New-York tribune., 1896-01-24
THE MACHINE FRIGHTENED.
EVIDENCES OF ALARM AT THE OPPOSI-
TION MOVEMENT
CORNELIUS y BLISS ANGRIIy DECLINES AN
ADVANCE FROM PLATT MADE THROUGH
GOVERNOR MORTON THE PENITENTIARY
LOOMING rP FOR SOME OF THE

MACHINE PEOPLE.
The uprising OF self-respectng and indignant
Republicans Of this city in protest against the
frauds perpetrated at the rece mt enrolment and
primaries intended by the laws of the State for
the benefit Of bona -fde Republicans but pros
ututed by the Platt-Lauterbach freebooters TO
the use Of Tammany heeers end the squelching
OF hoHcst Republicans. has reached proportions
"hlch bode no good to the men who have been
riding their way rough shod of late
IT the announcement Of the appointment Of the
committee OF Five Hundred carried CONSERVATION
TO the Piatt-I.auterbach gang the first day its
erect mas grown daily In geometrical ratio
Inc feehng or resentment against the swnde
IN the rolls and the robbery at the primaries
mas grown into bitterness on the part Of honest
Republicans. They now begin to see TO what
an appalling extent they have been robbed and
10 what dsgraceful degree the great majority
or Republicans OF this city have been made
puppets to a petty gang OF conspirators
The statement published in The Tribune ycs-
terday that one set OF inspectors in the With
Assembly District had been held for trial by the
Grand Jury. while the fate Of another lot still
rested with Magistrate Mott. struck the CON
srirators forcibly. since the revelations already
made will in many cases lead to definite char rges
W ''""' hHi conspiracy, Wflcn SnOu1u nave an
ultimate outcome similar to that which befel
PADDY" DIVERS and Barney" Martins heel
ers in Tammany Halls grand colonization
scheme fresh in memory
member OF the Committee OF Investiga-
ton said yesterday: The doors Of the Penl-
tcntary are beginning to loom up ominously
There is going to be day Of reckoning yet
and no 'squealing.' cries Of Let up will he
needed This Investigation will be pushed TO its
full and final issue
That the Platt-I.auterbach people are badly
frightened is proved conclusively by the action
OF Amasa Thornton. one Of the controlling
spirits In the machine forces In the XVIII or
banner fraud. Assembly District with its
~ per cent OF fraudulent enrolment Mr.
Thornton took himself to Governor Morton only
a few days ago. In view OF his mission. Il IS
not to be presumed that ne went Of his own
volitior. II" was pan, 'inspired" He had
proposition 10 make did this Amasa Thornton
{" Governor Morton. And II was this: 1T
would be well to have Cornelius ~ Bliss made
delegate-at-large to the Republican State
Convention"
That Mr. Thornton's wonderful proposition re-
ccived careful and favorable cons'dcratio, be-
came evident from the fac; thai within forty-
eight hours Cornciur y. Bliss received an in
timaton that II would be gratif ling to the Plat.
Lauterhach forces that he should b. made n dele
gate-at-arg" 70 the Republican State Conven-
,on.
Il is saii by thoAe intimate with Cornelius y
Bliss thai they never knew him To be go angry
before In his lie He Is a mar Of great com
ppsure. II takes grea, deal to runic him But
when this propositl,n came to Mr.. Bliss his
friends say his face became fairly livid and II
only with the exercise OF extreme self-con-
trol that he kept his outraged feelings within
due bounds
II Is not necessary To state that Mr. Rss
blunty and forcby declined any such alliance
Wha' Is ~ importance TO state however is that
Mr.. Bliss declared roundlv that he did not pro-
pos" 10 accept any favors from q source which
was rotten with fraud through and through and
who's, very rottcnncs> he and other eminent Re-
publlcans had beer denouncing after proving its
cxistcnc"
II IN de. med doubtful |: any more conciliatorv
offerh Of this kind VIII be made by the Platt-
1.auicrbach banditt even through so eminentlv
respectable an avenue az the Governor of the
state The temper OF the Anti-Machine men has
been tested
Republican clergymen OF this city. even those
who ordinarily es'h.w politics. taking an
active hand In the work of protest against the
glaring FRAUDS AZ to the signatures 10 the
printed protests now coming I'm upon the Com
mittee on Petitions In such large numbers, the
following letter from the Rev. Il. Heber Newton
is Of interest.
Il will sign such a protest with all my heart
! had already declined to allow my son To act
az secretary OF assembly district on this very
ground But pray let the protest go SO far a.
10 saw that we will organic outside the machine
IA true Republican party for the city"