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Show FEDERAL BUNCH IS AGAIN UP TO ITS OLDTRICKS Plan on Foot to Form a "Nonpartisan "Non-partisan Good Government" League to Fool the Public. SEEKS TO GET RID OF CHIEF GRANT Candidates of Bunch for City Commissioners Said to Be W. H. Shearman and Joseph Lippman. The federal bunch is up to its old tricks. This time it has evolved a nifty and picturesque little political plan. It is really too bad that it will be unable to put the happy little thought into execution, but as it is one of those intrigues that cannot stand too much light, the outlook is for considerable hard sledding. Here is the plan: In the first place, the bunch is eager for the Democrats to call n convention and nominate a ticket to voted upon at the primaries. As booh as the Democrats Dem-ocrats determine what they will do and the bunch is hoping that a deci sion will be reached at this afternoon's meeting of the city committee to cull a convention the Republican city committee will meet and decide not 'to hold a convention. In connection with this determination it will be explained in an extremely patriotic vein that the holding of conventions and the nomination nomi-nation of candidates in the old way is in opposition to the spirit of the conv mission form of government law, and that the intense patriotism of the Republicans Re-publicans will not permit of anything savoring of partisanship. 'The Great Scheme. After this action has been taken by the Republican city committee, the center of the stage will have been cleared for the federal bunch. Then, the federal bunchers, in disguises that they aro hoping will defy detection, will trip into the limelight and proceed to form what will bo termed a "Good Government" league. This league, it will be announced, is unalterably and irrevocably opposed to partisan politics. poli-tics. It also will ,bo announced that the "Good Government" league is the only simon-pure and official supporter of nonpartisanship in the city and that it should be given recognition. And ,ist to make the unsuspecting public sure on that important point, the bunch will effect a coalition with the social sorvice commission. Then it will bo ready for business, or" it will think it is. In the meantime the Republican chairmen of tho various election districts, dis-tricts, heroically aided by the federal bunch, still in deep disguise, will havo held a number of meetings and decided upon the candidates that already have been selected by the federal bunch. These candidates are said to be W. H. Shearman and Joseph Lippman, but the bunch is said to have kept the matter mat-ter secret from those two gentlemen. So far as Mr. Shearman is concerned, ho has announced himself as a candidate candi-date and his petition containing the required 100 names is rcad3' for filing. As to whothor or not he will stand for ths federal bunch plan, however, remains re-mains to be seen. After Chief Grant. As to Mr. Lippman, it is generally understood that he is looking forward to being a candidate for mayor two years from this fall, and unless he can be persuaded that, if elected to the commission this fall, his mayoralty ambitions am-bitions will not duffer, there is some doubt expressed as to whothor he will assist in raking the federal bun.cn chestnuts from tho fire, through the ao-callod ao-callod "Good Government"' league movement. The election of Mr. Shearman and Mr. Lippman,. or any other men that the federal bunch may decide upon, however, is onl- a part of the scheme which has been so adroitly ovolvod by the bunch. Over and nbove and fore and aft. of it all is the slogan, which has not yet been uttered publicly, "Get rid of Chief of Police Grant.'" That in a nutshell is the intont of tho plan that has been so carefully concocted con-cocted by the little coterie that has so long disgraced the politics of the state. |