs Accepts.
 Frederick Hinrichs. who was noni- mated last night by the fusionists for controller. said to-day at his ofiice that he would accept the nomination.
 H. Linn Bruce. chairman of the Coun- ty Republican Commission, issued a statement to-day in which he said that, now that the fusion ticket Is complete, the campaign will run only on the line of the continuance of good city govern ment. ...,
 Mir. Bruce said:
 "The anti-Tammany ticket is now com plete. The mistakes have been corrected and all friends and supporters of clean. honest and high class city government are united. and in the fight to prevent a return to power of the combination for personal gain known as Tammany Hall"
 Tammany Hall tonight nominated for mer Senator John F. Ahearn for borough president.