New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-24
LAWYERS AGAINST MAYNARD
A MEETING ARRANGED BY THE BAR AS
sOCIATIONS COMMITTEE
MEssRs. PEcKHAM, CoUDERT' BEEKMNN' ROOT
AND cApwN.ADER AMONG THOSE WHOM
DAVID b. HILL CALLS BENNIfSo
SET OF NAMBY-PAMBYS "-sPEECIES
AT COOPER UNION on
AT COOPER UNION
THURSDAY NIGHT.


that their opposition to the election OF Isaac H.
MAYNARD 10 the Court of Appeals should end with
the expression of their disapproval OF MN Coh'u
in the resolution of the Bar Association ui'"i''-
mouslv passed at its last meeting linheuia'e''
o,,er that meeting IT was decided to ask Wheeler
H. Peckham. the president of the assoc'a'o"' :"
appolnt committee of fifteen, who should deciue
later the best way in which they could bring ABOUT
the defeat Of the criminal judge
This committee is made mp as follows Wne''v'
H. Peckham f. Randolph Robinson, Frederic Il,
coudert Elihu Root. Cornelius y. Bliss Os"aiu
Ottendorfer John l.. Cadwalader, John T. f''SohS'
Hamilton Odell Henry X. Beekn:an CLIFFORD a.
Hand Reginald d. Woodward, David Il. osdeh'
Lawrence f. Sexton and Albert Stckney. vi 'i'ia
committee only Messrs. Root. Bliss ana Ch""al"u''
are Republicans The rest of its members are D''
ocrats. .
In his speech in Brooklyn last night senator
David b. Hill spoke of these men as Denls '"e
brainess set of Mandy pambys who are to-day con-
trolling the Bar Association ana dic'a'hs 'S
suicidal policy in aid of the Republican state Hia-
chine"
Besides doing all the quiet work possible to Sc
cure votes against Maynard, it was thought that
two other things could be done which would ana
materially In giving expression to the views oil the
people of this city on Maynards candidacy All au-
dress signed by the leading members OF tne oar,
not only In this city. but throughout the state VIII
be one of the results of the appointment OF the
committee by Mr.. Peckham. and nass-ineetlhg III
the Cooper Union on next Thursday night, when
will be addressed by number OF leading men, Is
another result of the work of this committee.
THE CALL FOR A MAss-MEET1SG
meeting of the full committee was heid yes
teriay afternoon at the office OF wheeler H. fech-
ham, In the Union Trust Company Building. MI
Peckham presided and Albert Stickney and Law
renee e. Sexton were the secretaries. Inc propo-
sition 10 hold a mass meeting was first taken up
Sine, the committee of fifteen was appointed It's
members have been going among lawyers ana ousi-
ness men securing signatures TO call to SUCH gain
ering of men of this city as would indicate the III
tense feeling here against the election of such man
as Isaac H. Maynard TO the highest court of the
State The only difficulty with this work was that
names came in with such rapidty that they could
not be arranged in any regular form THOSE VINO
signed the call left all the arrangements for the
meeting with the committee, which yesterday agreed
upon the form of the call. II is as follows -,
1--WE invite all citizens of Ncw-York who are op-
posed to the election of Isaac H. Maynard TO the
meeting to be held at Cooper Union on Thursday
October 26 1898, there TO take such action as may
This call is signed by VII seler II. Peckham. John
Z: Parsons. James c. Garter ex-Judse W iaii s W.
Cinord A. Hand, Joseph Larooque, F. El!ery IN, an,
rnsS1 f RroWn osNa " George
Clark George Blogde Louis Wnameer' , leniE
G. Fox, Walter Edwards William A., Jenner
N.
Hall. Thomas NJ North. George V. n. Baldwin
Slas 3. Brownell. and many others.
SOME OF THOSE WHO WILL SPEAK.
The arrangements for the meeting as far as
possible, were made yesterday by the committee
1t will be opened by Wheeler Fl. Peckham. the
chairman of the committee. VINO will be chairman
of the meeting. Mr.. Peckham is expected TO make
a short speech In explanation of the reasons FOR
the call He will be followed, first by James G.
Carter, who will have something to say regarding
the effect of the election of such man as May
nard to the Court of Appeals on the future of the
State Then Frederic r. Coudert will have an in
teresting speech make. After him will come
L.. Ellery Anderson the well-known Cleveland
Anti-Snapper and lawyer Theodore Bacon, OF
Rochester, of the leading lawyers OF That part
OF the State and a member of the Bar Associa-
ton OF his home city. viii also speak. Mr.. Bacon
will tell of the feeling among the lawyers pro-
fessiOnal men Of all kinds and business men or
Central New-York toward the machine nonina-
ton. Ii was expected that John @. Mlburn and
Franklin b. Locke. the two leading spirits of the
fight against the little Tammany OF Buffalo con-
irolled by Lieutenant-G Governor Sheehan, would be
here TO give idea of what Western New-York
men think of the besmirched candidate for the
ever. because meeting similar TO that which Will
be held In this city will be held in Buffalo the
night, and both of these able speakers
and brilliant lawyers are needed at home at that
scented by other well-knOwn lawyer.
The address which the Committee of Fifteen Is
preparing Will not be ready for publication for a
day or two. and 1t may not be given out until
why 1t is being held back is that the lawyers are
anxious TO hear what David b. Hill had to say
last night In Brooklyn in defence Of his CO.
worker In the theft of the Senate In the fall or 1891