The sun., 1903-10-08
HINRICHS AND INQUIRE IT IS.
ARE GRUBER TRIES TO HALT
REPUBLICAN, CONVENTION.
Had Three Votes for Ills Grievanoe--LabOr
Men and Other Directors Make G. U.
Convention Neutrality-suspicious. Fol.
low the Assembly Rules with Great
Exactness. Expecting . Legal Fight
When They File Their Certificates.


low the Assembly Rules with Great
Exactness. Expecting Legal FlEht
When They File Their Certificates.
Grout and Fornes were pitched of the
Republican ticket by the reasssmbled con-
vention which met last night at Carnegie
Hall, and Frederick w. Hinrichs OF Brook
lynn WAS nominated for Comptroller and
Edward j. Mcclure Of Manhattan for Presi-
dent OF the Board OF Aldermen. No at
by court order. 1t is understood that
counsel for Comptroller Grout will direct
the legal process at the Board Of Electiooo,
seeking to prevent the acceptance there
Of a certificate of nomination for candidates
other than Grout and Fornes, thus bring
ing up the whole question of the right to
reconVene.
The convention moved last night with
punctilious attention to parliamentary
formaities that was almost amusing. II
was disturbed only once, when Abe Gruher
moved to adjourn until tonight, following
this with narrative Of his troubles with
the Citizens Union in his district, and sug-
gesting to President Bruce that the interim
might be used to coerce the Citizens Union
into an agreement with Gruber.
All the avenues and lanes leading to
Carnegie Hall were lined with police this
time. A blind man might have felt his
way there by the shields. Smiling Dick
Walsh was on hand, but the Tenderloin
dive keepers and gamblers were not there
to be- nodded in Notice had been tele-
phoned to Secretary Manchester In the
afternoon that 400 policemen would b.
detailed. He told Mulberry Street they
wouldn't be needed. but they were there
just the same.
Chairman Woodruff came over the river
in his frock coat. He ordered the call
read, and then the minutes OF the last meet
ing, which said that the convention had
adjourned subject to the call Of the chair"
When the minutes were read they contained
references to Grout and Fornes a. we'll -
to Low. Well directed applause for Low
so drowned the mention Of Grout's name
and Fornes's that the convention and its
spectators fell to laughing at the device
and laughed right through to the Close
Then William A. Crombie moved that the
done by roll call and then Chairman Wood.
ruii addressed the convention He said
in part:
The call for this convention to meet to-
night was issued by me pursuant to the
authority vested In Inc by you and tn obettt-
reussemble and reconsider previous actions.
| There was every reason 70 believe that an
| other session of the convention was necessary
ia. reoreseatatives Of the Republican party
| OF b clty Of New York. might have an oppors
tu.f 70 pass upon , & question TnsSn n.2r ~
has presented Itself Tor consideration In the
! history Of American politics. .f--N. ST
accepted their nomipation with " under
standing that this was nothing more nor less
than campaign to keep Tammany out, just
as the campaign OF two years ago was TO put
Mr.. Grout acknowledged his knowledge OF
our platform two years ago, when, IN the
Brooklyn academy Of MUSIC, ne - said: 49, what s
! the Democratic convention last week: Tam
| many Hall is steneh in the nostrils Of decent
people. What did these Y9rds indicate az Ss
| to has attitude then toward Iammany HAIR
has las ehansedF oloaa Mayor Low 'a asserts
tnat he never hssented to Grout,s going q, on
| believe Low, but leaving aside the question
Of v-racIty, why did not Grout consult with
those who nominated himi His failure to
| get their CONSENT. IN lace of the resolutions
| have quoted. constitutes his moral. II. In
deed, it does h OF constitute his le gal. disqpal-
| fcAtion to 90 on our ticket.
TO sum it all up, he who is not with us heart
and soul in a fight like this one is against US.
Mr. CIRCUITS action in accepting the Tammany
nomination is subordination of the fusion
cause and the interests OF good government
in the city of New York to his own personal
ambition. ,
banded together against good government
is as clear as the broad Light to. OF tey S , Tbs
this the conspirutors have publicly and pri-
vately boosted. To it Grout ana Fornes have
lent themselves.
Republicanized. The fact is. and Mr.. Grout
knows it, as illustrated by our noml mlnation
Of him as Democrat two years rs age TO- and again
lied and not fusion Republicanized.
We declared that we would not nominate
man whS would accept h1ns any
greement. We consistently ceme TO the con-
cluson that he must go on our ticket, and.
with that same consistenoy which b hbs b c9nraS, @
forces, we intend tonight to maintain our
nttit1ide of loyalty to fusion. our belief IN
the benefit to na ,hs city d. e.
umphantly elect the candidates OF the anti
Tammany fusion cause.
Elijah r. Kennedy Of Brooklyn. Who
presented Grout's name to the convention
on Sept 28, said that he hated to eat boiled
crow, but that he could do 1t. he onered
OF Grout for Comptroller This was
seconded by Paul D. Cravath. who had
seconded CIRCUITS nomination before. In
response TO a question from the CHAIR
man. both men said they had voted affirm
atively on the proposition to nominate
Grout. A rollccallshowed the convention to
be unanimous for resembling the motion.
J,,ct tlaD Abe (,rrlbpr who had bppp