New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-20
TORIVAL CROKER'S DINNER
THE DOIJ,AR.APLATE MEN ARRANGE
FOR THEIR FEAST.
WARM INTERCHANGE OF CoURrEslEs
AT CLARENDON HALL AiMOSl
ENDS IN A FIGHT.

.,,.uor p,nner Democrats" had meet
., clarendon Hall last evening for the osteh-
- r,,rrose Of signifyng their displeasure re
r.ra,rS the Jefferson dinner arranged by hlcn-
"a Croker and to give name 10 'he a'""
-. .,ev had In hand which should clearly us
,,rouisb q from the ten-donar banquet - '
,hos, of the immortal Thomas mao peen "0' -,
,rs around Clarendon Hall last nls"'' 's -
.e~,ov,or would undoubtedly have taAe" ''
49,, crimson hue-that is. presuppos'hs '''''
anos,s are able 10 blush. 1t Is not 'Ne'',
ever that any self-respecting shos' ""S .,,nod
~ e~st Mace when the reporter inquire"
o, Of the door in what room the ihee'
TO- ,as n he held that person said: Jus. 'Vu
80 do,,r ,'roo de bar. and the gint tne'e " ''''
,.oz The reporter did so. and was oire''eu
o,,,h q stone staircase. whlch leu III
so.ca,ed music hall. where an Angular
:, hrief garments was singing SAD oa''"o WIN
on attenusted voice. The show IN 'ie "''
hall was as inspd as oatmeai W@'e'' INA.
conpared with the exhibition tha' '"o
Democrats we're giving upstairs.
,fter this let no man who is looking TOT eN
-, -, 70 find il by venturing into lion
ooeo or temptlng fac in balloon the h'o''''"'
,ho ha,tle-aeld san Juan Hin could not
have been any hotter. ard n poor ola Cer'e'"
- 60 strike another Santiago or soue'"ine
. q. met let come 10 this great c'''
s 49,. 20 make speech in the great rree-
-, 80, aroma Of the dollar Democracy
-, ,ha,,ls his stars that he didn't st'lNe any
=. IVA truly American than naNai pa'''
~ .,o, Richard Croker wasn't there o"'
-. ,io,r himself could not have roareo l'"s'.
-. louder for the way that royal oeaS' '""
ros n,,lled last night was caution l" 90, =
.o,,ard tho end Of the meeting. when soihe'ou'
s,,~costed that the names OF everybody III Wv
-, he rlaced on the Committee OF ways "''N
,,lars for the dinner. some one arose anu wan
a - kroyv what assurance they hao 'n'
c,,Lcr himself was not present hlol"E HIS
,,1oous n,ien under the mask OF innocence
~ eo,,oved some other pleasantres on the
-. noin, in which it was sugseS'Fo '""'
:, oro might even be feons and criminals Pr
al eor all they knew these persons "ou'0 '''''
-. 700 glad 10 have their names on the CON"
r,..t,e IN order to interfere as iar aS po'S''''
With The success Of the dinner.
FIGHT IMMINENT.
r~,,,ons 10 this the proceedings had reached
tho boiling point many times. and al one ~'"S
. ,-oe-fo,- all fght was imminent AS mas peei
stated the original purpose OF the meeting was
o. decide upon the name for the dinner d.
-, =, would seem that dollar dinner ny
INV name would taste the sam@ Ihe Original
,,rnose Was lost sight Of for the greater part
Of the evening.
new motion was made on the average every
two minutes and each one Of the hundfeu oi
49,. ,,,s, il, the room seemed to think that his
sole call in life was to speak as long as louo ana
o many times as possible on each ana every
o,,or And that there should he no lack Of OPP
ror,pnitv. each motion was amended several
-. calling for separate and distinct flows OF
-. IN each amendment. After the meeting
&c about an hour old the smoke from numer-
&c ,iras and cigars was so thick in the Ioon'
ia Tho voices of the soubrettes and hunorlsts
o. tho dance hall could be heard SO distinctly
Tho, n was decided 10 adjourn 10 an upper roo'i'
This gave everybody time for second prea'ii'
and the wrangling went on as before.
I Boulton. Of Brooklyn Borough. presiueu'
and in taking the chair he said that 'he ieai
object Of the meeting was to get 'oee'"e' ".'
those who followed in the wake Of Thonas JET
ferson Abraham Lincoln and William j. b'S "'''
lie recommended that Mr.. Freel. who was pres
en-, as the representative of the Slereo'HPe!9
Union be made permanent chairman. l. vi
Dalv of the Metal Polishers Union then arose
and said that he was not present as the repre-
sentative of any labor organization ana '""
what he believed in were the principles u
Thomas jefferson He suggested that the ul""e'
was not to be Republican. neither was 1t 10 De
Democratic; nor was 1t to he for the purpose oi
Endorsing the Chicago platform. nor any olne'
platform. Its purpose ""S ~
Thomas Jefferson , eo,,ood b,t
truce was finally brought about ny MAJ
1,obarS Hinton who suggested that as
compromise Mr.. Boulton he permitted 10 ooS S
the chair Then John OXley. delegate iron
Jersey CITY had his first inning, anu he az a.,
,rind ~ make II understood that the meetint
was not a labor meeting. but gathering Vl s I
who upheld and believed in the po''''al No0
trines Of Thomas Jefferson
URANGIuNG OVER NAME
Then there was more wrangling. In whc'
everybody implied that everybody else Kne" "o
Of what he was talking, and in whlch IL pecai'
evident that each Of several elements was " ,
ing 10 make his particular hobby prominent I"
the DINNER plans. The labor men talked labor
the Chicago platform men talked PLATFORM IN
TeFfersonians talked Jefferson and everybod'
took a fling at Croker. In fact. the one deel
note that could be heard rumbling above IN
general din was a remuneration Vi 'N7 p'99
Tammany Hall.
Finally Matthew Burr moved that the anai
he STYLED "a banquet by the admirers or Ihoina
JeNerson the proposition meeting cheers. whlcl
Nv given with equal VehemenCe when j.
Lynch offered amendment IN which IN
name Chicago Platform Jenersonian DIN
ner'' was embodied An election OF per
manent officers was then begun. and A
I Boulton made permanent Chalr
man. d b. Van Week secretary and Eugene
brewster treasurer. Then somebody VINO wa
evidently hard 10 satisfy and who was lookln
- matter saving that the motion as carrie
had practically "disfranchised" him as repre-
tative Of a labor organization.
Eurene V Brewster then told how the zoe
of the dinner started. He said that ms the ma
ter became public he had received many letter
in sympathy with It. and money had also pee
sent TO him He had given The matter muc
thought and he had been convinced that IN
AFFAIR ought TO be National in its character: Il
suggested that II would be right TO invite Col'
mel Bryan. Governor Pingrec or Michigan en-
Mayor Jones of Toledo: the two latter Repuol
cans in name but in reality Democratic IN IN
true Jeffersonian sense of the word The
somebody proposed that II be made Llncoi
and jefferson Dinner" but the suggestion wa