New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-16
TALK ABOUT DELEGATES.
EFFORTS TO REDUCE THE NoMpHH VT
MACHINE MEN TO EE SENT TO
ST. LOUIS.

ORDERS FROM pLArr TO LEAVE OUT CORNELIUS
n BLISS IN CONSEQUENCE OF AN ALLEGED
nr.r. ny WHICH J. j. COLLINS REMAINS
IN THE CAMP OF THE "ANT1s'-
CONTEMPLATED FRAUDS.
praroratorv 70 the Republican primaries, to be
hold this evening several conferences were heu yes
terdav in which Republicans who are interested u"
reducing the number Of machine ue'ee"'' ~ ~ 81
Republican National Convention took part me
machine managers have been claiming everything
IN s,ebt in this city for several weeks Ihey report.
Cd NOT long ago that they had captured John D. oo
Inns and the anti-machine Repuohcah ORGANIZATION
NJ the WITH Assembly District. and as consequence
had made easy the election OF ex-fonce C"i''"i'S
s,oner Charles H. Murray as Mr.. Colns's co-deega'e
% c. louis N represent the IXth Congress Dis
.,, ,,r Co,,irs met General Horace Porter. Cen
.rol Anson G. McCook and other well-known Ia
horers in the field Of decent politics yesterday al me
Union League Club. They talked over the SITUATION
together and late IN the day 1t was reported '"a'
Mr. Collins had decided to remain on the ant'-ma-
chine reservation. 1t was also sa'u '"a' e"'' q"
Porter and not c. H. Murray would probably De a
delegate to ST. Louis from the 1Xth Congress DIS
trict Mr. Collins TO be the other delegate
When Mr. Plat heard Of the reported chango III
the situation last evening he pcca'"o e~oeeu'"e
uro,h soma of his friends said and with great en-
phasis declared that not solitary reform fNePup'-
can should have a seat In the National Convention
at ST. Louis Mr.. Platt was reported last week 10
have given his assent to the election OF Cornelius ~
Rlss from the XIIth Congress District as the assoc
ciate OF General Howard Carroll. displacing Thur
low Weed Barnes. who has an ambition that way
But the alleged Collins deal OF yesterday made
Mr. Plat feel different about this lie was repre-
scented as having given swift orders to Strike MI
Bsss name from the XIlth District list and as hav-
,ha shnniI he restored
former state, with the names OF General Carroh
and T. W. Barnes as the delegates
A meeting OF Caleb II. Smm's colored supporters
was held in West Thrtieth-st. YESTERDAY; at which
the coored contingent which votes with Caleb
agreed to support the Carroll and bsrnes o dket
TO put Caleb on as an alternate , r>,,
of the XiXth Assembly District said yesterday that
his district which is anti PLAT. had not been abie
to obtain The nfp" bs sn s aG ns
the Ninth and Thirty third Election districts OF the
XIXth. also anti-Platt. had been likewise over
looked in the distribution OF the blank forms This,
he believed. part of scheme to invalidate the
election of anti-machinc delegates from these dis
The usual Preparations seem to have been made a.
for carving the primaries this evening in the Nth
Assembly District. where ex-Postmasier Van Colt
runs things az the MACHINE want. them. Henry
Repub.icans Of the Thrty-hrd Election District
of the Vth. said YESTERDAY that a h,gh- handed
leans had been put up in that district, This IS the
district where at the last primary held In Deem
members as having voted. hut investigation proved
that only six iegal voters appeared and voted. and
that the remaining forty-three were fictitious and
fraudulent.
The Indictment OF the two inspectors by the
Grand Jury followed the exposure and they are
now awaiting trial. 1t became known yesterday.
Mr.. Melville said that the machine workers have
secretly 'reorganiZed' the district, leaving OF the
names OF himself. Mr.. Ilorclle and other bona hdc
Republican members OF the reorganization and
n acing on the enrolment only names Of persons
known 10 stand in with the ring. The Indicted
inspectors were reelected and boasts were made
last evening at the Lincoln club In Clinton Place,
Van Colts headquarters. that these men would
superntend the primary in the Thirty third district
tonight
Mr. Melville and the Anti-Machine Republicans
OF the district have ISSUED call asking al. rex
uarly enrolled Republicans 10 come to the polling
place In the Lincoln club tonight and demand
that their names he received whether their names
have been stricken from the ro.s or not.