The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-10-07

New York-Position of the Reformers
 Was Easily Defined.
 New York Oct. 6.-Representatives of the committee of fifty, Good Government clubs and state democracy were in ses- Tsion at the home of Chairman Lauter- bach for four hours today and while arriving at no definite plan, practically determined to ignor the Independent county organization and amicably dis cussed an excise plank with a view of consolidating the German-American Re form union. The committee of fifty and the Good Government representa- tives announced that they were willing S to accept the excise plank of the state { democracy in which event Oswald Ot- tendorfer, it is stated will give his | support to the ticket agreed upon by the opponents of Tammany. The action of the conference was a big surprise to the Stecklerites, who had great hopes : in the forenoon that ex-Judge Alfred < Steckler would receive one of the nomi- nations to the supreme bench. Their ! Ernest Xavier, Excise Commissioner Hamburger and Charles Steckler to republican league headquarters at a special meeting by the nominating com mittee at Il o'clock this forenoon. They were received pleasantly by Chairman Lauterbach and claimed to have been informed that the anti-Tammany forces would be allowed three judgeships on the ticket and one of them would prob ably be given to Alfred Steckler.
 The O'Brienites were also received and allowed to present their claims. They went away feeling they had extracted some crumbs of comfort
 The nominating committee, through Mr. Lauterbach, informed the delega- tion, however, that much would de- pend on the conference at the City club in the afternoon, and told the delegates to come back at 10:30 p. m, when de- cision would be given. Then the City club conference proceeded to promptly sit on the claims of the Stecklerites, and the delegates said that under no circumstances would they agree to the nomination Of Steckler. The conference was behind closed doors.
 Mir Lauterbach was the only one present representing the republican or ganization. The committee of fifty was represented by Charles s. Smith and others; the Good Government club by R Fulton Cutting and others. The state democracy was represented by committee of fifteen, including Will liam B. Hornblower and Charles R. Fairchild.
 Charles Stuart Smith presided. Chair man Lauterbach was in a consolidating mood The committee of fifty submit ted an excise plank, which was as broad as the state democratic plank Chair man Lauterbach suggested plank which was not acceptable to the con ference After the meeting MT. Laut- erbach said he did not absolutely de- cline the committee of fifty plank, but had no authority to act Before any, thing could be done he would have to confer with his committee, which met later at the republican headquar- ters. He said further that the republi- can party had offered the anti-Tam- manyites more than three positions on the ticket. It was learned afterwards that the nomination of register in ad- dition to three judges had been offered. Mr. Lauterbach said the outlook was favorable to fusion and that the whole matter would be settled tomorrow. Most of the time was taken up in dis cussing the excise matter.
 The position of the reformers on the nominations was easily and positively defined. Ex-Secretary Fairchild of the state democracy stated that an agreement had been made be- tween his organization and the chamber of commerce committee that the former organization would be allow ed to propose a name for register and names for probably two judgeships but in no event would the Stecklerites or O'Brienites be considered.
 The Good Government people were moi wholly satisfied with the conference, all though they declared that they had as sisted materially in killing off the Steck- lerites. Charles Stewart Davidson oi the Good Government club said he ha agreed upon nothing and that it was a pure guess yet whether there were tc be fusion or not Another said that some of the names mentioned as prob able nominees were not acceptable to the Good Government club. The con. ference committee will meet again to, morrow The meeting of the nominat ing committee tonight was an adjourn ment of the forenoon session. At the forenoon session some delegates wanted the matter settled then, but after 0 hot discussion it was voted to continue ne. gotiations. It was nearly midnight be. fore the night session ended. Most o1 the business was the discussion of the excise plank proposed at the forenoon conference at the city club.
 After lively discussion it was final ly decided to agree to the plank, pro- viding that MT. Ottendorfer and the German-American reform union wou1c agree to support the fusion ticket. Ii the plank is not acceptable to the Ger man-American Reform union and the latter's consent for fusion is not obtain. ed, then, according to Mir. Lauterbach a straight ticket may be the result al though names will be placed on ii satisfactory to the reformers, excepting the Stecklerites and the O'Brienites. The meeting made the following tentative nominations for places on the supreme bench:
 Ernest Hall, T. G. Strong and James
 MT. Lauterbach was authorized to re