New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-05
QUEENS AND SUFFOLK.
LONG ISLAND CITY.
GLEASON BEATEN BY THE ELECTION OF
HAMILTON FISH AS SPEAKER.
HE WILL NOT TRY TO CAPTURE THE SEAT OF
THE IsT DISTRICT NOW HELD Bf

HE WILL NOT TRY TO CAPTURE THE SEAT OF
THE IsT DISTRICT. NOW HELD ~
JOHN =. MADDEN
The selection Of Hamilton Fish as Speaker OF the
Assembly has Unexpectedly brought to an end the
proceedings recently begun by exMayor Gleason Of
Long Island City with view OF capturing the seat
now held 10y Assembyman John T. Madden OF I'M
Isl Assembly District When the news OF Many
defeat reached Gleason he decided To- abannoh the
fight as Fish Is anything but an admrer OF the OK
Mayors political tactics. and has never faied TO
EXPRESS himself freely upon Glcaaonism in such a
manner as convinced the ex-boss that the wisest
course for him to pursue was to leave the held III
undsputcd possession OF Madden while MI fiSh had
a say in the proposed contest.
There is no denying the fact that Gleason gets
more free Advertising from the newspapers than any
other politician on Long Island. No step apparently
Is too questionable for the exMayor to take IN order
TO force his name into the newspapers low weeks
ago ne s'zod upon cowardly preteNt 10 "b"'' 81
a bur,csque revolver episode with Improvement 'oi"-
missioner William II. Williams. and no sooner n'i
tho echoes Of this opera boufe encounter died away
than up came the misleading report oil the sac 81
Gieasou's trolley railroad to Calvary cemetery Inc
ex-Mayor's latest bid for advertising Is IN cohhec-
ton with seat In the Assembly, to when 'ohn l.
Madden. a clerk in the Water Depar Oh Ho"s
Island Cl'y was elected last fail MAIDEN ueiea'e"
tho ex-Nayor bv - votes. Notwithstanding this
ft,nralfN
only candidate on his ticket who was defeated '''i
son set about contesiing Maddens right to represent
the Ist Assembly District in the Legislature. MS
followers are disguised at tho ex- Mayor a''einp
10 snbvert the will Of the people as expressed III
the election Of Madden.
Gleason is looking for a lot Of free advertising,
said a member of his party on Wednesday, ne
Is too shrcNd and experienced a politician 10 W.
ueve that the Legislature Will unseat MAIDEN III
face OF the majority cast for him As a matter
~ fact the people Of Long Island city do NOT
want Gleason 20 represent them IN any capac',s
any longer. They repudiated him al the Po'S
when he ran for Mayor three years ago '"eS
hurled him beneath shower OF ballots when ne
,as "A candidate for the Assembly against "
coroner James Robinson In 1888 and they voted 70
Keen him at fall. when ne
himself again for member OF Assembly. - w. ~
crterion OF his methods can be furnished man tie
5ss,erate sttempts which ne made TWO years ago
70 hold on TO the Msyoralty, after being delea,sn
bv Mayor Sanford and his repetition OF the PEI.
formance now In order TO obtain announcer n"i,
coat in the councils OF this state W Gleason W,
nance o, the expressed viii OF the people as slu
Al The ba Hot box Is not worse and more oar
rv Tar than the Anarchistical utterances o, ii'ii
Vost or Emma Goldman do not Know "h"t -.
.ssuuinr f1r argument. that the eN-May"r -
oniv n no;orieiy seeker. his contesuns seats 20
.-hicb other men are elected II setting d pau
rynmn'c 10 others, and his liberation py Lea"'lis
,oil,irians IN this county and elsewhere" mas al
readv established dangerous precedent