New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-03
NOTES OF THE CANVASS.

Congressman j. Hyatt Smith yesterday EN-
phacay denied the report that he would run as an in
druendent candidate for member of Congress In the
| lid District.
William DOrshemer and John j. Adams,
Democratic candidates for Congress in the With and
| WIN Districts. have written letters pledgng them
selves to Civil Service Reform.
A meeting was held last night at No. 3G1
Bruome-st under the charge of the Anti-Nonopoy
League. william Butler, Senator john G. Boyd, F.
! b Thutber and Francis MCGUIRE were among the
! speakers.
Alexander Taylor, IT,, of Rye, has declined
to accept Republican nomination for Congress In the
XGth, or Westminster District, alleging that his busi-
ness engagements and the shortness of time before
election will not admit Of his making an active canvas
OF the district.
A Republican ratification meeting was held
last night the Methodist Protestant Church. at Fourth
and south Thrdsts., Brooklyn George II. Fisher was
the presiding officer and addresses delivered oy
Colonel Colonel Richards and David 5 Arno t.
The Citizens associations are hard at work
in the lower districts OF the ciy. Men have been as
signed to make house-tOhouse canvass. At West
Broadway and HudsOn-s this evening, the Citizens
Association OF the lat Assembly District william H.
Naething. presidents George Dessoye, secretary Will
hold Openair mass-meetlng, Win Dauu ana IRE
works.
The Twenty-secOnd Ward Republican AS
ISOLATION XIXth Assembly Dstict, held their regular
weekly meeting last night at the Boulevard and Sixty
seventhst. The meeting addressed by Charles G.
Cronn Major Thomas Hogan, Republican candidate for
Alderman IN the district: General Jemes X Obeirne'
th Republican candidate Congress in the IXth Dis
trict General Denis f. Burke and others
The Brooklyn Young Republican Club, hay
ing received satisfactory assurances in answer to the
questions submitted by them, voted Last evening to APP
d owe the following Republican candidates for Assem-
bymen: D. Hurley, in the list District NJ. Buch-
maun IN the WIN; Allied Hodges, IN the IXth and
A. G. Chaplin Democrab, in the Xith. The other
ALI
tons
Walter Howe, Henry L. Sprague, Theodore
Roosevelt, L. A. futile, Frederick b. House, Isaac
Ffomme, L. L. Van Allen, Richard J. Lewis and IL. A.
vanness candidates for the Assembly in this city, have
replied to letter OF inquiry from the Civil Service Re
form Association all declaring their determination 10
labor the reform of the system o appointments The
letters Of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry L. Sprasue are
especially full explicit Gnd emphatic.
A mass-meeting of the citizens of the Xth
Assembly District, h ED in Beethoven Hail. In East
Ffthst last evening. T. I Jansen was elected chair
man. Among the speakers were Henry t. Tremaine,
Simon sternc A. A. Hayes, Charles W. Dayton the Rev.
Nicholas Berrlng aud Civil Justice Alfred Steckler.
Resolutions adopted condemning the methods OF
the bosses. and approving Allan CumpDe for Mayor and
Charles X. Lexow candidate for Alderman. and Phillip
Wassung candidate for the Assembly in the Xth Dis
trict
Ex-District- Attorney s. d. Morris, of Brook
lyu has letter dcnouncing the candidacy OF
Register Carroll on the ground that Carroll Sympahzed
with - jim Dunhe' lne DeWocrdtio "atu poHl"i"n
aud exprize-6 ghterwho assaulted Mr. Morris for his
in the campaign OF 1Ss0-and aided him In escap
ing punishment for his crime Mr. Morris also opposes
Aoph Gubner the Democratic candidate for Associate
Justice OF the Sessions the ground that his vote. with
that OF the other Associate Justice let Dunno on with
fine for the assault.
POUGHKEEPsIE, n. Y, Nov. 2.-There was
republican meeting at the Opera House tonight. The
speakers were Eugene Hale, of Maine, and Benton t.
Beach, OF Brooklyn. Fully 1000 people present.
The state ticket heartily applauded, and much
thusiasm prevailed.
BUFFALO, NOV. 2-The Democrats Of the lid District
have ratified the nomination OF James l.. Neal tho Labor
party's candidate for member Of Assembly.