Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-16
NEW YORK'S CAMP PA|GN
Municipal Contest Now in
Full Swing.
G CANDIDATES ACTIVE
REPUBLICAN MAYORALTY NoMI-
NEE INVITES A JOINT DEBATE.
District Attorney Jerome in the Fight
Of His Life-Plans for Big
Meetings.


NEW YORK, October 16.-The municipal
campaign is now in full swing the three
leading candidates for mayor having open
ed headquarters There will be no big po-
litical meetings tonight because this is the
last day of registration. but tomorrow even
ing scores of spellbinders will be turned
loose by all parties.
w. M. WINS, the republican candidate
for mayor, opened headquarters today in
the Hotel Greslin. He is to attend a re-
ception tonight in the republican club and
make speech. Mr.. WINS has written a
platform for himself In the form of an
open letter to Mayor Mcclellan and W. r.
Hearst. He promises that If he is elected
he will do his best to get the legislature to
pass law that would enable the city to
get possession of all gas plants by condem-
nation proceedings. He wants Messrs Nc
Clellan and Hearst to meet him in joint
debate
The Hearst Ticket.
Mr.. Hearst has completed his county and
Manhattan borough tickets and he and all
of his candidates are to go on the stump
and speak nearly every night from now
until election day
Tammany Is to hold a big ratification
meeting on Thursday night Mayor Nc
Clellan will make the principal speech, and
that will be his first public appearance in
the campaign. The other candidates on
the city and county tickets will make short
speeches. On Friday night the mayor will
make four speeches in Brooklyn.
District Attorney Jerome begins his real
campaign for reelection this week, after
receiving the failure Of Tammany the re-
puphcan machine and the Hearst men to
indorse him without any visible surprise
or disappointment. There will he a bie
mass meeting in Carnegie Hall on We'd
nesday night, when the district attorney
VIII speak. This will be followed on Thurs
Gay night by two, IN Murray Hill I,ycel1m
ana az Grand Central Hall. and by one on
Friday night in Zeltners Morrisania Hail.
l'oth street and Sd avenue.
Chance to Hear Jerome.
These meetings will give most of the town
ehahce TO hear the candidate who wasn't
afraid to run Independently when he was
practically certain of what few were willing
to helieve-that neither Tammany nor the
republicans would indorse his name, That
the municipal ownership enthusiasts did not
place upon his candidacy the stamp of their
approval was not a staggering blow, for
those men like to keep things in the family.
and Mr. Shearn, their nominee for district
attorney, is Mr. Hearst's attorney.
1t is remembered that four wears ago
when Mr.. Jerome was making his r,nnine
with the fusionists. his campaign was con-
stantly threatening the managers with ner-
Vous prostration, for he spoke fearlessly
without regard to friend or foe and Justified
himself by polling a larger vote than even
ms most partial friends had expected He
is going to make a fight of the same COM
plexion this fall
1t is said that the republican machine an
preached Tammany last winter asking what
was going to be done with regard to Jerome.
realizing that the men of the wigwam We're
hkeiy to nominate him in response to the
public demand
Jerome Offended by Plain Talk.
According to stories which have been told
since the conventions Tammany agreed not
to tndorse Jerome's candidacy but the coun-
ty republicans, who really have not much
reason to pin their faith to political prom
ises from any source, decided that they
would wait until after the Tammany con-
vention before naming their own candidate.
Many OF the Tammany district leaders
wanted Jerome on the ticket, and wanted
him badly, so the matter was left apparent
ly in doubt up to the last minute when Os-
borne was sprung.
Former Gov. Odell, who Is bossing repub-
lican county politics, had said that he would
efAhS SStoiAiO IL iiC ildQ " nave MIN, ana
when his convention was called on the next
night after the Tammany pow-wow he had
decided that he did not have to have him
Mr.. Jeromes plain speaking last summer
on his western trip, it is said offended both
Odell and Tammany Leader Murphy, who
did not think 1t worth while to try to run
man who was honest enough to tell all he
knew about the two organizations, without
regard to the effect his own or any one
else's campaign.
Mr.. Jerome has said that the people are
on trial, and not himself If they want
man unidentified with either organization
who is willing to work in their interests un-
hampered by party obligations, he is ready
to serve them, but that If they don't he will
return to private practice of the law, and
that is the situation as he defines it.