The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-08
The SAME MUNICIPAL TICKET.
MCCLELLAN, GROCT AND FORNES
on DEMOCRATIC SLATE.

Odeu and Hearst Candidates Have Not
shown Their Heads & osslp ~ 20 Candi.
dateafor the Beneh--Tammany Expects
20 Gain Of lie n SiN Assembiymcn.
What will Mayor Mcclellan do with the
bin passed at Albany making the term
Of the Mayor Of New York city four years
ir stead Of two? Republicans ard Demo-
Gratis asked yesterday. Under the origin al
Charter the term Of the Mayor was four
years, hut after the administration Of
Mayor Van Wyck II was amended by the
Republican Legislature TO two years, ard
now It lie proposed 10 amend It back 70 four
years.
Mayor Mcclellan said yesterday that he
hadn't given the bill the slighteIt cor slider
alton as vet. Chairman Odell q the Repub-
lican State committee, who is in complete
control of the New York Repub ioln county
committee has declared many times Within
the past few months that he will defeat
Mr.. Mcclellan should the Mayor DO re-
nominated uext fall, Mr.. Odell's friends say
that he has a working arrangement with
William r. Hearst, who has just sailed for
Europe, the latter 10 put up e. labor can
didate for Mayor but it viii not be unit!
after Mr.. Odell returns from Europe to
this country, about June II, that his friends
will begin to talk about his candidate for
Mayor, and by that time both Mayor McClel-
ian and Gov. Higgins will have acted on
the bill to make the Mayors term four
years,
From the talk heard In the inner circles
Of the Democratic organizations Of the FIVE
boroughs the Democratic city ticket is
again to be Mcclellan, Grout and Fornes,
notwithstanding anything at Comptroller
Grout may say concerning his individual
predictions and despite the efforts Of some
Of Mr. CIRCUITS friends in Brooklyn to at
tempt to secure for him the nomination
FOR Supreme Court Justice In the Second
Judicial district against Joseph A. Burr
" HON Gov Odell appointed 70 NIL the va
ca Icy caused by the election OF Edgar NJ:
Cullen TO be Chief Judge Of the Court Of
Appeals. 1919,
that of the three Supreme Court Justices
TO be nominated in the First Judicial dis.r ct
10 succeed Charles II. Van Brunt, who retireS
under the age limit, George l., lngraham
and Henry A. Gildersleeye, Judge Glider
sleeve will be renominated, all i uncertainty
concerning Judge lngraham and also as TO
the candidate TO be named in Judge Van
Brunt's place.
II was the opinion yesterday that eVentu-
ally any wrinkles in the way Of Judge In
graham's denomination will be smoCthed
away, but at tn present time, and these
matters are usually discussed far in ad-
vance. his denomination is by no means
assured. Corporation Counsel John j.
Delany has been mentioned for the nomina-
ton 20 succeed Judge Van BHlnt, but the
friends of Marley Platzek are working
overtime in their efforts 70 bring him In
the winner
The Demo Gratis said yesterday concern
ing Assemblymen from this county that
they would certainly gain six districts
and that as a matter Of fact they expected
to send a solid delegation from the county;
The districts which the Democrats said
they would surely capture are the Eighth
Tenth, Sixteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty
first and Twenty-ninth, represented by
Republicans "a follows: Freidel. elected
in the Eighth last fall. Presidential year,
by 1871 plurality; Etzel in the Tenth by lsI
plurality. Hartman in the Sixteenth, by
2l7 plurality; Stanley in the Nineteenth by
5gI plurality Young in the Twenty-hr
by 246 plurality and the late Frederic l.
Perham, who was elected in the Twenty
ninth by $50 plurality.