New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-09
TRYING TO "CALLTHEM OFF"
MACHINE PRESSURE ON INDEPENDENT
REPUBLICAN AssEMBLYMEN-EL ELECT.
THEIR PLANS BEING KEPT TO THEMSELVES. EX-
CEPr THE GENERAL ONE OF TRYING TO
PREVENT BAD LEGISLATION AT THE

PREVENT BAD LEGISLATION AT THE
DICTATIoN OF ANY Boss.
Republican machine leaders in New-York and
Brooklyn who are friendly to Senator Platt were
said to be using all available influence yester-
day to persuade the Republican Assemblymen-
elect in Brooklyn not TO unite with Assembly
man LaImbeer and Assemblyman-elect Weekes,
Of this city. in opposing boss rule at Albany
The fact that the men elected to the Assembly
from Brooklyn districts met with Mr.. LamDeer
and Mr.. Weekes at the home Of State Senator
Brush In Broo tiyn on Saturday night and
talked about plans for independent action to
defeat bad legislation has caused anxiety IN the
Plat camp. There will be other meetings OF the
Assemblymen elect in Brooklyn this week, but II
was said yesterday that they did not want 10
have their plans made known TO MI Plat In
advance OF the meeting OF the Legislature. Mr.
Weekes. at his law office In Wall-st yester-
day said to Tribune reporter:
1T would be imprudent for US to have all our
plans made known to Mr. Platt now. He never
tells what he is doing while he keeps hard at
work all the time. II he knew what our plans
were he might be able to crcumvent them Our
general plan, Of course. Is we'll known. we
want to prevent legislation by dictation OF the
kind The result Of the election shows that the
people want to put stop to that Kind or legls-
latlon am a Republican, but am free to act
In the interests Of the people. / think l might
have had the regular Republican nomination for
the Assembly in my district II l had been will
ing to put up certain amount Of money and
promise to obey orders at Albany. l did not
want that kind Of nomination. So many men
ho,., boc 70 DledgcS tnat
legislation has been cimply the legislation of one
man. who had power To give the orders. THIS
power to shape legislation has compelled cor
porations who wanted anything done at Albany
TO apply TO the boss and they have been ready
to make contributions. II such a state OF affairs
Is allowed to go on any further II will ruin the
Republican party. and It might even subvert
republican government. 1t is so intolerable that
the people have been aroused TO the iniquity or
II. NJ. Platt ought to have sense enough to see
that he has led his party to the verge OF ruin
by his display of power believe that he VIII
not b. able to control majority OF the Assem-
lily this winter. and that there VIII be an end to
legislation by dctation'
ONE GAIN POINTED OUT.
Charles Stewart Smith was quoted in an inter-
view Yesterday In part as follows The first
and most obvious gain to the credit OF good gov
ernment which the Citizens Union accomplished
IS that New-York will have only boss for
four years at least. Mr. Plat a leader Is "a
dead as a door nail, and that is the end OF him.
His further connection. even as a private. with
the party c only be harmful He can't con-
troll the Legislature. and Tammany Will not IN
consequence divide the spoils with him.
The corporations no longer fear him; he Is
powerless TO persecute or protect them, and for
this relief some OF Them have already, In pri-
vate expressed their gratitude. His immediate
and heretofore subservient followers. having
nothing 10 expec. from him, are preparing 70
break away from him one of them recently
remarked that Plat = dscredlted boss
and he could only escape censure by evadlnB
obscrratIon.' Mr. Patt is in the position OF
Napoleon the Little after Sedan. He staked all
upon the election. and he has lost all-except
the crumbs OF Federal patronage when may
or may not remain to him"
Aesemblyman OGrady. OF Rochester, who Is
said 10 have been selected by Mir. Platt as the
machine candidate for the Speakership, was In
consultation with SIR. Platt on Sunday. and
went home Yesterday. Francis Hendricks, OF
Syracuse. was in the city yesterday, and visited
the headquarters Of the Republican state COM
mittce. He said that Assemblyman-eect Cot
tie who was opposed by the Republican ma
chine. had announced that he was Republican
and would not oppose his party in the organiza-
tIon Of the Assembly. Mr. Cotte was elected as
n Mckinley League candidate. and men con-
nected with the League in this city have de-
cared that he can be counted upon 10 ad MI
Iambeer and his associates in opposing poss
rule In the Assembly