New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-31
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SEPTEMBER II AT SARATOGA
REPUBLICANS NAME THE DATE AND
PLACE FOR THEIR CONVENTION
THE STATE COMMITTEE HOLDS A MEETING AT
THE FIFTH AVENUE HoTEL-A FINE SPIRIT
OF HARMONY MANIFEsTED-THE PROS
pEcrs FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE
STATE TICKET THIS FALL AND
NATIONAL TICKET IN 1885,


There were no evidences of excitement at the
meeting of the Republican State Committee
yesterday No questions were introduced Ike
ly to provoke disputes, and all the representa-
tives of the party who on the ground
wanted to impress everybody else with the be-
lief that the Republican party Of the State
had never been in quite healthy and har-
monious condition since the victorious cam
paign Of Lincoln and Hamlin.
Twenty-seven OF the thirty-ive members OF
the State Committee, and proxies for five OF
the eight absentees scattered themselves
through the corridors of the Fifth Avenue
Hotel and spent the morning hours before the
meeting of the committee at IL m. In talking
over the situation. There was so few diner
ences OF opinion in these discussions that no.
body appeared to raise his voice above gen.
teel conversational tone. Ex-senator warner
Miller arrived at the hotel on Monday even
ing. and, after breakfast stopped moment 70
speak TO acquantances when he came down the
broad marble stairs: but, although member
of the Advisory Committee of Three-composed
Of Miller. Depew and Platt-Mr. Miller cid
not wait to take part in the deliberations Of the
meeting.
Mr. PLATT MAKES CALL
Between 10 and II a. m. T. c. Platt made his
appearance fresh from the Coney Island beach,
and took a cursory survey of the ground. He
had a minutes converse with Chairman Hackett.
gave a brief audience to few Of his most at
tached friends including Colonel George w. Dunn.
Of Binghamton: Senator John Raines. OF Canaan
daigua and Louis F. Payn, of Chatham. and at
the end Of fifteen minutes he went out OF the
Twenty-third-st. side of the hotel and took a
cable car for his Office at No. 40 Broadway.
III .f,x4r IL ynnd
running order He reached his office just in time
to hear over the telephone from Albany that Gov
ernor Morton had honored the draft made upon
him by the machine in the appointment OF Henry
C. Botty Jacob NJ Patterson's first Lieutenant.
as Justice OF the City Court to fill the vacancy
caused by the death Of Judge Ehrlich.
Besides the committeeman and others already
mentioned, the ground floor of the Fifth Avenue
Hotel was enlivened with the presence Of Senator
Watson c. Squire, Of Washington State. who Is a
New-Yorker by birth and takes a lively interest
in New-York politics; Senator Clarence Lexow.
Of Nyack, who spent last year investigating the
horrors OF Tammany mlsrule and extortion;
Colonel Archibald f. Baxter, OF Elmira Clerk OF
the State Senate: Captain John Palmer. Of Albany
the Secretary Of State; Bernard Biglin one Of the
veteran Republican leaders Of New-York; Garret
j. Benson Sergeant-at-Arms Of the Assembly:
ex-Congressman George West, OF Ballston Spa:
ex-senator F. S. Gibbs. ex-Police Justice Clarence
W. Meade DR.. Z. J. Palmer, John Reisenweber.
Port Warden John II. Gunner Charles W. Ander-
son and Assemblyman Henry W. Hoops, OF New
York.
MR. HACKETT IN THE CHAIR
The committee met in parlor d r at IL m, and
was called to order by Charles w. Hackett. chair
man. who presided. Secretary John $. Kenyon.
OF Syracuse called the roll and found the follow
ing members and proxies present: