New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-01
Sees Republican,, Progressive
and League Leaders to
Effect Compromise.
WANTS TICKETS UNIFORM
Fusionists Say Tammany Is
Trying to Prevent Newsmen
Handling Campaign Liter
allure Attacking Mccall.

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trying 10 straighten out some of the tan
! giles in the local situations. He started on
| The Bronx. He conferred at the Custom
| House with John J. KnewitZ. the Repub-
! lican leader: Arthur j. Largy. lndepend-
ence League leader; August Schwarzler,
/ Progressive leader. and Eugene j. NC
CURE, the Independent Democratic leader
| The league is the only organization that
has accepted the entire fusion ticket IN
that borough. Douglas Mathewson, fusion
candidate for Borough President Is also
on the Republican ticket which is made
up of a combination of Republicans ana
independent Democrats suggested by MIR.
Mcclure. The Progressive candidate for
Borough President is f. ]. L. Raldiris. An
effort has been made TO get him to retire
! in favor of Mr.. Mathewson.
| The object OF the conference was 10 get
one anti-Tammany ticket by compro-
mise by all the fusion forces-the deciihd
| ton Of some candidates and the suosutu-
ton of others
There was some plain talk between the
| leaders. Largy is said to have told NC
| Guire in the presence Of Mitchel that ne
never had much strength In The Bronx
and what he had was dwindlng rapId'S'
| The conversation became so heated thdt
Iargy and Mcclure came within an ace III
, q phvsIcal encounter. Mitchell had all ne
could do TO calm the excited politicians.
| Mcclure and Knewitz wanted to have
Thomas F. O'NeHl. independent Demo-
Graf substituted for Charles l. Fleck az
! candidate for Sheriff on the fusion slate
as the price Of their support. Fleck IS 'he
1 II sion and independence League cahul-
] date and I.argy insisted that he be re-
/ tanned.
The restoration OF harmony Is looked
upon as wellnlgh hopeless by those iafii'-
lar with the situation.
Mitchell did not get to fusion headquar-
tiers Yesterday. He spent much OF t'e
time on speeches he delivered last night
Tonight he is TO be a guest OF Congress
man william VI. calder. at the MontauK
club Rrooklyn. Later he will speak at
tho Congressman's Club. No 400 Ninth
avenue. and the Brooklyn Young Repuo-
Ii,ar club ri the Johnston Building.
Robert Adamson said last night ne had
received. reports to show that la'iiilh"S
Hall was trying TO prevent the dlstrlou-
,ion OF The Voters Weekly puollcd-
flo, of the fusion committee. Inc HrS'
issue contained an article reclung III"
,o,,oc,,on Of Chairman Mccall with the
sco,dala in the New York Life Insurance
Company. which were brought out py th'
insurance investigation
This and other articles In The voters
Weekly have apparently aroused the Ire
~ Tammany leaders" said statement
made AT fusion headquarters. Reports
wera received that Tammany politicians
we're trying TO intimidate newsdealers on
tho lower West Side and the upper East
, eide 10 stop stelling the publication
Adamson conferred at noon win MY
vounc men who had volunteered 10 90
couruaign work. He talked 10 them OF
Tho ISSUES Of the campaign and OF the
coed that could be done by house 10
bo,se canvass. He Will have talk with
| nfty more to-day.
TWO auxiliary committees arc In process
OF formation. The Irlsh-Amerlcan COM
uittoe will have headquarters In the bty-
an, Arcade. sixth avenue and i2d street.
Arong those on the provisional commit
too vbl-h Is organizing the movement,
ore Colonel Edward Duffy. formerly OF
the cath Regiment Anthony j. Brogan'
editot Of THE Irish World, ana Dr' D.
T.. Brennan.
provisional committee. which Is get
ting nm n labor committee. has among its
members Timothy Healy. Thomas W.
lp,ck James L. Holland and Alfred j.
BJJltCn.
Tho campalgn committee OF twenty-five.
which is to work under the personal d.
rection OF Adamson, will be completed
and made public to-day.
The Mitchell College Mems Club which
Includes Theodore Roosevelt. jr.. Charles
f. Hughes. jr.. and Francis r. sayre'
who IS 10 marry a daughter or PRESIDENT
Wilson, will hold meeting for organi-
cation ut its headquarters. the Putnam
Rulldlng. Broadway and 43d street at
5.2o o'clock this afternoon. Among others
interested in the movement are a. Z.
Rlaeden. OF Harvard; Gordon Auchin-
close. OF Yale: Harold A. Content. OF
Columbia: BENJAMIN y. Day, OF New
York University: A. Perry Osborn' OF
Princeton: II. Bayard Cutting OF Har-
ward. f.. H. Ousterhout. of Columbia;
q 4 II. De Saules. of Yale, and f. a.
Seidlcr. Of Dartmouth.
4 letter from Felix II. Levy. who was
associated with the Attorney General IN
the prosecution OF the tobacco trust ana
who had intended to support Mayor Gay
nor. was made public yesterday. lie said
he intended 10 work for Mr.. Mitchell.
The last argument that led him to that
course was the attack made by Richard
Croker on Mayor Gaynor
"It is intolerable TO those who thought
well OF Mayor Gaynor and his useful
work for this city and for good govern
mont" he said, Ito read In the Croker
statement the comparison there made
between Mayor Gaynor as public OIL
cial and as a man and Charles F. Muir
phy, who is concededly the power behlhd
the Mccall ticket. AZ lifelong Demo
= crat and good citizen. I wish to empha-
size my feelings In the matter by writing
Won this letter and requesting you to let
me know whether can In any way be OF