The sun., 1898-01-09
A Conspiracy Against Security and
Prosperity.


The band of factionists in this city who
are engaged in an attempt to disorganize
the Republican party and bring about its
defeat in the election next November and
the national election of 1900, have now
thrown Off all disguises and published
their scheme and its details to Republicans
Of New York and the Union generally.
From the first, they have made no conceal.
ment Of their treacherous intentions in
their private conversation, but have boast
/ ed Of them.
Z A report made on Friday evening by q
committee of these malignants and traitors
announces their purpose to undertake an
enrolment of their faction, and subse.
with view to dividing the Republican
ranks and perpetuating intestine war in
the party. Their scheme Is to stir up this
factious strife in both the city and
country districts, and to engineer an
independent or Mugwump State conven.
tion of their own for the purpose
Of dividing the Republican vote suffi-
GENTLY to give the State to the Demo-
Gratis. They are the more industrious be-
cause OF the momentous Importance of the
election Of this year, when the officers to
be elected are Governor to succeed Gov
ernor BLACK, Legislature involving the
election Of United States Senator to
succeed Senator MURPHY, and Congress-
men. II Is not improbable that the COM
plexion of the next Congress, whether it
shall be Republican OF Democratic, will
turn on the election in New York next
November.
2 IL 10 their openly acknowledged game to
repeat on a larger scale the conspiracy in
this city in the late campaign which caused
the return of Tammany to power and the
defeat of Judge WALLACE for the Court of
Appeals; and the conspirators are the same.
Chief among them is WHrTELAw REID, a
disappointed and embittered office-seeker,
who pulls the wires In secret, and WfL-
LIAM BRooKFIELD, man of small calibre
intellectually, but impelled by malignity
and spite, which have become q mania In
his narrow mind. Following their plan in
the municipal campaign of last year. they
propose TO play the trick of holding q State
convention In advance of the Republican
convention, so that thus they shall be first in
the field with q ticket of their own, to be
used for the defeat of the Republicans and
4 the benefit Of the Democrats at the election.
Accordingly, they start out by encourag.
Ing party dislOyalty, arrogating to them
1elvss formally the privilege Of joining
IN any "non.partisan" municipal move
Nents. This, of course. opens the way
70 "non-partisanship" generally, In other
words. to Mugwumpery; and consequently
the chief agents and abettors of their
conspiracy are the Mugwumps and the
Mugwump newspaper organs most dlstin.
guished for the bitterness of their malig-
nifty against the Republican party. OF
course, they talk loudly about the horrors
end the perils OF "bossism," because their
whole conspiracy is itself an attempt at
bossism" OF tho most shameless char
acter. and 1t is necessary to humbug people
With hypocrisy. '....
Never before were the Republicans Of
this State and of the Union under
greater obligations than now bind them
TO unity and harmony In their support
Of their party, Its principles and Its
ticket. They are obligations of more Inn
portance than those usually resting upon
party. Such unity is duty Of good citizen
1hip at n time when the defence of the
honor and integrity of this republic is COM
mitted to the Republican party solely, and
when American prosperity depends on re-
Aistance to Democratic attempts at repudia-
tion, which can be made successful only by
the consolidation of the Republicans for the
campaign OF 1903 and the campaign Of
1900. In both those elections the issue
will be substantially the same as 1t was In
1896. There will be the same perils for
business interests, the same dangers to
AL Industry, and all true and sound citi.
aenship will again be compelled to follow
the Republican standard.
At such . time, in the city of New York,
wh0se interests are msnAesd most Of ali
" ths Bge eAlsm now more dominant and