The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-09-17
|FUSIONISTS PROPOSE TO FIGHT
TAMMANY HALL CROWD.
Ants Are Encouraged and More Con-
fdent of Success Than Ever; Dis
satisfaction With the Mayor and
Boss Murphy; Enemy Is Disor-
ganized and Elements Are in Bad
Od0r; Among the Mentionables.
Especial to The Free Press.1

interest is already becoming intens,
with the probable result that before
the campaign is over the whole ma
ton will be occupied in watching tn,
greatest battle for ballots ever waget
in the metropolis.
A conference of great Importance i:
expected tomorrow between represen
~tatives of the republican organization
and the committee of one hundred
which may result in the taking OF
definite and final steps toward putting
a fusion ticket in the field to oppose
the cohorts of Tammany.
Never have the anti Tammany lead.
ers felt more confident of success
than today. The committee of one
hundred, although it may not have or
its roster so many well known names
as such bodies as the committee OF
seventy, is nevertheless one of the
most homogeneous and capable indie,
pendent organizations that have ever
taken part in a municipal campaign
And what is of even more Importance
III Is Il working DOuy.
Well Equipped For Campaign.
On the other hand, the republican
organization has never been more tho
roughly and systematically equipped
for a campaign or more ably direct
ed than at present. This, taken in
connection with the prevalent dissatis-
faction and unrest in Tammany Hall,
dislike of the mayor and Charles
F. Murphy, would tend to create a
more even balance between the par
ties without taking into considera-
ton the fact that this year for the
first time in a municipal contest the
personal signature registration goes
into effect. This alone can be count
ed on, according to careful estimates,
to weaken the normal Tammany vote
by from $4,000 to 10000 through the
elimination of that many "foaters"
and "repeaters."
No Call For General Conferences.
There is to be no call for a general
fusion conference. There will be no
conferences at all in which partici-
pants will vote as organizations with
a fixed voting ratio, according to their
supposed strength or arbitrary agree
ment. But there will be conferences
between subcommittee of the hun
dred and representatives of the sew
eral minor Independent organizations
the Independence league, and the re-
publican party. The latter, the i'm
portant one of the three, will take
place tomorrow.
At this conference representatives
of the hundred will present to the
republican conferees one or more
names for each of the offices whose
election carries with it membership
on the board of estimate and appor-
tionment, and possibly for the district
a~ttorneyship of New York county. 1t
does not, of course, necessarily follow
that one of these names will be chos.
EN-, for the hundred are not going into
the conference with the idea of bring.
ing about the nomination of any one
man. 1t is the type of man, rather
than the individual, they will insist
upon.
! Many names are discussed daily b7
the committee on candidates in the
effort to arrive at an approximation of
the choice for the several offices to be
filled. In this threshing-out process
more names are to be considered for
the head of the ticket than for any
other place on it. On this list there
are at present business and profes.
sional men, republicans and demo
Gratis.
Among Those Mentioned.
Among the business men most seri-
ously discussed are Gustav H. Schwab
Charles A. Moore, and Otto T. Ban
nard. All three are republicans. Mr.
Schwab was chairman of the prelimi-
nary committee of the hundred, and
has participated actively in it's work.
Mr.. Moore, the head of a large ma
chinery concern, is president of the
American Protective Tariff league, a
director of the Civic Federation, and
a member of the recent charter COM
mission. He has made a study of
municipal and labor problems and =
popular with the labor element. Mr.
Barnard is president of a trust com,
pany and treasurer of the New York
county republican committee.
Loeb Is Suggested.
Henry l.. Stimson, recently United
States district attorney, a republican
and Wallace MacFarlane, a democrat
who held the same position in Cleve-
lands last administration, are among
the lawyers frequently discussed. In
the same list must be mentioned Ro'
bert C. Morris, president of the Re-
publican club, ex-Judge Charles s
Whitman, Representative w. S. Ben
nett and Job Hedges, all republican
Organization men. Other names or
the list are Nichols Murray Butler
president of Columbia university, and
William Loeb, Jr., collector of the
port of New York, but it is not be.
lieved that either could be prevailed
upon to make the run. Both are re-
publicans. A possible objection to
Loeb is that he has been but a short
time a resident of the city.
Bingham Is on the List.
Other names under consideration fol
the head of the ticket are those OF