New-York tribune., 1889-10-18
TO DIVIDE THE BIO CAKE.
TAMMANY AND THE COUNTY DEMOCRACY
WOULD LIKE TO PULL OUT THE LEG1S-
LATIVE PLUMS TOGETHER.

LATIVE PLUMS TOGETHER.
The situation as TO the proposed union upon senators
and Assembymen between Tammany Han ana uo
County Democracy Is growing hourly moro interestn q
although it may be said that actual progress In inc
| direction Of patching up such truce as VIII rSWt
| I'm sending men to Albany satisfactory to Governor
HIS ideas IS slow. There Is no doubt that ooth sucS
have been considering the subject. conference oi
! the twenty-five district chairmen OF tho county
| Democracy was held at the New-Amsterdam CluD on
Wednesday evening, one Of the objects oil "hrh was
| 10 decide upon what roply ought TO bo made TO MI
/ Croker,s resolution passed By the Tammany hall
County Convention on Tuesday evening, suggesting a
union with the County Democracy In close dls'rlcts
where Tammany could not elect members OF the Legs
| Isture unaded. The head of the organization, CNIl
Justice Power, presided and full interchange VI
! feeling on the subject took place
! Remembering the raspng illusions to the County
Democracy made by ". Bourke Cochran in bis speech
before the Tammany Convention, which was received
with such open satisfaction by the Wigwam people,
! many Of the County" leaders opposed any terms
| Of copartnership whatever. But after good dea
of talk It was agreed that an offer sbould be made
TO divide the representation of the city evenly "a
! had been done before, notably in 1882 when tho
County Democracy occupied the same relative pOsloh
as TO voting strength and control in the city govern
ment that Tammany Hall does now. This proposition
was supplemented, however. with the stipulation that
no man who in the Senate or Assembly thls year
who voted for the dead DlllS, SoCdilcu buoul1
be accepted on the combined ticket This plan OF
settlement was be conveyed to the Tammany leaders
through member Of the Democratic State Executive
Committee Up 10 late hour last night nc answer
from Tammany had been received at the New-Anster-
dam Club. A Tribune reporter who saw Justice
Power there, asked him If the above statement
differed in any respect from the facts. The b9
"bossn refused to deny 1t in any particular.
"The sting Of this 'amcable plan of union Is ia
its tano remarked a leading Iammany politician
last evening when 1t was unfoldcd TO him. DO
YOU imagine for a moment that Tammany Hall VIII
act cowary part, and desert her fiithfu representa-
tves in the Legislature at the demand Of the pigmies
who frequent the NewAmster1am Club? Don't you
believe it? Why, that would mean thee every TAM
many man Of the Legislature of 1889 must be left
out in the cold including Senator'S Cantor Grady ives
and Stadler and Assembymen Hagan, Roesch, Con
nelly Duffy, smith, Creamer llainer, Hayes, Mnl,
laney Blake and Neuschaier What those people call
The Id .al hills we call reform bills. and We VIII
never sacrifice the men who were true 10 their duty
Mr.. Croker would not dare 10 agree 10 such propo
tlon'
II is understood that the County Democracy Con
ference also decided upon the postpOncment OF their
County Convention The convention VIII meet at
Cooper Union tomorrow evening and adjourn PROB
ably until Thursday evening of next week. This
will be done in the interest of the plan for citizens
ticket Ex-Mayor Grace said yesterday that all
doubts Of the citizens movement proving success
had been removed.