The sun., 1917-07-18
For Mayor
JOHN PURROY Mitchell.
For Comptroller
WILLIAM A. PRENDERGAST
For President Board of Aldermen
ROBERT ADAMSON.
For President Borough OF Manhattan
MARCUS NJ. MARKS.
For President Borough Of Brooklyn
LEWIS II. POUNDS.

the Republican Mitchell executive COM
mittee served notice on Gov. Whitman.
tho Hon. Jake Livingston and Supreme
Court Justice Cropsey that fusion In
tends to stand by Mitchell with or with
out the sanction of the Republican pri-
maries. In other words. fusion voted
10 secure a place for Mitchell and the
other candidates on the official ballot
under the fusion emblem. This was
just the same as saying roughly that the
Governor and Boss Livingston might be
able to put Cropsey over in the pri-
naries. but that 1t wouldn't mean any
thing in the l!fe of the fusionists. For
them 1t is Mitchell first, last and subse-
Quently.
TRmmany Men Busy.
Now while this was popping at fusion
headquarters, so East Forty-second
street, the Tammaly- Hearst commit
tee. very busy at 224 Madison avenue.
was thinking up things to bear Mitchell
stock with the proletariat. Senator Rob-
ert F. Wagner, spokesman for Charles
+. Murphy, issued vocally the first of
what will no doubt be series of Tam
many-Hearst keynotes. In the pres
ence of as many labor representatives
as could be lured to the very fiossy
rooms Inhabited by the Tammany-
Hearst boys Senator Wagner lit into
the Mayor something scandalous He
sald, mopping his brow the while, that
John Purroy Mitchell was a traitor to
woodrow Wilson; that Mitchell should
always be known as the ear on the
wire" candidate, because he sanctioned
overlapping of labor union telephone
conversations; that the Republican-fu-
sion ticket is silk stocking -four hun
dred' conglomerabon which sits up
nights hguring out ways to skin the
plain people. and that II New York re-
elected Mitchell 1t would be time to give
me island back to the Indians. It was
very torrid talk all around and the
Whooping and handbatting testified to
Ihe popularity Gin that company of
the welkin that Senator Wagner was
hammering and hammeriag.
thereafter the Tammany-H Hearst boys,
gathered to discuss profitable political
STUN to mix in their platform pudding,
decided that municipal ownership must
ne the main batter At which Chairman
Anthony Griffin Of the platform COM
mlttee of the Democratic fusion COM
mittee OF 1917 yelled: "All together,
ooys -. And there were ripping cheers
really ripping. The name of William
Hearst was mentioned unapologeti-
vahy before quiet was restored. 1t was
ueclded, however, that the time had not
qulte arrived to send a nominating COM
,nl'tee TO Mr., Hearst's Riverside Drive
nome to tell him he had been picked to
.e IT, Events are shaping, however,
toward that development.
Excitement Begins Early.
As has been hinted, there was a ter
nnie lot of politics concentrated In the
Nastoand OF Manhattan. The excite
Heht started very early in the day when
S Sews reached both headquarters that
supreme Court Justice Cropsey had told
friend who had told another friend
Mo MO mad told the Hon. Jake Livingston,
whitman boss in Kings, that II the peo-
PIE could be relied upon to do the in
w'Hgent thing he, Cropsey. could be re-
neu upon to take chance. For what
er reason the flash caused laughter
~ 'he headquarters OF the Tammany-
hearst boys and at the headquarters OF
me Republican, Mitchell boys, loud laugh
r which hummed above the steady
u'ohlng OF expensive electric fans and
,ne persistent cries Of the boy who was
paging George W. Perkins, please" al
~ East Forty-second street, and "Will.
.am K Hearst, please" at 224 Madison
avenue
lnen controlling their risibilities, the
dominating committee OF the RepublI
Vah-Mitchel fusion committee got dowr
w., ~ business, headed by George w
""kersham, and after much enjoyabl,
1hVerSation reported the main element,
me ticket which the executive com
mitce .. KID last night and which tn,
general committee will approve mex
friday One of the interesting spots II
ne AFTERNOON session was the voc!fcr
BUSINESS Of Brooklyn Progresslves II
stating that the Hon. James C. Cropse,
was no doubt, most excellent person
"ul mat he wouldn't have a Chinaman'
N,nance as Republican candidate 10
mayor Therefore they were for Johl
Furroy Mitchell
scarcely less interesting was the nom
mailing committees selection OF Fir