New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-01
Men and Women of All
Parties Will Join in
the Demand
Mayor Is Expected to
Give Final Answer
Fusion Committee Com
pletes Plans for Vigorous
Campaign in Boroughs

AZ which the Mayor is TO learn OF the
demand for his reelection, and for the
campaign 10 follow, Mayor Mitchels-
hackers kept Fusion headquarters busy
Yesterday. The Sunday calm Of Its
semi-residential environment made no
impression OF this beehive, at Thirty
eighth Street and Madison Avenue,
where Emory Buckner, the new cam
paign manager. set the example by ar
irving a: $3.50 in the morning and work
ing steadily into the evening.
Not only the details of the mass
meeting, but the completion Of the petI-
tons TO put the Mayor IN nomination
consideration Of the hnal touches 20
the Fusion platform and plans Tor an
organization which is to cover the city
in the Mayors interest, absorbed the
attention Of Mr. Buckner's stah.
In the meantime from sources as Tar
apart as the political poles came tele-
grams. telephone calls, notes ana even
formal statements OF support ana en-
enlargement for the Mayor.
And as If one Fusion headquarters
in ful swing on q Sunday were not
enough. the quarters OF the CITY DEM
ocracy, in the Forty-sccond street
building. also displayed feverlsh &C
tivity, having another Tammany revolt
10 record and a meeting OF It's own 10
herald.
eugene II. Outerbridge, president OF
the Chamber of Commerce, VINO WI
preside at the City Hall mass meeting
telepboned 10 Mr.. Buckner that ne was
RECEIVING fresh word every minute OF
tre intention Of some organization 10
be represented there.
The speakers chosen 10 voice inc sen
timents of the gathering are mares
Evans Hughes. Henry Morgenthau' Al
ION r Parker. Oscar 5. Stratus. george
+ Mcclure, vice-presldent OF the Sta'e
Federation of Labor; Alfred +. Marilns
and Mr.. Outerbridge himself. " men
fbev have had their say 1t Is confidently
expected that the Mayor VIII accept
the insistent invitation TO run.
lie will have in the human sea oeIoIe
him 10 which he viii reply from the
stems of the City Hall as Mayor Gay
nor four years ago bowed 20 tne ~
isr demand for his renomlnaton)' large
IA 81 -sd+'n-. renresentative OF union Ia
Tor . generous representation from 'he
t,oe+ SIDE. big Irish and Catholic Dod!es'
~ ALLEGATIONS representing the
,,.o-r.n of the city and host OF the
Tbe Women's Committee Of One Hun
- for Non-Partisan City HoNeI"-
mont announced yesterday 1h@V S-IO1 o
saturday. when the mass meeting N@S
60 conceived, IL had received mes
- from individual women ana from
,ronen's organizations IN ever! se'e1S 1'
IF New York urging that women '.l. ~
nected with the city admins y 49, ~
be present TO add tneiI NO'OSS
demand for Mr.. MltcneI' q, - pal-
timore, sent message 10 1he 'Y n4orts
tee urging the most s1IeIu Ms /
- iHdTce the Mayor 10 run. MIS- q
por5en Hartman, though push! en-
+-.c,ed T., war work IN Washington as
ee;r,,an of the Women's CommlIIee
iabor Of the Council oil Nauo SI
Defence has decided 10 come 70 ~ ,
W tI,;s week TO head the campaign
,-,,a-,;+tee Mrs. Hartman dlrecJeu the
',~ar1en's fight for Mitchell ana u Si
go. wears ago, and VIII now yo'h ~
CiTord PinchOt, chairman OF .uS no
cn's Political Committee, III Wa ;'-n
saws will be the most acI''e 0''''
ever waged IN Ne" 1o'A'
tn Have Fifty Headquarters
Nv Ruckner said yesterday that inc
-, Committee would open mead
l,-srters in every one Of the I'VE DOT
+,-,,hs and then divide esch DoiOu6H
- zones. with a headquarters loI
- 7one In three or four Gays ne
,.roJicted that Fusion would nave my
b,sdouarters in the greater Guy. me!
abfcct will be TO knit into cohereh'
y,bolo the support Of the Mayor J."
$50, block of New YORK among moe
Y,onjart voters, among RepuDhcahs
6iesatisfed with the primary e,eevon
"a oroong Democrats affiliated WIN
the City Democracy. az, LII Sc
Tbe CITY Democracy will hold l's
bie CITY convention IN cooper oH'O"
WedDe'dav evening 90 ratliy us nom
nations fled by petitions ro"y @1,u
SATURDAY The Democracy mas an ~
yanization now in every Assembly ui'S1I
frict of the city, each OF "h.On
send a delegation 10 the con- ' 49,
The Mayor, Controiler ~ Prce'
Cowrnissioner Adamson, Borough lIes
49,. Marks Edward j. Mcclure ana
Frederic X. Coudert Will be among 'nt
sneakcrs Of the evening. IIeslueh'
,iartin ". Iittleton will preside.
Iscob Wall. elected less than Two
,.ee.s AGO vice-president OF the She-
,oTGoab Club. the regular Iammany
mn 90 the 13th Assembly District, IS
80 latest of the City Democracy
moro prominent recruits. lie h"9
,,,tbdrawn entirely from Iammany
ttaU and become the leader OF the
60 democracy in his district, WIN
beadouarters at 125th Street and 81
Eicbo.as Avenue Already, II was an
nounced. he has enrolled lou De"o
Gratis i'm his new orgamzatlon' many
of them elected with him ten days ago
members Of the Tammany county Com
mittee for this district. All have re
signed from Tammany TO WORK LOT
Nayor Mitchels reelection.
Mn Wall has issued statement IN
exclamation Of his action, IN which he
says:
ozark and sinister influences exist
ing in New York have forced home 10
every New York man, woman and child
an issue which ! had hoped and prayed
would not be forced upon Us. This
issue is to-day the cleanest cut Of any
ever presented to the people of New
York. Ii is simply a question whether
the groups of wicked citizens, banded
together 10 thwart and destroy what
President Wilson and America are do
ing. will achieve their foul purpose of
showing the Central Powers IN Europe
that America is divided against itself
and that they, operating through ma
chine politicians, can punish a man
who has stood for America and seize
control Of the leading city Of the world.
"Only through the reelection Of
Mayor Mitchell. and that by tremen-
dous plurality, will notice be served
upon Germany that her tools IN our
city. the leading city Of the world, are
dscredited, and that New York, made