New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-29
DONE ACCORDING TO ORDERS
PERFORMANCES OF THE REPUBLICAN
STATE COMMITTEE.
= J. COLLINS. REGULARLY ELECTED A MEMBER,
ousTED TO MAKE A PLACE FOR c. H. MUIR
RAY. AND "ABY" GRUBER KEPT IN HIS
SEAT. DESPITE VIGOROUS PROTESTS
-HACKETT REELECTED CHAIR
MAN AND LAUTERBACH
PUT ON THE ADvI-

sorry COMMITTEE
Mr. Platts State Committee met yesterday in
accordance with Mr. Platt's orders, in the Fifth
Avenue Hotel in Parlor ID r. convenient to Mr.
Platt's personal quarters. and carried out Mr.
Platt's instructions precisely. without varying a
hairs breadth from Mr. Patt's expressed drec-
tons or Lou" Payn's individual desires. The
members Of the committee were brought together
yesterday for alleged "reorgan nization." They
reorganized themselves by re-electing all Mr.
Platts servitors who had their places In
Mr. Platts machine by implicitly doing Mr..
Patts bidding on every possible occasion. In
season and out Of season, and they also gratifed
the ex-senator by making Edward Lauterbach.
his man-of- -all-work. member of the Advisory
Committee. along with Mr.. Dcpew, Mr.. Miller
and Mr.. Platt himself
To the unprejudiced political onlooker II might
have been thought that this travelling
far as expediency would dictate IN direction
indicating disregard Of public opinion. But it
was not far enough to suit Mr. Platt and Mr..
Payn Ordinary political prudence might have
suggested that a man who had been elected by
a clear majority of the delegates OF his Congress
district to a seat in the committee should be
allowed to retain his place. even If he did re-
fuse 10 decorate his neck with the Platt collar
Such was the case of John J. Collins. who was
lawfully and rightfully chosen the member for the
IXth Congress District. in this city. Mr.. Collins
had been elected at Saratoga. and the regularity
of his election had not been questioned He Is a
well-educated young lawyer. Of high personal
standing respected by all who know him. born in
the district. where he has been deservedly popu-
lar and few months ago succeeded his father.
after the atter's death in the district leadership
OF all Republicans prominent in the lower part of
,1,.,, ,,aAt.-
jectionabe but in ev,ry way proper man to
represent a large and growing Republican con-
stituency.
NOT CONSIDERED IN THAT LIGHT.
But this was not the way the machine looked at
It. Mr. Platts crony and coadjutor. Lou" Payn.
OF Chatham. proposed that Mr.. Colline should be
unseated and that Charles II. Murray, who has
always been swift to act Payn's suggestions.
regardless OF the consequences. should be de-
clared the rghtful member. Mr. Platt saw no
objections to Mr. Payn's proposition and the
plant f1gureheads comprising the machine COM
1nittee promptly entered into the scheme. 1t was
truthfully said yesterday that Tammany Hall.
when under its most lawless leaders, never COM
rnitted so reckless and wholly indefensbe an act.
To cap the climax OF obstinate disregard for
the decent sentiment Of the community. Abraham
Gruber declared the regularly elected mem
Der for the XIVth District Mr. Gruber had se-
cured when at Saratoga what he called an cleo
ton by q species of jugglery which nobody sup
posed would receive the sanction of the State
Committee A majority Of the delegates to the
Republican State Convention protested against
the seating of Gruber and Johr Reisenweber.
ex-Justice Charles n. Taintor Julius NJ. Mayer.
George r. BidweI and other Republicans Of the
district refused to be bound by the Gruber meth
ods But Gruber has been for year or more
tool Of the machine who could be relied on to
commit any act which the exigencies OF machine
politics made necessary. Mr.. Platt said Gruber
must go on the committee. and the protests OF
respectable Republicans were vain.
There were several candidates for additional
members TO represent the colored Republicans OF
the State, but Charles NJ. Berrian, Of Brooklyn,
was reelected almost without discernible oppo-
siton.
GDTTING ORDERS BEFOREHAND.
The meeting OF the committee drew few who
were not members of it to the Fifth Avenue
Hotel Yesterday Mr. Platt sat the sofas for
an hour or two before the committee met, hob
nobbing with members and others, and Mr.
Lauterbach and Mr.. Payn slipped about the cor
ridors circulating instructions coming from the
express president.
When the hour Of noon drew near the men,
bers ascended TO Parlor ID on the second
6oor where John s Kenyon. the secretary OF the
old committee. requested them to come to order
and asked Reuben l.. Fox to call the roll. The
following members and proxies were present.