Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03
CALL NEW CONVENTION
NEW YORK FUSIONISTS WILL
DROP MR.. CIRCUIT.
Mr.. Fornes, Who Was Also Endorsed
by Tammany, Must Get OF
Fusion Ticket.

A dispatch from New York last night
says: The city committee of the cluzehs
union met tonight and discussed at sleat
length the complex situation that confronted
the uriion as q result of the Endorsement by
Tammany Hall of Messrs. Grout and
Fornes. No one was admitted to the meet
ing but the regular representatives of the
union from the five boroughs.
The session was a very protracted one,
and the position of Messrs. Circuit ana
Fornes met with strong condemnation on
the part of the members of the committee
it being the consensus of opinion that they
should be dropped from the ticket and that
other democrats of the independent type
should be selected to fill their places Ihat
this could be done legally there seemed 10
be no doubt. 1t was finally decloed tia' tne
Citizens Union convention should DC re-
convened on next Wednesday mig hI anu
that a new ticket should be placed In noml
nation, with Mayor Low at the heau, pus
Messrs. Grout and Fornes eliminated anu
in their places two new men selecteu.
There seemed to be some dlNlsioii "
opinion whether they should be Independent
democrats or whether the candidate LOT
controller should be an INDEPENDENT uemo
crat and that of president OF the ooaru ~
aldermen an Independent republican, put II
was decided to leave the settlement ol the
matter to the convention
An address was prepared and directed 10
MeSSrS. Circuit ana foTIleS, eApiOoStiio
complete dissatisfaction of the Citizens
Union with the course pursued by thein
in accepting a Tammany endorsement.
and declaring that in view of the posltlon
themselves from the fusion ticket.
Immedia tely after the city commlttee
adjourned the executive committee Went
into executive session, and mad long
conference regarding the candidates 10
be presented on Wednesday night for the
offices of controller and president OF the
board of aldermen. Among the names pre-
scented for the former position were John
p. Kelley, president of the Eighth Waro
Bank of Brooklyn. Joseph c. Hendricks
and Julian D. Fairchild. For the position
of president of the board of aldermen put
one name was discussed, and that was
Herman Metz of Kings.
1t is regarded as certain that Messrs.
Grout and Fornes will resist the plan to
remove them, and the question OF the
legal right of the Citizens Union and re-
publicans to withdraw them will be thrown
into the courts as soon possible.
The Greater New York democracy was
split in two tonight by the secession of
all the members of the Bronx, headed by
S. Stanwood Menken, at the meeting of
the executive committee. over which Borough
Presidnt Jacob A. Cantor presided. John
c. Sheehan, a member of the committee
appointed to confer with the other fusion
elements on the choice Of city candidates
on September "a, reported that he had vain
ly attempted to secure the nomination of
Mr.. Cantor, and denounced the whole
fusion program as an attempt to republic
canze the city of New York.
John T. Cronn of the twenty second as
sembly district, who also on the COM
mittee with Mr.. Sheehan, made a similar
report. in the course of which he accused
r. Fulton Cutting Of insulting the Irish
voters of the city. The statement precipi-
tated a general tumult which only ended
when Mr.. Menken left the hail. followed
by all the Bronx delegates after he had
In CT ot ,nrf ,tx1,
was eventually laid on the table with re-
ports of Sheehan and Cronin.
The decision of the Brooklyn democrats
to support Congressman Mcclellan for
mayor seems to have eliminated Lewis
Nixon as an independent democratic can
didate for that Office.