The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-18
JEROME WILL SUPPORT FUSION
RTT SAYS THE MANAGERS ARE
URFCKING THE CAUSE.
lows Nomination He VIII Oppose TO the
Last, on the Ground That Low Cannot
Re Elected-But II Low Runs, jerome
VIII Not Sulk or Rhirk Work.


90 i,tarest said District Attorney Jerome
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to mo very souHo III RuHe"' IL u"
funny thing how words addressed TO the
moral obliuuitv OF 'reroriners' are in
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dressed 10 lne saH'e ainiapie "e""''e"e ~
Tammany Hall men are burning words
Of righteous Indignation
81 notice that considerable emphasis is
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Iaih upon 'he iac' '',a' 'nis abusive anu
incorporate language ought 10 nave peeh
used sooner Who could have foreseen
,ba fat,lity that has led to Mr. Lows tenta-
. ~" '" ,,,,,;na,;on nd aooan,.ncs, On,
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told mat TWO questions are put 10 me. why
did YOU not give us the benefit OF your
views when the matter was being con-
sdersd hy the conference! What sugges-
tons have you TO make now!
Il think the nTst Is practicai!y answered
tv what | have just said. l may add.
however, that my views were not asked
for, and that l am not member OF any
political body represented IN inc conference
and know nothing or their plans or
feelings.
in reply to the second question, as 10
what suggestion l have 10 make now,
would say that minatory suggestions as
10 my own pli'icai iuIuio' osoh iioii NY ,,
mouth of a 'reformer, are at least not well
calculated to keep me silent when l pc
ieve that great public wrong is being
done, w
a sublime philosopher has sad; "hen
YOU are cau9h; with the goods on YOU
You don't want to say nothing Ana yet,
with wsd ON to be had az cheap as ms from
the Is Of the best chief of police that New
York ever had MIR. Nadal challenges the
Rccura cy OF my statement with regard 10
the pu bhc ieehng WIN reference 10 Mr
Low, when his own ent hlslastic support Is
couched in the following language; i don
say that the NOMINATION. OF Ar' Low Is nov
right but, in any event. see nothing else
t" do now,
That Is there Is not hlng else LOT repre-
sentative body OF 'reformers 10 90 Dut 10
jam down the throat OF supposedly Tree
committed publicly without regard to
whether he can lead the cause 10 victory
or not think under these circumstances
'supppstiOns' from me as to what should
In don. would be too bli, hely and adily
tnll0w,d for me to take the responsibility
Of making Them at the present moment.
III seems to me strange that a statement
,r mia. so unrnnsciousIy feeble one The
vsrv .oul of whose toIlv and offending is
mai il is void of substance and the 'suffi-
,iencv of the r, asons advanced for putting
him iIowl in the firld' should REQUIRE SO
y
,ditoriaI snaco from the leading dailes Of
,b b,,'v ''.~ r. d,.moT,strate ;ts uosscssion of
these rstimable qualities.
Are the estimable gentleman who are
engaged in abusing me, rather than in de-
tarn,;ning whethnr NV STATEMENTS arr. tr,,e
ar NOT Seeking 10 eoad me into throwing
Tobt ,,non som, Of rh, peculiariiti es
re IN, nresent admini.tr ration? Even
.reforu, administration is nor withou,
points ina, it would prefer not TO have dis
,usssd
'" .T would seem a. if ordinary intelligence,
domestic MvuI @1e eT could not confuse the
issue 7 see much said about the admirable
Character of the administration, / think
that 7 was one Of the tirst TO discover this
and I did not hesitate to saw 40. | have
never attacked it and am not doing so now.
I have simply pointed out that do not be-
aisve Mr.. low can win IL nominated and
have given some of the reasons why think
so. I heartily concur in the statement
of one OF the leading editorials that 1t is
now high time for the chief men OF this
onnio n are I snngS wf grave stions
Eva me for decision - sneal orr in s,nnort
o ~ NJ W ~, What thev should be asked
is. Are the SPECIFIC statements OF Mr., de-
rome 5 letter untrue not has Mr. Low
given this city good ADM istration|
I, is manifest that if nv statements are true
nr EVEN + - s,ib.taniisl mart Of them is
,rr. Vi, nu o,,gbt not n he the "a ndidate
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Of me 1uSIon FORCES: ,
1t Il sad that II any OF MI Jerome f
friends will move in the convention for
se,r.t Iallot the proposition would he
,alco,,aJ lave not so far az sm
aware. any friends in the convention. with
,Ie c1ception of n half n dozen personal
friends who assume will he there because
r. their former connection with Citizens
Jn;on movements [ have not the slight
Ga. knowledpe Of the names of anv
Gozon Mr.. Cutting and Mr.. Nadal
are two and that good fellow, Dr. F.. r. L.
Iould romplet es hal the tale What fight
inc have over felt myself called upon to
H. has been done in the open with my cards
taco nm on the table, and any suggestion
that T am using friends to accomplish some
pyrnose is an Ilreolivocal lie
Of am definitely informed by man in the
,,ti2ens' Union. in n position to know, AS
follows.
"Ikno,. that much of the so.called unanj-
nous support of certain delegations in the
conferences was rnsncere. some Of the
most determined opponents o! Mr ioW
n"InnH' ION dr" OH a'e sonnhlcsns IN FAX.
ri it '''b hut non Who arromplished
sninndId results in ,aOi, men who know their
districts and constantly return with reports
THAI the people will not take Low Inc So
called logical hrRnnlent make. .neaI '"I In
.TEd ''N Sna atSn,'E o -" h ~ wnu or
eloc,-' 'nnmo, write details hut the great
,r.,or,tv q, men as moe, them saw Low cant
10 eIno cd and report great disafrection emong
mo working folk ! am well informed mar
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