The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-02-09
FIGHT IT OUT, BRETHREN.
PLATr DIDN'T EXPECT THE IBIRTT
WOULD LIKE WHAT HE SAID.

"Tbs Republics o-Es-isstio. OF the County
OF New York" H. what MnhoIIsna win
Modestiy Csu Hi- Faetiou-The Thirty
VIII 60 Ahead and See " New York
County Car't Get Along without Pintt
Those alleged leaders OF the Republican
Senate at Albany, Edmund OConnor Of Bing-
hamton and Clarence Lexov OF Nyack. hurried
down from the City OF Hills yesterday alter
noon and were with MIR. Plat last night at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel The two hayseed Sena-
tors aud Col George BLISS adversary, the
hayseed from TioRa county. have police bills
and all sorts OF bills for this county under
consideration.
The Republicans OF the Chamber OF Com
MERGE and OF the Union League Club will have
nothing to do with Mr.. Platt, Mr.. LoXow or
Mr.. O'Connor. They do not think that they
are In earnest concerning the inyesti-
cation OF the Police Department., and
there is a GOODNESS all around. some OF
the most eminent Republicans in the
county said yesterday that Mr.. Plat, by
his interference in its affairs. and especially
in the reorganization plan, had ieoparded the
election Of Republican Governor this fall
Such men as Cornelius N. Bliss. Elihu Root.
Edward Mitchell. Edward Lauterbach. and
Edwin Einsteln have believed that the Repub-
licans had a good chance to elect n Governor
and to pave the way for the election OF IA
United States Senator two years hence to suo-
Mr. Bliss and his associates are not little
downcast aud they attribute the muddled
chip Tor MI Miiholland. Mr. Bliss said yester-
day that he would like to go to Europe in
tion Of the Republican machine, in New York
county WIS at all In le2p@rdE' lie said that hs
that he and his com ittee would not pay the
slightest atsention TO Mr. Platts criticisms;
,n Mr. stt TSId 1 Say qs s night % ing
81 avn sorry that those gentlemen have not
when / made the statement / did that my ac-
tion would be entirely satisfactory, to the
One oftho things which the HOLLAND County
Convention in Cooper Mon tonight will do IL
ol which will be the name the faction Will adopt
1t will drop all reference to machine from its
,s and en- S6 ssS he'll KePS2san 3sFsp
a suggestion OF regularity about this to which
one o. the active organizors Of the movement
We will send a delegation to the next state
Convention, Col. Bliss may send contesting
Tho criticisms on the Interference OF a citi-
zen Of Tioga county in the factional aunrrels
possibility that Speaker Maiby and senator
Saxton may not speak tonight in Cooper
Union after all Senator OConnor said last
shall not attend the meeting. / prefer to
let the Republicans Of New York city fry their
fight 1t out among themselves. Up our way.
though. We welcome and encourage multi
they help tho party fhere seems SoweHer
to he an inclination here to restrict and con-
second orEanizatlonf should think 1t would
There was some discussion at the meeting
OF the Union League Club held last night on
the subject OF q reorganization OF the Police
Department Of the city, and the lpart the club
looking to that end. No conclusion was reached.
and the matter was referred 60 the COMMITTEES
port at a meeting to be held on Wednesday,
Feb. II. This is one day after the date fxed
port the result Of its police Investigation to
lican machine was conducted on the sEir-
msa Linz ss might te SFuSns' tS.
Of Mholfnd IL sSera isss%Sy wis
in the Seventeenth district where meeting
OF the regular district committee was held at
$50 Ninth avenue. The ball was alled with
members of the rival factions but there Were
Daniel N. Robinson, President Of the dis
trict assoc alton, fired tho first gun BY Offering
a resolution endorsing the Bliss-Root plan.
Wilson Berryman was on his ieet In an instant
Sfths Mii6oiiand moyement mo 'Au''
Chairman Robert Miller declared that MIR.
sstGn vas End and s M
holland organization would split the party
wide open. Plat" he said. has led the
party to more defeats than any other man who
has been intrusted with it's leadership"
Thomas Greenwood, Milholland partisan.
moved to lay the whole matter on the table.
hut the motion was lost by q vote OF Is to "a.
Some one shouted that bergman was Tam
| many heelsr. and that gentleman begged the
some one to tell who no was that he might be
chastised.
Both sidcs agreed that they would not be
bound by the action OF the committee. and the
Milholland men promised to stay away from
| their County convention in Cooper Union to-
night to fight 1t out at meeting OF the full as-
soclNton Of the district. to be held in the same
! hall
Another little skirmish was in the Twenty;
| fourth district, where District Leader Richard
| NJ. Hills the first ot the machine leaders to
Join Nlihollard. deserted to the enemy. A
| committee of members OF the r. 4. Lincoln
| Club. headed by Anthony Mossop and Secrs-
| tary Clinton. hastened to the Fifth Avenue
| Hotel last even ing to tell Mr.. Milholland that
| Hills had done this when he learned that
| they were going 10 deDose him from the lead
| ership