New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-30
MR.. LEVY,S FRIENDS FEAR Il PLOE
THERE ARE APPARENTLY TWO SHAIRMEN OF
CAMPAIGN COMMITTEES IN THE

CAMPAIGN COMMITTEES IN THE
DEMOCRATIC CLUB.
conflict OF authority Is threatened In the "s"eh
Democratic Club Of No. 617 Fifthave. when m"S
result unfavorably TO good order and pohu'a u''''
pine In that pretentOuS home Of "swallow-'hi 10
mocIacy 1t appears that the club now has two CALI
paign committees whose duties. functions ana re-
sponsbil,les are Identical and their chairmen are
both positive and determined men, neither OF whom
is accu stoned to having his ambitions thwart q, q
collision sooner later between tho two bodies Is
| Inevitable. About month ago the regular campaign
| COMMITTEES OF the club met ut the clubhouse ana or
ganzed by elecring rs its chairman that well known
and patriotic Democrat Jefferson NJ. Levy. the owner
| by purchase OF Monticello. Virginia the home OF the
| first Democratic President Thomas Jefferson Mr.
| Levy appointed Of the subcommittee
| Including The Committee on Finance, but AZ he "a'
about to sail Europe his summer vacation he
magnannoi-ly turned the selection OF the resi-
| Of tho sub committees to the vlce-chairman Mr.
| Levy made neat little speech. bidding his fellow
committeeman TO be faithful to their great trusts and
expressing the hope that they would labor in harmony
during If, absence. lie shook each man fervently DIV
| the hand and the next day he upon the hllo"y
| sea.
Thursday evening another campaign committee mst
at the clubhouse and organized by eectng that rising
Young lawyer Mao Crane COKE lis chairman ana IN
trusting him with the appointment Of long list OF
sub committees including the eXTHive, mah'o'
speakers literature. public meetings, ooheehce'
| naturalization rgistra on, polls and ELECTION us
trict committees The sub committees are the same
in name n, those which Chairman Levy and his vice
| chairman had ALREADY chosen and announced rms
| latest campaign committee appointed, II WIS IN
sisted by John H. V. Arnold. the president Of The
club lust leor sailed for Europe fortnight or 80
| ago II was made mp Of iw'rty-sih mein~fS, WHO
last evening increased their number to thirty five
some members OF the club aid that this last campaign
4 had bce ufsOin nv Mr. Arnold IN "a
,cp az forp,t fitness the existence Of the former
committee with MI Levy VI the head having escaped
his recollection in the hurry Of the Presidents Prep
| ration, for his foreign trip
Other, are sure that II Is practically the same COM
mitt. which elcr ted Mr. Levy. some OF the Names mt
least are the same and that the movement OF gctung
| together an apparently frc-h committee was really
| .hrewd plan for turning down Mr. Levy, wh'ie he
| is absent from the country.
supervisor ". j. X. Kenny. who b0ssed' the meet
Ing Thur.day ring and seemed 10 be the general man
accr Of politics in the club during Mr. Arnods visit IN
France and Italy was asked 10 explain what had be-
| come Of Mr. Levys campaign committee.
| There is no Mr. Levys campaign committee Mt.
! Kenny replied. "Mr Lazy l. member ~ the cam
pagn committee but he IS not the chairman of ta' or
any committee ~ the kind Vtier members oi us
club said hat Mr.. Coke WAS the chairman OF the Only
,ccocp,z,d campa,sn committee and that when Mr..
Levy came back he would discover that he was not
in it, These expressions have increased the APP
rrcnslons of Mr. Levy'- friends that there Is plot
IA shove him ont OF tho honorable place 10 when ne
was elected in June and which he expected to ahorh
during the last eight or nine weeks ol e ''i'Pa,e,
rhcy ,ay that Mr.. Levy IL not the KIND OF Hth I'D
| submit 10 such indignic> and mat Wien he 'onles
L.rh he viii make Ia, enemies In the club wish That
| they had not attempted to d~pol him OF Ms ahieis'