New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-02-02
BORROWED FOR PADDING.
.TAA1AfANY NAMES on REPUBLICAN,
ROLLS.


sTRAIGHT- OUT wIGwAMITEs WHO ARE SET DOWN
ON THE PLATT-LAUTERBACH LISTS.
The allegations set forth In the report OF C.
n Jones before the Committee Of Five HUNDRED
on Thursday evening. that the PARLIAMENTARY
forces were guilty OF awaiting themselves OIL
Tammany alliances were further investigated
yesterday by a reporter Of The Tribune
There Is no Assembly district in which the
manipulations Of the Patt-Lauterbach forces
have been more pronounced than the XXth
the leader of which is James l.. Stewart recently
appointed by Governor Morton State Inspector OF
Gas Meters.
1t may be stated in round terms that all Re
pubiicans of standing in this Assembly district
are opposed TO Mr. Stewart and his methods.
Business men assert that Stewart has concen-
trated all the political energies Of the HHth AS
sembly District In the Garfield Club. at NO l0l
East Thirty-second-st They also assert mat
he has caused to be placed on the Republican
rolls Of the district the names OF Tammany
Hall men who have for years been identified with
Tammany Hail.
One Of the men who appears on the Platt-
Lauterbach roll Of Republicans is John Hayes,
of No 2oS East Thirty second-st- Mr. Hayes
is well known as the Tammany captain OF this
district the Nineteenth of the XXth Assembly
District. Mr. Hayes said yesteday TO a Tribune
reporter: II do not know how my name came to
be placed upon the Republican roll. certainly
did not authorize IT, l am well-known Tam
many man. and how any man should dare put
ME down as Republican is beyond my compre-
hepsion."
At No. 25O East Thirty -second-st live James
Coogsn sr., and James CoOgan, jr. They are
placed on the Platt-Lauterbach rolls Repub-
of ha home
yesterday afternoon. but the son-in-law Of the
elder Coogan, +. Donohue. said: Il am a
Republican Yet / find that my name was on
the roll, although l never signed 1t. AS for
the Coogans they are Tammany Hall Demo-
Gratis The whole secret Of this matter Is that
Stewart made out the rolls at the Garfield Club.
Of which he Is the head. and that he handled
election district. the Nineteenth. there were al
least twenty-four Tammany Hall Democrats
who were put down by Stewart and his men as
members Of the Patt-Lauterbach forces. ]
have been an interested watcher Of politics for
many years. but IN all my experience l have
never before seen such wholesale disregard
\ Of the ordinary rights Of citizenship
John NJ. Reed. president OF the SHth Assem-
bly, District Republican Club. said: The enor-
mites Of the frauds perpetrated In this dis
trict under the Stewart regime have been sucl
that our only course is to endeavor to place the
situation before the Republicans or this city
in form which VIII appeal TO their intelli-
gence and show them that our great hope lies
in the overthrow Of the mercenaries who now
seem TO be IN the ascendant.
At the headquarters Of the Committee or In
vestigation, No. 143 West Forty-first-st, let
ters upon letters from Republicans protesting
against the frauds at primaries. as we'll as al
enrolment. are coming in The following signed by
Edward ". Vail, Is a sample OF these letters
to the committee:
A Massachusetts Republican from the start, was
present at the birth of the party believer In pure
politics now a voter in New-York City, would be
glad 70 do anything eradicate the vile stigma now
resting upon the party In our State and city.
There is no use mincing this matter that pestl-
lential demagogue must meet his political annhla-
ton / regret exceedingly the advocacy OF Governor
Morton BY such an element.