Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-12
NEW YORK POLITICS
Latest Reports About Repub-
lican City Ticket.
MAN FOR MAYOR PICKED
COMMITTEE TO SUPPLY CANDI-
DATES MEETS THIS AFTERNOON.
County Convention Prospects Tomor-
row Evening Provoke Little In
terest-Jerome's Candidacy.
MAN FOR MAYOR PICKED


NEW YORK. October -2.-The commit
tee appointed by the republican city con-
vention to fill vacancies on the city ticket
is to meet in the republican club this aft
ernoon and put on the name of man for
mayor If they can obtain any sort of prom
ise from the victim that he will not decline.
The latest report is that Chairman Halpin
of the committee has picke.. out Frank
Moss as the man for mayor, and that Mr..
Moss has promised to accept
If the committee has caught man who
will agree to run for controller his name
has not been made public. The latest re-
port was to the effect that it was look
ing for "Broonlyn Dutchman.' If the
committee succeeds in getting men to fill
the two vacancies on the city ticket it
can go ahead and file the certificates of
nomination tomorrow But it will have
until October 81 to file the certificates, IL
1t wants to take that much time. Messrs.
Hughes and Young who declined to run
for mayor and controller, have until Oc-
tober Is to file their sworn declinations
with the board of election.
Republicans Have Lost Interest.
The republican county convention is to
be held tomorrow evening in the Murray
Hill Lyceum, but so far there has been no
talK OF cdNulOdteS IOT county oillSeS. LII
fact, the situation created by OdeH and
fIalpin is such that all republicans have
lost interest in politics. No one wants a
nomination for any place on the ticket
The general gossip at headquarters today
indicated that Odell and Halpin plan to re-
nominate District Attorney Jerome, but
they may change their minds about that at
the last moment 1t is expected that Coun-
rr-I.~ - r,-,lJ l,
nominated, and for the other places on the
ticket any one who will agree to run is
likely to be drafted.
The selection of Frank Moss as the candt-
date for mayor will, if he accepts. fall like
a wet blanket on the organization, Mr..
Moss has never been actively identified with
the party in this city. In recent years he
has been more active in the citizens union,
but that organization never proposed to
nominate him for mayor He has for sew
eral years been counsel to the Parkhurst
Society.
Tan,Ihany's Plans.
Tammany Leader Murphy will talk with
his district leaders and other political ad-
visers today, and when the executive COM
mittee meets at o'clock this evening he
will be ready to present full county ticket
for ratification. The ticket is already set
tied, except two places. There is still very
strong pressure within the organization for
the denomination of District Attorney Je-
rome. That is one of the questions that
Mr. Murphy will decide today.
Many prominent district leaders in Tam
many have never wavered in their insist
ence that the organization should nominate
Mr.. Jerome. They have told Mr.. Murphy
again and again that the district attorney
would bring thousands of votes to the city
ticket and make Mayor McClellan's plural
ity a record-breaker. These leaders are
just as strong ever today in their belief
that the organization should nominate Mr.
Jerome.
Jerome's Candidacy.
The general gossip at the wigwaa today
IS to the effect that if District Attorney
Jerome IS turned down at the last moment
the nomination will go to Eugene A. Philbin
or James w. Osborne. There Is some gos-
sip today of a dark-horse candidate but it
is not probable that the final decision of the
leaders will be known until after the meet
ing of the executive committee this even
ing
The other place on the ticket that will not
be settled finally until this afternoon Is
that of county clerk. There are three can
didates for this nominatfon-Matthew F.
Donohue. Peter ]. Dooling and Patrick H.
Keahan.
Ownership League will be held in Carnegie
Hall tonight and will carry out with en-
thusiasm the prearranged program to nomi.
nate William R. Hearst for mayor John
Ford for controller and ]. G. Phelps Stokes
for president of the board of aldermen
The Municipal Ownership Platform.
The convention will adopt a platform
radical enough to satisfy socialist or a la.
Dor agitator. The leaders of the league have
not yet decided the question of putting ur
county and borough tickets. That matter
may be considered in the convention to-
night.
1t has been rumored that the league will
indorse District Attorney Jerome, but some
of the leaders said today that they were
opposed to naming candidates for any
county offices. They said that the organi.
cation would probably confine it's campaign
work to the city ticket
The league will have a campaign com.
mittee of 100. All the candidates on the
city ticket will take the stump and the
| leaders say they will make an aggressive
campaign from start to finish.
Their nominations will have to be made by
petition, but they say that they can obtain
the 2,0CO signatures necessary in one day
LIGHT AND POWER PLANT.