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Show oo r r TAMMANY'S I CANDIDATE I Murphy and Associ- aJ ates Hold Conference If and Urge Edward Mc- H Call to Accept Mayor- iy. 2 ality Nomination j -. 4 Gaynor to Run on In- H dependent Ticket 1 1 New York. Aug 22 Edward E Mc- f 'Vf i Call, chairman of the state public ser-vice ser-vice commission, today announced "G '"5 that he would accept the offer of Ifr 'iS Tammany Hall leaders to be their jt; '--3 candidate for mayor of New York City. Charles F. Murphy, leader of Ifiua! Tammany ball, naked Mr. McCall HBl early today, at the conclusion of a long conference of organization lead ers, If he would head Tammany's se- j lection for the municipal ticket Mr I McCall requested a few hours' time to consider. New York, Aug. 12. The New York 9 mayoralty election may find Edward E M Call, chairman of the public service ser-vice commission, pitted as the Tam- JH many candidate against John Purroy ! Mitchell, collector of the port, as tho fusion nominee for mayor Charles F Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall, and 8 number of his advisers, after a ten hours' conference last night, are said to have proposed that McCall accept the Tammany nomination and to have urged him to give his answer t the start of the conference tho re-nomlnation of Mayor Gaynor was proposed, but apparently did not meet with favor. If McCall Is named as the Tammany Tam-many candidate there remains a possibility pos-sibility that the mayoralty campaign will become a triangular contest, as there is an independent movement urging Mayor Gaynor to seek re-election regardless of the Tammany and fusion choices. |