The sun., 1888-11-30
WILL STARvE OUT OBRIEN.


If the Republicans OF the County Can't
Got Rid or Them the National Leaders
WiiI Try and Find n Nysy-Thetr Defencc.
John ]. O'Brien didn't appear to be very
much disturbed yesterday over the preliminary
stops to discipline him and his mon. He went
OF to Conoy Island to pigeon shoot. and left
George Hraus, John L. Brodsky. Barney
Rourke, Assemblyman-el Charley Smith.
and Aldermen. elect Goetz in charge Of the
wicked Eighth district Ali OF theso lieuten-
ants spent good part of the day in preparing
stntemont to be hurled at the Executive
Committee OF the County Committee no1t
Tuesday afternoon or the following Wednes.
day evening. Tho County Campaign Commit
tee met on Wednesday and agreed that
O'Brien's organization had been trescherous
md 1t proposes to wipe the organization out
of existence. II tried this last year. but the
tho new organization formed, though O'Brien
and Rourke did not Join it, was the same old
machine, with o'Brien for engineer.
II John J. was serene his lieutenants were
otherwise. and all OF them said they didn't pro-
pose to longer stand any nonsense from the
men who wear canary .colored gloves and sit in
front OF grate Ares." The statement will show
how the district ran ahead Of the Seventh,
Eleventh. Thirteenth, and Twenty: first dis
clare that fhe Tammany men. aided BY Police
p Stained S'a thas tEis intimtdason Is respenslbfe
~ oS e sr f2s Gla a e' 2s H.
g. ass evidence SS Ssa Sf q h TaS % Sa
scheme 70 intimidete me and my friends; and
ntG The district by The RspSbIiespp Y 8, COMMITTEES:
amounts sent Is untrue. we only had
SO 4 district. and before noon on election
& Tsr ens nohne to
but to let the State and county tickets get along
the best they could, and R fer us to sa In Tor the
creased majority In the district will demon
majority for Assembiy@ was i'5oG while
Gen. Harrison's was only s76., but Mr.. Smith
aeSa N the eei District and coad
5SSSs I & beard ssss1ssa aRa S
VIII 'css ceEtaIn s that St 6s Republicans in tho city
@ no nod"r sysFyfhnG they can to pull the pns
makes out 8. strS,ng s,ngg, case % IL
nent Republican, whose name is fnown from
sI ss hs hss Ssssy
;Thurber. and that i turns out that the Repub-
severe s' because 81 his treatment Of schwarts
the nominee for Congress. There were certain
iieutenants. Rourie. esa Krsus. and and Bro Brodsty and
ssy ia M Ssy dsns ss
s!ss3 i've Or ss5ss q ssess seSissFsSsssti t
A Assy ssa.s@en.s sSst shsz s xeSiS sot p!aS ss
monsS aaa1se ths earnest Wishes msns Ses
Thurber was ysuspieious Of wrongdoing. No.
the charge Is that Q.Bren took money from us
and swindled us. What can be donp with him?
Well. don't know AS anything very savage
can be done Just at the moment. But a rekn.
rollment of the district can be ordered. and
the County Committee can send down their
own men to do it. II 1t is found that
In the reenrollment OBrien's mon are
at the 'front.' another reenroflment will be or
dered. and men without the smallest af1lliation
with OBren will be put In control. We will
fasten these new leaders OF the district TO US
by giving them a certain share of the Federal
patronage Of the incoming ministration and
by giving OBrien none, and in other ways
OBrien will learn that bad thing can be done
once too often"
The statement that Federal patronage will
be used to crush 0'Brien and his men was con-
firmed by othor big Republicans, and on this
the State and County Com mittee felt that
they can rely much more than on anything the
County Com m mitteemen can do toward dsrip-
ling the Pirate Of the Eighth" as Mr. O'Brien
is now described by some OF them.