New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-20
THE DEC0RAT70Y Day PARADE.
BROOKLYN VETERANS STILL DISSATISFIED
WITH PAETIsAN ARRANGEMENTS.

RRO0KLYN VETERANS STILL DISSATISFIED
WITH PARTISAN ARRANGEMENTS.
An adjourned meeting of the Kings County Memo
rial Committee Of tho Grand Army OF the Republic was
held In the Common Council Chamber OF the City
Hall. brooklyn last evening Although tho Demo-
cratic cha rloen County Auditor Ruan. who has been
one of the principal schemers IN organizing the Decora
ton Day Cleveland boom" allowed notice OF the meet
ing be sent out only thiry-sx hours beforehand IL
REQUIRED no wise TO tell that the antICIe'eiahd
men were in the majority. Yet with masnahih"ty
which has It's only parallel in the treatment of the
Southern rebels By the victorious Union men, TINS
robust majority did not use IFS power as 1t might have
done TO revoke the invitation which the Democratic
iuccers sent Mr. Cleveland TO review the parade
Colonel Jones, who had entered his protest week
before against the invitation TO party candidates. 10 oc
cupy tho reviewing stands, after consulting
with his supporters decided that on this point he
wond not renew his resolution.
The committee, however, adopted two resolutions,
which plainly showed Its temper regarding the poiii
cal actea which has been taken I'm its name. The
first took away from cx-Assemblyman Earle and
his Democratic cOabOrers into whose hands the SUD
committee on Public Ceremonies has fallen, the dis
frlbution Of the tickets for the grand stand
II was the welknown purpose TO crowd the reviewing
stand, In Cumbcrlandst., with distinguished Dem
ocrats whose presence would be grateful to Mr. Cleve
land, and who would asss: in carrying out the pro-
committee three tickets Tor distribution The next
piecc Of discontinue which awaited In, the
the names of the fifty citizens who
were to receive and dc honor tho reviewing officers
1t was the intention that only solid Cleveland men
should be placed upon the committee, but when the
plOcrs saw there was no help for II they mace nasty
preparations 20 revise the list .
Chairman Rutan called another comradc TO preside,
and with Earle and others Of the faithful went down
to the eommittcc-r room below. Twenty minutes lecr
they came back out of breath to announce q list OF
entirely different character from the
one they had before arranged. Tho new list was
headed by Colonel Andrew ID. Baird, the Republican
candidate for Mayor last year, and as read did not
contain the names Of ten avowed Cleveland men. 1t
will be carefully watched 10 see what changes are
made In II between and Decoration Day.
The feeling 10 Mr. Cleveland's standing In the
place OF honor and receiving the pauds Of the men
he has yined and whose invitation he only last year
sneeringy sighted has not changed in Brook
yn For the sake of harmony many
Int II is believed that whole Posts Will refuse to march
past the reviewing stand When they do no; refuse
as body, there Is nothing to prevent Individual com
rades from dropping out Of the lire and continuing
straight down Lafayette and aftcrWard rctoning
the procession at South Oxford ST. and Fort Greene
This hundreds OF veterans have been heard TO declare
they VIII do In preference to passing the grand stand
with Cleveland Ia