The evening world., 1889-01-08
Johnny ]. Does Not Propose
to Be Left.
The Amateur Politicians May
AS Well Retire.
O'Brien to Be the Real District Leader
Whoever the Dummy May Be.

In a few days the Republicans of the Eighth
Assembly District will be reorganized. and
the dangerous and corrupt John ]. O'Brien
element utterly eliminated from the organi-
cation.
This is what the goody-goody members of
tho County Committee. who expelled John
i Brodsky. George j. Kraus and the other
> D'Brien members of that body fondly mag
/inh, but they are doomed to suffer o bitter
disappointment of their hopes.
They have skirmIshed about the district to
find q suitable leader not in sympathy with
the O'Brien- Rourke influence, and finally
pitched upon Samuel Engel, a wealthy
butcher of Essex Market, who resides at 123
Ludlow street.
For seven years and until 1883, Engel was
hand and glove with O'Brien and was during
all that time President of the John j..
O'Brien Association.
A serious difference with the man who
carries the Eighth District vote in his pocket
led TO q breach of the friendly relations
which existed between O'Brien and Engel,
and the latter retired from active political
life.
He is the man who has been selected by
the amateur politicians of the Republican
Committee to purify the politics of this rotten
borough, but the poor deluded purists will
not know that their selection was actually
maze by the great Johnny O'Brien himself
until they read this issue of HE EVENING
WORLD.
O'Brien never proposed to give up his con-
troll of the district, but he intends to hold 1t
by strategy rather than as the spoils of a
herce struggle for supremacy IN which ne
knows that he would be the victor.
He wants the dress coated amateurs of the
Sceutral organization to imagine that their
e N1nerior political sagacity has been too much
him, and have their eyes opened to the
\ true state of affairs at the Lext election, when
~ Johnny, Barney and the rest will be found
pnlilng the strings and handling the cash as
of yore.
For several nights the back room of Barney
u Rourko's gilded gin palace in Forsyth stree t
has been the scene of secret conferences.
Samuel Engel, the new leader, who is to re-
form the Eighth Assembly District Re-
publican organization has been zen pres pres.
men who have been admitted to these
conclaves by Rourke's brother, who jeal-
ously guards the door, are John j. O'Brien,
Barney Rourke, Assemblyman' Silver
Dollar" Smith, John L. Brodsky and Alder
man Christian GoetZ.
The willy O'Brien has captured the re-
former Engel. All of their differences have
been adjusted, and he has secured the valu-
able assistance of the gentlemen named in
making up a committee which will seem to be
opposed to the O'Brien-R ourke -Brodsky
machine.
This has been the business of the secret
meetings, aud a ticket has been prepared
with Engel at its head, made up of men
whose names are entirely new, but who have
been seen and who are known to be entirely
in accord with Johnny and his methods.
The Republicans of the district will be en-.
rolled, this new Committee elected and the
reform GU will be complete.
This may be depended on as the programme
unless this expose should cause the con
spirators to do their work all over again.
Iu any event John J. O'Brien will be founG
to be the power behind the throne, no mat
ter who is the nominal leader.