Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-17
NEW YORK POLITICS
Their epublican Candidate for
Mayor Astounds Leaders.
RUNNING HIS CAMPAIGN
SAYS HE IS NoBoDY's MAN AND
is IN THE FIGHT TO WIN
Jerome Pushing His Candidacy With
V1m-Speechmaking to Open
This Week.
Special Dispatch to The Star

SPeciai Dlspatch to The Star
NEW YORK, October 17-County Chair
man Halpin and his assistants at repubu
can county headquarters are dazed and
speechless today by the audacity of WiIdam
M 1Vlns. the republican candidate for
mayor Mr.. WINS has opened headquarters.
ihaoe HIS own PLATFORM hired automobiles
Is making appointments to speak and going
right ahead running his own campaign to
suit himself
Mr.. WINS has spoken out and said that
he is not OUeu's man. is not goin. 70 ha
odelis man or any other mans man. He
mas criticised and condemned some of the
party legislation passed last winter. and
"nat mas shocked local republicans most of
all he has said that he will be pleased to
speak from the same platform with District
Attorney Jerome
Inc county committee has no money, and
mas not planned a city campaign that is
worth the name. In fact. the leaders had
ticket put up for them by Odell, Halpin.
Lauterbach. and Gruber. But Mr.. WINS
has not asked them for an assistance. He
mas mas gone INTO his campaign with vim that
mas startled the district leaders. He an
nounced today that he intends to visit
every assembly district in lie city and make
one or more speeches in each. He plans
to make a number of short speeches every
afternoon and longer ones at big meetings
In the evenings
Mr.. WINS when he went to his head
quarters Yesterday afternoon refused to be-
come tangled In red tape. He walked right
into the general reception room, where he
talked freely to reporters and all other CALI
ers, answered telephone calls and gave or
derS as if he knew his own mind and in
tended that every one should know that he
was running his own campaign.
Jerome's Campaign.
rio ind
campaign for reelection is getting under
way with more spirit than any one had
hoped for at this early stage. Enthusiasm
is being found where none was expected.
Men all over the greater city are respond
ing to his call to break away from the po-
ht1cal engineers who pull al the levers of
party machinery which is supposed to make
griSt of their votes
His headquarters in the Gilsey House are
already taking on the atmosphere of hurry
and confidence which comes usually only
on the few days preceding election day.
Mr.. Jerome. however, is not permitting his
fight to interfere in the least with his
duties in the criminal courts building He
goes regularly from, his home in Rutgers
street to his Office, where he spends the day
as though nothing unusual were on foot
dropping in at the Gilsey House in the
evening for few minutes, crowded in be-
tween his days work and his nights
spec chmaking.
Groups of men are always to be found in
the headquarters going over the situation,
boxes of campaign buttons are open on the
table and there pictures of the candi-
date for all who want them.
Campaign Contributions.
Campaign contributions are coming in in
small amounts, not only from men who are
going to have chance to vote for Jerome
but from men in other parts of the country
who realize that the fight against bosssm
is not only local. but of vital Importance
to the whole country.
The Citizens Union has made a move
which places it behind the district attor-
ney's campaign. The executive committee
has sent out appeal for a fund of $50 600
with which to help carry on his campaign
The campaign managers of the Municipal
Ownership League expect to file with the
board of elections today the certificates of
nomination of all their candidates for city
county and borough offices. They have un-
til midnight on Saturday night in which to
file them.
Mr.. Hearst, the league candidate for
mayor, and many of the other candidates
on the ticket will begin speechmaking this
week. They expect to hold number of
big mass meetings. This is the last day
for candidates nominated by party conven-
tions to file declinations. If their sworn
certificates of declination are not filed with
the board of elections by midnight tonight
they cannot keep their names off the official
ballot.