New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-01-28

since the report Of the first eight Assembly dis
trcts was made / have been expecting an apology
from this source every day. 1t is what might have
been anticipated. There Is no attempt TO impeach
facts figures. but there Is the swinging OF cinD
in vain effort TO hit somebody That Mr. Piatt
has differences with certain persons s well known.
Personal animosties have nothing to do with
this Investigation. 1t Is thoroughly impartial, and
the verifers are to disregard factional differences
in their work They searching for fraud. ana
when they find 1t they report il.
There seems to be an effort IN the PIatt- lauter-
bach quarter 10 create an impression that there has
been much padding of the rolls in the Brookield AS,
sembly districts. The evidence thus far taken VIII
not warrant this statement although it is true that
in few of the so-called l}rookfeld Assembly dis
trc;s the rolls are badly padded But on cl3se sciu
tiny however. it Is found hai this occurred princi
paly in the Pat rauterbach election districts OF me
Assembly districts. The last enrolment was rdce e
for the greatest number Of names on the rolls. ana
whoever the chairman OF the election cad b na
an unlimited number of names put on the roll our
suits at the primaries would have been changed so
materially TO have altered the delegations to me
Every additional twenty the rolls gave one
delegate the convention to elect delegates to ne
ference in the number of delegates TO the Assembly
district convention in one instance OF some hity dele
I'm this investigation are not fighting any ones
battle. The only thing we are antagoniz . ~
or represent that element. we are fighting him. who-
ever he may be. 1t is suggested in Mr. Patts inter,
want a new enrolment We do not want any more
enrolment such as we have now 90 not want Nan
residents and fictitious persons put upon the rolls
Nor nave we e any Conducted as il would be-
by the same persons who managed the last one IL
"As to Mr.. Piatt's attitude toward Governor Nor
ton the Inycstigating Committee am SURF p,i nave re
nons at 'H his sncery that IS mater in which
he and Governor Morton are alone concerned. ~
%as naTy ha he y f Ha Co
lief in the Republican party NO one doubts tha,;
our investigation successfully disputed Inc eVi,
dence against Fraud stands uncontradic'ed ana
conclusive
NO COMPROMISE. SAYS MR.. CRAVATH.
Paul D. Cravath another member OF the Commit
tee of Twenty-Five and of the Committee OF lnves-
tigation said: IT regard the work of the Committee
of TWENTY-FIVE as directed against fraud and no;
against Mr. Plat, or any other man in particular
As Mr. Patt has chosen TO break his silence ana
Identify himself with the fraud which we are trying
10 put down, he has only himself TO blame II the
fight develops personalities. In this cohhec-
ton Mr. Platt's own personal utterances several
wears ago when the fight was between the So
called Mholiand movement and the Committee OF
Thirty are exceedingly interesting. The committee
of Thirty organization had not only all the sancty
Of regularity claimed for the present organization
but unlike the present organization had the sup
port of the more decent elements OF the party but
Mr. Plat scorneG the arguments based upon the
regularity Of the old organization and said there
was nothing for honest Republcans 10 90 pu 10 rse
M after the fashion of Milholand and his friehGs
throw off the withered shell OF regularity, ana OF
ganize themselves in new organlzanoh' wh s
would represent the party and not BANG or dis.
credited leaders 1t therefore III becomes Mr. fiatt
to bring forward the claim of the regulars "hom
he so long ago discarded. - ~. 49,.
THE fact is Mr. Platt's public utterances OF sew
eral wears ago prove Enthusiastically that he was rlshi
then and wrong now. 1t turned out, as ne prophe-
sled that the old organization when the u
OF Thirty attempted purify soon passed INTO con.
troll of the discredi,ed leaders whom Mr. Piatt once
SO glibly denounced but with whom FOR more tna,'
a year past he has BEN working hand IN hanu.
And IL Is because Mr. Platts prophecy has become
true that the necessity has so soon arisen lor IN.
rank and file OF the party to get up ana 90 lus' ~a
Mr. Plat advised them TO do two or three yealD
ago: and the wisdom OF this advice y only einpEa-
sized by the fact that MI Platt has eaa e, Of The
Committee Of Twenty-Five are not boilers or dlsa2-
pointed aspirants for power. They are endeaVorhs'
Al considerable expenditure OF time and money 10
save the party from the disgrace which mas peeI
trough. upon il by the corrupt methods OF the men
now in control Of the party machinery II they are
10 succeed in the work undertaken they cannot
compromise with the eo-called regulars "no ,s
claim OF regularity has been Duiit up ny sSse"'a'
fraud and chcanery.