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 Will Withdraw If Necessary.

All the details for the mass-meeting
OF Independent citizens In Cooper Union
tonight have been arranged. r. Fulton
Cutting will preside and Comptroller
Myers will be placed in nomination.
Gen. Wager Swayne Will make the
romiI 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 other candidates
will be nominated in opposition to the
Tammany ticket.
A proposition to nominate an entire
citizens ticket was considered and re-
jected at a conference between men,
bers of the City Club and other sup
porters Of Comptroller Myers All ef-
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. q.
Favorable replies are being received by
everySmail.' 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
responses OF sympathizers would be more
numerous.
The list of sponsors includes:
de G6raova' Aust,n Stears' HaaTles HaaIaS
John .Jeroloman. Robert S. Minturn.
J. Coleman Drayton, Geo. q. Dodge
Borman p aa Eaton AeTander dn,oS CaRRpSsl
Edward Wells, jr.. Roscoe, w. Chanting
William Barnes. Cornelius N; Bliss;
Pr w, z; Bull DR.. n; e; Brill, Edward
P. Delafeld, Charles Frederick Adams
Julius Ehrman. A. c. Bernheim. Ber-
Hoffman, Rev. Dr.. David II. Grier, Dr.
Henry Dwight Chaplin. Orwin O'Brien.
OF the rank and file. of antl-Tammany
FATTY" Grote and ex-Alderman Dow
ling have promised their aid
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.
authority that Henry c. Robinson, Re-
publican candidate for Comptroller. will
e tSa withdraWn IN fav9r Of Mr. Myers
sentative Of popular demand Tor me
Comnrollers denomination. notwith-
sstandi9S sGnn ssS,,Wl what, & Jacob NJ. Patterson or
MT. Rohlpson says that he will with
SraW II party interests demand it ana
e e Si1t% hS BY the Nominating
Il 81 charged by:Hepublicans that Pat
tertson and Smith are actuated BY Tam
many influences in the position they have
John E. Owens, President of the
Welsh Jefferson Club. who Is an active
worker for to-night's meeting. said to.
Welsh vote of the city, and that he
would be elected by 5000 majority.
~ There was large attendance of anti
Tammany voters last rAght at $50 Eighth
avenue, the meeting rooms OF the T'hir-
teenth Assembly District Democratic
Association. to place In nomination an
support to Comptroller Myers in the
ination.
Robert ]. 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
citizens who believed in honest govern
ment and were opposed to one-man
power to cast their votes against the
cand1uates Of Tammany Hall.
The members Of the Associa ton are to
attend the Cooper Union meeting in a
pody, ana afterwards name their can
'idates for Assembly and for Justice of
II e Eighth judicial District.
John Jeroloman Is being pressed to
fcept the independent nomination for
civil Justice. AS vet he has not COM
lifted himself although 1t is acknowl-
IN dged by his closest friends that in the
\ lyent OF til" nomination of Comptroller
Myers on Citizens ticket he would
lGonsent.
IN At meeting of the Charles J. Ham
Snelly Association of the Twenty-second
Assembly District, at their rooms, 1873
ilThird avenue, the entire State and
kSounty ticket was indorsed. and the
Il candidate for Assembly. Michael r.
Tobin. was pledged the null support of
this association.
Henry c. Robinson to-day sent a let :
.er to Donald Mclean and w. II. Bel
amy. of the Republican County Con-
ention. accepting the nomination for
Comptroller.
In it he says he did not seek the
omination, but believes that all citizens
lould be willing to make some sacri-
for the Duhlic ppnI