St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-16
NEW REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION
BROUGHT TO LIFE IN NEW
YORK CITY.
MACHINE WAS TOO CORRUPT,
so THE COMMITTEE OF FIVE Hun.
DRIED DECIDES ON THIS
ACTION.
CORNELIUS n. BLISS pREsIDEs
ly Hot Resolutions Are
Adopted.

NEW YORK, Feb. 15.-The commit
tee of twenty-five opposed to the reg
ular Republican organization in this
county met at the Lawyers club in the
Equitable building today and decided to
form a new Republican organization
in New York county. Nearly all the
members OF the committee were pres
ent when this action was taken. Cor
nelius N. Bliss presided, and the con-
ference lasted over four hours
The committee which Mr. Bliss ap-
pointed few days ago to arrange for
big mass meeting at Cooper Union
were the first to arrive. This COM
mittee, all of whom are members of
the twenty-five, consists of Paul D.
Cravath, chairman; Gen. Anson c. Me-
Cook, Gen. Wager Swayne, Aid. Elias
Goodman and c. H. Dennison
John e. Milholland was the most in
sistent advocate of the New Repub-
lican party" Cornelius N Bliss has
been chosen leader of the movement.
During the four-hour conference, four
resolutions were adopted The first and
most important one reads as follows:
Whereas, The results already made known
the present so-called county committee has
been constituted concusively disclose that SO
large majority of its members were not hon.
estly CHOSEN, that the committee itself, as
such, is rightly to be considered fraud and
Whereas, The committee of five hundred at
Its meeting held Jan. 80, with the evidence full
ly before It, adopted that conclusion, and di-
rected that such conclusion and the evidence
In support of it be made the basis of further
effort TO exclude such pretended organization
from recognition as such in any Republican
councils and
Whereas, Pursuant to such instructions,
proper protest against such recognition has
been made to the state committee, and re-
jected:
Resolved. That in pursuance of such policy
OF protest, this meeting desires and directs
that the same protest be made In its name to
the Republican state convention, to the end
that such pretended organization, being au-
thoritatively repudiated, the Republicans of
New York city may be free to organize upon
| an honest basis, and henceforth to cooperate
| by decent methods for the countrys good.
Resolved, That, meanwhile, for the sole
! purpose Of opposing and suppressing fraud,
| those Republicans of New York city who have
already signified in writing their approval OF
such protest, and such others as may be of the
same mind, be invited to organize under the
auspices and direction of the committee OF
twenty-five.
Resolved, That such Republican organiza-
tons in this city as are already existing. and
are In full sympathy with such protest be-
and cordially invited to support the same
and to cooperate with the organization now
proposed
The three other resolutions were In
troduced separately and read as fol-
bellows:
Resolved, That we congratulate and COM
| mend the minority of the so-called county
committee upon the courageous stand they
have taken against the fraudulent majority
by refusing to participate in the election of
president and other officers Of that organiza-
tion We invite and urge their personal CO.
operation with us. and beg to express to
them our cordial appreciation Of their course
Resolved That the committee of twenty
five approves the action Of its chairman in
placing at the disposal Of the committee OF
organization Of the so-called Republican
county committee the results of its investi-
cation Of the frauds connected with the
recent enrolment and primaries.
Resolved, That the report of the subcom-
mittee appointed to arrange for the mass
meeting of Republicans in Cooper Union be
approved and that the date of such meeting
be fixed by said subcommittee"
The mass meeting will probably be
held next week at Cooper union. IT
will be in the nature of a ratification of
the action Of the committee of twenty
five.