New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-04-07
WOODRUFF NOT RUNNING. |
Won't Be Mayor, He Says
Schieren's Friends Hopeful.

A-A-Lieutenant Governor Timothy L. Woodruff. on
ms return yesterday from Syracuse. set at rest all
[uinoFs about his position in local politics for the
Mayoralty campaign. When if was suggested by
tribune reporter that the district leaders in
5Eooklyn were disposed to support him for the
Alayoralty nomination on a straight Republican
ticket Mr. Woodruff said:
All such talk is without knowledge of my wishes
a, candidate for political honors in the conlins
various friends who say tbey Would like am oppoP
to ao 70 support me- but nothing could induce me
hard. and good deal of the time at Syracuse.
~here some of my business interests are centred
tlcS for the next few years. and the friends who
ing may as Well take noFic now that ssalI not
oe a candidate for anything whatsoever, and II
nominated would not run.
When asked about the prospect Of fusion ticket,
Mr.. Woodruff said that 1t was too early TO judge
Of what would happen IN September.
The friends of ex-Mayor Schiere1 believe that
with Mr.. Woodruff out of the race. the former
chief executive of Brooklyn stands the best chance
OF a nomination. assuming all the time that the
domination viii go to a straight Republican: MI
Sehieren is unbeaten candidate. His friends say
that his record Mayor CT BROOKLYN would make
Mayor Mcclellan next fall The dissension IN the
as an e r fsctS in be confess The theory
Of the Brooklyn leaders is that the Republicans VIII
demand a Republican for the head of the ticket, II
they take part in a fusion campaign. ana that
with the McCarren men fighting Murphy and Tam m
Schieren greater than he had in lssS-about 10000
When Mr.. Schieren left the office of Mayor OF
BROOKLYN. he was in poor health and he DROPPED Ia
out of active politics for some time. His fr1ends
say that he is in good health now. and that while
he is in sense a candidate for political honors
he would serve his party if drafted.
The Republicans Of Brooklyn are far from being
a unit on tho question Of nominating straight
ticket, said Congressman-elect George E waldo
The figures strong argument against a
straight ticket Even allowing large percentage
OF shTinkage account of the appropriately in
Brooklyn OF the Mcclellan administration. many
Republicans do not where the Republicans
i0hting alone would have any chance of a victory
Unless all the naturally anti-Tammany bodies are
lined up together. in 1901, they argue We cannot
win"
Republicans are about evenly divided the
straight ticket proposition said Congressman
Calder. The out and out organization men want
a straight ticket whether win lose, while
the more independent Republicans think there
there would be no chance of winning unless thers
is a complete fusion"
Generally speaking" said John Cohen. of the
Republican County Committee, the Republican
organization mel Kings in favor of a
straight ticket, win lose If Mr.. Woodruff
wanted the mayoralty nomination Brooklyn Repub-
leans would be for him. If he does not want il,
the organization would be for ex-Mayor Scheren.
We couldn't nominate a better vote getter than
Mr.. Scheren."