New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-12
Lockwood,
Boom Curran
For Mayoralty
Manhattan Republicans
Switch Support ON Hear
ing Livingston Joins Cal
der; Drop State Senator
Decide Issue Tomorrow
Argue Borough President
Observation-Disclosures
Less Fear of La Cuardia

Republican leaders in Manhattan be-
gan to boom Henry Curran, Borough
President of Manhattan, for the nomi-
nation for Mayor yesterday after read
ing reports that Jacob A. Livingston,
the Kings County chairman, and United
States Senator William M. Calder
had buried the Ratchet and were united
in their support of Senator Charles C.
Lockwood to head the Republican,
Coalition ticket this fall.
The Manhattan leaders mad been
looking on the progress of the Lock
wood boom with favor while he was op-
posed by Livingston. but they immedi-
ately turned to Curran when it became
manifest that Livingston also was sup
porting Lockwood, who has been prom
inently identified with United States
Senator Calder in his fight to wrest
control of the Brooklyn machine from
Chairman Livingston.
Manhattan leaders declare that Cur
ran has vote-getting attributes that are
not possessed by Lockwood, and will
present them to the Republican-Coali-
ton conference, which meets to-mor-
row at the Hotel Comm odore. They
point out that Curran has been tested,
and carried anhattan-Tammany'
strongho ld-on q straight Republican
ticket against one of the most popular
men in Tammany Hall.
Says Lockwood Leads
Yesterday Chairman Livingston said
that while he had not come out for
Lockwood against the field of other
Brooklyn aspirants, he believed that
he had greater strength with the
Brooklyn organization than any of the
other candidates from that borough, in
Guiding Darwin R. James, Supreme
Court Justice James C. Cropsey and
County Judge Reuben L. Haskell
Senator LOCKWOOD said Chairman
Livingston, "is in the lead so far as
Brooklyn is concerned"
Senator Lockwood would not discuss
his candidacy yesterday beyond say
ing:
81 have not been invited to the con-
ference at the Commodore, nor has IN
invitation been extended to any one
representing me-"
The belief which prevailed in some
quarters that Major F. H. La Guardia,
President of the Board of Aldermen,
would retire from the race if Lock
wood was a candidate was dissipated
yesterday by La Guardia himself.
La Guardia Sure to Run
81 shall be a candidate in the Re-
publican primaries for the nomination
for Mayor" said La Guardia. II don't
know anything about the conference at
the Commodore The conference can
not decide anything respecting can
didacies. That alone can be decided by
the enrolled Republicans in the pri-
mary, to whom l shall make my ap-
PEAL
1t is regarded as foregone conclu-
sion among politicians that La Guardia
will not be considered by the members
of the Republican, Coalition conference,
over which Henry w. Taft presides
They admit that he may cause consid-
cradle trouble, but insist that neither
he nor William M. Bennett, who carried
the Republican primaries for Mayor
four years ago against Mayor Mitchell
and who again is a candidate, can pre-
vail against the choice of the Repub-
lican Coalition conference.
There has been considerable talk
among politicians for some time of the
likelihood of La Guardia and Bennett
pooling their forces. This, of course,
would mean that one Of them would
have to give way to the other. La
Guardia has insisted all along that I'M
der no circum stances will he be can
didate for anything but Mayor. and if
he holds steadfast to this view Bennett
will have to take minor place on the
La Guardia ticket.
The Republican leaders who few
months ago were fearful that La Guar
da would corral the entire Italian
vote in the primaries are now not so
fearful of that. One of them said
yesterday that La Guardia is not so
strong as he has been among Manhat-
tan Republicans and that at meeting
of Italian voters in Brooklyn last week
he was denounced by some of the
speakers.