Evening star., 1905-10-11
NEW YORK POLITICS
Republican Leaders Still
Searching for a Candidate
TO HEAD CITY TICKET
COMMENT OVER HEARST'S CAM
DIDACY FOR MAYOR.
Situation of the Odell-Halpin Combina-
ton is Regarded as Desperate
Tammany Halls Estimate.
TO HEAD CITY TICKET
Special Dispatch to The Star.

DioPotSh " lue star
NEW YORK, October 1.-THE republi-
can city ticket Is not likely to be COM
pleted until some time on Friday, and when
II is finished it may be anything but a
straight party ticket. County Chairman
Halpin and the members of his committee
ON vacancies have not yet succeeded in find
ing men who will accept their nomination
for mayor or controller. but James L..
Wells is still on the ticket for president
of the board of aldermen, and the commit
tee say so long as they can Keep Wells
there is hope.
Halpin and many other local republicans
are in Newburgh today to attend the we'd
ding of a son of State Chairman OdelI. As
a result the chase after candidates is sus-
pended today but may be renewed tonight
Chairman Odeu will be in the city tomor-
row to resume personal charge of the hunt.
The municipal ownership league city con-
vention and the Tammany county conven-
tion will be held tomorrow night, and on
Friday morning Halpin and his committee
will know what Tammany has done about
nominating District Attorney Jerome.
William K. Hearst has decided to run for
mayor He is to head a full city ticket
that will be nominated tomorrow night by
the city convention of his league. The men
who are to go on the ticket with him are
ex-senator John Ford republican, citizens
union and municipal ownership league, for
controller, and ]. @. Phelps-Stokes uni
versity settlement worker and husband of
Rose Pastor, for president of the board of
aldermen. They have all agreed to accept
and they will be nominated with great en-
thusiasm.
Many republicans suspect today that Mr..
Hearst and his leaders are making bid
for the Odell-Halpin support by naming
John Ford for controller. They have at
least reduced, by one. the list of men Hal
pin had in mind as possible candidates for
mayor The question republicans are ask
ing TODAY is. Can Olpl and HalDin stand
for Hearst as their candidate for mayor?
Mr. Hearst's Position.
Mr.. Hearst was elected to Congress last
year from the eleventh district as a Tam
many democrat. He has not resigned his
seat in Congress and need not do so in or
der to make the race for mayor. He was
candidate for the democratic nomination
for President last year and received more
than 100 votes In the national convention.
Under these conditions republican poll
ticians are asking how 1t is possible for
republican convention or committee to
even consider him for a party nomination
for mayor.
But the same republicans admit that des-
perate situations are sometimes treated
with desperate remedies
That the Odell-Halpin situation and the
republican party situation created by them
in this city is desperate no republican at
tempts to deny. They have made the nomi-
nation for mayor something that dozen
respectable and prominent republicans have
spurned They have little more than forty
eight hours time in which to file with the
board of elections certificates of nomina-
ton, and they have not yet found a man
who will agree to head their ticket.
It is rumored today that Mr.. Halpin has
been pleading with Frank Moss to run for
mayor but has received little encourage
ment. The gossip at state headquarters to-
day included no new names as possible can
didates.
The talk is of State Senators Alfred r.
Page and N A. Elsberg and all the gossip
is to the effect that If straight party
ticket is named the candidates must all be
machine men who Will obey orders.
Rumor of Mongrel Ticket
The fact that Halpn made overtures to
Frank Moss lends color to the rumor that
after all the fuss and refusal of fusion a
mongrel ticket may be put up or Hearst
indorsed Mr.. Moss has never been identi-
fed with the republican organization. He
has been counsel to the Parkhurst Society
and has been active in the Citizens Union.
His nomination for mayor, If he would take
ii. would be an open abandonment of the
straight machine ticket program.
Tammany Hall leaders expressed great
satisfaction today with the registration fig
ures of the first two days, which show an
increase in this city OF more than 5000
voters enrolled for those days than for the
first two registration days in 1903. when
Mayor Mcclellan was elected. Tammany
men say that inasmuch as there IS no fu-
sion ticket in the field this year and no
particular excitement over the election, the
very good registration figures must mean
that there is general satisfaction with
Mayor McClellan's administration and
determination all around to keep him in Of
fee