New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-02-09
ANSWERS TO DAGGETT.
HIS CHARGES TAKEN UP IN DETAIL
WHAT is SAID BY MR.. WOODRUFF NAVAL
OFFICER WILLIS, Mr. GILLULY, Mr..

nv Senator Dagoott against Franklin Woodruff chair
man of the Republican General Committee OF hhgS
County Naval officer Theodore b. Wills, Port warden
W. IL. Leaycraft, United States DistrictAttorcy
Johnson and others of the Republican leaders on the
winning side in the recent election of officers OF the
General Committee, made public in Brooklyn
YESTERDAY The necessity Of securing many aihdavltS
thoroughly to refute Daggets charges and convict
him of offering brides to delegates delayed the publ
cation of the statements of the assailed, and the
terrible accident in Secretary Tracys household made
It'll further delay seem advisable.
Mr. Woodruff reviews the contest for the presidency
IF the General Committee and says that it seems
necessary Mr. Daggetts character considered to reply
only to that part of the attack purpOring to present
facts. lie denies that majority OF the delegates
we're in favor of Mr.. Baldwin, as asserted by MS
accuser, and, roughly speaking estimates the mum
Der Of those who supported the regular OrsahIa'on
at about 800 delegates, and those who leaned to"du
factions and individuals at about 100. lie says ''a'
the relative strength Of the two sides was shown a
year ago, when Mr.. Baldwin withdrew in his FAVOR
and at every test vote taken during the year. lie
cent defectons, he goes on owing to personal Icd-
sons, did not brsg the number OF the votes Oh inc
opposing faction above 17J, While the regular NoVe
remained steady at o25. Indeed, Mr. Woodruff says
he believes that he had $50 votes. CONTINUING MI
Woodruff says -.
When the contest arrived at this stage Mr. Daggctt
was openly in charge OF the canvass opposed to me.
1t is due TO the Republican party tial shou" say
here that Mr. Daggett not member Oh tne Ucll-
eral Committee, and had not been ior many year
and he had no official relations whateVSr "l'h ulc
With the vote standing as have stated it, the
business Of purchasing votes Was Desum, , am6
notes was given to purchase votes III the SiA'Schl'
Ward and to control that ward until after the freSi
submit the aifdavts of men who rejected like in
famous proposals in the Twenty fourth and Twenty
sixth wards also affidavit showing that Mr. l!au, H.
an affidavit maker in Mr. Daegctts statement eA-
planned his change from me to MI BALDWIN %dWi
were giving $40 apiece for votes.
Mr.. Willis and Mr.. Gilluly Mr.. Leaycrdt, Mr.
first had reliable and direct information as 10 the
bribery of specific delegates in the sixteenth WARD
Ward to probe the facts. As they went ont Mr..
Hobbs. who is my personal counsel. said Find out
5as f aG ' WINS G and SnG Mr. '@ Ga o5nca
description it We're an inventory. OF their precious
merchandise plumber of the br'be tN"er-1f susse.
ing desire to purchase: later on. at the ehe.iu >
Office Monday morning they obtained a view OF ticli
little more than twenty four hours before the elec
ton. Greenleaf Smith and Michael huchnan came
TO my house with the eleven notes ana ihe c4e'k anu
handed them 10 me for Inspectors loon Iic,l ~
Daegett and Brkett. walked INTO the next ROOM, "ihc
back, put the notes into my pocket ana terminated
the Interview space prevents me rom iErc ,,! s
oil their shameless DISCLOSURES thrv are iuilF gNtn
In the statement Of Mr.. Willis But WISH To state
most emphatically that they SAID ana repeaten u,
check on contract To deliver nine vote, against
me. and TO hold the ward for DasSett ana MS as
With the notes and check vas the he, letter. tr 2 a.
turned the notes and check because thty VH hot
deliver the delegates. Mr. Daggctt claims that that
shows that Bucnman understood they were not L"
sell votes, but were to secure bride money Nh3'-
they understood. or thought they uuuefN1""u-
Buchman's head-they had no such ohcr' no >ngh
profer. and it was never intended they should nav
Mr.. Dagget that the sixteenth Ward wa nat-
urally for Mr. baldwin 1t was hal2iFH ile ~. t
way, and its delegates were and had been elected Tor
years as friends Of the organization.
1t was for no small triAe t4at MI La-9et1 W.,
working, and risking and spending I"rse aM1"l,
Mr.. Wick as a truthful account OF what ne ''Iu 20
Greenleaf smith "a to the sixteenth WARD. ne
/" If you will keep your ward IN your o,,,Soh uuls
the term Of this Administration we VIII give Non
Of the Sixteenth Ward ont Of orr mind Whaa. is
"wc"? Whose mind is oar mind VINO
the scheme had succeeded the county orrt,,zaton
would have been in their hands. and il would have
before 1892 do not at al! intimate that Mr. BALD
win would not have been IN favor II what va, Just
and Hd fa Esv 9nt D t6e yo mat %oa ays and e nm
man quoted and treated allies. and catapul'
swung by a simeon would have been about as easy
for Mr.. Baldwin - guide as that combination, had
succeeded.
during the heat Of the contest fewer appointments
when attention was absorbed bv the election.
Tho organization went on a before. perhaps with
Most,
ments that had been regularly recommended aid pre-
scented by the organization months before that contest
was thought Of. and most OF them were appointed
TO minor places.
Naval officer Willis, in bis statement. says that
his desire TO the party from open scandal placed
him in position exposed 10 the attacks Of unscupu
lous men. The statement that he used the Federal
patronage TO bribe voters NJ claracterzcs a dc
Mberate lie. He never. he says, sought to bribe a
delegate. lie adds:
IT, as Mr.. Daggett saws We had been trying to bride
people. is il likely that would have made public
the fact that men had been appointed DID Mr.. Dag
ge take the public into his confidence when he paid
win | assert that the idea OF bribery entered
my head. There was no need for such a thing.
we had a clear majority OF ire vote, from me hem,
tried to bride the men that Daggett and Birke,t
fui detail ali ' that occurred in my connect5n
with the sixteenth Ward delegates. | only went
there after heard they had been bought To- find if
Success crowned the efforts Of myself and those who
accompanied me. The men and their purchase price
Nshed. ] had newspaper man write up the story
in its detail believing that the men should be pun
leading the Woodruff side decided against me. &,
the story should be published Immediately aud tho
guilty men punished. allowed the majority to rule
for reason given.
Mr. Willis tells how he went to meet Grecnlcaf
Smith Of the Sixteenth Ward and received
from him that he favored the election Of Mr.. Wood
ruff. Afterward he learned that the Baldwin man
ayers were tampering with Smith. and it mmorcd
that $1,000 had been offered to him for his aid 50
he sent for Smith to have talk with him. but re
celved word that Smith was sick. The rumors about
the delegates In the Sixteenth Ward increased and
II decided by the supporters Of Mr.. Woodruff to
unearth any attempt at bribery the part Of the
Baldwin men, With this object in mind he went with
Messrs Giluly, Fischer and Leaycraf and met Michael
Buchanan In the sixteenth Ward and learned that
$3.50 had been offered to Smith for his influence
Smith sent for and admitted the facts and said he
would give his influence 10 Mr. Baldwin, and there
ten votes which Mr.. Woodruff could not get. lie
said that he willing to take 81 500 cash for the
notes, the face value of which 81 500, and after
ward came down to 81 $50 for the notes and check
Mr.. Willis told him they prepared to casl
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