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

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1t will be from the list that nearly - per
cent Of the Bliss County Committee is made
up Of the old district leaders and their hench-
men, so that the element which Is not controlled
by George Bliss Is directed by Jacob VI. Patter-
son In other words instead Of the old machine
with the old leaders. Il Is machine Win
the old leaders.
If the Republican voters were dissatisfied with
Bliss, Gibbs shea and Simpson before the new
enrolment. have they any more confidence in
Simpson. Shea, Gibbs and Bliss. now that the
enrolment has taken place? 1t is bu, a tufn u
the kaleidoscope. a different picture has been
made, but the same old component parts
main. 1t is impossible 10 make the public be-
lieve that fair and honest politics will ever have
a chance In this city with men in charge who
have been time and time again found guilty II
betraying the people at the polls. Their conduc,
in the past led 20 a general party dcmoraiizat ton
Men would vote straight Republican ticket for
President, but 60 all to pieces on the county
ticket believing that II was useless to vote when
the vote had been already probably bartercd
away. Nor would good men allow their name
to be put in nomination for county Offices when
they knew that good faith and honest methods
would not prevail at the polls
The history OF the new organization az
sketched by Mr. Brookhed and hts friends is
in keeping with the rest Of this document II is
true that the movement Of which our organ!za-
ton is the result had its origin In the XIth
Assembly District; but IL is not true that the in
ception was simply due TO a desire on the part Of
Mr. Milholland and his friends to obtain control Of
the organization there. No one should know better
Mr. hat he fPh ingf
Colonel Bliss's management Of the XIth Dis
trict affairs WAS due 10 The fact that under
Colonel Bliss-now the controlling spirit OF the
Committee Of Thirty mOvement-RcpublcanS I'm
good standing were not permitted TO Identity
themselves with the activities Of the party.
simply because the Colonel desired 10 run the
party organization as personal machine Of his
own Mr.. Brookhe.d knows perfectly well, for
he has them. that Mr. MilhOand furnished
affidavi;s by the score of Republicans who were
the victims Of this narrow, wicked and un-Re-
publican policy Of Colonel Bliss. and Mr.. Brook
field knows that it was against this system in
the XIth District and against the same system
in all the other districts Of the city that the Anti
Machine movement had its beginning. The close
corporation tendencies Of the old Republican
organization responsible for its birth; and
the fact that the same men who controlled tho
old organization control the formed by the
Committee Of Thirty, and that with equally abb
soute sway, is the moving cause for our con-
tnued existence and marvellously rapid growth.
AS to this question Of regularity: What makes
this claim OF the progeny OF the Committee or
Thirty regular before the voters? Long before
their self-acknowledged ineniciency took the
form Of a resolution, the new organization known
as the Republican Organization Of the City and
County OF New-York called into being by the
public demand for change. That demand was
| imperative. 1t was demanded in the State, from
| one end Of It to the other The rogucry and
trckery In various districts In the City OF New
| York well known in remote regions OF the
State as they were In the districts where the fraud
| took place Men in the rural districts were tired
| Of being appealed to to do their whole duty
| when they felt sure that their efforts would be
| thrown away south Of the Harlem River. 1t
was discouraging and disheartenng.
The County Committee were tardy in respond
| ing to this unanimous call. This Is not sur
prising. An honest reorganization involved their
| political death. The Republican Organization
was first in the field. When the Committee OF
| Thirty were confronted with the result of the
| primaries OF their organization many or them
| who were not parties 10 their trickery and de-
| vice were amazed thereat. Again they were
| confronted with the same old leaders, and they
| honestly admitted that they were trcked and de-
| ceved The new Republican Organization OF the
| City and County of New-York responded to
this unanimous call for a change OF lead
| ers. and the only question for the state
| Committee Is. Which Of the two organi-
| cations better tbe higher interests
OF the party? Which viii do the better party
| work? That is the true test OF regularity and
all that the term implies. The records Of both
parties are open. The Committee OF Thirty's
| progeny adjourned without appointing cam
| paign committee. and this al time when there
should be earnest effort made to prepare for the
| fall election This OF itself is remarkable. There
was everything in the condition Of the times TO
| encourage Republican effort. Stagnant trade,