The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-24
NO FEBRUARY CONVENTION
MANHATTAN HOTEL COMMITTEE
STANDS lDJOURNED.

george \. Matthews Tells Why-A Coed PFi-
uarIes Law VIII Protect All Republicans
sunloiently. asa the Plnn OF DefeatinE
OrEnnisatisn Candidates us set ASIDE.
William Brookneld, who went to Albany on
Friday and had q talk with Gov. Black. made a
report Of his conversation with the Governor TO
George Il. Matthews Of Buffalo on Saturday
night. Mr.. Matthews Is one of the men who. on
Wednesday evening. announced that they were
going 10 defeat the Republican organizations
candidates throughout the State next fall, or
kill themselves politically In the attempt Mr..
Brookfeld's report Of his visit to the Governor
was so pleasing to Mr.. Matthews that 1t pro-
duced the following statement, which was issued
Last nights:
f AsS R YSrE' hS 81 t Al he sRSp@SS snsastS az f aSt stat fS
w;sappointsd 70 d time and; place and draft
Rspnbl,cahs q the State. That committee has
interest has been shown at Albany in the pas.
much weight has been given to the efforts TO
secure such q lay by the rational conference on
promises have. been made BY the party leaders
OF really efficient and adequate !egislation to
primary %sloestiOn; = and the cali FOR such oh lesisia,
tion has become SO stern: that 1t seems to your
guards which shalt give tho Individual Repub.
lcan. in phce Of an uncertain PRIVILEGE. q right
et1ewto have his equal voice In the councils OF
Your committee therefore recommend that
meotins be- tenn eiopor"r hg' p Ssaps ne ,n and rdf that
your committee stand subject to tho cali Of tho
oH THIS report Sa sns having %fsssns soen received and ap.
proved by the Chairman Of the meeting, the
SsSe to esil. STANDS ' GnSHan \. M Sd1ppnnss sub
JAN. %. 1893.
In giving out this statement Mr.. Matthews
said that the promises Of primary legislation
were evidently sincere, and that no expected
that n law satisfactory to all would be adopted
at this session of the Legislature. Mr.. Matthews
thought that the legislative committees would
draft o bill embodying the good points of all tho
bills submitted to them, and that It would b
reported to both branches and passed. He
was quite. suro that Gov. Black was in favor Of
honest primaries. and that he would use his in
fuence to promote the enactment of q law Sc
curing thom. So there will be no February
anti-Platt State Convention.
While Mr.. Brookfeld's visit to the capital was
cminently satisfactory to Mr.. Matthews, 1t had
q very disquieting effect on the Fifty-three, Mr..
Brookfield's local machine. The members of the
Fffty-three think that Mr.. Brookfeld should not
have gone near Albany, because, they say, such
q visit as he made on Friday was sure to be mis-
interpreted Just how 1t was to be misinter-
preted they do not say, but previous
to his departure 1t was urged that some
man whose name was not SO intimately
associated with the Fifty.throe should have
visited Gov. Black. Several of the Fifty.three
spoke strongly against Mr.. Brookfeld's under
taking tho mission, and as soon as he got homo
Mr.. William Houston Kenyon, Chairman of tho
Fifty.three, issued q proclamation %disowning
Mr.. Brookfield's trip and saying that the Fifty
three didn't intend to get mixed up in any State
movement. Mr.. Kenyon also spoke for the
Twenty-nine. tho Eleven and the Seven.
No State meeting will be held next month.
That much is settled, but Mr.. Matthews said
yesterday that any slackening in the zeal of the
cqmmittee to meet, again:
now getting ready for the enrolment that is to
letter which be wrote last week to George Haven
Putnam Of the Nineteenth assembly district
the proposition that there cannot be a victory in
licap organization Is in q combination of all the
anti:Tsmmany forces. He says: ,,
and political conditions party has come to DO
the final means and instrument through which
ernment has to do With It. must be attained.
The ultimate end. therefore, of such an organi.
e. fssi S9. e y HsSf;. + 10 10 s ysSy Hs one q r T6 ,SS Sshs5 sI #
soon Thereafter. il. It. is worthy. the new iass,
goes into The law OF tho land and into the life
Of tho people. The most promising step
for you to take to-day in order to
secure the ultimate adoption of tho
principle of non.partisanship In municipal az
fairs by this whole community of the Creator
New York, 80 that it shall become a part of the
habit and life Of the people here. is to enter with
all your heart and soul into the movement for
reorganization of the Republican party hero on
those lines, and to insure the success OF that re-
organization and to insure It's permanent reten.
ton on those lines. Then the issue becomes a
practical results will be within sight"