New-York tribune., 1900-05-29
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("THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS"}
BEWARE OF SUBSTfTUTIONS.
GREENE FOR PRESIDENT.
SAID TO BE WILLING TO HEAD THE
COUNTY COMMITTEE.
AN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CHAIRMANSHIP
WORK OF CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT

The announcement that General Francis Vinton
Greene is to be the president of the Republican
County Committee made last evening. District
leaders heard the news with apparent satisfaction
They had been waiting for weeks to have somebody
chosen for them General Greene declined several
weeks ago take the place. Later Colonel John j.
McCook, General James NJ Varnum and Frank $
Witherbee declined offers made to them by Senator
Platt.
The reasons for General Greene's change OF
mind made known last night. He was
attending a private dinner and was inaccessible
to the newspaper men 1t was Quigg hlmseil
who announced that General Greene had consented
to be a candidate for the presidency of the County
Committee.
.T shall resign that office" Mr. Quigg said lat
the next regular meeting of the committee. which
will be held the night of June q. Meanwhile
it is not unlikely that special meeting will be
called at which some changes in the rules will De
proposed be finally acted upon at the regular
meeting June 2l.'
General Greene is not member of the County
Committee at present, but Ii was said last night
that there would be no trouble In making him
member at once. Some member will resign, II nee
essary TO have General Greene substituted The
statement by Quigg that changes in the rules of
the County Committee may be expected about the
time of his resignation, was taken by several of
the district leaders to mean that General Greene
Is not willing assume ali the responsibility OF
running a political campaign in New-Yerk County
this fall. The rules will he amended to pro-
other than the president of the County Commit
tee General Greene may therefore be more of
respectable fgurehead for the County Committee
than active political manager.
Several of the distriet leaders said last night
that they felt sure Quisg would remain the
moving spirit of the County Committee after he
resigned the presidency of the committee, and 1t
may be that Qusg Will manage to keep the chair
maHship of the Executive Committee He is chair
man of the Executive Committee of the Republican
City Committee. and he declined to say last night
if he intended TO resign that position.
The announcement of the coming succession OF
General Greene to the presidency of the County
Committee surprised many of the district leaders
last evening because Senator Platt said before he
went to Washington Sunday morning that there
would be choice for the place until the return
of Benjamin b. Odell. jr. chairman of the Re-
publican State Committee. Mr.. OdeH is his
here about the end of this week. Some of the dis
trict leaders seemed to have a suspicion last night
hsP of Mr. ode T in County ws eomntte n9
affairs and had secured General Greene's accept
without consulting Senator Platt's wishes. knowing
that the Senator was already committed TO accept
Gepsga a / eresns will L. be nifty years old on June
was srsduated at the head OF his class the West
Of ce n a cps IN o R
he was r assigned to special duty in the office Of
5s5sane Isae obserTsz the
gained wide circulation For several years after
he returned this country he had charge of n
gineeriIg works in the District of Columbia. He
instructor at West Point in 1886 when ne
resigned from the Army He became vice-presi-
dent and later president Of the Barber Asphalt
State in 1889. and in 1892 he became Colonel of the
list Regiment.
,,n, In the war with Spain General Greene
sPanisn forces there: After his return from the
Philippines he was sent to Cuba to begin the work
of governmental reform in Havana. He had been
promoted TO the rank of major-general, and he
signed his commission upon his return from Cuba
last