New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-01-18
ALL DISCUSSES THROWN OFF
THE PI.ATT-IAUTERBACH BANDITTfS
OPEN LAWLESsNESS.

nav NIGHT THE ELECTION DISTRICT sYs-
TEN APPARENTLY DOOMED - VIEWS
on NT1-MAcH1NE LEADERS
The vysv that Lau;erbach and the brigands in
the machine County Committee ran things on
THURSDAY night must convince most people tha'
y, Republican who refuses to bow the knee at
,he sbrino - Plat can expect to have any non
cable connection with the work of the organ-
-,,ior Resides this the machine managers
ravo decided that they need no longer disguise
their nurp3se Of assassinating the election dls-
,,ict system Honestly administered this sys-
fem is bulwark against the boss power fu'
4 must give way to the exgencies of the lau-
terhach ring. Lauterbach himself threw of al
disguise Yesterday and made a shameless avoWai
that the system must be done away with IN ITS
place Mr. Lauterbach proposes-what? the sHS-
tem of Tammany Hall, of which the m.nloAs OF
the Platt ring are naturally enamored. lie sa'u
yesterdays 49,.
Two years experience has proved to us thdt
the election district plan is a failure 1t Is mn
practical l believe the Tammany plan of ors'A-
z,tjon is the best and most successful. We usea
70 have IT, Then we had good trustworthy h'eh
as election district captains. who had controi oi
the district and knew every man in II. I'"'oi
,nent frauds were Impossible. No orsahl%aIo"
can succeed on q plan like the present. II IS
paper plan that cannot he carried out IL WIS
conceived and adopted by men Of little or 10
experience in practical politics, and 1t mas got 10
90"
The b-ezen efrontery Of the land pirates "ho'
,,,de~ the lead OF T. : Gibbs refused to allow
protest Of well known and highly respected ne
nublcans TO be read at Thursday nights County
committee meeting was the talk If the p5ht-
clans Yesterday No parallel 10 such acllon' at
once craven and contemplate. could De recalled
bv the oldest student of political history. In
Commissioner Brookfeld. in speaking Of the wan
ton insult which the Lauterbach crowd hao o.
fered TO every decent and honorable I'e2uo"c'"
in New-York. said yesterday
1T is a very fortunate thing that the Repub-
leans do not need New-Yolk state to carr the
Presidential election this year
Just what steps the Anu-Machine kepuoEcans
will take next has not been decided. We VII so
on investigating the enrolment. and we VIII snow
in fact. we have already shown-that ony man
who holds office by election Of the pres ut COM
~ Committee has not honest iue to us
office The enrolment was fraudulent all through
The city and the new officers of the County /, M
mittee have 10 real right t. their Office. 'nefe
can be no bolt from such an oISanlZdE9H .,
The warning Of Cornelius y. Bliss a snort time
az, when he urged Republicans to remember
tie Folger campaign Of 1852 and avoid a repetl-
ton Of the disastrous experiences OF the pdiY
following the fraud and forgery year, was re-
called Yesterday, ana the prediction was mace
that the course Of the Platt usuFpers III tne
county organization would be disastrous 10 IHe
party. , e, r.o.
ment yesterday. Indicating the plan when the
supporters Of decent pohtlcs VIII pursue.
We shall continue the work Of INVESTIGATING
the enrolment and convince al heIuohca S ma
the machine won at the primaries py lIau ,
When that is done. the tide VIII turn ana tie
machine VIII be swept away. Honest hepuo-
Ncans are still in the majority in the party,
1,o1ia nd abolish
in good time" Colonel Cruger ADDED thal 'le
Ant!-Machine members Of the County commit
tee did not vote Thursday night. because they
wished. by that action, to emphasize thelr deter i
animation TO have nothing TO do with an orSallZa-
ton based on fraud.
opposition at the County Committee meeting on
Thursday evening, and was howled down py
the mob when liz attempted to present the pro-
test Of the Anti-Machine Republicans, sald yes
terday. speaking Of the methods OF the Lau'er-
bach combine; ..ou 90
2 disposition 10 meet the issue frankly ana can
djdlv l do not to comment on the speech
Of the chairman made after his election HIS De-
ing called upon TO make a customary speech Oh
q .apting Office gave him opportunity TO discuss
some Of the salient points of the report without
giving an opportunity for answer. as an adjourn
,nent was carried by his friends as soon as ne
Adelbert IT, steele. one Of the members q the
Committee of Investigation. who Is prominent
member Of the Republican Cup ana chairman
Of It's Campaign Committee. said Yesterday:
THE report Of the investigation as presented
IVES honest and thoroughly impartial Inc WORK
Iii he prosecuted and completed in the same
spirit IT will be insisted mat every hatNe
,rron gfully on the rolls shall be eliminated; then
Whatever the majority Of Republicans say Is
.boir wish should be acquesced IN by al. we
must have clean primaries. NO honest HepuD-
llcan should ask any more; no honest n'pu pup
;i~an would endure anything less. must en-,
, az decline 10 be controlled by the will
81 Tanln,any Hall. expressed through Republican
primaries
COMMITTEE OK ORGANIZATION.
meeting Of the newly-appointed Committee
on ORGANIZATION Of the Republican County COM
,7littee was held at County Headquarters IN west
Thirty-eighth-st, last evening mere "e''
present ex-Postmaster Cornelius van Oot'' oia'l
man. Frederick : Gibbs James w. Perry A. .
Van Orden. Amasa Thornton Deo'so ii'''0'
and George r. Bidwell. . Tho rol,s
Nr Iauierbach's promise 70 revise Wv Az
OF the election district Organization w. ~
cussei and il was decided tnat sohiG % CO.. Tho
revision must be made in view Oh nv I" 49,
~ Ices than q 900 names We're ON me Ioiis t'
,vore there fraudulently or unlaWiuI9' vi " 2
,.ffored a resolution nstructing the sec, -,
the County COMMITTEE 10 give notce 10 ti'r
man ana secretary Of each election Hls.iICe &c
ISOLATION that the organization A4u"' -" ou
10 - ,;,on me same who have died, have re-
moved from the election district. or haVe VeaSu 90,
T. be Republicans and each assooi4 pi,bIican
renort us action I'm writing to the 'ePuDl," =
rrp,n,v Toaaouartors on or before February D.
1896 A., ,,au fail
If any election district association shaII an an
20 make it's report by that time. ana 20 Ihi mn,
the revision required as directed by the 49, 80
zion the Committee on organization VIII ~
port TO a special meeting Of the county NY I'm
,,,iften recommending the abolition Of any e.
tion district association as provided IN Al III III
- Of the constitution. If any association siai
be abolished new election must De oiueI'
ard ,he County Committee may designate not
less than three @. It's members to supervise nv
receipt and canvass Of ballots ana 10 act %
rf a district
,ions will thus he in the hands Of the Nachin"'
The Committee on Organization referred the