The evening world., 1893-10-20
MyERS'S SPONSORS.
Prominent Citizens Consent to
the Use Of Their Names
Preparations Complete for To-
Nights Mass Meeting.
Auth oritative Statement That Robin
son viii Withdraw II Necessary.

All the details for the mass.meet'ng
OF independent citizens in Cooper Union
tonight have been arranged. X. Fulton
Cutting will preside and Comptroller
Myers will be placed in nomination.
q, Gen. Wager Swayne will make the
romir ating speech, aud Edward King
will second the nomination on behalf OF
organized labor.
Unless a change in plan is made be-
fore the meeting no otner candidates
will be nominated in opposition to the
Tammany ticket.
A proposition to nominate an entire
citizens ticket was considered ard re-
iected at a conference between mem
bers of the City C!ub and other sup
porters OF Comptroller Myers. All eff
forts will be concentrated to elect Comp
trolier Myers.
over four thousand letters were sent
to .cading citizens, asking them to sup
port the Myers movement and permit
the use Of their names as sponsors for
this evenings demonstration
Favorable replies are being received by
every mail. The list of respondents in
cludes representatives Of every business
II profession.
Inc letters OF tne tlty IluD were
mailed yesterday when many prominent
men who favor an independent move
ment had left for Chicago to attend the
Manhattan Day celebration there or the
responses of sylnp thizer3 would be more
numerous.
The. list of sponsors includes:
John J~eroiember. Robere s.. Minturn,
J. Coleman Drayton; Geo. f. Dodge,
Dorman d. Eaton. Alexander Campbell,
nr GNnnE :" inrrNnn RTnvl
Edward Wells, jr.. Roscoe w Charming.
William Barnes. Cornelius n, Bliss:
PT W T; RS!i; nr. n; E; brl,l' E d v rd
7. Delatield. Charles Frederick Adams.
Julius Ehrnan' A; c; Bernhelm' Der
Hoffman. Rev. pr. David II. Grier, DIR.
Henry Dwight Chaplin, orwin o'Brien.
OF the rank and file OF anti-Tanmany
workers. John Reppenhagen, otto Kemp
Fatty" Grote and ex-Alderman Dow.
ling have promised their aid,
not. making n boasts. ThL~ are de-
voting all their. time to hard work, and
the result will be a monster meeting of
representative citizens.
The Evening World can state on
authority that Henry c. Robinson. Re
publican candidate for Comptroller, will
II the demonstration tonight is repre-
sentative of Il popular demand for the
Connrolier.S renomtnation, notwith-
John Sabine Smith may say.
Mr.. Robinson say that he will with
hra " Il party Interests demand it And
C9mmittee of Thirty.
1t is charged by Republicans that Pat
terson and smith are actlated by Tam
many Influences in the position they have
John F.; Owens; President of the
Welsh Jefferson Club. who Is an active
nrk Co.. 90 -, =
day that Myers would receive the full
would be elected by 1000 majority.
There was a large attendance OF anti.
1'ammany voters last night at 30 Eighth
avenue. the meeting-rooms of the Thir.
teenth Assembly, District Democratic
Assemblyman, and also to pledge their
support to Comptroller Myers in the
event of his accepting n citizens nom.
nation.
Robert J. Cooke paid a strong tribute
to the sagacious and businesslike man
ner In which the office of Comptroller
was conducted under Mr.. Myers, there
taxpayers of the city, and called on all
citizens who believed In honest govern,
p ms'. a to cs WsTe ,b eHpo Seis, to oro Gne-m "a.
candidates Of Tammany Hall.
attend the Cooper Union meeting in a
body, and afterwards name their can.
dldatns for Assembly and for Justice OF
the Eighth judicial District.
John Jeroloman is being pressed to
accept. the independent nomination for
civil Justice. AS. yet he has not com
mitted himself. although 1t is acknowl.
edged by his closest friends that in the
event Of the nomination OF Comptroller
Myers on n Citizens ticket he would
consent.
At a meeting OF the Charles ]. Han,
nelly Association Of the Twenty-second
Assembly District. at their rooms. 1877:
Third avenue, the entire State AND
County ticket was Endorsed, and thu
candidate. for Assembly, Michael +
this association.