Evening star., 1903-09-14
NEW YORK MAYORALTY
Seth Low to Be Renominated
by Fusionists.
MCCLELLAN TO OPPOSE
HE WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BE TAM
MANY's CANDIDATE.
Question as to Where the German Vote
Will Go-Mr. Low Says He
Expects to Win.
MCCLELLAN TO OPPOSE
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

| Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, September r. 1903.
The decision of the fusionists to renomi-
nate Seth Low for mayor of New York city
has caused no surprise, as Mr.. Low Is the
logical candidate To have repudiated Mr..
Low would have been to write down fu-
sionism as a failure, and no combination of
parties would commit such folly. Mr.. Low
was the favorite candidate of all the re-
publican leaders-national, state and local.
They were agreed that he was the most
serviceable man to prepare the way for
the campaign of 1904. Even such reputa-
ton as he had acquired as an uncertain
partisan they considered a valuable asset,
for it might be used to create confusion IN
the MINDS of wavering voters.
r. Fulton Cutting. president of the Ciu-
zens Union. has published a statement In
which he confidently predicts the re-elec-'
ton of Mayor Low. He reviews the work
of the fusion administration, and says that
Tammany will have no chance when the
true facts are placed before the people.
There is much speculation AS to what Will
be the final attitude of the Greater New
York democracy and the Kings county
democracy. The fact that their delegates
did not vote for the nomination of Mr.. Low
does not mean necessarily that the organ-
zation will bolt the ticket The Sheehan
and Coffey delegates had no power to COM
nit their respective t1onS to any
one, their instructions being simply to re-
port the action of the conference. 1t is not
improbable that the two democratic anti
Tammany organizations will, after further
deliberation and some further knowledge
as to the makeup of the borough and county
tickets fall in line, although there are some
threats that the Greater New Yorks Will
bolt. Mr.. Sheehan's course at present is
practically identical with his course two
wears ago. Then as now he profeSSed to
believe that Mr.. Low weak CanOl-
date
Tammanyites Profess tc Be Happy.
The Tammanyites profess to be in a very
happy frame of mind over the renomina-
ton of Low. They say he will be easier to
beat than Jerome and are confident of
carrying the election. Low, they say, is
"emnently respectable" and that is his
entire platform; there never was less
magnetic parsonage. He has aroused neither
enthusiasm nor intense loyalty, nor abound
ing confidence among his followers. When
the pledges which he uttered two years ago
are remeasured 1t will be found that he
allotted himself an era of activity too vast
for his merely human powers Practical
question of earthly government will be of
first Importance in the coming campaign
and Low cannot be expected to give such
matters any consideration.
Just before the fusionists went into con-
ference Hugh Mclaughlin the democratic
leader of Brooklyn, in an interview said: 1
see that Mayor Low has agreed to run
again." Here he paused and gazed at the
ceiling for few moments) II guess in
that letter, which his party will receive to-
night. he will say that it is because of the
way things have been put up to him, or
perhaps he will say that because of his
fellow-citizens he will have to stand.
He will say that because of the corrup-
ton that is now rampant he will have to
go again before the people,
Mclaughlin smiled at the idea and con-
tinued There has never been such an ar
ray of corruption in Brooklyn as in the
last two years. They have been tinkerng
with the court house and repairing the Hall
Of Records and Borough Hall, wasting the
peoples money. and have got no further
than they we've a year ago. And this is
fusion
]. Edward Swanstrom. president of the
Borough of Brooklyn says: Whether Low
be elected not will depend in some
measure 1 presume, upon the attitude OF
the Germans. Such well-known citizens as
Mr.. Batterman and Judge Naehr. both of
whom are warm personal friends of Mr..
Low, are of the opinion that the Germans
will decline to support him. They point out
that the eastern distrist, which is largely
German. gave majority of 10000 for Low
at the last election and that in order to
win again 1t would be necessary to hold
this ma jority."