New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-06

likely to be pulled down to defeat HIM
self, except for the possibility OF
Tammany Endorsement.
on this account, it may be said, one
of the proposals which Mr.. Whitman
has had put before him for considera-
ton is that he authorize his indepen-
dent nomination by petition for Dis
trict Attorney, so that his name could
stand out in a column by itself, free
from any entangling alliances, Whlch
might drag down his total. The basis
for this suggestion, it was said. was to
make as certain as possible, barring a
Tammany Endorsement, that Tammany
would at least not recapture the Dis
trict Attorneys office.
Third Ticket Possibility.
AS to the possibility of Mr.. Whitman
heading a Republican or third ticket
for Mayor, many Of the messages re-
ceived by the District Attorney yester-
day were to the effect that the Repub-
lican organization could not be held in
line for the present fusion ticket. and
this also was used as q part Of the
argument to convince him that there
was no hope of success against Tam
many unless he led the fight as the
Mayoralty candidate.
Mr.. Whitman's objection that Tam
many would be a sure winner in a
three ticket field was met with the
suggestion from some of the more
radical Republican leaders that his
candidacy would put the present fusion
ticket so far in the rear that the fight
would resolve itself into a two-ticket
fight between the ticket headed by
Whitman and the Tammany ticket.
Two or three Republican district
leaders threatened to resign if Whit
man was not made the Mayoralty can
didate. and even those leaders who ia
vor accepting the fusion slate admitted
yesterday that it would be hard
fight TO line up the organization sup
port and the rank and file who are
convinced that Mr. Whitman was
.jockeyed" out of the Mayoralty nomi-
nation.
The alternative plan to the stick
or "b-lt" propositions offered yesterday
by the Republican leaders was in the
nature Of an appeal for real direct
primary on the fusion Mayoralty nomi-
nation.
This was proposed with the idea of
making the coming election two
r,onthnd outlined
was to have Republicans, Progressives
and independence Leaguers vote at
their respective primaries on all three
names that were proposed in the fusion
Whitman, Mitchell and Nc
Aneny.
on the Progressive ballots this would
require that Whitman's or McAneny's
name should be written in on the
ballots, because by reason Of the small
enrolment of Progressives, something
less than 1900 in the greater city, it
would he a physical and statistical i'm
possibility to get petitions signed by
enrolled Progressives to the extent of
per cent of their vote for Governor
last year, as the law requires
On Democratic Ballot, Too.
This same scheme contemplated the
idea of having Whitman and Mitchell
put on the Democratic primary ballots
by petition, which would have TO be
signed by 15,400 enrolled Democrats.
The man who proposed this scheme
said that in the Democrats case this
would not be difficult in Whitman's be-
half, because a recent poll taken oil
seven hundred enrolled Democratic
voters showed 80 for Whitman, 81
for Gaynor and 20 scattering between
Mitchell and McAneny.
Samuel S. Koenig, Republican county
chairman, with Lucien Bonheur, the
Progressive who has consistently OPP
posed Francis Bird in his stand against
Whitman, and Isidor Wasservogel, OF
Mr.. Whitman's staff, were Mr.. Whit
mans first callers after his return TO
the city, and, although they remained
for upward of an hour and half. they
had nothing to say when they came
out.
Delegations from several Independent
organizations Aned UP IOf NHltIhdh IoT
Mayor followed. most Of them with the
word that while still ready to support
him for Mayor they could not or would
not swing over to Mitchell.
Frederick c. Tanner, Republican
leader of the 18th Assembly District
and a close friend of District Attorney
Whitman, who lives in his district, was
much exercised last night when he read
that he would resign his leadership.
He dictated the following:
in this evenings papers ] am re-
ported as saying l would resign the
leadership of the 10Th Assembly Dis
trict whether Mr.. Whitman ran on
the fusion ticket or not. l will not re-
sign during any fight. and as long as !
am leader 1 shall exert all the influence
j possess to secure the strongest anti
- l. l.