New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-28
URGING STRONG'S CLAIMS.
GENERAL COILS AT WORK ON THE RE-
PUBLICAN ORGANIZATION.
HE GIVES A DINNER AT THE CLAREMoNr AM
PRESSES THE MAYOR AS THE CANDIDATE
FOR THE CHIEF MAGIsTRACY OF
THE GREATER CITY.

THE GREATER CITY
The first recognized effort Of the campaign to
bring the regular Republican organization OF
New-York City into line for the nomination or
William L. Strong for Mayor of the Greater
New-York was made last evening at dinner
given by General c. II. T. Coils, Commissioner
of Public Works. The General last night invited
friends to join him at the Claremont, IN River
side Park Those present numbered weli-knowh
politicians who recognize Senator Platt as the
head and front of the Republican organization.
The dinner began at about p. m. Covers
were laid for fourteen persons Besides General
Coils, the host, who presided, there were Con-
gresham Lemuel e. Quigg, Collector George H.
Bidwel, Frederick S. Gibbs, National Republi-
can Committeeman, and leader of the lNth AS
semby District Republican Association; Silas I.
Croft, Commissioner of Charities under Mayor
Strong, and Mr.. Platt's selection for Surveyor OF
the Port. to succeed Mr. Mcguire: Postmaster
Van Cott, John Reisenweber, George Hiliard'
State Deputy Commissioner of Excise; NJ.
Fl. Healey, Republican leader OF the lst
Assembly District; District-Attorney Will
lam NJ X. Ocott Captain John ;. Gra-
ham, Superintendent of the Bureau Of Re-
pairs and Supplies in the Department OF
Public Works. and Republican leader of General
George c. Austin. member for the NHlst Dis
trct and chairman of the Assembly Committee
on Cities: Commissioner Thomas l.. Hamilton,
OF the Board OF Electrical Control, by Mayor
Strong's appointment and IN active member OF
the district organization in which Mr.. Gibbs ana
City Magistrate Clarence w. Meade have the
control and William Henkel, Superintendent or
the Bureau of membranes, Of the PUBIC
Works Department. Republican leader OF 'he
XVIIIth Assembly District, and said TO be slated
for United States Marshal of the southern dis
trict of New-york by the organization.
The majority Of the men whom General COILS
Invited although attached to Mr. Platts ma
chine. some Of them quite recently admitted
can be depended upon to support Mayor strong
for the Greater New-York Mayor.
General Coils, after the dinner had peen
eaten and the cigars were lighted, made a
speech, in which he spoke of noted reform tri-
umphs of Mayor Strong's administration. He
took care to include the excellent work per-
formed since Mayor Strong's inauguration not
only by his own Department of Public Works,
but by the departments Of Street Cleaning and
Health that of Taxes and Assessments and
Docks, the Law Department, the departments OF
Charities and Correction, Jurors and Accounts,
and even by such marvellously conducted de-
partments as the Department OF Buildings.
General Coils showed what immense strides IN
reform had been made In the last three years
in street lighting and paving, street cleaning
dock building in the collection and distrioutlon
of the water supply, and, in fact in every de-
partment of the city government. The speaker
took the ground that Mayor Strong was the
logical candidate OF the anti-Tammany party OF
| New-York in the Greater New-York struggle for
| Mayor
| Whatever might be said in favor Of Seth
| Low General Coils believed that Mr.. strong
| as the head of the first truly reform govern
| ment of New-York, must prove the candidate
| of all Republicans and anti-Tammany voters
| who believed that the reforms Of the last three
| years should be continued. and who desired that
! no step backward be taken
| General Coils Is row in perfect accord with
| the regular organization OF New-York. When
| the Republican constitution was amended re-
Gently so that ofiiceholders might take seats
| in the County Committee and resume an active
! part in the organization General Coils at the
| very first meeting appeared with the necessary
| credentials and took his old place in the com
! mittee While many of his associates in the
| city government had declared their purpose
| to make common cause with the Citizens Union,
! Mr. Coils held aloof from the movement ana
| insisted on all possible occasions that the cam
| didate who had shown his faith In reform by
his works was Mayor Strong, and that he was
! the man for the anti-Tammany legons to unite
upon as they did in 1894.
| Speeches were made also by Dstrict-Attor-
| ney Olcott Pr rasident Qugg and other guests
| OF General Coils. No dscordant notes, II was
| said were sounded.