The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-24
TAMSEN'S CROWD SAY NAY.
WOULDN'T 90 INTO a soHMER noon
HITH sULzER.

EEeid an Upstsirs NzseiinE ut the Astor House
ana Refused to Conrer with tho sohmer
Boomers Heiow-Ths Latter Adjourn 10 sun
day, when Thoy Rxpcct TO Get . Crowd.
About fifty Germans, who TAI that they rep
resented 900 German societies and 100,-
600 German votcrs in Greater New York,
met yesterday IN tho Astor House in response
to a call issued by tho German Democratic
League, whatever that may be.
Sheriff Tamson headed n committee from the
Gorman.Amorican Reform Union, consisting Of
himself, Edward y. Amend, Jean We'll, and
Julius A. Zibell. DR.. Frederick, tho Presi.
dent OF the Swiss Societies of Brooklyn. headed
a committee representing the Brooklyn Ger
man Gibbons League, his fellow committcemen
being Clemens H~uencwinckell, Frederick Weld.
ner, Louis Happ. Xavier Becker, and George
Juraschek. Tho United German Societies OF
New York had four mon who profossed to rep
resent thom: LorenZ Zellcr, Herman Sulzer,
K. Brandle, and G. L. Miller.
Henry Winters, Jr., proprietor of a VIII.
hamsburg dance hall; S. A. Weber, proprietor
OF another dance hall; A. Wynkopf, manager
OF Brooklyn's Arion Hall; c. Jaeger, and ].
Colo, were present as n represent
ing the United German Societies of Brooklyn.
The German Democracy" was represented
by w. f. Grell. +. schwarzchild, DIR. Louis
N1'sN@N Ns AtSoNao hhu Il . II tbthiu IL
Swedish Societies Of New York were supposed
to BIO represented by +. Anderson. Then there
were men who said they were delegates from
the Queens county and Richmond county Ger.
man organizations, and from the Hungarian.
Polish. Slavonic, and Bohemian societies Of
Creator New York. together with the German
Business Mems League.
1t was evident that Register Sohmer was to
BIO doomed as a candidate for the Greater New
York Mayoralty nomination. There was so
much talk about SOhmer In the air that Sheriff
Tamscn's crowd and tho German Reform lead
ers from Brooklyn got together under one of
the stairways and decided to head off tho
Sohmer boom by holding, a meeting Of their
own. They hurried upstairs TO Parlor "a and
tlcians, electine one OF their members. DR..
FREDERICK, Chairman of the conference. When
some OF tho other Germans claiming to repre-
sent other organizations reached the room
sle ahead for the sehmer boom: 90 Herman
hotel, and there started an independent con-
fefence which he referred 70 as the, only
as Chairman and Richard Muller as Secretary.
The Germans upstairs refused to come down.
and the Germans downstairs refused to go up.
read: I'VE can't confer with anybody or any
organization that is not a political organization
ing this resolution the Hansen crowd adjourned
to the wine room and had harmony with them.
belNeb.
In the meantime the Sulzer crowd held a
lively meeting with closed doors. When their
p mss,lnE Sep %as svs he they sSyrot admitted es6l,} the ne sSs,
,,the meeting would now commence. as we
havS chosen q Chairman, secIetary. and Vice.
resolution appointing a committee of five to go
out and come back again. The committee
San$ed pH IN a 'R 9epor rhe which hEiisi r ead' coming BACK
Whereas. we have been called to this con-
feren9e BY the american Citizens.
on a Germen.Amcricen candidate for Mayor.
we report that It is the sense of this meeting
cumstances, and while we came here to con-
Ter with certain other organizations, TO find
v Z III their br.t choice was and uniting. Il possible.
dorse the candidacy Of William sohmer."
The report was unanimously adopted. Then
talking at once. each proposed the name Of a
favorite candidate for Assembly, asking the
The Chairman ordered. them all to sit down,
% ss%RIiy &c ssn sassisss;. ana Ida sSains H. i9as ss tSsss 5a11Ss
an adjouraMent would Be- taken u until il Sunday day.
1 ASS e Rb5lSs'r rooms ,0e on . TR %rdun Avenue IN I to tafs
place at 9 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, when
New York:would DO expected to attend.
The Suizer crowd then adjourned to the wine
s seo el sna sat on Htt she nae nae opposite %sn ii 70 the the Tam am
Sulzer.
The Rldderbund members are not, or at least
have not been. favorable to the candidacy OF
William Sohmer. They said that the men who
represented the other organizations who assem-.
bleG at the Astor House were invited by Or.
Friederich's BrooklyI Citizens League. The
Ridderound had no authority from the CARGO
central organization to confer with them. and
they refused to do so.
The real reason for their refusal. however. was
the fact that they recognized the men who rep
resented themselves as delegates as professional
Sohmer boomers end knew most OF them as
members OF the Tammany Hall General Com
mittee. Among them Otto Kempner, Felix
Swarzchild,, Richard Muller, Franz Mayer, and
Charles Miller. as well as others. arc political
followers Of Mr.. SOhmer In the Tenth Assem-
bly, district.
Miller is a clerk in the Registers office under
Sohmer and used to DO an employec of Sohmer
always manages the arrangements for Tam.
many Hall German mass meetings and Herman
Sulzer has been In the Sohmer booming business
caught in a trap by these Representative Ger
mans"