New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-26
/ S. GARRISON FAVORS IT.
HE CoMMENDs THE ANTIMACHlNE REPuBII
CAN ENROLMENT.
NENT. BUT ALSO NEW LEADER
SHIP NEEDED.

NENT. BUT ALSO NEW LEADER
SHIP NEEDED.
Colonel lanes s. Clarkson. OF the Republican Ma
.onal Committee. said last night that the article
IN Mondays Tribune giving an account of the Repub-
ican enrolment now going I'm this city under the
ausaes Of the Provisional Organization Of the Anti
Machine Republicans had interested him extremely.
lie said that he agreed with The Tribune that only
b by such movement could there be any practical
and permanent result Of the earnest spirit which
had been aroused In Republicans since the last Ma.
,iona election.
This movement" said the Colonel. throws the
gates open 10 young men. who come into the gov
eminent OF the party. TO take charge of its work
10 participate in the selection Of candidates and
10 secure Republican victories at the polls OF
course, / am In favor OF H. 1t Is form OF the
same work which undertook. ard not unsuccess-
fully either. in building up the National League
OF Republican clubs There is always danger that
a party machine will become careless of the natu-
raj ambition OF young men TO participate in party
management. and of their natural desire to be in
vi,ed into the councils of the party. rather than
10 be compelled 10 force their way IN Added to
this dange- is that of the cancerous growth of
knavsh politicians. who undertake to make a living
out Of the party. and vino see in IL nothing but
a means 10 serve their personal ends The ma chine
IN this city has become in many respects both bad
and useless, and the only way to reorganize it is
BY the vigorous OF a surgeons knife.
at is always we'll enough for a goodly company
OF eminent and respectable gentlemen TO get
gether and pass resolutions about reorganization
but II the desire of the party TO get into better
and more effective condition ends with the pas
sage Of resolutions IL the plan of reorganizati
IS permitted to get into the hands OF the whose
bossism the party wants TO be rid of, the differ
ence between the present machine and that exist
ing a year hence will be the difference between
twecdledum and tweedledee. This new organi-
za;ion Of ant-machine Republicans. however. is
moving in the right direction. and with John +.
Mllholland In charge of the work of enrolment. IL
is bound TO be thoroughly done. Possibly II is no
function OF mine to give advice TO the Committee
Of Thirty. but my interest in the success of the
unes suggestion that all the forces and all the in
dyiduals really DESTROYS of creating new organi-
cation and n freer and more honest means OF CIV
ing expression 10 Republican sentiment should give
their support to this new movement.
There are enough high-minded men in this city
20 crush Tammany Hall and TO set up a govern
ment that this great city can be proud of. In 1888
the National Committee made a canvass Of New
York and convinced that the city contained
liS00 Republican voters. 1t surely contains not
less than 10000 now Ny acquaintance with Mr.
Milholand satisfies that he is just the man who
get that great army into effective battle array
methods desirable in party government here,
the important thing is new leadership. The char
acter OF the men now in control OF the local party
machinery discovered in the Fassett campaign,
the men we were depending on were not Republl-
can leaders as they professed 10 be. but Tammany
spies. They played false and aided in the de-
feat Of Of the ablest and worthiest young men
poisoned by such foul elements, the only thing 10
DO is 10 cut them out and cut them on