New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-20
Stampede Plans Frustrated.

stampede FldnS FRUSTRATED
This message. which was sent TO Mr..
Tanner, leader of the 18th Assembly
District, in which the District Attor-
ney lives. who had called him up at
Breton Woods on the telephone,
showed the opponents Of Mitchell they
could not hope 10 get anywhere by
stampeding the committee for the Dis
trict Attorney. Then it was that Jacob
Livingston leader of Kings County.
who in the afternoon had stated ne
would present the District Attorneys
name for Mayor in the evening, decid-
ed 10 accept the tactics Of The Bronx
anti-fusionists and make a play FOR
adjournment
There were 2.142 members of the
committee. but according 10 the rules,
which gut down the votes OF some of
the districts where the Republican vote
is slight, the total number Of commit
teemen could cast only Lib votes.
When the opening rollcall was half
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moved that it be suspended. as it was
already apparent that a quorum was
present
There was no objection TO this. and
the fight was opened 10y Abraham s.
Gilbert OF New York. who made a
motion to adjourn. He said in part:
Speaking for that mass Of men. that
10000 Republicans in the city OF
New York. | say we constitute force
TO be reckoned with in the city OF New
York and in the nation and in tns
state. The time has come when that
10000 men must show themselves 10
be men. and not 10 be scavengers OF
this town. ! speak for those men who
are opposed TO the suggestion Of this
self-constituted committee. Of whom
nobody knoweth, who undertake 10 tell
ms that we must take a candidate for
Mayor selected by them because the
Bull Moose outfit say they want him.
Gilbert Defines Nom partisanship.
Are we to help the Bull Moose outfit
10 keep them alive? / believe i'm nom
partisanship in municipal affairs, and
those back OF me do. But we take this
position: Partisanship is Just as much
to destroy the other fellows organiza-
| ton as 10 build up your own. l say,
! and those with me say. that this talk
. ff.sr.y D, in
situation like this for the benefit Of one
organization 10 build up themselves
and to destroy us, is a fake, and 1t is
not -partisanship.
mo. this body Of independent citi-
zens, who undertake TO tell those $50, 70
OuD men what TO do don't know who
! they are-spent months and months
iaboring and laboring. and finally they
brought us out the candidate-Wilson's
candidate, a man who has the power OF
federal office now-to DO what? To
| build up another Democratic organiza-
| ton here. To do what? To beat us.
| Now, we say TO you that these men
| have banded themselves together to
| fight this nomination, have undertaken
| TO canvass the roll of the Republican
organization, TO present to the citizens
| of the city of New York a man that
| they can vote for, if they are on the
| level. and against Tammany Hall |
| say 10 you that this is a mighty i'm
! portant proposition. The fate of the
state and OF the nation depends upoa
our action in this committee.
II was the suggestion Of Mr. Gilbert
that the committee adjourn until Mon
day at $50 o'clock. There were many
bursts of applause from the galleries,
where the delegates from The Bronx
| and Queens were seated.
Give us Whitman" now shouted one
man.