Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-29
PLATT Is STILL BOSS.

His Slate Goes Throush Unbroken in thu
New York State Com o1ss,istee-whitelaw
Reid Shakes Hands with rho STATE
Leaders OF His Campaign-Thc Colored
Contingent
New YORK, June Special with
its organization complete, the Republican
State Committee is now ready to begin the
hard work of the Presidential campaign in
New York. The organization was effected
in psrlor d. R., of the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
to-day, and the administration had very
little to do with it except by the voice Of
its few representatives on the committee to
make the acceptance of the slate prepared
by Platt and Miller unanimous
Whitelaw Reid, the party's candidate for
Vice President was in the hotel, but he did
not go before the committee, and he said
that he made no suggestions He had a
parlor where he recei his friends Il
came here, said he, Ss.mply to meet and
shake by the hand the leaders of the party
and the men who will run the campaign in
this State. have been away from home a
long time, and have not had an opportunity
to meet them before"
Hon. Whttel8w Reid . VtSlt0r.
Word was passed through the corridors
that Mr. Reid was in room IS, and he was
soon besieged by Republican leaders from
all sections of the State, who had assembled
to assist the committee. All these had
been brought together by common desire
to see that their interests and those of the
Republicans in their Congressional districts
were well cared for by the committee in the
performance of the duty devolved on it by
the State Convention TO reorganize the party
machine in each Of the new districts
The work of the committee went through
according to programme without hitch.
When Chairman William Brook6eld called
the committee to order John n. Scatcherd,
Of Buffalo, nominated him for reelection
as Chairman, and he was chosen unanimous
ly. John S. Kenyon. of Syracuse, was con-
tinued as Secretary. w. II. Hoag NOM
mated General Samuel Thomas for Treas
urer, and he was chosen with q unanimity
that had been counseled on the part of the
administration when 1t was found that Platt
and Miller did not propose to relinquish
their grasp on the party machine.
The Great Fight Of the Day.
Then came the fight of the day. It was
over the selection Of the additional men,
of the party. Rev. Dr.. William Derrick
was the additional member" and was a
candidate for reelection. There were three
othe. candidates, Rev. Jeremiah R B.
Smith, pastor of the Seventeenth Street A.
NJ E Church, of this city and editor of the
Echo; James Davis, of Troy, and Charles P.
Lee, of Rochester.
All of the oratory, excep ting that spent
in Rev. Mr.. Smiths behalf, was wasted.
He received 21 votes to Derrick's and
Davis 2 Lee was withdrawn.
The committee then disposed of the mat
ter which had brought so many representa-
tives and would-be representatives in Con-
gress and other statesmen together, by en-
trusting to committee of five the business
of fixing and determining the basis of repre-
sentation in each of the existing Congress
districts in the first convention to be held
therein, and the number of delegates and
the manner and method of choosing the
same in each OF the said conventions. This
committee was mostly Belden men, and the
Belden contingent from the Syracuse Con-
gress district who had been waiting for the
news in the corridor outside the committees
meeting room, went away in high feather.
After the committee adjourned the Ex-
ecutive Committee organized and elected
William A. Sutherland, of Nochester, Ma
tional Committeeman.