The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-23
POUND Low And He WILL QUIT
JEROME GIVES OUT LETTERS
SIGNED THOMAS 4. FULTON.

Cutting Gently suggested n winner
He's c. U. Chairman-Fulten 10
G. u. Secretary and Was the Loader
Jerome Quoted Last week--lIint Frsm
Fulton OF Rottenness in District A.
torney's Once. 10 he Dug Up n Jers0e
Doesn't Shut Up. fsrings Out All the
Lettcrs--Fnlt0n and Cutting silent.
LAKEvILLE, Conn. Sept. 23.-District
Attorney jerome, feeling outraged by .
letter he received to-day from Thomas
A. Fulton, secretary Of the Citizens Union.
made public a series Of letters received
by him from Mr. Fulton since the beginning
of the present public movement to NOM
mate Seth Low for Mayor. The letters
show In part the sources Of Mr.. Jerome's
information that there was disahection
in the fusion ranks
There are three OF the letters. The first
one was written by Mr. Fulton Immediately
after the publication Of an unauthorized
but approximately accurate statement
Of Mr.. Jerome's views of the situation and
Of the impolicy of renominating Mayor
Low. The second was written in answer
to note Of introduction from Mr.. Jerome,
presenting friend who volunteered, while
on visit to Now York from Lakeville. to
find out for Mr. Jerome what Mr.. Fulton
was talking about in the first letter. The
third letter, written yesterday, con-
tanned covert threat OF which Mr.. Jerome
was apprised ten days ago, that his own
administration of the District Attorneys
Office would be attacked II he did not cease
interfering with the prescribed fusion
programme.
Mr. Fulton's letters begin with encourag
ing Mr.. Jerome in his attacks on Low and
furnish him with facts on which to base
more such attacks. They advise Mr.
Jerome that Mr.. Low will quit with little
more pounding" These letters are now
incorporated in an open letter to r. Fulton
Cutting, In which Mr.. Jerome, after making
clear his reasons for publishing the letters
and reiterating his reasons for opposing
| Mr.. Lows nomination, says he supposes
| this episode will mark the parting Of the
ways between himself and Mr.. Cutting.
The letters follow:
JEROME TO CUTTING.
LAKEv1LLB, Conn, SEPT. a.
] MY DEAR MIR. CUTTING have received
! from your political valet three letters
which have embodied in this open letter
! to you, which ! shall hand to the press.
1t never would have occurred to me to have
made public the fret two had II not been for
| the one received to-day. While 1t is by
| no means pleasant to have your veracity
called publicly into question, ! should have
| preferred to have remained silent under
such an imputation rather than violate a
confidence. The most casual perusal OF
the letter received to-day, taken in connec-
ton with the, two previous letters, shows
how absolutely the necessity OF treating
aside.
A letter so oh viously endeavoring to
play both ends against the middle, and so
plainly written to be shown to persons
other than the person to whom it Is ad-
! dressed, il not entitled to that considera
ton which a gentleman is accustomed
to show even such q person as your attache,
The first letter In dated Sept. IS, and was
received by me in due course, and reads
as follows:
FULTON HEART-BRoKEN BY LOW PROGRAMME
$50 WEST NINErr-yIrTH STREET.
DEAR MIR, JEROME; Il you should 30 in
want to see you; do not know how much
you know but | know enough as Secretary
M make ise me mus very p @ and discouT
aged. The story in to-day's press about
| your attitude makes me feel you are only
this al' note. The account in to-days Times
of present conditions isn't far wrong. and as
we have New York county and Manhattan
evening evening and a meeting Of our Executive
committee at Z clock Wednesday afternoon.
and OF the full city committee. O'Clock
focus before our city convention.
The executive committee has got to report
NIT fnr uyh Ia pf hpyS
me full committee will take it no one can
the memhs5s Do dSo pot sspsle s some q
secretary of the conference lam in dinicult
position, and you had best not mentIon this
at PITsrnt Sn, Is vo asIts 70
e on tho tho" phons, call iSsT Eighteenth street
and ten whoever answers the phone that
am a little afraid OF my phone / tried you
on the phone, but Lakeyille said you could
not be reached this evening. We shall have
morrow night. An honest canvass Of them
THOMAS FULTON
CUTTING ON THE HORIZON.
The second letter Ia dated Sept. Is, and VIA
received by me after my first letter to Nj
Nadal, and Ii as follows:
"a UNION SQUARE, Sept. Is. 1908.
MI DEAR JEROME Your hearty note en-
courages me, to write you freely Very un-
There is much inside friction in the Citizens
Union about the nominations. Had the eX-
ecutiye committee called our district chair
men together, and had candid talk with
them. they would not 30 persstently and
bIithcy urge the nomination q Ny; Low
, is being sharply criticised for the present
situation Fortunately. special meeting OF
the full city committee $50 members lsee
enclosed had been called for or to;morro ~
report its action in the conference. There
thing is sure to leak into the newspapers.
/ Know that much OF the so-called unani-
nous support OF certain delegations In thu
|, Conference was nsincere, | do not mean
the Cts Union, sons Of the most deter
: our best district chairmen, generally, anc
, machine Republicans and Tammany djs,
1 tricts but men who accomplished splendid
> | results In 1901. men who know their district
and who constantly return with the report
that tho people viii not take Low. The So
called loncal argument makes these luei
, tired They say rightly. to my mindl Is II
' logical to nominate man whom we cannot
e'r cyuIs NOT VET DECIDED TO TAXI