The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-12
UNION LEAGUE CLUB.

ANNUAL ELECTION OF OFFICERS To-NIGHT-MR.
GAN HEAD THE TIcKETs-A CHANGE IN THE AD-
MINIsTRATIoN DESIRED BY THE YOUNG MEM
BERs OF THE CLUB.
The annual election of officers of the Union League
Club will be held this evening at the club house. cor
of Twentysixth street and Madison avenue. This
club has been steadily increasing its list of members
during the past few years. and the young members
beginning to take great interest in the gen.
erai management. they think that more atten-
ton should be given to its social attractions During
the past week both parties have been actively
engaged in canvassng votes in order to secure the
Of their respective tickets and although the
old members rather pooh-pooh the idea Of there
being any doubt as to the result. they do not diedan
taking the necessary precautions to make things
safe. HERALD reporter called yesterday upon
number OF the members Of the club and found them
all quite interested in the election. One gentleman
said there really no fight at all. Us the young
ticket would be defeated by about three votes
to The regular ticket is as follows:-
Nominating CoD.miuee-Levi P. Morton. William
Dowd. Henry Z. Rowland J. Warren Goddard.
Inspectors aud Canrassers-wiliam H. Huribut
r. d. Hartshorne, s. Van Rensselaer, Cruger and
David Milliken. Jr.
This ticket has been freely circulated accompanied
by circular bearing the names of about two hum
PLATFORM
The principle. BY which these gentlemen II elected will
h he .s q s' as .fsrss
That .hs club sad not abandon ,h . patriotic ssa
sf q good prominent among r. objects and
stake.
Of the club entirely With highest develop
ton may should given perfect clubs
social comfort and atractveness If there other
That tho tendency toward the of
gronnd to DO encouraged and much care cannot he
taken in the selection Of the committees having that
portant trust in charge.
THE rNDoRsERs
Among the 200 names indorsing the above are those
Elliott G. Cowdin. s. B. H. Vance. j. A. Roosevelt. T.
!. Hustled, !. n. Phelps. George Bliss H. T. Morgan.
G. NJ. Depew. Jackson 8. schultz, H: @. stebbius.
Hamilton Fish, Jr: Eastman johnson, 3. p. Avery, y.
H. Wales. Clark Bell. Dorman b. Eaton. H. Strahan.
Sinclair Tousey Charles watrous, H. A. Darling and
James Otis.
CERTAIN OF VICTORY.
'fou will see by those names. said the gentleman
that the republican members OF the club are deter.
mined to keep up its political standing In fact there
have been young men elected to this club during the
past two OF three years who would be willing to run
the club to suit themselves II to allow
them TO obtain the upper hand, and think to-mor-
night they will receive lesson they little expect.
shall be quite straight in its political standing a.
the Union League club Of Philadelphia"
During the afternoon the reporter called at the club
and had talk with two of the members. supporters
Of the regular ticket They said they did not think
there would be any fight although they had heard
that another ticket IN the field with the Of
Ex-Governor 4. u. Morgan for ngurehead. They
added that the fight made by some of the
younger members of the club. and they did not
pect very close contest they believed that three.
fourths Of the members of the club would vote for
the ticket headed by Mr.. Levi r. Morton.
Opposition" THINK.
The young members did not appear to be in great
force, US they were very hard to find. but shortly
the Brunswick Hotel. He not in . very COM
ticket that he was going to support. He said
that IL was headed by Ex-Governor Morgan.
so that in political strength they were
quite a. strong the regular ticket The
trouble appears to have arisen from o growing dis
satisfaction among the young members from the fact
that when politics were In question social matters
laid 70 one side, and although they all took .
certain amount Of interest in the politics Of the
try, they thought that change in the administration
OF the club affairs would be very decided improve
ment. A list Of the names on the young mems or
opposition ticket could not be obtained last night
There IL general feeling among the members sup
porting the regular ticket that Ex-Governor +. d. Nor
gan would never have accepted the nomination IL he
had understood the issue at stake. He written
letter asking for his Enforcement to the regular
ticket and in reply he said he regretted that the ap
plcaton had not been made he had already
given his consent to head the opposition ticket.