New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-07-19

has a membership OF between $4,000 and 10000
Republicans. and offers 1t has from the be-
ginning, its roll books in evidence of this fact
1t has an organization in every Assembly dis
trict. and in almost every election district OF the
city. Every one of these Assembly district or
ganiza tons is self-sustainng some Of them have
balances in the treasury. Twenty-Five Of ,he
districts have permanent headquarters, and Al
OF them hold weekly fortnightly meetings
Are not these matters worthy Of the considera-
ton Of the State Committees chairman, who
Is supposed 10 represent all elements Of the party
and not a fraction Of 1t?
Again. Mr.. BrookHed could have ascertained.
had he visited these headquarters. that no less
than seven hundred meetings have been held by
this organization throughout the city. besides
three monster demonstrations. large percent
age Of which Cooper Union unable to con-
tain, surprising anything OF the kind ever seen
outside Of Presidential campaigns. These meet
lngs have been held in parts of the city where
Republican activity has heretofore been pract-
cally unknown they have been held In Demo-
cratic strongholds in districts where Tammany
Hall supremacy scarcely questioned at the
polls. One Of the strongest organizations Is in
the Second Assembly District where. under the
old regime last year. no less than 1000 fraudu-
lent Democratic votes we're cast We have or
OF this shameful exhibition of Republican in
competence and treachery impossible. The Com
mttee of Thirty by its own confession. utterly
failed in its work of reorganization here. Its
repeated attempt has simply Brought back to
power the old leader under whose direction the
district was totally given up TO Tammany Hall.
A city. State and National election may turn
on this particular district. Every man who
knows anything about it knows that ours Is the
only Republican organization worthy of the
name in it. Should not this be of some interest,
at least 10 the chairman Of the State Com
mttee?
A serious defect in Republican management IN
the past has been in regard to naturalization
Tammany Hall has done nearly all Of 1t. because
1t provides facilities for its workers 10 carry
on this important work throughout the year
The old Republican organization attended TO
this matter in a perfunCtory way, no bureau
being open until the campaign well under
way This organization equipped and opened
a Naturalization Bureau at the beginning Of the
summer and is making votes for the party
every day. But Mr.. Brookfeld declares that the
men who are giving their time and energies 10
this work are traitors and disrupters' OF the
Republican party. That is his conception OF such
effort
This and the preceding features Of our work
may have escaped the eyes Of these close opserV-
ers Of the transactions Of these two organza-
TONS" but, for the sake OF the Republicans in
the rural districts who have been anxiously
awaiting a revival Of New-York City Republican
ISM such things ought to find place in an i'm
partial record such as this circular pretends to be
But if the CLOSE observers" allowed ii and
other things to pass unnoticed surely they must
be aware that besides rousing the Republican
voters from one end Of the city TO the other, De-
sides bringing into active party work hundreds
and thousands of vorkngmen who have hereto
fore felt that the Republican party was oi
the classes, and not Of the masses; besides hold
ing mass-meetngs by the hundred besides OPEN
ing permanent headquarters and forming clubs
all over the county, besides arranging for the
naturalization throughout the year Of men who
want to vote the Republican ticket. we nave ac-
compshed what the Republican party Of this
city and county has for twenty years tried in
vain to accompsh-provided a home for the
party and a home to which all Republicans are
at all times welcome. This home has been Sc
cured through our own unaided efforts; 1t has
been furnished by money; - provide 1t
involved enormous task. but the chairman
of our State Committee does not find 1t OF enough
importance, though he has been 'close obsefV-
err of our transactions" even to refer 70 1t.
The assertion that the proceedings Of this or
ganization have been yelled in secrecy is difficult
to understand in view Of the publicity that has
been given TO everything connected with the
movement The idea Of underground work or
star-chamber methods is scarcely In ha rmOny with
an actually of 700 gatherings to which every
one was cordially invited. The movement was
started as peoples movement, by the people and
by the people Fifteen thousand men signed pc
titions pledgng themselves TO a new organization
of the party Acting under orders OF this great body.
their properly elected representatives, number
ing over $500. met at Cooper Union on February
9. 1894 and adopted a constitution and bylaws
A permanent organization was then effected that
Is to say, the organization received It's
commission, not from lot Of discredied leaders
who had made public acknowledgment Of the
fact that they unfit to i've but from a great
of Republicans representing all elements or
the party throughout the county.
The Committee Of Thirty boast that they pos
sess the archives of the old machine. but 1t
can hardly be supposed that they find in the
possession of the unsavory memoirs OF the
'dickers' and deals of the last fifteen years
particularly valuable collection; 1t certainly
cannot be such for the voters Of the State.
One would suppose from reading what the cir
cular has to say about the way the old COM
mttee responded to public sentiment and pro-
ceeded regularly and orderly to reorganze" that
the whole effort supported by the undivided
forces OF the Republicans Of NewYork. Not
.. word is said about the investigation of the old
district leaders by the Committee OF Thirty. and
the whitewashing report that followed In re-
turn for which the old leaders gave their support
to the committees plan. though acknowledging
that 1t was absurd and impractcable and not
word is said Of the committees agreement TO
put the practical work of reorganization In the
hands Of the old leaders-the result OF deal
as much against the interests Of the Republic
can party here as any ever made with Tammany
Hall.
The simple fact Is that. tired Of the treachery