New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-16
THE ELECTORS IND MR.. PLATT.
SPECULATION AS TO THE sIGNERs or THE
PETITION.
MR.. BECKER and Me. FLAcLEe SAY THEY
DIDN'T SIGN IT-ATTITUnr OF THE BROOK
1,yN AND NEw.YoRg ELECTORS.
nay rrrronAp PHI TO THE THfBLJftE

MR.. BECKER AND ME-. FLASLED SAf 1iNA
DIDN'T SIGN IT-ATT1TUnr OF THE BROOK
LyN AND NEw.YoEK ELECTORS.
rBr rELEoHArH TO THE THfBufE.l
Albany Jan. 15--There was good ueai vi cAc''o-
ment Of a subdued kind among Repupneans nero 70.
day over the news that the members Oh inc Eec'oro
College had been asked the previous evening 10 sign
a petit,on addressed TO General Harrison In fayor
~ Che apnointmont of Thomas c. Plat as secretary
% ,hs Treasury. It was difficult 10 ascertain how
MANY Of the electors had signed the peuuon. A.
NJ patterson of Geneva, one OF the eiectoes' sau
at cannot count up over eight Oh tno eieo'oi' %
having signed that petition On the other hsna'
s.,s,or sIoat Fassett, who first announced Mr.
p,att,s candidacy In his newspaper, "The Emira
Advert,sers said: at understood that twenty OK ,Ge
e,ector. signed the petition. In any case Mr' fis@
rreved moro votes from the members OF the Ecotora
College than any other man in the State coud nsVe
secured
,rwo Of the electors who visited the Capital to-day
vere Mayor Becker, Of Bufhlo! and Berrsmin
Flas,er Of suspension Bridge. Mayor Becker said !
a see that some newspapers this morning say mat
n was reported that l and Mr.. Fiagler signed the
petitfon Neither Mr.. FIagler nor myself signed IL.
when they came to me said that thought General
Harrison should DO left at liberty to suit himself 10
making his Cabinet positions. The members OF tho
Presidents Cabinet are the members OF MS omc'ai
household. Therefore 1t would DO highly improper
for me to suggest to him that be should take this
man ana no other as q member Of his household
Mr. Flagler assented to all that Mayor Becker had
said and added: I not chosen an ecctor 10 ad
yss General Harrison about Cabinet position, but 10
vote for him In tho eolless. I have fulhned that
duty, and think my representative capacity Is ex-
hansted.s
The electors In town agreed that all Of the ave
Long Island electors among whom are those Of the
City Of Brooklyn signed the petition. Road Benedict
the ecctor of tho list grcssona District, said
signed the petition because earnestly think that hr'
Plat deserves TO DO Secretary Of the Treasury He Is
man Of high business ability. emnenty at to be the
manager OF the finances Of the Nation hope no VIII
DO appointed"
Chester D. Burrows of Brooklyn, another cleetor
said that he seconded everything that Mr. Benedict
had said. The of the Long Island electors are
Read Benedict, Gustaye A. john Nelson J. Gates,
James w. Birkett and Chester d. Burrows, jr
II was stated that nine electors Of New-York City
had signed the petition, namely william H. Towniey,
Drayton Ives, Robert A. Grcacen, William BFookneh,
David f. Porter ard j. Thomas searns and that three
of them, IJspenard Stewart Andrew ID. Rogers, 1r''
and Edward A. McAipn had not signed 1t, but these
reports should DO taken with some caution, as tho
document which could prove their attitude Is not now
In Albany having been taken to Auburn BY Clinton
ID. McDougall
The friends Of Mr.. Plat say thas the electors in
the interior of the state who signed the petition were
Ellis wliIam L. Proctor, William E. Johnson, Clinton
d. McDougal Everett Brown, Henry Hebing and
Asher Miner
Andrew b. Rogers, ST.. one Of the Now York electors
said to-day: al did not sign the petition because
in my district, the With Congressional District Of
New-York desire that Warner Miller should be up
pointed Secretary OF the Treasury
Some OF the electors said that Yesterday resolution
ives considered IN the held BY thcm previous
10 tho meeting OF the Electoral Collegs requesting
President elect Harrison 10 appoint eminent New
York Republican as member OF his Cabinet and not
Mr. Plat was named in the resolution II simply asked
tho Presdentelect TO appoint some Republican from
NewYork Tho resolution. however dropped, It's
consideration by tho Electoral College not being con-
sdered decorous.
electors who have signed the petition 10 write personal
letters 20 General Harrison asking for Mr.. Piatts
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