New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-28
Committee Almost Agrees
on Senator as Mayor-
atty Candidate When
Kings Leader Turns
Drive ON Calder
Is Seen i'm Move
Haskell Backing Shown;
Lockwood Ready to Aid
Party in Any Capacity

The steering committee of the anti
Tammany forces in the city was about
to agree or Senator Charles C. Lock
wood for Mayor yesterday when it was
discovered that Jacob A. Livingston.
leader of the Kings County Republican
Committee. was out against him. Liv-
ingston, it had been supposed, was
friendly to the Lockwood candidacy
and this shift was SO unexpected that
it impelled the committee, which was
in session at the Hotel Commodore, to
adjourn until Tuesday morning.
Hostility toward Senator Calder, who
dominates Republican councils in
Kings, is ascribed as the principal
reason for Livingston's opposition to
Lockwood, who is backed by Senator
Calder and the Republican conferees
in the anti-Tammany conference COM
mittee.
The committee was on the point of
declaring for Senator Lockwood for
Mayor, Henry H. Curran, President Of
Manhattan Borough, for Comptroller
and some independent Democrat for
President of the Board of Aldermen
when the Brooklyn leaders learned
that Livingston was laying plans to
beat Lockwood in the primaries.
Haskell Backing Suspected
Liyingston's change of front, COM
ing on the heels of the threat of
County Judge Haskell to enter the
Republican primaries on a "wet" plat
form, provokes the suspicion among the
Lockwood men that Livingston is back
Of the Haskell candidacy.
The movement in favor of Lockwood
for first place on the ticket was so far
advanced yesterday that the informal
announcement was made that Samuel
S. Koenig, the New York County leader,
had been won over to Lockwood, al
though in the beginning he had favored
Major Curran for first place.
This accession practically made it
certain that Lockwood would be agre
upon for the Mayoralty nomination,
with Major Curran for Comptroller.
This impression still prevailed at the
adjournment of the conference yester-
mittee believing that all was plain
sailing for Lockwood. Then Living
ston's desertion of Lockwood was dis
covered.
Livingston Upset Plans
Commissioner Livingston's shift was
not suspected until Tuesday afternoon,
when he absented himself from CON
ference Of Brooklyn Republican lead
ers in Brooklyn, at which the Mayor
atty situation was discussed. Senator
Calder and Appraiser F. ]. H. Kracke
and others were on hand to talk over
things. Word reached the conference
that Mr.. Livingston was i'll. Inquiry
yesterday by the Calder men disclosed
that he had been at his place of bust
ness most of Tuesday and that he had
oeen IN consultation with half a dozen
OF the Brooklyn district leaders.
AS result of this latest revelation,
the situation is more involved than
1T has been at any time since the Steer
ing Committee of Do was organized.
After conference yesterday after
noon among Senator Calder, Appraiser
hfacke and Senator Lockwood the last
named hurried back to his office in the
Postal Life Building in Fifth Avenue,
rushed through with pressing work
and took train for the country, where
ne told his political associates, lie
would take twentyfour hours to think
Vi4O May crafty SITUATION.
Before he left town Republican lead
ers who saw him discovered a numbe,
cf new lights on his political attitude
some OF which may be stated as fol
lows:
Senator Lockwood is not now, and
has not been at any time, a seeker
after any political nomination
Lockwood Favors Curran
lie believes that Borough President
Iurran would make a better Mayor
IMAM himself, and says so, and he says
that Mr.. Curran could carry the Re-
publican primaries in Brooklyn, de-
spite the opposition of Haskell, La
uuardla and Bennett.
For the sake of the cause he made
IL clear to his friends yesterday that
while ne is not candidate for any
pace on the city ticket, if the con-
iIerees IN their judgment think that
MS name lends strength to the ticket
ne would accept any place, even Presi.
aent OF the Board of Aldermen.
he believes that Major Curran, with
HIS hne war record, would run as we'll
q: as himself, even considering the pres
slse Lockwood has acquired as chair
man IN, OF the housing investigation.
When it was stated to Senator
oaider yesterday that Senator Lock
WOOD held these views and was no.
@'efse to expressing them, even to his
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