The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-12
NINE VOTING HARRlSONIANS,
r. BURTON LEADING THE CHORUS.
ADDRESS DEMOCRACY.

I'VE" Trust Tamman, wi1 Nominate .
Candidate whom Decent" Democrats
May support AlsS Expect 20 He
Heard--And Maybe Thes'n Hear. Too.
That new Democratic party, the -Citi-
zens' independent Democracy" which the
young Congressman Francis Burton Harri-
son organized just before going to bed the
other evening, and which has nine votes
already assured, has for its first obi ect the
defeat Of Mayor Low. The Mayor is to
be fought in the coming campaign because
the Harrison Democrats look upon him
simply as Republican. regardless Of the
ant-partisan claims of the fusion allies,
and believe that his reelection as Mayor
would injure the Democratic chances Of
carrying this city and State in the Presi-
dental and Congressional elections next
year.
Mr.. Harrison. who was sent to Congress
a year ago by Tammany Hall as it's most
youthful representative organized his new
party without the knowledge or consent
OF Charles r. Murphy, the Tammany leader,
but he hopes that Mr. Murphy will approve
and that the new party will be allowed
10 help Tmamany select the candidates.
When asked yesterday il MIR: Murphy knew
about the plan Congressman Harrison re-
piled;
Il sur pose he has seen sonnet hing about
it in the new spGpers
WAS he asked in advance il he approved
Of such an organizatiOn''
"Ol, no, req lied Mr. Harrison.
Congressman Harrison was also asked
II he and his associates in his new organza-
ton were not willing 10 depend upon Tam
many hal to defeat Mayor Low,
There are great many Democrats,
he said, who are Independent and don't
Tammany. We are not anti-anything.
except anti-Repubican. We are differ
emit from Tammany, b II hope to be able to
fight for the same ticket"
There was a meeting Of the new party
incorporatcrs in Congressman Hcrrison's
Office, yesterday morning. Afterward the
Harrisonjans issued a formal statement.
The last par g. ph but one said this
We appeal to Independent Democrats OF
every sort TO align themselves with their
party.
That. Congressman Harrison explained
afterward. does not mean that all Demo-
Gratis are invited to vote for the Tammany
candidate. Whether the Ha, ris orians are
anti-Tamnany or preliminary depends
altogether on Tammany itself. The last
paragraph Of the statement reads:
As to the candidates, we shall have an
opportunity to express ourselves in our own
convention. We trust that the regular
candidate of such calibre that every decent
and every independent Democrat in the city
may support him,
The regular Democratic organizatior.
Congressman Harrison explained, means
Tammany, and our own convention" in
which the Harrison Democrats think they
will have an opportunity to express them
selves on candidates is the Tammany city
convention.
Congressman Harrison wouldn't venture
to predict what his new party will do IL
Tammany does rot nominate a man for
Mayor who has the approval Of the Harri-
sor ians. Nor would he discuss the desir-
abb ity Of Col. Mcclellan or any of the other
possibilities.
The rest of the statement issued yes
terday by the new party denounced Mayor
popular mind with the Republican ma
chine. which will be news to lot OF folks
Congressman Billy Seller was in the
building in which Congressman Harrison
has his Office Yesterday morning, but he
didn't call on his colleague
Il have heard Of Mr.. Harrisons new
party said Congressman Billy. -bus |
that Mr.. Harrison intends to do good
know that he must be for Tammany"
The nine incorporators Of the new party,
and at present all Of the voters in It, are
Congressman Harrison, Ashbel p Fitch, Dr.,
William Hartman Black lawyer; William
Eyre Gibson Gaillard, John F. Calvin,
former secretary Of the old County De-
mocracy: Walter F. Blake, a broker: Thomas
F. Wilcox. Benjamin l.. Shafer and Joseph