New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-19
Fusion Foes of
la1nnnnany Call
Town Meeting
9
Coalition Committee Will
Listen to Suggestions on
Ticket at Meeting at
Commodore Tomorrow
Calder Slate Is Rumored
Lockwood Said to Head 1t,
Curran for Comptroller,
La Cuardia in Present Job

The anti Hearst Hylan Tammanv
Coalition Committee at the Hotel Com
modore last night, with Henry W. Taft
presiding, decided to hold town
meeting" at the Commodore Tomorrow
afternoon at o'clock to listen to sug-
gestions from groups, committees and
citizens for candidates for the forth
coming city ticket.
The committee Of twenty-nine added
seventeen new names to the committee.
making forty-six in all, and probably
will add still more names.
United States Senator William NJ.
Calder, one of the dominating person
ahtles of the conference, said at the
close of the meeting that the COM
mittee would reach an agreement on
candidates for Mayor, Comptroller and
President of the Board of Aldermen by
tuesday night of next week, and he
suggested that the candidate for mayor
would be Brooklyn Republican,
With the Senator's prediction as a
basis the word went around that the
ticket would be Senator Lockwood for
Manhattan, for Comptroller, and Major
+. Fl. La Guardia, now president of the
Board of Aldermen, to succeed mself
La Guardia Sees Calder
Mr.. La Guardia called on Senator
Calder at his office yesterday and dis
cussed the situation with him. Fol-
lowing their conference Major La
Guardia sent the following letter to
the conference last night:
10 the Chairmen of the Joint Com
mittees of the Regular Republican
Organizations, Coalition Committee
and Citizens Union.
"Gentlemen:
81 inclose herewith copy of nv
platform on which | am entering the
Republican primaries for the nomina
ton for Mayor. This will aid US in
joining issues
AS have already declared that 1
would abide by the result of the Re-
puollcan primary, it occurs to me that
1T would be but fair that your COM
mlttee announce publicly that I will be
supported in the event that | defeat
your selection in the coming primaries ,,
Il am confident" said Senator Calder
last night at the Commodore, that bv
tuesday night next we shall have
agreed upon a city ticket. | am firmly
or the Judgment that Republican will
head 1T and that it will sweep the
city"
Chairman Taft announced that he
rad received communication from the
Democratic Union, of which Ernest
Harvler is the moving spirit, respect
fully demanding" that the coalition
committee accord the union fifteen
members in the conference. The com
mlttee decided to give the union people
flve members on the general confer
cree committee, selecting Samuel F.
Heyman and Vincent Gilrov. indie
pendent Democrats; j. Hampden Daugh-
erty, of the Democratic Union; HUGO
Winters and John j. Brady.
For Good Measure
Then for good Democratic measure
the committee added to it's committee
BYRON R. Newton, former Collector OF
the Port; Thomas w. Hickey, of Brook
lyn; Joseph NJ. Proskauer, of Man
haitian, a lawyer, who last year
managed Alfred E. Smiths campaign;
Thomas F. Gilleran, the old Greater
New York Democracy leader, and for
mer Magistrate Joseph R. Handy, of
Richmond.
In addition to these, three members
Of the New York Young Republican
Club and three from the Brooklyn
Young Republican Club were added.
Joseph NJ. Price put through a reso-
luton declaring it to be the sense of
the conference that any organization
asking membership in the conference
should say it was in sympathy with
the objects of the anti-Tammanv