New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-25
REPELLED FROM THE PARTY.
GOOD REPUBLICANS BARRED,
OUTRAGEOUS PERFORMANCES OF THE
MACHINE IN SATURDAY NIGHTS
ENROLMENT.

ENltOlsMLNl
MEN OF STANDING AND UEDoUBTED REprBiA
cANIsM UNABLE TO GET THEIR NAMES on
THE BOoKs-sHAMELEsS CONFESSIONS
OF PETTY ENROLLING OFFICIALS
THAT THEY WE'RE ACTING UNDER
oRDERs-CLEE OF THE MAcHIN-
lists AND THE OILERS
OF THE MACHINE
| AS the facts are developed regarding Sa;urs
day nights so-called Republican enrolment the
! conclusion is irresistible that the affair was
! farce and n fraud In almost every district
| where the Platt-Lauterbach contingent con-
trol.ed the Enrolling Doard. No official reports
have yet been received at Lauterbach's head
quarters In the Telephone Building, In west
Thirty-eighth-st and the order was given
! by the managers that no reports need be ma'e
until tomorrow. the presumption Of the ANTI
Machine Republicans that the intervening
days are to be used by Lauterbach's clerks
I'm eliminating from the rolls the names OK
the few Anti-Platt men who managed To se-
cure registry Will aot be looked on as violent
one in view Of the d.sgraccful. brutal and un-
lawful methods to which the ring resorted
As The Tribune pointed out for several days
preceding the alleged enrolment. every effort vas
made to prevent Republicans who desired 10 en-
roll from finding out where the places OF regisiry
had been located. 1t was not unl Saturday
morning that a scandaloTsy imperfect list OF
these places were advertised. Five entire AS
sembly districts were not puOnshed-the l'th.
the With the XIvth, the XVIth and the
XXXIIId, and many election districts were
wholly omitted.
II anything was reeded to show that the
"a fpf8n fn ha
a fair and square enrolment but. on the con-
trary, had determined to shut out Of all par
ticipation in the work and management Of the
Republican party the upright and honest ele-
ment they could not control. 1t Is found IN
the statements which have been obtained reia-
tive TO the plans adopted by these Snort
sighted n.anipulators called practical poiu'
clans.
IN VAN Colts BAILIWICK.
Take for instance the Vth Assembly District
where "Corneel' Van Cott one Of the most aoject
in the coterie of Platt lckspttles. dominates tho
machinery. In the First Election District OF the
With no less than thirty-ive Republicans were
refused enrolment on the ground that they had
ceased To be Republicans" In reality THIS
meant Republicans who were opposed to the
management of Van Cott, Van Alien and van
Corrigan. The trumvirate composing the En-
|
Republicans were refused enrolment; in the
Third. eight: in the Fourth, thirty-iive. and 50
on through all the election districts the same
rule applied
In the Lincoln Club house. No. 5s Clinton Place.
where the enrolment 70: seven election districts
was held, Republicans were refused because tney
were members OF the John T. Milholand Club OF
! the With District Yet ii Is only a few months ago
that Mr.. Lauterbach, presiding at meeting OK
the Republican County Committee, announced
that the regular organization" was ready to
welcome all such Republicans and pretended an
anxiety to fix special days to permit them to en-
roll One Of these ostracized men said to Mr.
Van Cott on Saturday evening: Il am better
Republican than you are, for did not vote for
| Barney Martin for Senator, nor for Henry ID.
| Purroy for County Cerk"-an insnuation that
| Mr. Van Cott did not resent.
| In the Fifth Election District Edmund r.
! Gibbons, who is court officer under Judge ALL
| SON. was enrolling affcer. which is a violation
Of the local constitution of the party SINH"
lar violations were found all over the district. :,
Supporters Of George Malraison. the inde-
! pendent Republican candidate for the Assem-
/ bly, were not allowed to enroll. This was an
open defiance OF the constitution. which ex-
pressly directs that the only bar TO enrolment
shall be evidence that the person presenting
! himself has voted the ticket of other
party for National or State officers within three
months preceding the time of the enrolment.
! No charge made that such stancb Repuo-
licans as Henry c. Plercy. A. J. Piercy, David
! V Johnson A. Webster, James G. Morton.
| william Harlow and of others who We're
refused enrolment had ever voted anything
else than a Republican ticket for National
and State officers. Besides in many districts
all the men they cared to have on The books
! ,la rofffca
their labors at p m, an hour before the time.
A. r. CONKLING'S STATEMENT.
Assemblyman Alfred r. Conkling said last
evening that probably only 200 succeeded In
getting their names the Fifth District rolls.
! though three times that number were ANXIOUS
! 10 do so. He added:
/ was at the headquarters. No. 56 Clinton Pace.
where seven eec;on districts were represented;
The respectable men who acted as enrolling ot1c-fs
were wiling to exhibit the lists to hystanders but
the 'toughs" that were owned by Cornee! Van
Of voters who were constantly enroingi When I
s.i Of Of WASHINGTON square wari ruiian acting
as an enrolling officer closed the book. Cornelius
VINO % Rad stI1a oeer MSS yfsel to 9o Rsoub
enroll If they Voted M for Mr. seNS2n b. , the Sse
because Van co,t and his gang d,siret to promote
the lection Of the notorious "BaTney Maria,
ara van Cots dummy Inspector ala not again
violate the constitution Of the Republican party.
although he wanted TO-
Taese cowardly assasslns do rot care to fight u.
In an open field. Like Indians they sneak behind
an ambush and fire on us The eane OF political
confidence who have temporarily GOT posses
son OF the machinery OF the Republican party are
doing their best break up the organization. They
show gross ignorance OF the character ~ the men
! that compose the Republican party. Taslr con-
due, will certainly prevent thousands ot seli-re-
spectlns first voters from joining the organization.
Mr. Iauterbach's followers take advantage of the
fact that approaching Presidential con-
test. but his crowd have overreached themselves
In the district wherein live Republican Inspectors
and captains had orders from the boss 10 knife
the Fusion ticket and the same dsgraceful state
OF things seems have existed all the city
majority of tAe members OF the County Commit