The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-08
BR00KFIELD ANTS PLAN.
CONTRIBUTION ADOPTED By THE
FIFTY-THREE.

1t Provides fer . blanket OmciaI BaIlet al
Primnries and Conventions with Every.
body's Candidates on Ht-Goinr to Have m
Early nnd Independent State Convantion.
The Brookneld Anti-Platt Committee of Fifty.
three met last night at the Windsor Hotel and
unanimously adopted a constitution which was
reported by q committee made UP Of Con. Wager
Swayne, Benjamin L. Hall, James s. Lehmaier,
II. w. Roseborn, A. f. Carl, Chase Molten, and
Louis 7. Golding and W.. II. Kenyon, Chairman
Of the Committee of Fifty Tho Constitu-
tional Committee has been working hard for two
weeks on the constitution. Hero is q synopsis
of It.:
The Assembly district the unit of organization.
At least three enrolment districts in each As
sembly district.
A General Committee of one delegate from
each Assembly district for each 500 votes for the
last Republican candidate for President.
Delegates dues $40 a year each.
The committee shall meet at least once o
month except in July and August.
A committee of thirteen on organization, to
be appointed by the President of tho General
Committee.
General Committee shall call all primaries and
conventions.
Tho Committee on Organization may peremp-
torily suspend on any election day or any pri-
mary eltcLion uhy .any OmCer OF q ulSCr1ct a99O-
citation. By a two-thirds vote the General Com.
mittee may abolish any Assembly district as
ISOLATION.
Delegates shall be elected to the Republican
State Convention. the Republican City Conven.
ton, and any convention in sight.
Every Republican voter in the county may
become eligible to membership in an Assembly
district association by signing the following
statement:
II am q Republican and intend to act with
the Republican party at national and State
elections. This declaration shall not prevent
me from joining and supporting any strictly
non-partisan movement for the election Of
municipal officers"
An official ballot to be used at all primaries
and nominating conventions. ANY D per cent.
Of the persons entitled to vote in such prima-
whose names shall be placed on the official bal
The Fifty.three say Of this last provision:
The right to nominate is the highest funo-
ton Of a political party; The people EJECT.
bosses. and the suffrage, a badge of servi-
to dictate tho nominations of his party. and
you reduce him to the ranks; allow him to en-
trench h and strengthen himself in that power
rules, New York because the Republicans
Of this city have been robbed BY fraud
eonventions Of their fSf'u right to anu nom aSastt:
The people vote for the candidate; the people
ought to have the right to say who the candi-
date shall be. But howl In no way in your
committees opinion. except by allowing Re-
publicans to vote at the primaries directly
for tho mon they desire to have nominat-
ed. To that end provision has been made In
the constitution for a direct vote OF the en-.
rolled members of the Assembly district asso.
Citations, for the men whom they desire to have
nominated for offices to be filed by the vote OF
tho people within that district"
The organization has hired rooms in the st.
James building, Twenty-sixth street and Broad
way, for headquarters. The Enrolment Com
mittee will meet there tonight. Mr.. Brook1eld
said last night that tho organization would be
extended throughout the State and that an
early State convention would be held, at which
q full ticket would be nominated.
"Then," said Mr.. Brookdeld. they will come
to us and ask US to recognize them."
Tho enrolment will begin in the week of
Jan. 10.