New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-05
MEYER LINKED TO MAYNARD
A sop TO THE AN1I-SNAPPERS
ARTFUL WORK BY TIE DEMOCRATIC
BOSSES IN SARATOGA.
TRYING TO SAFE THE DISHONORED JUDGE
CROKER'S CRAFTY HANDIWORK SHOWN

LAMONT, WILL BE NAMED For
STATE TREAsURER-CoNvEN-
TIoN SCENES AND
INCIDENTS.
fBY TELEGRAPH THE TRIBUSR.1
Saratoga. oct All the signs without and
within point TO the assembling tomorrow here
Of a chara acteristic machine convention-obedi-
ent. noiseless and just as swift Of motion as
the bosses choose to have It, Isaac III. May
nard will be nominated for Judge of the Court
of Appeals and Cord Meyer. jr.. for Secre-
tary Of State. will head the ticket. oh
December % 1891, Isaac ii. Maynard
stole from the office Of the state Con-
troller whittier 1t had been sent in pursu-
ance Of the statute. and Of an order OF the Su-
preme Court made to give the statute sure ei-
feet the true and lawful certificate OF election
for State Senator Of the XVIII Senate District
at that time adjudged TO be true and law
full by the Supreme Court. and forwarded 10
take the place OF IA false and fraudulent GER
tifcate which, chiefly by Maynards procure
ment. had been fabricated and filed at Albany.
The true certificate, under the law superseded
the false one Maynard stole 1t and gave it to
a confederate, who took it out OF the city oi
Albany and on December 29 when the state
dispose of the case of this Senate district the
Court Of Appeals having that day handed down
a decision rcaffirmng that of the Supreme
Court and directing the canvassers to canvass
this true return and to disregard the false one
previously received. Maynard sat by while the
Board disobeyed the court. and in silence heard
its members declare they counted the con-
demned certificate because no other was given
them he we'll knowing that he had stolen that
other and had put it out of their reach. His
crime gave the Democratic party majority OF
one In the Senate and full control Of the state
government and so now he is to be nominated
for Judge of the Court Of Appeals.
An YAUsEArING CANDIDATE.
The Democratic bosses have paved the way
TO this proceeding artfully. Unthinking as the
great body of Democratic voters notoriously is.
unthinking and dough-likc in its obedience To-
the bosses touch IL seems probable that, were
the proposition suddenly presented TO nominate
TO the bench Of the highest court a man who
had committed crime. who had dcfed that courts
authority and by resort to actual theft had
succeeded in defeating its mandate. there would
be- even in the Democratic party. such dis
gused recoil as would compel the bosses to give
way Consequently before giving their party
a full dose OF Maynard they have been Tor two
years administering small doses Of him He
has been a member Of the Court twice by APP
nontment and now they think the time has
come to venture the full dose Relying on the
constitutional tendency OF an orderly people. who
hate to bc disturbed in the prosecution o, their
daily affairs. who abhor the bother Of great re-
sistanccs. and when once "A political conspiracy
has become an accomplished fact inclns to ac
cept its result and adjust themselves to it-rely-
III. 4 ont no
lection Of their machinery to hold their party
together and TO bring it TO the polls on Election
Day. they are now ready to undertake the task
Of "vindicating" Maynard by the test of "A pub
lie election.
A CONVENTION SUITED TO THE WORK.
They have brough, here just the kind
Of convention suited to that kind Of busi-
ness There is not visible conscience in the
whole crowd Most Of it wears shiny plug hat.
a stiff mustachc a cigar placed at an acute an
gle with its upper lip. broad expanse Of semi
dirty shirt front with big diamond in the
middle of It. varicgated waistcoat heavy
gold watch-chain tight plaid trousers and pat
cnt leather boots. and IT has "A big fat stomach
In among this kind is the sleek smart lawyer
who has always just been shaved and looks
soapy He generally has green eyes, and Is apt
10 carry "A little bamboo stick He comes from
the country and he brings with him as the
rest Of his delegation "A little company oi men
who look queer with their coats on-the Kind
who if they were only in their shirt sleeves.
you would recognize at once as those you al
WAYS see hanging around the saloons and livery
stables In any country village. And of these
are a Democratic State convention.
BIG AND LITTLE THIEVES on HAND
Maynard's fellow-conspirators in the Senate
steal are here in full force. They seem to think
Il will be their turn next and that they must
keep well in sight. Frank Rice walks around
the forlornest- looking man In sixty counties
Nobody ever got less pottage for himself thah
poor Rice. Hill. who doesn't at all like hlnl,
but in whom the instinct of gratitude is strong,
has been trying to do something for him, but he
is a difficult man to provide for Hugh Reilly,
who may be remembered the Albany lawyer
who In the guise-and not much in it, either
Of counsel to the joint Judiciary Committee Of
the Legislature Of 1892 defended Maynard
against the Bar Associations petition for his
impeachment, is yet as he has been for some
years a member Of the Court of Claims. 1t was
recently conveyed to him that ii would be a
graceful act and one which would relieve GER
tain great folks of some embarrassment for him
to retire from the court in Frank Rice's favor.
But Hugh could not see IL In that way. lie
thought the $1,000 salary Of a Judge of the Court
OF Claims was much his size AZ Rice's ana
he wouldn't bulge. There is now talk of put
ting Rice on the State ticket as n delegate-at-
large to the Constitutional Convention. This.
however. is "A mere compliment. and although
compliments have been strangers to Rice since
he violated his oath and smrched his honor by
voting to give Osborne a seat in the Senate
which belonged to another man. still he woulc
undoubtedly prefer compliment with purse
annexed.
ONE OF THOSE SELECTED FOR HONOR
Hinckey is here with his man Wood Hinck-
ley Is the Democratic boss In Duchess who'
under Maynard's direction, manipulated the
local Board Of Canvassers and got the fraudu-
lent return through. Wood is the Poughkeepsie
lawyer who served counsel to the Board ana
skipped around the State getting from machine
Judges orders to facilitate the conspiracy ne