New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-27
HILLS OUTRAGEOUS PLOT.
THE STORM OF INDIGNATION RAPIDLY IN
CREASING.
IN FEW DAYS THB REPUBLICAN STATE COM
MITTEE WILL MEET-rHE PLAN TO HOLD
MASS MEETINGS THROUGHOUT THE
sTATE--A LETTER FROM L. E.
CIIITTENDEN

Owing to the absence OF Chairman William
Brookield from the city, the call for the meeting
OF the Republican State Committee to take action
in relation to the nefarious attempt to steal the
State Senate, and rob the people OF their right
to choose their representatives. was not issued
yesterday Mr.. Brookfeld is hourly expected. and
as soon as he returns he will issue the call for
the assembly Of the committee.
There has been no abatement in the indignation
which is felt by honest and patriotic men from
one end of the State to the other at the unpar-
allied and unprecedented scheme of robbery which
David B. Hill and the reckless and degraded men
whom he is using as his plant tools have under
taken. There is only one sentiment abroad among
the people, and that is that Hill must be thwartcd
and the criminals who are implicated in the plot
must be brought to justice. The meeting Of the
State Committee is looked forward to with eager
ness and anxiety by Democrats as we'll as Republi-
cans who want to see stop put to HILLS villa
nous plans.
The proposition to hold meetings throughout
the State and give expression to the indignation
Of the people and their demand for the arrest and
punishment of the conspiratOrs against the rights
guaranteed to them under free Government is
earnestly seconded by patriotic citizens of all
classes. l.. Z. Chittenden, the first Register. Of
the Treasury, who was appointed by President
Lincoln, and one of the most sterling Republi-
cans in the land, voiced the sentiments Of
large number of representative citizens in the
following letter which he sent to The Tribune
yesterday:
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t Is time for the citizens, and especially the
kepnbicans to hold pubic meetings IN our cues @ smd
crime Of the year and the century. The Governor OF
del ne wi fn
install defeated party In power in in both 6 branches Of
win excuse his crime he will make them. lie will
stop at nothing short OF a manufactured Democratic
majority In Sie next state Senate and Assembly.
II is possibly too late to avert the crime. 1t has
been planned by an able and dexterous man. Its
ordlnates But II Is not too late to watch the b,
from day to day. to secure and preserve the evidences
Of his crminanty, to hold him to public execration
and 10 make the necessary preparations TO bring him
For these criminals will not go unwhpt of justice.
The crime OF stealing State must be punished or we
must confess with shame and confusion Of face that
our Republic is failure and that within third Of ia
people, by the people and for the people, has perished
want of interest OF the citizens. They msjudge a
proper call for public meeting on twodayS' notice
would I'LL the grand auditorium Of Madison Square
with as many insuted indignant citizens could he
packed within its walls. Shall we not have such
Republican Club, No. 4Jo Ffthav Nov. 26, 1891
Democrats who have regulations for honor, in
tegrity and patriotism to sustain, and who desire
to see the State and Nation prosperous and
progressive under whatever political party may
honestly succeed at the polls, will not be found
among those who applaud David B. Hills danger
Gus and revolutionary policy. One whom. Mr.
Hill cannot count upon to give countenance to
his projected robbery of the Senate is ex-Mayor
William r. Grace, Of this city.
A Tribune reporter called upon Mr.. Grace at his
home in East Thirty eighth-st. last evening, and
asked him what he thought Of the frauds which
had been perpetrated by the Democratic majority
of the Dutchess County Board Of Canvassers.
whereby a State Senator had been counted in
through manipulation of the returns after
they had left the hands of the inspectors
Mr. Grace promptly replied: Il have not
had time to examine into the exact facts of the
case and am therefore not in a position to give
opinion upon the acts of the majority of the
Dutchess County Canvassers. But l will say
this, and | say it most emphatically any at
tempt TO steal the Senate or the Legislature will
bring only i'll and defeat to the party which resorts
to this species of fraud | see that some Of the
newspapers of Independent tendencies, but which
generally support the Democratic party, denounce
the work of the Democrats in Dutchess County. If
they are correct in their conclusions and serious
wrong is being done, calamity and defeat for the
Democratic party in the State will follow
If i were Governor, | should regard branch
Of the Legislature obtained by fraud for the sup
port of my administration as very unfortunate
crime If the Democrats have fairly and
honestly won the Senate they ought to have it.
but if they must resort to false and forged returns
to secure it, the people will mote out punishment
to those engaged in such wrong-doing, unerringly
and remorselessly."