The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-08
Low TO TAKE COUNSEL TODAY
SHALL HE OR SHALL HE NOT
RISK DEFEAT FOR FUSION:
OncehOldcrs Who Are for Him. but Would
Prefer 10 See Another Make Fight
Against Tammany Maybe They'll
Talk-What Says W. Hep. Russell?

Mayor Low will return to town this morn
ing. Some OF his friends said last night
that he would then begin seriously to dis
cuss the advisabilty of accepting or declin-
ing denomination. provided the Grand
Sanhedrim of fusionists on Wednesday
night should, after all. desire to extend a
compliment TO Mr.. Low and tell him he
was the right man in the right place and
should be continued there
There are a lot of officeholders under
Mayor Low who like him for the reason that
his election two years ago gave them COM
Portable berths But while these men still
profess to like the Mayor. in personal con-
versations they seem to prefer some other
man who might beat Tammany Hall and
who might afterward he just as friendly
to their retention IN office.
It was said last night that there are lot
Of stupid people who profess to believe
that there ia some sort Of scheme afoot
to prevent Mayor Lows denomination
It has been printed in THE Sun and else
where, and not denied, that the vast ma
Iority of the ninet y-four delegates to the
grand conference of fusionists do not de-
sire the denomination Of Mayor Low, for
motives Of their own
The Mayor himself. after talking with his
friends to-day. will try to understand the
men who have shouted for him since 1907,
but who, at the first meeting OF the fusion
coiferees, little over week ago, did not
open their mouths to defend him against
the criticisms Of the Greater New York
Democracy az voiced by the Hon. William
Hepburn Russell
There was quite n discussion at the
Hoffman House last night as to whether Mr..
Russell had right to make a speech Of this
kind n ga inst Mayor Low. II is known 10
some persons that the Greater New York
Democracy two years ago did not desire
Mayor Low to appoint MIR. Russell one or
his Commissioners of Accounts. The
man then signed a petition to make Mr..
Russell Corporation Counsel, well knowing
that the Mayor would not appoint him to
such high position in the new admins
tration.
1t turns out, according 70 statements
made by the Mayors close friends last
night, that Mr. Russell got his place as a
MIR Russell in 1907, along with the late
Henry D. Purroy. advocated Mr. Lows
election in the three-cornered fight between
Low, Tracy and Van Wyck.
There was a discussion last night az to
whether the Hon. Mr. Russell had any
DTdlrlS OF IlOl, was HluIii euiu
in the affirmative and some little in the
negative. The discussion was finally set
tied by personal friend of the Hon. Jacob
"Russel7 Russ,lI'ss got brains; don't
forget it. I've heard 'em rattle,
Every now and then YOU hear talk about
fusionists taking up Comptroller Grout
as a possible candidate for Mayor. All
this is -hot air" according to those familiar
with what il going Oh. A year ago. in the
gubernat orial fight, Mr.. Circuit fiercely
attacked Gov. Odell Yet last spring,
when he believed that Gov. Odell was to
secure control of the New York Republican
County COMMITTEES. Mr. Grout spoke very
nicely of Gov. Odell. All Of Mr. Grout' s
friends say that Mr.. Grout will be happy
if he gets denomination for Comptroller
on the fusion ticket.
THE Sun has said for more than two
weeks that the vast majority Of the dele
gates to the fusion Sanhedrim desire the
nomination of District Attorney William
Travers jerome for Mayor, and that il
true now. according 20 tho best authority
in all of the organizations opposed 20 Tam
many Hall
That Mayor Low Ia not ready TO accept
a denomination has never been disputed
and his talk to-day with his friends, or
with the people who pretend to be his
friends, as to what he should do may count
for something