The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-03-19
AID FOR SERGEANT MASON.
SOCIAL CLUB SUDDENLY OYER
WHELMED WITH BUSINESS.
Hundreds or Persons who wish to Sign .
Petition that He he Freed from Imprison-
ment-similar Movements in Other Cities.

Hundreds OF Persons who wish to Sign .
Petition that lie he Freed from Imprison-
ment-simiiar Movements in Other cities.
At Tuesdays meeting Of the Garfield Club
Mr.. John j. Clancy unwittingly plunged that
body into n greater undertaking than any
social organization in New York has Shout
dered in very many years The club was or
gnnized to help elect Garfield and Arthur In
September, 1880. 1t was then the Grand Circle
Republican Club. After Gen Garleld's death
its name was changed. and it is now housed at
the corner OF Seventh avenue and Fifty-ninth
street 1t has 200 members.
At the last meeting Mr. Clancy moved that
petition he circulated asking that the sen-
tence of Sergeant Mason. who shot at Guitesa
in Washington be committed as to the i'm
prisonment only.
The sense Of the club was found to be that
Sergeant Mason should suffer dismissal from
the army because of his breach OF discipline.
but that he did not deserve imprisonment.
number of copies OF the following petition were
printed and circulated:
M he Prrsfdrnt n the Up'ted States:
We the undersigned citizens NJ the United States
ievtng that the sentence passed by martial upon
whose Pe nd 5s nns sGG' 6 ~ s sSS
sv :" n n discipline q @ law Is
snrronra d. the ocnce rsspeGttuy petition the Pre'i
alton the previous record of the the doubt
S %a e a. and ind Ps 81 the
then aud fell xressed by the American people
respectfully ask the President to relieve Sergeant Mason
from any other or further penalty than dismissal from
a, few lines stating the fact that there was
SUCH movement were published yesterday
morning mo and within five hours alterwad the
telegram came. from Worthwhile Bucks County.
Pa. ordering circulars and promising the name
letter carriers dumped bundles Of postal cards
and letters on Secretary B!ake's desk request
BY "a r9m
brooklyn. Troy. and every quarter of the city.
dhs sGTks in Pc1 comssSnsr Fnki Office
heads of mercantile establishments and other
cittizens sent for copies.
Send me some" wrote one man" and I'll
cal at ne every house IL Clinton PLACE" II will
EEet 300 sISlnatu nb wrote another, FOR a
forget himself and viii zee That the aI petitions s
where, the old soldiers meet, and assure you
The officers OF the club ound i ' necessary to
employ corps, of clerks and last night while
printers the big table In The club parior vas vas
surrounded by men in their shirt sleeves be-
h na bg bundles q STAMPED wranGers address;
o'clock the volunteers who had Interested
themselves began, to br ing in petitions filled
paper had been pasted on the ends of the
Original sheets 70 accommodate the signers. II
Offices. elergymen, telegraph Offices, banks.
police stations, engine houses. and extensive
business estahli shments. and before midnight
the clerks had begun on the city of Brooklyn.
Mr.. Clancy telegraphed the petition tn AS
semblyman McMnnus and he Incorporated il
In resolution offered in the Assembly at al
eany. Senator Treanor has promised TO intro.
du"e II in the Senate to-moirow Messrs.
Clancy. Kittle Blake. and Denback will go TO
Albany tomorrow to tell their representatives
Of the curious movement that has transformed
their headquarters into a publishing house
and caused the members 70 neglect the files,
the billiard room. the easy chairs. and the
ordinary gossip of the club and go 10 work like
so many beavers after freshet.
WASHINGTON, March 1S.-Subscrptions for
the benefit Of the family OF Sergeant Mason are
being made up in al the Government DEPART
ments and the indications are that a hand
some sum will be realized.
Mr. BlEe!ow MaSon's counsel believes he has
discovered points in the proceedings Of the
court martial which tiiod his client that will
nvalidate the findings and sentence. Tho points
upon which le ~ jas are Of various nformai-
ties in the organ izatinn Of the court and fail
nre 70 have Mason present at certain stages OF
the trial when his presence was essential.
HEADING. March l8.-At "a meeting Of citizens
he'd here to-night in the Academy Of Music
resolution was adopted requesting the Presi.
dent Of the United States 10 pardon Sergeant
Mason. az once. Mayor Rowe presided, and
spoke in favor Of the resolution.