New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-03
JEROME WON'T BE MAYOR
n FORMAL STATEMENT.
Declares He VII Run Indeper,
IDENTIFY for District Attorney.
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Lakeville. Conn. Sept. 2-District Attorney
Jerome has unequivocally declared that he viii
under no circumstances run for Mayor OF New
York City. In a statement issued tonight he
reiterated the announcement made some time
ago, in which he declared his intention of run
ming independently for District Attorney again.
Mr.. Jerome said that, in view OF the recent
agitation in favor of his nomination as Mayor
he felt impeed to repeat his former declaration
and reaffirm his desire to serve the city only In
his present Office The full statement follows.
On January 1S 1905 in reply to inquiries from
newspaper men, I said that / did not desire 10
be a candidate for the office of Mayor OF thu
city of New-York or to be Mayor OF the city. and
that | did desire to serve another tern Dis
tr1ct Attorney of New-York County. on Angus.
l, 1903. in formal published statement I said
this again and further said that If at the proper
time there were two thousand electors in the
county of New-Yorll who desired to have
again run for the Office of District Attorney
should cause a petition to be filed nonna ting
me for election TO that Office. and IN that way
submit il to the people of that county to say
whether o. not they desired to serve them for
another term in the office hold
meant what said and time have for
one moment changed or wavercd in nay de-
clared purpose. I should say nothing further
were it not for the events of the last week lii
view of these events and that my silence may
not be misunderstood. first, | reiterate my for
mer statement of August !. 1905 second. shall
do exactly what In that statement | declared I
circumstances be candidate for the Office OF
Mayor at the forthcoming election.
This statement from the District Attorney. his
first positive refusal to run for Mayor. was a
severe blow to the hopes of the Citizens Union.
which has for several weeks urged Mr.. Jerome
as the logical candidate for Mayor Despite the
repeated assertions of Mr.. Jerome's friends that
he sought only to be reelected to his present
Office. R. Fulton Cutting. of the Citizens Union.
desirable candidate for Mayor On Friday Mr.
Cutting still hopeful that Mr.. Jerome would
be induced to change his mind If finally NOM
mated for Mayor. I'VE shall not ask Mr.. Jerome
at the present time whether he is willing to run
for Mayor or not" he said. The time to do
that will be after the fusion conference has
agreed on him as the candidate for Mayor"
The other organizations at the conference last
week were not so hopeful. and the conviction
steadily grew that some other candidate for
Mayor would have TO be sought The most I'M
portart obstacle. aside from his own wishes. 10
the nomination of Jerome for Mayor seemed 10
be the Municipal Ownership League Messrs
PaIliser and Shober. Of that organization. repre-
senting William r. Hearst. said that not merely
had the District Attorney taken no stand on the
municipal ownership question but that he would
be distinctly weak candidate
~O-AAS
out in favor of municipal ownership was how
ever, specifically denied by Mr.. Hinrichs 80 told
in yesterdays Tribune. He said that the Dis
trict Attorney while he did not favor eit3 ober-
ation had distinctly declared for city ownersasip
and short term leases. He said that Mr.. Jerome
had indorsed the Citizens Union municipal own
ership platform.
1t was also maintained that Mr.. Jerome had
made himself unpopular with the poorer classes.
This was denied. however. in several East Side
quarters. The District Attorney Jerome East
Side Volunteers in an enthusiastic meeting said
they would support Mr.. Jerome for any office.
DR.. David Blaustein, superintendent of the Ed
ucational Alliance, contradicted the statement
that the District Attorney had offended the
Jews.
In a formal statement published on Wednes-
day the Citizens Union gave as its reasons for
wanting Mr. Jerome as Mayor that he was not
bound to any national party; that he had shown
great executive capacity in the conduct of his
present Office; that his independence was unim-
peacha BILE: that the problems of the coming four
years demanded a Mayor brave, intelligent and
dsinterested; that the Office of District Attor
ney is we'll organized and ready for another
man, and that the other counties of the city
should have the benefit of Mr.. Jerome's adninis-
tratiOn.