New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-31
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND MEN.
TIE NEW REPUBLICAN, CLUB-pOLITICAL MOVE
MENTs-THE MAYOR AND THE
ALDERMEN.

Tho now Renublicon Climb is now fairly under way
ard II is hoped TO have It's organization perfected us
headquarters opened and affairs In pracl""l ''"Po
before the campaign Is fully opened IN the l"n
some Of the active movers In the matter VIII "
In town nearly all the summer. and they VIII devote
themselves to the congenia task OF putting AFFAIRS
I'm shape for work by the middle Of September lie
new club is already upon firm financial footIhg' is
100 persons have Sigied their purpose oi becoming
members and Of paying the $40 initiation lee ana
so annual dues BY the time the club rooms are
opened there Will probably be double TINS NUMBER
Il 4, proposed to secure Il house In the vicinity ol
tbe CITY Hail. and to fit it up for the uses OF the
club. providing billiard and smoking rooms, card
rooms and reading room supplied with R"pubn an
newspapers and other publications, an assembly room
where the members can hear addresses by prominent
public men. and council chambers where plans can
he discussed and devised for tile welfare oil
fhc party. With the 10000 10000 Republicans
Of the city 10 drow there seems TO be no reason
why membership approaching the 100 Of the Union
Lcnnlc club. or the 900 OF the Brooklyn Young
Republican Club which I, purely political may not
he reached. The social features developed IN the
rfr,t Ward Republican club which was formed from
the membership OF the First Ward Republican Asso
citation. have boon APPLY conJoined with political
matters that II is believed that the experiment
can be successfully adopted upon larger scale.
TIE movement for the new Brooklyn Republican
Clnb AS Il has been dc idcd 10 call it. ha~ been most
,civcly promoted 6y Franklin woodruff, former
,,r sidcut of the Republican General Committee. lie
hns acccpct the provisional presidency and Is likely
10 be the first regular president OF the CLUB. IN
.pcaklng Of the need of JIs organization Mr. Wood
mn said. We have always needed and have always
lacked In Broplyu II Republican, headquarters wher'
Republicans can meet exchange Their View and keep
pcrrccily I'm touch with all matter, relating - the
Interest, of the party. such club as We propose
to organize will be OF the standing ami character
which will make all Republicans glad u become ana
remain member, Il it. Many Young men have ~
,,rc.ed 4 d,s,, for such a club. while the venerable
Mr. Sttanaian Is heartily in sympathy with the move
ment | believe that II keep the standard OF
membership high shall grow to be large in
.titutlon. The Union League Cmb was started only
I'VE years az, with dues OF - year. and now II has
| coo member, who pay $50 year Tor TIE privileges
which 1T affords l think there Is plenty OF room foF
another club and We shall n'' trench upon Inv ncu OIL
tho Union league
ExIudg, Joshua VI. Van colt said that the move
mont had begun most an, pciousy and he expected
succes. The meeting for organization on ono 81
the hottest nights Of the season was attended DIV an
enthusiastic and representative body Of meu Despite
the heat more Interest wa shown than al the meeting
I'm Aprl when the project was first discussed. III
l. popo,rd - limit the membership TO m'n known
IN lac Republicans aud who are members Of wad as
socotlons or are vouchcd for by members Of the club
The Repnllicau Executive COMMITTEES will have us
Aurlst meeting on Tuesday evening. some subjects
Of interest respecting tn" campaign are likely 10 como
nm for discussion II Il quorum attends No mecUNs VI
The General Committee viii be held next month. Inc
comnoigu Committees Executive Committee VIII also
moot an Tuesday evening. II /, expected that David
A baldwin IT. chair man, VIII appoint the hp'"m-
mttces which he WAS empowered 10 do last Week
Thcv vlll have charge OF such affairs as printing
meetings speakers. etc. which have to be attended 10
in the two months Of actual campaign work. Mr..
BALDWIN is n man of much political experience and
no can be depended upon 10 see that the campaign Is
actively prosecuted. and that no detail is 0Veroo%N
IN the press Of other matters. While n number OF
local poutical organizations holding weekly meet
,rys the bulk of them Will defer active operations
uruI tle eated term Is past FIX Congressman R0s
well g. Uorr has already secured to speak seven
time, I'm BrOOklyn In the course Of the campaign, ana
no win he heard next month in Visitation Hall, In the
Twelfth Ward n h0tbcd Of Democracy. where converts
10 Protection principles are easily made.
Tho Twenty third Ward Republicans are taking
active steps to recruit the ranks OF their association
from among the Republicans annexed to the ward
bv the recent change of the boundary line separating
II from the Twenty fifth Ward one OF those carried
over into the Twenty third Ward Charles VI. Newins,
president OF the TwentyfiftI Ward Republican AsSo-
catiou. The men who oppose Internal Revenue Col
lector Nathan's rule In the Twenty-third Ward are
irving TO induce Robert c. Sharley, the young but
octive and ndomltable leader Of the Twenty-fifth
Ward TO move into the Twenty third. and with the
contingent from the Twenty fifth Ward cndeavor TO
wrest the leadership from Mr. Nathan. But the latter
Is so strongly entrenched that 1t would be almost HID
leading "A forlorn hope for Mr.. Sharkey or any one
else TO make the attempt.
Mayor Body IS finding himself between two ii'es
ON the one hand his veto OF the Mdermens resolution
granting franchise for surface railway In Union
ST. Is receiving cordial cOmmendation from all save
the Aldermen and their friends, but now he Is urged
TO go farther and to show his opposition to Job
bcry and begin suit to have the Aldermens
franchise declared null and void. chiefly on the ground
that II was act OF waste OF the citys property IN
,ha. no compensation exacted, although a rival
company offered 10000 for the franchise. While
the Mayor may be willing to get the credit for