New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-01-01
PLATT SHOWS ALARM.
He SEEKS AID FROM THE GOVERNOR.
AN ATTEMPT TO HEAD OFF THE MOVEMENT Tc
PURGE THE LOCAL REPUBLICAN ORGAN1zA-
TON DOESN'T AMOUNT TO MUCH.

AN ATTEMPT TO HEAD OFF THE MOVEMENT 10
| PURGE THE LOCAL REPUBLICAN ORGANIZE
TON DOESN'T AMOUNT TO MUCH.
It Is the purpose Of the independent Republicans
OF this city, who mans collar. and believs
that decent politics can be maintained In the Repdo'
! lican party TO end the rule Of the Platt-Lauter.
bach machine which has existence based on
fraud and trickery. and false and padded enrol.
ment. No one realizes that this determination 10
backed by the respected element in the party bot
ter than Thomas c. Plat, who on learning that the
antl-machne leaders were TO hold a meeting ana
arrange their plans Monday evening, hurried
back from Lakewood that afternoon, and got Gov
ernor Morton down from Ellerslie in an attempt to
assist in a scheme which Platt and Lauteroach
had Matched and which they thought might check
mate the anti-machlne alliance.
There is excellent authority for saying that Platt
represented TO the Governor that the methods ~
which Cornelius n. Bliss and his associates pro-
pose TO purge the enrolment and compel an observ-
hs ps of s s as 30 srns se
tons and that mould has be or Ss Pres. 70
| dental nomination in the St. Louis National Con-
vent!On.
Anti Machine Republicans Of this city regard them
selves as better friends OF Governor Morton than
Plat and the political traders who are Just now
with him
as the latter desired and he also saw EDWARD
Iauterbach. wei; ex-senator Warner Miller,
Controller Roberts ana Otner fepuDiCdus no
Platt-Lauterbach scheme however, by Which s me
Governor was TO request Mr.. Bliss and his irienos
10 desst from the work OF restoring the party ma
chinery to honest and respectable hands.
through. , .,
channels yesterday that the Plat proposition na
been made and that 1t had been carried TO MI
sitIon for some sort Of re-en-olment; but COZ,
Quoted and controlled. of course by the Platt nee'>
Mr. Bliss promptly denied Yesterday that any
proposition had come TO him in relation 10 re;
enrolment. and Mr. Miller said that he had accepted
no such mission Even Mr.. Lauterbach had to deny
that there any truth in the Plat story.
THE MEETING ON MONDAY NIGHT.
The meeting which alarmed Mr. Platt ana leo
to his hurried trip back to New-fork from Lake.
wood. and his attempt to unsete the nerves OF the
Governor was held on Monday evening at the Wind
Hotel and the main topic In political circles
yesterday and last evening General Samuel Inomas
presided and among those present, were Corh snd
Eiihu Root Joseph H. Choate, General Arson g
McCook, ex-Congressman John S, Wise Adelbert
OBerne. Edward c. o.Brien. John Sabine Smith.
John G. O'Conor, Dr. Louis l.. seaman, Paul D.
F Frank G Pavey H. oFussF ana
The situation was thoroughly and carefully Dis:
cussed. and the necessity for taking action that
would disclose to the masses Of the party the thor
ganlzation considered. 1t decided that the
proper plan was to show first that the enrolment
settle the question of new organization. Edward
Mitchell and Paul D. Cravath have been giving at
said that incontrovertible evidence had been coli
lected proving. that the Republican enrolment In
many OF the districts was twice what 1t should be
and in some districts four times that of a normal en-
rolment Such a fraudulent attempt 10 control the
party organization was. he said. unprecedented.
resolution adopted authorizing the chair
man, with Messrs Brookfeld and Bliss. 10 appoint
a committee OF fifteen. OF which they shall be MEM
bcrs and shall have power to add to Its numbers
TO investigate the alleged frauds In the Republican
enrolment in this city and(tte validity OF the pres
ent county organization to take such action In re.
gard to the frauds at the recent primaries ana IN
the enrolment as they deem necessary. and to 70.
port TO a meeting to be called hereafter
The committee. which will be composed proDaoy
of twenty-five well-known Republicans. Viii be an:
nounced to-day and another meeting Will DC hsn
at the Windsor Hotel tomorrow evening. ~
Mr. Bliss, who seen last evening at the tse.
publican Club OF which he Is soon to become tne
president said that conservative hepuoicahs couio
no longer stand the methods OF the t'iatt-L aute.
do he said except to fight coterie whose ex-
Z Stewart and Amasa Thornton Our meeting a"
evening does not of necessity mean new organiIa-
lion I shall not predc, what action future deveiop.
ments may require" Mr.. Bliss added signncanty:
III should not be forgotten. when considering the
trareous frauds In the enrolment ana the pr
maries that they are under the cognizance OF the
Th meeting tomorrow evening will arrange Tor
snh Investigation and exposure OF the enro!meny
. "a nr,mary frauds will fully Inform the decent
o. sn,Shaicans of the city and country exactly nov
tha Piatt control Of the organisation was securs0
and Is maintained