The sun., 1895-05-16
Warning Republicans.

The relation which the two factions Of
New York city Republicans now bear to
each other, is rather amusing than terrifying
to the great and renowned but temporari-
ly PROSTATE Democracy OF this town. On.
one side are the advocates of STRONG, COM
manded by conspicuously prominent men,
bers of the Union League Club, by Ohio
men, by the Majors, Colonels, and Corporals
of STRoNG's municipal staff, by sundry
civilian officers appointed by the Mayor. ana
by large number of recently nonresident
Commissioners belonging to the staff of the
reform regime.
On the other side are the PLATT regulars,
the advocates and supporters Of the cause
and expectations of the Toga chief domi-
nant in Republican politics throughout the
State if not here, and eager for an opportu-
nifty to smash, crush, and permanently de-
molish the STRONG administration, and to
reduce it's present leaders and abettors to
a humble position in the Republican ranks.
Whenever there is a meeting of the Re-
publican County Committee, as there is
each month, two preliminary meetings are
held of the rival Republican factions, the
STRONG G-BRoOKFIELD men on the one side
and the ePLATTPATTERsoN men on the other.
They meet to devise methods for circum-
venting not the common Democratic enemy,
but their Republican adversaries The
menace which impends over the heads of
both is the threat of some delegate to offer a
resolution commencing the administration
of the Ohio Colonel Such resolution the
-BRoOKFlELD men deprecate, for
they are fearful that it would not be adopted
The PLATT-PATTERsON men have constant
ly in stock and on draught, or on tap, so to
speak, a resolution denouncing the admins
tration of the Ohio Colonel, but they also
are apprehensive that it might not receive
the requisite majority Of the delegates
votes. This is certainly a peculiar and par
adoXical condition of affairs between local
Republican factions, in the first six months
of the term of the first Republican Mayor
elected in New York in thrty.four years.
The uncertainty of it recalls the familiar
story of two antagonists who did not begin
to fight for the reason, assigned by a disin-
terested bystander, that lone was afraid to,
and the other dars IT."
Hardly less amusing than this complication
between the warning factions of our local
Republican statesmen is another, a marvel,
an engima, u paradox, phenomenon
among politicians Although the STRONG
BRoOKFlELD Republicans have and have
been having all the patronage and the bene-
fits of the present administration, and their
adversaries none of them, the former are
gradually losing ground as they enjoy these
advantages, whereas the PLATT-PATTERsoN
Republicans have been gaining. 1t is some
what as if two men should sit down at a
table and one of them should be generously
supplied by a partial and sympathetic
waiter with the delicacies, luxuries, and
substantial fare of the establishment while
his neighbor is restricted to formal perusal
OF the bill of fare. and this condition con-
tinuing, the man whose appetite is sati-
ated should appear to be on the verge of q
collapse from starvation, and the man who
has nothing to eat should revive and be
content. Nothing similar has been observed
in the field of our politics for many years
To what further odd and grotesque COM
plicatons the present factional differences
of our Republican friends in the Republican
County Committee, will lead the Republi-
can party of New York before 1896 it is
impossible to predict with accuracy. The
only visible duty of the two factions in the
County COMMITTEES is to watch each other,
and do nothing else. Already, as one result
of their mutual idleness, the Mugwump
civil service men have invaded and captured
the most important local department. and
non residents from distant points and remote
places appear to have control of all the
places which che civil service men have
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