New-York tribune., 1900-03-28
SHEEHAN WILL CONTEST.
DECLARES THAT MANY VOTES WERE
CAST BY GOODWIN REPEATERS.

The returns show that have been de-
feated. but the matter does end with
those returns. 1 know that I have been
defeated by unfair methods, and 4 know
that five six hundred fraudulent votes
have been cast against me by Goodwin
penters. L nm not yet prepared 20 state
what course i shall pursue but will
certainly hold a separate convention and
Will send a contrasting delegation from this
distrfct to the State Cow ventiOn the
ground that the Goodwin success Is the
result of fraud and idatton.-JOHN C.
SHEEIIAN
The only district in which there was any con-
test In the Tammany organization the IXth.
where Frank ]. Goodwin. under Croker's orders.
sought to defeat Jchn C. Sheehan. Just before
II o'clock Mr. Sheehan knew that he had been
beaten. Not only did the last of the returns
which came in shortly before that bring with
them gloom for him. but the triumphant cheers
which from the direction of the Seymour
Club betokened that the Goodwin faction had
the fight
The returns showed that Sheehan's had
polled only 1.549 votes. against 1,673 votes on the
other side giving the Godwinites majority of
124. When the result was made known enthusi-
asm broke loose without restraint in the Sey-
mour Club. The followers of Croker and Good
win had carried on the struggle against Sheehan
with the bitterest of feeling. and almost to the
last moment they were In doubt to the out
any question TO their success they gave vent
to their pentup feelings with all kinds of joyous
demonstrations.
Outside the clubhouse a crowd of fully five
hundred people gathered. and, taking up the
cheering Of those inside they yelled them
selves hoarse in their exuberance. In a
very short tire band got together
and the celebration continued with the
compartment of music. The clubrooms were
bi-x &c
Their first impulse to shower congratua-
tions upon Goodwin, whose eventual leadership
of the district they declared now placed be-
yond doubt and then seizing him bodily they
placed him upon table and insisted upon
speech from him.
I'VE have administered just and stinging
buke" he shouted by way of compliance, Ito
dirty cowardr'
Next Thomas F. Smith secretary to Richard
Croker who has been of the leaders in the
fight against Sheehan, compelled to speak
Referring to Mr.. Sheehans charges that Good
win and himself were traitors because he (Shee-
ham had made" them. Mr.. Smith exclaimed:
THAT is dirty lie, and is on a par with other
lies that Sheehan has said. Sheehan KNOWS
that he lies. Neither Mr. Goodwin nor L owe
anything to that fellow Sheehan
Peter t. Plunkett, the recently chosen Good
win captain in the Sixteenth Election District.
also paid his respects to Mr. Sheehan in simi-
lar strain. He intimated that at the last prina-
res Sheehan had tried to bribe the GoOdwinites
and had endeavored to repeat the effort upon
this occasion. but the scheme had not worked
While all this jubilation going on in the
Seymour Club there was spirit of depression
hanging over the PeQuod Club, just across the
way Mr.. Sheehan and his lieutenants received
the returns in upper room of the building,
and the silence and gloomy faces in the apart
ment after about 10 o'clock evidence
enough that the OF the Sheehan camp had
given up hope. Even before the final returns
had been received Mr. Sheehan admitted that he
had been worsted and he made the statement
quoted
threat II will be the first contesting delegation
to a Democratic State convention from this city
for many years. Sheehans election inspectors
declared last night that they had ample evil
dence of illegal voting the part of the Good
win supporters. The captain of the Twenty
second Election District asserted that six men
had voted from No 3:53 Tenth ave. which was
really an empty house, while men had also voted
from No 3l3 Eleventh-ave who he had found
did not live there at all.
Assemblyman Phillips. who arrested. de-
clared last night that he would authorize his
lawyers, Coudert Brothers. to proceed to-day
against Mr.. Goodwin both criminally and civ
lily. He said his arrest a bit OF pure malice
He had never surrendered his residence. he
tended. DR. Valentine Walsh. who lives in Mr..
Phps's house, corroborated this statement.
and said the Assemblyman held two large par
lors there. The Goodwin faction admitted that
mistake had been made by proceeding upon In
definite Information.
The vote for the two sides in the twenty-five
Dist. Goodwin sheehan. Dist Goodwin sheehan.