The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-07
I0WDECLINE NEXT Thursday
mrs or TALK OF AN INTEREST
ING POLITICAL POSSIBILITY.

stampede to Jerome Sure II the Mayor
should Think Present Honors Enough |
And the District Attorney. Loving .
Fight. Would Accept the Nomination,
Some of those who are still hoping for
a spirited and successful campaign against
Tammany this fall thought last night that
the way was clearing for the nomination
NJ william Travers Jerome. II they are
not deceived about the intentions of Mayor
Low the situation will develop on Thursday
by the withdrawal Of the Mayor.
or the identity Of the fusion candidate
in such an event no well-informed man
in Tammany or In the fusion movement
has any doubt. 1t would be jerome in
q snap Of the fingers, and Jerome would
accept both as a duty and out OF his in
stincive love Of lively fight.
On the surface there now appears an
slmos. suspicious harmony The two
Democratic organizations in fusion made
at the first conference their expected argu-
ment that 1t would be well to nominate
an independent Democrat. coupled with
praise of Lows administration. which
virtually went to an acceptance Of him as
the candidate Since then, friends OF the
Mayor have told him what they have CLEANED
among his political supporters and his
enemies, and the information was all one
way-that the chances of his reelection
seemed slim.
II the Mayor asked about the attitude Of
the public mind toward any other possible
nominee of fusion he was told that an
opinion seemed to prevail that Jerome
could win, or at least that he would get
more votes than any other antiTammany
candidate.
In the privacy Of his summer home at
Rive Yesterday the Mayor may have pom
dered on these things. Friends OF fusion
said that if the Mayor wished to draw
picture Of himsef in the two poses the out
lines we're clear By declining the unani-
nous tender OF renomjnat by fusion
he would retire as the candidate who
Knocked out Tammany. ruled two years
and in spirit Of non-partisanship made
place for a Democratic candidate who
could bring a second defeat to Tammany.
What better service. they asked. could the
Mayor render to his friend the President OF
the United States than to deny himself the
possibility OF reelection, remote in itself,
20 that q stronger candidate might keep
Greater New York out Of the hands of Tam
many in the Presidential year?
The Mayor, these friends said, was bent on
maintaining the dignity Of his position to
tho end. He had declined to signify that
he would or would not run again. He had
insisted that the fusion nomination should
come to him in apparent unanimity, to
DISPOSE Of as he might elect. To that point
the proRramme will undoubtedly 60 with
out hitch.
The Mayor will return to Nsw York on
Tueadsy, The second fusion conference
wiN take place on Wednesday night. 1t
wW be agreed, without disseLt that Mayor
Low shall be asked to carry the fusion
banner again. A committee will be APP
pointed to wait on him and TO ascertain If
he will permit the Citizens Union conven-
ton and the Republican convention on
Sept. 20 to nominate him.
There the certainty ends. 1t may be
that those friends of the Mayor who really
want him to run will prevail, and that ne
will take the nomination. IN the 9ther
operations Of the powers in the fusion
amp insist that the Mayor has prepared a
letter Of declination. which he will present
10 the committee.
Mr.. Low will say. 50 these men declare
that he has outlined the broad principles
him into office, and that he wants to retire
10 private life, to the care Of his family,
his business and the interests, educational
and charitable. with which he has been
identified While appreciating the honor
of being the candidate for second time
he is confident that the good clt,zensnlp
which is represented in fusion will ind a
man who will be available as candidate
and able to carry on the work OF nom
partisan administration
If the Mayor should take this position tho
fusion conierees will make proper express
sion Of their regret and--nomlnate jerome,
Mr.. Jerome Is at Lakeville Conn, and
doesn't intend to return to New York until
after the fusion candidate is named, I'M
loss he should be called back by circum-
Stances He has taken great pains 10
avoid he appearance OF seeking lhe nom,
nation for Mayor He has kept out OF
conferences as far as possible has denied
found it hard 10 get him by telephone
But it is just as certain that he VIII run
II Mayor Low declines, IS it Is that the
nomination will he offered to him
While Jerome is Democrat. the Repuh;
icens in fusion would prefer that he should
he elected Mayor rather than any other ~,
dependent Democrat His election would
give 10 tho Republican Governor an op,
portuny 10 appoint Republican Distrlc'
Attorney 10 serve out JerOmes unexplreC
term With Democrat At the head o.
the city ticket the nomination for Borougf
President of Manhattan would naturaHy
20 to Republican. In the two years tc
come that Office will handle an immense
patronage and there is possibility maj
Jerome. at the head OF the ticket, might
even pull through a Republican Borough
President
As to the other places on the city ticket
some Of the fusion leaders think that
Ierone's nomination might call for reVI
sion Of the slate. Comptroller Grout is
Democrat and President Fornes Of be Boarc
- Aldermen Is Democrat mere are
only three places on the city ticket, anc
his would be giving them all to Democrats.
Politicians who were discussing the pos
sbi.ity Of Jerome's nomination. last night
raised these interesting questions
# jerome should he elected Mayor
would he attempt to build up new Demo
cratic organization in New York on 'hf
lines # the old County Democracy anc
thus splr Tammany'
Or would he he seized upon by I'M
State Democracy as the candidate for Gov
frn0r next year? "
Would Tammany he content to have nm
nominated regularly for Governor, 10 ge
lin cut Of the Mayors Officer
short time ago the secretary OF I'M
i'izens Union put out statement mar NJ
oanddate could 60 on the ticket Of tina
organization unless he declared in wrltlnl
N by public speech that in case OF his cleo
ton lie would take no part In the Stat'
and national electio Of 1904 This ba!