New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-10-25
OFFICIALS AT THE WIGWAM
~rry,S BUSINESS NEGLECTED. WHILE
THEY SWARM AROUND CROKER.
,r ROSS TALKS ABOUT HIS CAMPAIGN
attacks THE MAzET COMMITTEE
AND SAYS PLATT SHOULD


AND SAYS PLATT SHOULD
BE CALLED
v-,re the citys business goes 70 the howwows.
-, n~ieod Commissioners and city officials flock
.nrv 20 Tammany Hall to see Richard Croker. re-
- allegiance 10 him and remind him that they
~ ,atthrl To any ono who could have kept
'-oor ~ all city officials who called at Tammany
- yesterday 10 see Mr.. Croker and consult with
- ebon. the campaign the question would have
-. Nm with startling insistence as 70 who
r,rr care II the city IS business Nir Croker de-
a,6s daily appearance al Tammany Hall from
- .,asA leaders and they slavshly obey his com
IDS Although Mr. Croker did not arrive at the
+ssdouarte-s until afternoon yesterday. and ex-
-,a,,ed his absence by saying nonchalantly that
- rad been driving IN the Park with Mayor Van
1rvcr while score OF high priced city officials
"a been waiting for him for hours, yet the Wig
-, bun,r'od Ike beehive The campaign Is on
=. ssrnesf and Mr. Croker IS IN personal charge.
psports have reached Croker that the situation IN
.-el districts is not all that could be hoped for.
-. nrSers have gone ont for the leaders get 10
work
4.,av BE- remembered that when the Mazet Com
- o,ss IN session and several city officials were
sh,onsed some Of them kept waiting for a
,por. tine before being called 10 the stand. and
-, ,ro+estei uiairtivelv that the city's business
-ras suher.ng as result Of their enforced neglect
49,. Yesterday there were dozen times as many
,.v officials ~ Tammany Hall ever appeared
1,ors the Nla7et Committee In day. and they
s,ood around patiently all day. and not murmur
mas heard about the city suffering Some Of them
-e-aln a. Headquarters all day and do not 60 70
their oflces al al.
=, vas nearly l23O o'clock when Mr. Croker
coached the Tammany Wigwam. in Fourteenth-st
I'D greeted the organization leaders who had been
waiting for him since 10 O'Clock Among these were
r4-oo,lv o. Sullivan. Lawrence Delmour John
:, Carol Thomas F. Smith and a score Of others.
~ Croker said that he had been taking a drive
,n the Park and that made him late He had not
received from Mr Quigs. OF the Republican County
Committee the name of any who had taken
money from poolroons divekeepers for the Tam
many campaign although he offered Mr. Quigg
500 FOR The name Of any such person.
M Croker Vas asked what Tammany was going
p do with the special Grand Jury which dispatches
from Albany say that Governor Roosevelt is going
impansi IN order 10 Try primary fraud pre-
rented by State Superintendent McCuuagh
This IS only more Republican interference from
Albany w.'h the people Of New-York" said Mr.
Croker They are fixing II so that it's hard Job
70 register down here. Next thing know they
Vin be examining New-York voters for varicose
veins and that kind Of thing
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING.
meeting @: the Tammany Executive Commit
zee has been called for this afternoon 10 discuss
IRE general s!tua ton. The election Grand Juries
reply 10 the Republican Conventions address
will be formulated and published.
Maurice 3. Blumenthal. OF the Tammany Speakers
Bureau who IS also Assistant District Attorney,
SAID that the empanelling Of a special Grand Jury
by the Governor would probably bring the constitu-
ronalty Of the Special Elections Law, which Gre
sred McCunsshs Office. TO d test Tammany has
taken the ground all along that the bill was un-
constitutional and has refused 10 name her quota
q Special Election Deputies.
IF the Governors jury indicts any person the
validity OF the Indictment will be questioned al once,
end think that the courts Will declare the law
Unconstitutional" said Mr. B'umenthal
The Speakers Committee of Tammany Hall has
made number of new departures this year in The
arrangements for meetings and speakers one
thing emphasizing the local chaEafsor Of tas 2r
en- ssWss hs Sc e g1 Rot even at the
- ~. C,s ~ ali So be strga s"eae~
the idea that tie HNl-Croker fight had anything to
Go with this. as strong speakers from me interior
The meeting tomorrow night Will be a typical |
Be mas Of decorations and Bayne's esth Regiment
Band VIII enlIven things with music: Randolph |
oaggenhe.mer VII preside. Among the speakers
asa BRO G,l.ner John " ", Keller William william 81 |
i P. Bamon, J. Lindsay Gordon. BartQw 5
Wlnsow Williams and owen j. hindelon. ,..
p SStsqs . the aa d1oIo f IN E5rI s
German ana Italian. mere VIII De sepaIale Dahis |
a. these stands There VIII be 10 other Tammany !
ne y1X.5 slr lfrat wbere here NH be-
10 lef 1872 '1 'he tsht against Mazet
ATTACKS THE MAzET COMMITTEE.
NJ Croker in tho afternoon had something 70
fay abo.; the Mazet Committee. He thought that |
NJ Mazet should call Mr.. Platt. 81 could suggest
some good .estlors 20 SIX him." said Mr.. Croker
Pat could tell many things. 1t IS nonsense 20
gay thar Part has nothing 20 do with local affairs
here ~ Ne"-lork lie controls the Legislature
What could nose Ramapo men nave done witho3t