The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-15
CTS IN COUNTY CONVENTION.
APPOINT CONFERENCE COMMIT
TEES AND ADJOURN.
One Orator Likens the Mayor 10 Cold
Chisel-2O Seconds Of Cheering for
Low, 10 for JerOnie-Citizens't Union
Must Sacrifice Some OF the Ofiiccs.

Low, Id IOr Jerome ltIZeHs NhVs
Must Sacrifice Some Of the Oniccs.
Mayor Low was lkened to cold-chisel
by one of the speakers at the borough and
county conventions of the Citizens Union
last night He was applauded. too.
Official timers caught the duration OF the
handclapping at twenty seconds, and re-
ported with smack Of exutation that tue
applause for District Attorney jerome ran
only sixteen seconds. Unofficial timers
said that they broke about even and that
R. Fulton Cutting, styled by one speaker
"the most unseltish New Yorker got more
than the two of them put together.
The conventions were held in Cooper
Union, the borough first and the county
afterward. For all practical purposes they
were merged. Mr., Cutting addressed the
delegates, assuring them that the Citizens
Union had saved the town from Deverylsm
in 1901
"To insure that, we sacrificed our claims
for place on the ticket then, said Mr.. Cut
ting, "and we must be prepared to make the
sacrifice again" He hoped that eventually
the Citizens Union would furnish all the
candidates for city Offices. Under fusion,
he said, New York had experienced the first
exemplification of really good government
Charles H. Strong, the permanent chair
man of the county convention, told OF
the vote the Citizens Union had cast in
1897 and in 1901. Then he said
Other parties to the controversy are now
engaged in a game Of arithmetic without
real figures to solve the relative proport ION
of the vote then cast. One OF the parties
figures IS per cent. making total OF -oo'
600 votes out Of POS, 900.
At the very next elect ion it cast for Gov
ernor but 2O3 900 votes. This suggests, per,
haps, that at least 10000 Democrats voted
for Low under the Republican emblem
in 1901" 49,,
Mr.. Strong told the delegates hat they
must win or lose on Lows admlnistra-
ton and spoke of Low as the man who
will undoubtedly be our nominee again,
He warned them that "the spectre OF
Crokers return will not scare slnge
voter" He said at will not do to depend
on denunciation of police blackmaii,
For such of the vile heritage that re-
mains, the present Commissioner or Ponce,
Gen Greene, splenddly ef1clent, must i''ahe
a defence, and he Will.
Mr.. Strong said the enemy we're using
the argument that fusion success TINS year
would be a menace to Democratic success
in the nation in 1904.
4The only actual basis for this, '" said he,
ais that Mayor Low dimes agreeably with
President Roosevelt and Gov. Odell
Julius II Cohen, the temporary chair
man, said that Mayor Low had been taken
for hammer which would drive in the nail
of good government, but he had turned
out to be cold chisel, a useful implement
in ripping gratis hold of New York This
sentiment was cheered.
1t was suggested TO the conventions
that their only present duty was to appoint
conference committees to meet committees
of the other parties to fusion to choos"
borough and county candidates. namely
a Borough President and a Sheriff
For county ticket conferees he conven..
ton named r. Fulton Cutting. chairman OF
the City Committee, Charles H. Strong,
chairman of the County Commute; r. >
Lamb. chairman OF the Manhattan Borough
Committee; F. +. Marshall. chairman OF he
Bronx Borough Committee; I. c. Nadal,
H. w. Harden, A. H Stebbins, John Davis,
J. p. Butler, W j. Schieffeln, William Ben
nett and Reuben A. Meyers.
Practically the Same committee was
appointed for the borough convention
The conventions were then adjourned sub
iect to the call Of the chair.