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.
Authoritative Statement That Robin
son VIII Withdraw If Necessary.

All the details for the mass-meet!ng
of independent citizens in Cooper Union
tonight have been arranged. Il. Fulton
Cutting will preside and Comptroller
Myers will be placed in nomination.
Gen. Wager Swayne will make the
romir atinC 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 other candidates
will be nominated in opposition to the
Tammany ticket
A proposition to nominate an entire
citizens ticket was considered and re-
tected at a conference between men,
bers of the City Club and other sup
porters of Comptroller Myers. All eff
forts will be concentrated to elect Comp
troller Myers.
Over four Thousand letters were sent
to leading 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
and profession.
The letters of the City Club 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 sympathizers would be more
numerous.
The list Of sponsors includes:
A. de Cordova, Austin Stearns. Charles
John /, A)t tsroienber. A Rob Arsus 5. Mi hsalH.
DorInan B. Eaton. Alexander Campbell,
Rswa 5; q Wei Ge0 f., M Ncsc asT w. cha nromR.
William, Barnes, Cornelius n. Bliss,
pr. VT. Bull, Or. n. E. Bril-, Edward
p. Deiafeld, Charles Frederick Adams,
Julius Ehrman, A.. c, Bernheim, Ber-
marc ]. Douras. s. Bachman, Rev. e.. A.
Henry Dwight Chaplin, Orwin O'Brien.
or the rank and file Of anti-Tammany
workers. John R~eppenhagen. Otto Kemp
Fatty" Grote and ex-Alderman Dow
ling have promised their aid.
The promoters of the movef1ent are
not making any boasts, They 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
be withdrawn in favor of Mr.. Myers
If the demonstration tonight Is repre-
Comproller's denomination, notwith-
standing. what Jacob NJ. Patterson or
John Sabine Smith may say.
Mr.. Robinson says that he will with:
draw II party interests demand 1t and
he is advised to do SO by the Nominating
Committee OF Thirty.
1t is charged by Republicans that Pat
terson and Smith are actuated by Tam
many influences in the position they have
taken.
John F.. Owens. President of the
Welsh jefferson Club. who is an active
worker for to-nlght's meeting. said to.
day, that Myers would receive the fuf
Welsh vote of the city. and tina he
would be elected by 5000 majority.
There was a large attendance of anti,
Tammany voters last night at $50 Eighth
avenue. the meeting-rooms of the Thir.
tecnth Assembly District Democratic
Association, to. place in nomination an
A~ssemblyman. and also to pledge their
event of his accepting Il citizens nom,
nation.
Robert J: Cooke paid a strong tribute
ner in which the office of Comptroller
was conducted under Mr.. Myers, there.
by saving thousands Of dollars. to the
sitizehs w6 OF 5 beH E sitSy' ia anf bo Geiied g6 on al
ment ana were opposed to one-mar
b power, to cast. their votes against the
Y c~andldates Of Tammany Hall
+ The members of the Association are tc
yttend the Cooper Union meeting in a
'''Pdy, and afterwards name their can.
la1Hs for Assembly and for Justice OF
Eighth Judicial District.
MSohn Jeroloman is being pressed to
Nept the independent nomination for
Justice. AS yet he has not com.
EtTted himself, although 1t is acknowl
nd by his closest friends that in the
AAl3lt of the nomination of Comptroller
MIIrrs on a Citizens ticket he would
tvt'sent.
a meeting of the. Charles ]. Han,
V{Tiy Association of the Twenty-second
Ytsemhly District, at their rooms. 1877;
iS.9ird avenue. the entire state ant
.|TIunty ticket was Endorsed, and this
l!hdidate for Assembly, Michael u
nbin, was pledged the full support OF
Is association.