New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-09
BROWN AND sTRAUs NAMED.
TAMNANY HALL. SELECTS THEN ~ OPPONENT u
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OF MrssRs Q,IGG ANp schIsE
The Pontiac club. -. 80 Ams'erdam-"Ne. The
croker ho,aouarters ~ the NHIild Assembly DIS
trlci was throngel last night 10y Il motley crown
o, Tammanyitcs brought ioSother to nominate 4
c,,dila,. FOR Congress 10 succeed Coion'. J"hn y
Fellows who became Disiriri-Atiofh'f On jan
arv l. The convention was called - "'d'r 'H '"''-
re, Talliafero. recently OF Alabama. VINO an
no,,nccd ex-Asscmbyrnan John Connolly as the
ch,irn,n and Wills fiolly Mayor Gllroys score
,orv az the secretary. Among the delegates was
tn. notorious Hugh .. P.nt-cosi. whose ies'f" -
be a public prosecutor ~ 800 Il year was i''N-
cssly =; aside by colonel Fellows. The * Annrc"-
ist took a conspicuous place near MS "'"'h-"
chief possibly 20 allow the Impression 80 60 o"t
TIA. he entertained 10 hard feeling TOWARD We
colon.l having been promised something better
AZ soon as the popular Indignation which the an
nouncemea, If his appointment IA AsHlS'an' ''S-
tric,-A Attorney occas!oncd had blown over TIE
routine OF organizing the convention being over.
Colonel Fellows came forward and IN speech %
forty minutes presented the name ~ ex-senator
william l.. Brown FOR the vacancy he had created
in the I.IIII Congress from the NlNth District
Colonel TalliafcrD. George ". P!unkii. Jainc"
J. Phelan William Stlings. John y. Sexton ana
his business" partner. Robert -. Petty. chrp'i
their hands and shouted Justify a, the mention 81
Colonel Browns name. ana ali their unl"Tsrappers
dI The same thing Most Of the young spc.lbinl"rs
in the Assembly districts represented. who are
anxious De- Aldermen and Asscnblyncn. got up
and seconded the nomination. chairman Connolly
pu, the motion and declared that Brown was the
unanimous choice 0f thu couvepf.Yn.
\ committee was appointed - X and look ior
IN. Colonel They didn't have to hum long the
Colonel spoke for nearly an hour and his audience
feared that he would spraH an mf"t H. 'tn2nnSri
steered clear Of compliments FOR Iaminany Hall or
The Tammany Hall Congress Convention Of the
XVth District was he'd IN IA" Harlem Temple 80
10 East -hundr~i-aalt rntf -i.fh-st. AID WAS
nv yet,
partner and new "bus.nos.' i"od~r o, III" NXNIlth
Assembly District senator Lake Cantor. ~.
Sheriff i,ow~. Police Justice Burke Thomas r.
Gilroy. IT, ana other Wgwam exports. Commodore
las, ,all vim lravfuiy giving Martin u. Brown
the contracts sor printing The election ballots.
ana + = Iiunmni! wer" made socI iar.es stephen :
FLAKE OF the XXIld Assembly District. SAID that
the firm of L. H. Macy & 90. md l.. Straus n
Sons. FOR the yac9ncy caused ny uontIollcr Fitch"
ness qualincaticns his larEr experience i'm
Porter aI hs ' ryd ana IT, SAD ina, M ,rSs
would 10 10 Washington to hold up the banda OF
Grover Ceyel1,md ana "a me pemoGr .,n
about tnrn reform 'hronsh III" medium Of
The, wilson mli Senior Trn'?r' Michael J.
Robert T. Nooney seconded the nomination. \ let
was 10 havc mad" tho nominating speech.
Rad. which cuosizod Mr.. Strans. An old man.
, four created some Amusement FOR thc "boys' 6v
! telling how be went TO Washington haif century
4 mo and helped 10 pass the tariff % ihi6 some
delegates privately expressed their belief that the
wilson Tariff Of 1884 would Prey, as much OF a
| old Mr. Strong said he was instrumental In enact
Ing. The aged tariiI maker, was nnally "chokod
! nn and Chairman TOOkcr declared Isior Stratus
,he nornince Of tho convention lie d!d not appear
! TO accept the conventions favor. and Will do 50 In
writing.
declare their disgust with the nomination OF this
| onuIent merchant which they say forced upon
Mr. Croker By Mr.. Cleveland. Mr.. Sraus was an
Hn,!-Snapper in 1892 and subscribed some OF the
money which brought tho nay movement into
being and made Cievclands success at Chicago
possible.