The sun., 1890-01-05
WEAK AND QUARRELSOME.
TEE CONDITION OF THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY IN NEW lORK CITT.


organization OF almost every district OF New
York. Almost every district Is the scene OF I
factlonal fight which has been going on from
one to seven years-in some instances longer
These fights are intsnsined now when the
patronage has not yet been distributed. The
rival leaders In each district want TO control
the distribution OF the offices to which they be
lieve their district is entitled. The local Re.
publican organization has been weakening
year by year. It is doubtful II It was ever SO
rent by factlonal dissenslons as at present
There lie no power In the Republican organiza.
| tion In the city competent and adequate to set.
! tie those dissensions. II they are not settled
many districts will go into next falls campaign
| with two actions, each one ready to defeat the
candidates Of the other. With its organization
in such condition the Republican party can
not hope to elect o candidate ior any OF the
few local offices to be voted for next fall. II
cannot hone to mako n respectable showing in
the Board OF Aldermen. 1t would be hard for
1t to retain the one senator even and the five
Assembymen whom 1t now has.
Not one OF the seven Senatorial districts
which are included In New York and Richmond
counties is Republican. One Of them was rep
resented by a Republican. Postmaster Van
Cott- in the last Senate. but 1t went Democratic
for both President and Governor by 1000 to
5000. and the Democrats would have carried It
last fall had Waterbury withdrawn. There is
only one sure Republican Assembly distric, in
the Senatorial district That is tho Seventh
district and the Democratic majority OF tho
Ninth. which used to be Republican. has in
creased until 1t ia larger than the Republican
majority In the Seventh leaving out OF account
the Thirteenth. which Ia about even and has O
bitter Republican factlonal fight. and parts OF
other districts. which, in the aggregate. give q
Democratic majority OF over thousand
Five OF New Yorks twenty-four districts we're
represented In the last Assembly by Republi-.
cans. They were: The Seventh. Mr.. King; the
Eighth, Mr.. Smith; the Eleventh. Mr.. Hamil-
ton: the Thirteenth. Mr.. Gibbs and the Twen-
ty-flrst Mr.. Crosby. The seventh is the only
one OF these whore there is harmony. and there
harmony would not exist excepting under the
leadership OF Postmaster Van Cott. who has SO
much patronage at his disposal that It would
be foolish for any one in his district to set up
patI onHge away.
The Republican Assemblyman Of the Eighth
member Of the regular ivet orSanzatIon asd ip d0
Democrat will have his seat in the next As-
ssemhy He is q friend OF MIR. John j. OBJ len.
mon who live on the enst side OF the Buwery,
and who were expelled from, the Kepubli an
Joriyy for Harrison bigger than the maJorities
In the other Republican districts put together
They have no standing in the local Repu bcan
organization. but they have Il the Republics
votes that there are in the Eighth dist rict under
their contlo There is no iegular Repub lean
In the Eleventh district Col. Bliss Is leader
Mr.. Hamilton was Well thought OF among The ,
Republicans there. and succeeded in uniting
the TWO extremes OF tie party. He kept tho
colored voters Iy II Judicous use OF patronage
and the brown-sl one voters through his family
connections and his personal acquaintance.
There was a hight Tor the control Of the or
gauizaton OF that district at the last prima les.
sDip OF Col Bliss who has utilized his position |
IN he party more for the advantage o. MIN elf !
than OF the party. When Mr. Hamilton with !
once over his successor, and the Democrats
came within lew hundred votes of carrying
will te renewed and vigorously carried on.
. In the Ihirteent tn district tho Gibbs Cowie
tiG nGht has has been % Eong on Tor years The Cowie
Senate and knt!ed him again when he ran Tor
the Assembly, Their knitting him resulted in
which he was elected to The ASSEMBLY aud
Gowie was elected to the Board OF Aldermen
ieated Cowie tor the Board. Of Aldermen. Clap-
once ". Mead assumes to be the boss
, In the Twenty-lirst district there was one of
has ever "een seen in that neigh horhood. A.
R. W htney, the iron man. and subway Com
wo factions. The Whitney faction carried the
asst primary. but the Hess faction asserts that
ne more respectahls Republican cement
about their success. This factlonal fight re-
'u,ted in the defeat for several years Of the
4. Crosby was Assemb ,yman for tho district
or several years. though he was not elected by
Gs on that i is ha der fight than az he e cees eUe
o mako again. and no accepted MIR. Platts
'er and went to LEyrt T. T. be Judge in the
which George :. BRtcheller, nuw Assistant See
etary OF the Treasury, had. This district is
In The otiier nineteen districts the Vsii iiiepubu-
ans are In a minority. There are only three
n four OF these districts in which The Demo-
'eing any danger OF n Republican slipping In
'etweon. In the first siN districts the RepIbli-
hey are lighting for the Federal patro age.
nd In each OF tIese districts. however few they
re. two kepub lean factions exist. Leader
'ost ONCE but his followers have MT yet
hared The good things OF Official le with him,
osition faction in this district has an as oria-
ION and a. n G1 where # regularly meets
0 he Coroner few years ago. and WAS de-
eated al, the polls. has got into the Custom
louise Hi opp9nents iq the district cuse
he Eepubllcans oi the district hunger and
hi,st. There are only about l.OOO RePu blicans
thy D., Dollar sullivan. Mr.. Alderman Dv- /
or. Mr., x-Marden Walsh and Mr. ex-Alder-
an a. kirk The Democr3ts M can run tiye can
re fighting just the me. 1
Leader Taintnr D. the Third district was re-
ently appointed Police Justice by Mayor
rant. He ives IN near the Park, a mile and
hall from the upper end OF the district. and {
bout three mi es from the lower end. There
re rot many kepublicans here. pnt there are
nougn OF them TO hight. In the Fourth dis
'Ict thee has been factional opposition to I
eader Collins for some yeats. The Republi- t
m VOC here is usually turned over to one or
10 other OF Tho Democratic factiona Whom |
yer LeaderI Iollins maNos n contract to deliver q
le vote to one Democratic organization, the
her Republican faction turns over its votes /
the other Demncratlc organization. In tho I
fifth district Leader Carroll is having hard &
me with the reform element" led by MIR /
heodore, Allen. The oIiices have not beon z
ot been definitely determiued whether Mr. L
llen's reformers or Mr.. Carroll's regulars a
as had the inspectors oil the primaries year
ter year; and they have regularly returned t
ot the Inspectors OF the primaries run an Or a
iniHation OF their own. The two Repu bllcan n
ctions here frequently run Democratic n
Rets for local offlcars a