The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-01-05
PLATTS WHEELS GO ROUND.
THE RFPUBIICiN STATE COMMITTEE
ORGANIZES AND 1DJOURNS.

-, Etehers Over whom the Car Rc'ied
without - Joit-This Machine - 90 Run
che Gubernatorisi Campaign, aud Dont
Forget idiot OF Candidates for Governor
Most OF the Republicans who trotted through
the corridors OF the Fifth Avenue Hotel ut
noon Yesterday declared that they hadn't the
r.r,otcst notion why their state Committee
had been called together so soon after the or
SANITATION OF tho Legislature at Albany. 9th
ers had q fogRy recollection that Mt the Syra-
,use Convention. on Oct q. ironclad resolu-
lions we're adopted making 1t obligatory Tor
the committee to reorEanize in January. 1894.
40 that tho committee shall hold Office for
year from Jan. l. still others, admitting this
10 be 40. couldn't SEQ the reason for the hurry.
Hero it was only Jan. 3. with twenty. eight
DAYS OF the month remaining. and tho COM
mittee is hustled together for no other appar-
snt purpose than TO reorganize according to
the terms OF the Syracuse resolutions.
There are thirty-four state Com tteemen
and one additional member and not one was
IN position to explain what Mr.. Platt wanted.
One or two were free to cay that Mr.. Platt was
playing snap politics and whom these COM
ments got around an effort was made to crys-
tslllze an opposition. a copy OF those resolu-
tons introduced at the Syracuse Convention
on oct. q by william A. Sutherland. Plat
n,
Oh up These we're the resolutions:
s.1r,L That the state Committee to be selected at
nj. convention be and they hereby are requested to
.-y,Dtle m January 1894, for the campaign OF that
yes, and INN ediatey AFTER such January organization
10 commence the collection OF funds aud the circulS
ton Of Republican newspapers and other literature for
th. information ot voters OF the state
p..,t,G that the neNt Republican state Convention
h.,ndtLrrcby IL requested to continue such State
committee IN oics until January 1893 and to direct
IN, state Committee TO be appointed IN 1874 to take
encs IN January. 1897.
B..,rr.L Inat the state Committee be and they here
b, arc authorized add their Executive Committee
a., exceed i've persons outside the membsrshp Of
such committee
E,fr.L That the Republican county committed,
throughout The state be and they hereby are requested
topcrfct their organizations in January In each year
for the entire calendar year as rapidly as they may be
Authorized to do ~ their respective county conven.
tons
Then for the first time the committeeman
tnsw what was up. Other Republicans than
the committee who were on hand were ex-
Surveyor George W. Lyon. Sheridan Shook.
United States Marshal Jacohus. The Ever
Wicked GIBBS. De Witt Clinton Wheeler. ex-
Collector Tom Murphy. Dwight Lawrence ex-
Marshal Louis I. Payn. John Simpson. Sena-
tor OConnor John y. Drake, Bernard Higlin.
W. W. Goodrich Charles A. Burr. Congress-
mar Eeldcn' 5 man senator otGpletonl JOhn
Iwiyut and George Utoan.
The latter came on from Buffalo as tho proxy
Tor j0hn Il. Hazel and was spelling for a 6ght
on any subject whatever. He was ugly over
The turning down OF Charles Alvin Orr. Erie
county 8 candidate Tor Clerk OF the Assembly.
and W IN his friends spent the morning do.
rouucing in the corridors Uncle Charles W.
uAckett Chairman OF the Executive Commit
tee and all others who had had a hand in
litrhing out Orr for Col. George w Dunn at
Albany John n. Scatcherd, the other state
committeeman from Erie. Was us hard to
please. Neither. however. opened his lips in
Tue meeting oil the committee. which occurred
at noon 1890 49, .
Scatcherd explained afterward: We didn't
say anything. but the feeling in Buffalo against
the action VI the machine romans lust the
same II was OF no use 10 make protest to
thu state Com ittee against the machine s in
reference at Albany. We might have been
rut out altogether II we had opened our heads"
GEORGE w. Aldridgo of Rochester was pro-
testing that undue haste had marked the call
ing together OF the State Committee. He didn't
Ike IT, and neither did Denis VI. Hurley OF
Kings BENJAMIN b Odell. Jr.. OF New burgh {:
William Barnes, Jr., OF Albany. and John
dwight, proxy Tor George W. Dunn. This.
with Urban. was the little band that were
grouped when the committee assembled In
parlor ID Il.
Chairman William Brookfield presided. and
he WAS hanked by EXECUTIVE Chairman
Hackett. Secretary John $. Kenyon, Treasurer
Samuel Thomas. and Chief Clerk Reuben l.
Fox. The committee as called was: