New-York tribune., 1921-07-24
ion Masses Its Forces to Storm the Tarnmany Trench
Mayors Hopes Dwindle Fast
As the Traction Issue Clear
Reelection Thought Impossible OH Record Of A
ministration; Republican Trend of Times
Adds to Difficulties

the Manhattan Republican leaders are
pledged to make hard fight to obtain
The honor for the Borough President.
In the last analysis of the availability
and strength of these two candidates
there seems to be no good reason for
taking Lockwood in preference to Cur
ran, according to the politicians, ex
cept that the former halls from the
pivotal borough. This reason may not
prevail Samuel S. Koenig, chairman
of the Republican County Committee,
and Joseph A. Price, head of the coaii-
tion committee, are both said to favor
Curran.
The leaders supporting Curran CON
tend at the start that he wohld make
better showing against Mayor Hylan
because of his close contact with the
latter in the management Of municipal
affairs in the Board of Estimate, where
the Borough President has effectively
opposed the Mayors policies in regard
to many important city questions
which, although adopted by the Tam
many majority of the board, have later
proved the inefficiency and extrava-
gance of the Hylan administration. Mr..
Curran's ten years of efficient service
in the city government-with the ex-
ception of two years of war service
brings him closer to the majority of
the voters than Senator Lockwood, in
the opinion of his sponsors. ~x.asx
Calder Displays Much .1Hos7sa9Taf
Strength in Committee
Senator Calder's power in the situa
tion was demonstrated in a rather sur
prsing manner at the conference of
the steering committee of the Repub-
licans and Coalitionists on Friday when
Samuel Heymann, an Independent DEM
ocrat of the Bronx, tried to stampede
tie conference into uniting on Senator
Calder as the Fusion candidate for
Mayor. Calder's Brooklyn friends sue
ceeding in heading off the boom, as
suring the conference that Senator
Calder would not accept nomination,
but the Calder boom was not entirely
souelched at that. 1t was agreed that
Senator Calder should be asked at the
meeting of the steering committee to-
morrow at the Commodore if he would
accept a unanimous call.
But the Senator's plans are under
way for denomination next year He
has announced that he will not con-
slider a Mayoralty nomination.
Mayor Hylan has allenated the vote
of the employees in most of the big
city departments. His quibbling over
salary raises on the plea that the city
hadn't the money, when the city en-
,ployees knew it was extravagant eX-
penditures that kept them from their
own resulted in open hostilities be-
tween the patrolmen's fremen's and
street cleaners organizations and the
Mayor. These three departments, with
their auxiliaries made up of the fami-
lies of the men, together with the fur
ther influence they would have, control
close to 100000 votes, according to re-
liable estimates Borough President
Curran would receive the solid vote of
the city employees.
A joint committee of the patrolmen's s
and firemen's associations called upon
the Borough President at his Office last
Wednesday and presented him with
resolutions adopted by those organiza-