New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Baylor Opens
Anti 4 aKl1Tf1aEly
Fig Int i'm City
Names Committee Repre-
senting Republicans in
All Boroughs to Act With
Coalition Organization
Likely for Mayor
Honest Primary Chief Plank
i'm Platform; Scent Fare
Also a Campaign Issue

Theodore T. Baylor, vino carried
twenty-eight counties in the Republican
primary campaign of 1918 as a candi-
date for the nomination for State
Treasurer, yesterday announced the or
ganzation of the Citizens Republican
Conference Committee, to consider with
other anti-Tammany bodies the matter
of making up an anti-Tammany ticket
this fall
ain view of what happened at and
after the 1917 primary to override tho
will of the people," said Mr.. Baylor in
a formal statement, "a great number of
enrolled Republicans desire to take
steps to see that the crime and folly of
1917 be not repeated. Senator Bennett
won that primary fairly and squarely,
but was counted out by gross frauds in
Manhattan. The court, however, de-
clared him to be the regular Repubi-
can nominee.
After conference with great
many enrolled Republicans and at their
request l have named a committee to
represent all the boroughs to confer
with the coalition committee headed by
Joseph M. Price, and the conference
committee of the Republican organiza-
tions in the five boroughs. We are in
terested, first, in seeing that proper
candidates are nominated from Mayor
down, We also are interested in the
platform. We are for economy and
efficiency in government, home rule, q
five-cent fare, direct primary, an hon
est primary, an honest count, and we
also wish to see that the conference
shall insist that every person who en-
ters the Republican primary as a can
dldate for nomination for any office
shall agree to abide by the result Of
the primary and support the winner.
"Whilc there has been no formal dis
cusslon by the committee as to any
candidates, we find that there is great
sentiment for William NJ Bennett for
Mayor. He has carried the Borough of
brooklyn tour years in succession. He
won the nomination for Mayor in 1917,
and at the 1919 primary as a candidate
for president of the Board of Alder
men he carried Brooklyn, Queens and
Richmond, without making any cam
palgn whatsoever. He is an exper. on
municipal government and finance. He
can carry the Republican primary this
year and be elected in November.
HoWeVer, our committee is for the
,.'eN'iNIl VI q tiChet OF SOOQ NepuD-
lcans who can win. As the time is
short, shall on Monday send letters
to Joseph M. Price. chairman of the
Goailtlon Committee, and to Messrs.
Koenig, Livingston, De Bragga Law
renee and Thompson, the Republican
leaders of the five boroughs, notifying
them OF the appointment of this com
mittee, and inviting their conference
commit ttee to confer with US as to the
candidates, the platform and an agree
ment that the primary shall be hon
estly conducted and the result of the
primary held 10 be conclusive.
The name adopted by the committee
IS the Citizens Republican Conference
Committee, composed Of residents Of
the various boroughs. and is as fol-
ows Theodore T. Baylor, DR.. Her
bert Mead Bowlby, John A. Stone.
Robert r. Chapman, Joseph Caples,
John T. Murray, Elisha Gresham, Felix
Meier, Charles w. Gallagher, Harry s.
Lafond, Bernard NJ. French, Charles
p, Reilly, Francis Colety, George
Thoms, William B. Cragin, Joseph Bel
hilf, Walter B. Atterbury, Mrs Helen
Ledyard Birch, Frank D. Wilsey, Boyd
Hartman, James Mason, l.. Barton
Case, Henry B. Shepard, Homer Sulli-
van, Lieutenant Lee Herlss, Elizabeth
Toombs, Abraham S. Albrecht Edward
A. Johnson, Isaac B. Allen, Mary j.
Steward, Louis A. Leavelle, Edith M
Benn, Thomas Cowan, Otto w. Holm
gren, George Z. Wibecan, Hannah L.
Cadmus, Ernest G. Herrick, Hamilton
Mclnnes and Lucien D. Knapp.