New-York tribune., 1884-02-28
TIE CONTEST IN The XxIIID DISTRICT
HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON CONTESTED


HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON CONTESTED
SEATS.
The Committee on Contested Seats of the Re-
publican County Committee met last night at No. 2ll
Fourth-ave. and heard arguments relative to the
primary election In the XXIIId Assembly District
At the primary fifteen of the sixteen
delegates to the County Committee elected, and for
the remaining place there four persons who received
the number of votes Twentysix of the forty me-
ber OF the District Committee elected for tho re-
naming fourteen places there eighteen contestants
On February tho twentysiK who were elected members
OF the District Committee met and chose men TO I'LL the
vacancies in the delegations TO the County Committee
and also to complete the District Committee. In the
Comfy Committee the Raymond adherents claimed that
there contest in the district aud the entire matter
was referred to the Committee on Contested Seats.
Mr.. Grassy appeared for the contestants. He
stated that the meeting held February was IN de-
ance OF the plan OF reorganization and consequently
Illegal notice OF contest had been served on the
elected members OF the District Committee previous 20
the meeting and they entirely cognzsn Of the in
tentions OF the contestants
Colonel spencer-I suggest Mr. Grassy, that the sim
pest way ont OF this matter would be to induce three
contestants for the ant seat In the County Committee
for places in the District Committee elected do ike
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effect.
Mr. Grassy then read q paper in which Messrs. Haw,
Crawford and Stewart said that they had never been can
ddaes for in the County Committee and that their
names had been used without their permission. Messrs
Wilmer Knox Cox and Coles signed similar paper with
drawing from the contest the District COMMITTEES
seats. Thus left only sufficient number OF men 10
Ill the contested seats.
Thomas Allison In speaking In behalf Of tbs anti-Ray-
mond faction and the persons who held the
the places should be arbitrarily filed By the
committee before which he appeared Instead OF by the
electors OF the XXIId District The contest simply
whether Frank Raymond should control the delegation
10 the County Committee the respectable element In
seeks the decision OF district he said,
"thcn the Republican party must suffer. The point TO
which he wished 10 call the attention OF the comfnittee
was simply whether not there a vacancy. Tho
was a false There 40 delegates to the com
mttee, and 20 or the majority Of the entire number
had been elected. TwcDty-four members OF
this majority, having legal power met and
and that action was every respect legal. Mr. Allison
held that there contest but that the vacancies
had been legally filed.
Mr. Tutte also for tho anti-Raymond faction, urged
existed II should I'LL them. II il should decide that
there had been failure TO elect 1t should direct the hod-
Ing supplementary election. He could not conceive
the possibility OF Withdrawing from positions when
they now held. and necessary be could hlr-
nsh evidence prove that the who disclamed hay
ing been candidates had pedded their tickets at the p
mary election
Mr. Allison, who had been examining the papers
which Mr.. Grassy had given 10 the chairman,
INQUIRED how Mr. Grassey could exJlan the fact that the
and who withdrew because OF that reason, should sign
themselves contestants Mr. Grassy proceeded to re-
ply. but Chairman TOwney remarked that the committee
sufficiently familiar with the subject, and thai II
unffdr Ifa depia