New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-18
GROUTT RUN FOR NEXT MAYOR
WCARREN TO BACK HIM AS INDEPENDENT DEMO-
CRATIC NOMINEE IN FIGHT AGAINST T4NM4NY
Brooklyn Leader Intent Destroying Suppaning Mhy Plans
Coup Which Will Republican Victory.

the election OF Parker but when Parker went
down 10 defeat. realizing the way his plans had
crumbled. McCarreR cast around for life line,
and got II in Grout- Tammany first
alarmed at his reported alliance with the Sui
ivans, and specify took steps to break up any
possible combination of that kind. When the
Sullivans backed down, Murphy smiled a COM
placent smile but he did not know all that was
on the programme.
The Republican leaders, outlined In The
Tribune yesterday. have idea OF entering a
fusion movement next year. They believe that
the reason Tammany has been able to swing so
wide a swath in this city is because adequate
steps have never been taken to check fraudulent
registration and illegal voting. Governor OdelI
and his associates believe that in the last cleo
ton at least thirty thousand fraudulent Tam
many votes We're kept away from the polls by a
systematic course of inspection.
They believe that in a Mayoralty campaign
by exercising the vigilance they can get
even break with Tammany. and with an
even break they have a fighting chance of win
ming. The idea is to nominate a straight Re
publican ticket AS leader said in the
Tribune yesterday:
1T is better to take licking this year next
year and half Gozer years to come, and
maintain your organization than to go into
fusion movements If you support a Repub-
a
crat the next and haIfbreed the next. you
demoralize your organization and you cannot
get good results in State or national election"
McCarren. realizing that there will be a straight
Republican ticket this year. is ready 10 name a
straight independent anti-Tammany Democratic
Ticket with Grout at its head. McCarren hopes
10 accomplish two things. He believes that he
can defeat Tammany in the greater city. ana
carry his local ticket in Kings County through
with flying colors
IL Is necessary for him only to get the requ-
ste number of petitions to run his ticket in the
greater city. With his control of the local o.
ganiZation he will be able to nominate a
straight ticket I'm Kings County. This ticket he
VIII place under the names of the regular Tam
many nominees for Mayor and Controller and
President Of the Board of Aldermen. Then he
will have CIRCUITS name on his independent ticket
ana his candidates under his name. He be-
heves that enough votes viii he cast in Man
haitian and The Bronx, as we'll as Richmond and
Queens for Grout to nullify practically the dif-
ference between the Tammany vote and the Re
vote for Grout that will be far greater than the
vote for the Tammany ticket.
If McCarren carries out this plan, and it was
announced last night that he would and that
Grout had joined hands with him in the scheme
II means Tammany ticket. independent
Democratic ticket, with Grout at the head of if
and straight Republican ticket in the field
next year. 1t is believed that with an align
ment Of forces along this line the Repub-
leans elect the city ticket. that McCarren
can go through flying in Kings County and that
Tammany will be smothered
Charles r. Murphy and his associates have
hurried back to the city TO look over the situa-
ton. Murphy is said to be alarmed thoroughly
while McCarren and his Brooklyn friends are
said TO be elated over a programme which
promises to annihilate Tammany and give them
the same time complete control of every de-
partment of the Borough Of BROOKLYN