New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-16
q. II. r. BELMONT RESIGNS.
NOT TO SERVE on CROKER'S DINNER
INVITATION COMMITTEE.
A RIVAL BANQUET At 81 4 PLATE TO BB
GIVEN BY BRYAN DEMOCRATS ON
THE SAME NIGHT.

GIVEN By BRYAN DEMOCRATS ON
THE SAME NIGHT.
There Is merry war within the Democratic
club as a result ~ the plans for the big din
ner to he given at the Metropolitan opera House
on the night Of April 13 by the club TO cele-
brste the birthday of Thomas Jefferson. o. II.
p. Pelmont. VINO member OF the Com
mittee on Invitations and Speakers sent in his
resignation to the committee yesterday. and in
speaking OF it last nigh expressed in emphatic
terms his disapproval OF the plans for the en-
tertainment Mr.. Belmont said: My reason
for resignlng was that tho executive adverts-
ing in advance Of the date Of the dinner and
the magnitude NJ it's size gave the right Of
every one to suppose that it was 70 he reunion
Of prominent Democrats local State and Ma
tional. The announcement that only State
Democrats we're to be invited gave 1t another
aspect, and l considered II bad policy and I'LL
advised. and resigned that account. I trust
that the last departure | have read Of in the
papers Of inviting Democrats from outside the
State will tend to make the proposed dinner q
success"
There have been many contradictory state
ments and announcements regarding this din
ner that many people disguised. Mr.. Croker
has said emphatically that no Democrat outside
Of the State would be invited. but the corre-
spondence that passed between Perry Belmont.
president of the club and William J. Bryan
proves that the latter invited, and shows
how he regarded the invitation. This inter-
change Of telegrams. the details of which were
printed in The Tribune yesterday caused lively
comment in many circles. Mr. Belmont had
nothing to add the story printed and II
was said that nothing further had been heard
(sr.Ly catA last
that there were no developments relating to the
dinner The steward Of the club announced
that he had engaged eighty wine men and two
hundred walters for the night.
The BRYAN Democrats OF Brooklyn and Man.
haitian decided through their representatives.
last night at a conference held at the house OF
Eugene v Brewster No. 366 Monroest. Brook
lyn. to have genuine Democratic dinner in
Manhattan Brooklyn on April IL, the night
Of the Croker Democratic Club dinner In Man.
haitian and they expect to have in attendance
William J. Bryan. Ex-Governor Atgeld. Mayor
Jones. OF Toledo. and others.
The announcement by Mr. Croker that a din
ner at SO a plate would be held April l3
aroused the wrath of the Bryan men in Brook-
lyn and on Sunday last at the meeting or the
Central Labor Union a number OF brooklyn
Democrats decided 10 get up "a real Jeftersonan
dinner TO cost not more than 81 plate rms,
they asserted, would be more in accord with
Jeffersonian principles. and would call atten-
ton to the alleged fact that Croker and MS
friends in the Democratic Club are not Demo
Gratis at all Besides, they argued, they would
doubtless the attendance OF Colonel Bry-
an or Mr.. Altgeld. and in that case the cheaper
spread would prove more attractive
The meeting last night at the nome OF MI
Brewster was most enthusiastic one, and II
was held under the auspices OF the local Ad-
visory Board of the National Democratic Ways
and Means Committee. With this stamp OF
regularity and authenticity, Mr. Brewster and
his friends sailed into the friends OF MT
Croker and If the atter's ears are at all sensl-
tive they must have redeemed at the Things
which were said. The upshot OF the meeting
the appointment Of committee consisting
of Richard j. Hinton. Augustus c. Daily ana
Eugene V Brewster, TO confer with the labor
organizations Of Manhattan and Brooklyn ana
the other boroughs with view 70 arrahglng gaos =
people The place for holding II has not yet
been decided
Alfred ] Bolton representing District Assem-
bly No l46 X OF L., and the Brooklyn branch
of the Stereotypers Union was present at the
conference last night, and said that the tine
was ripe for the real friends Of labor 10 assert
themselves and show Mr. Croker and his friendo
that they did not represent the real Democrats
OF the metropolis. He said that as soon as II
was announced that the Croker dinner wouio
cost SO n plate II had set the laborns men
to thinking. II well known, he added, sna1
only about two men in the Democrauc CIuo
had voted for Bryan and the National Demo.
cratic platform As a fight was lneVltaple. IL
was said. between the Tammany Hall Demo
Gratis and the National Democrats, IL hlshe 40
well be started az once.
There Is also trouble between Tammany anu
organized labor because Of the attitude OF inc
steward OF the Democratic Club as 10 the en- en-,
nlovment OF union walters at the coming cin-
ner 7, started at the meeting OF the Miscelia-
neous Section of the Central Federated Union
az clarendon Hall Oh Tuesday night Inc
wrangle between the Tammany men In tne
meeting and the other delegates was so warm
that II lasted until the early hours OF yesterday
morning Even then peaceful settlement nao
NOT been reached and II was fnaly resolved
to apnoint a committee 10 cooperate with the
Central Labor Union of Brooklyn In the giving
of another Jeffersonian dinner
soon after the opening Of the meeting or the
Miscellaneous Section Samuel Prince, delegate
NJ the Cigar Packers Union, made a report OF
the meeting OF the committee appointed by the
section and Richard Croker. Delegate Prince.
the Spokesman Of the committee. said that ne
and bts feIow-committeemen called on Mr.. Cro-
Ter at the Democratic Club and that after he
had acquainted the Tammany leader with the
object of the visit the latter had said that ne
aid not have charge Of the details or the COM
ing dinner but would refer the committee 10
Judge Dugro.
Delegate Prince then asked Mr.. croker IL ne
CIr Croker did not think that organized laoor
was entitled 10 some consideration. Mr Croke.
had replied: Yes: | appreciate what organize"
labor has done for me- 49,
The steward had then been called by Mr. Cro-
Ler and had promised to employ fair propor-
tion ~ union walters. This report did not sa,.
jsry MANY OF the delegates. as they insisted tnAt
ALI the walters should be union men.
TO ENEOPCE THE BAIT ACT.