The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-04-11
GEO. LYON SAYSoNET THING
HUBEH OF TEE SIKH slYs <EorHRR,
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FIesss observe thst Ths ssu wss este
Correct IN "AIIeEinG- Its Authsrtty ter
the stsry or ovsrtsrss e Me- Hsssr
The following letter was received By THl
Sun on Monday evening:
To .sr Epuos or Tvs sur-Sr. me statement ths,
appeared In your issue Of this morning upon the Al
legged euthority OF John r NiihoIand and william
Huber that have been trying to get said Huber Of the
sixth Assembly district to desert the Nhoisnd or
kanizstion with promise Of giving him Of thai
district for the Committee Of thirty is absolutely snt
unqualihsdy fsise have to request that this denia
be printed In your issue Of tomorrow morning Al
Prominently - the article which contained salc
statement Very respectfully. GToRGE W. LYox.
HsApeuARrERs RrrusLlcIS ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE, sol
Ftrn AvsSur, ESraASoE os FoRrr.sNcoSD sTRkkr. Mss
YoHk. April ., 1894
Dir. Huber was not to be found on Monday
evening. The letter was shown to Mr.. Huber
yesterday. He said:
On Friday evening about six weeks age
two men called on ms al the Federal Club. PSI
Fast Fourth street, and informed me that
George w. Lyon would Ike to see mo at the
Union League Club thu next day at 10 o'clock
A. NJ, or at any other place might DESIGNATE,
for the purpose Of getting me to Join in the
movem ent Of the Com mittee Of Thirty. One Of
the men was Andrew Pettit. . subordinate
OF Internal Revenue Collector Ferdinand Ed
at present employed by Mr. Lyon at the head
quarters OF the Committee OF Thirty at Sol
Fifth avenue. then refused to have anything
Thirty. though Smith and Petit assured me
that the committee would take care OF me II 1
Nth This was not The first time had Teen sim
Harry approached. but did not have an inter-
view with Mr: Lyon until THURSDAY last when
IL. Sixth 'lss t. asFe, the %.ds so nndsr
liV. Nf.NW, NJ 4 u.NrN ,NNN
! wished to compare the lists with mine. |
had about / 300 names on my rolls. They had
Thirty for ten days some time before. / sup.
th
have nearly !. 100 on their rolls for the came
district, as, the total enrollmsnt would be
year was l;S only about 1000 .'''N' W. ''
Nj; Lyon asked me my name. and when /
n. to be 20 Kind as to Pem nal when the other
members 81 my com mittee retired; as he de-
dozen other persons in the room. He said:
Now. Huber. am willing to let you zee
our rolls Of the Sixth district with one pro-
~ asked him what that was; He answered;
you lnd part o. tnH roll snt tr 6i aSa VIII
and enroll with the Committee OF Thirty. We
there and that we are weak and that Jou can
beat Hilliard at the primaries
said: Yes: as easy as breaking sticks'
We'll. why not accept the opportunity and
take the district he asked. said:
Nj. stand re SsSfn sSS' and s.F% aIs
stab anybody in the back. am open and
above boa ri In my political dealings
Mr.. Lyon then said that the Committee OF
Thirty was going to win that Mr.. Plat was
weakening on OR organization. and IL would
only be n short time before he would desert u.s.
II was also strange to him. he said. that tho
State Committee had not already been called
together and requested us to band our or
gsnization. got up to leave Mr.. Lyon. saying
that I would have nothing to do with his
propositions, and he asked me IL would make
any other appointment with him. ns he did not
despair OF getting ne eventually. told him I
might consent to talk to him on the subject
again. and the next day he called mo NJ over
tho telephone and made an appointment to
meet me tho same afternoon at 8 o'clock. The
m Getting did not take place as l did not keep
tho appointment.
should not have gone into such detail re-
garding this Incident had not Mr.. Lyon seen
ht to impugn my veracity with his denial Tho
story told in The Sun was correct. and its use
OF my name and the facts as coming from me
]. 4. stetlsr and NJ. p. B. voullaire. who ac-
companied Mr.. Huber to Mr.. Lyons office last
Thursday. corrohorated MIR. Huber so far as
the request by Mr.. Lyon that Mr. Huber re-
Ing a conference with Mr.. Lyon after they had
left the office They said that Mr.. Huber told
them that day after HI tai with Mr.. Lyon the
sane story that he told last light OF tho at
tempt to seduce him from the Milholland or