New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-17
GRUBER ASsAILS QUIGG.
ACCUSES Elm OF DEMANDING AFFECT
SUBMISSION
GIVES STRIKING PROOF OF PAST LOYALTY
TO PLATT AND SAYS HE WILL
DEFEAT AUSTIN

DEFEAT AUSTIN.
Woe is me, why fated
To be shut and isOIatedY
A broken branch. a torn OF 6pfE.
I'm rendered NIL by Mr.. Quigg.
No PspaI bull nor priestiy
Could do as much could do worse.
Shut OF from pap" right to think,
The right 10 sleep, eat, drink
No more 10 follow LENS combines,
Nor shout "Amenr' Whenever he whines,
And while he leads TO defeat
Say, "He's the man that can't be beat"
All. Quigg, If must be alone,
And for my sinful atone,
One soinee win be sweet and big
won't be near you, Mr.. euigg.
This poem said Colonel Abe Gruber TO a
big crowd Of Republicans last night I wrote
during period OF deep depression which came
upon me last Sunday morning as I sat conteTn-
plating the awfulness OF the threat recently
made by Lemuel Eli Quigg to isolate not only
me but every Republican Of this. district who
refuses TO do his bidding"
But the poem cast no gloom over the men who
had assembled to hear him at No. 125 West
One-hundredth-st. They know that the gifted
Colonel Is the author OF little book Of original
political maxtrns, one OF which is Never try TO
throw a leader off the wharf until you have got
him up to the stringpiece-" They believe that
Quigg has not hauled Gruber anywhere near the
stringpiece yet, and they feel confident that the
coming primaries VIII prove by a big majority
that he IS still the leader Of the XXIst Assem-
bly, District, despite all efforts 10 overthrow him
Mr. Gruber made a racy speech. which was
loudly applauded, and whenever he let the lash
of his satire or invective fall upon Quigg his
hearers shouted: Give It to him. Abe!' Let him
have It hotP' You can't put it too strong" and
other encouraging remarks. Especially loud
was the laughter when the speaker, appealing 10
his hearers against the charge that he was not
a 1T district leader because he would not carry
out orders from Plat and Quigg, said:
Great Heavens, haven't 1 shown that can
take orders and carry them Outt Didn't
they tell Eae go up and down the XVIII
Congress District four years ago and be
against MeKinIeyf And 1 was against Me-
KfnIey. Did not they tell me to keep away
from strOngf And kept away from strong
Didn't they say, "Let US do up the tea mer-
ehants" And 1 started TO do up the tea
merchant and w 1,7OO votes short In
the XXIst Assembly District. Haven't we
gone through enough slime for them: But
they want more. They want abject submits
sion not only in deed and word but In
thought.
The meeting was one Of series being held
throughout the district, which is greatly inter
ested IN the fight which George c. Austin Is
making 70 wrest the leadership from Colonel
Gruber at the primaries on March y.
WHAT COLONEL GRUBER SAID.
Other speakers at this meeting were Alder
man Mathews and William s Bennett, but Colo
mel Gruber's was the effort Of the evening. He
said among other things:
II IS said in the fifth chapter OF the third book
Of Mormon that He Eh2 Dl9wsIh not as q ~
use the first personal pronoun singular more than
tried 70 do you must understand that I mean by
mat the stalwart Republlcans OF the olstTlcl oW'
even Il ne IS the tail OF one else, and such
own child He IS Ike child left upon our door
him over much and ali The Republican district lead
ers in the county viii tell you the same NOW, II
there is any leader who can tTthfa!y say that nat
collie when he goes TO bed II goes TO bed and when
IN this XXIst Assembly District. but don't want
10 be the leader one minute If the majority wants
some one else. Therein differ radically IRON
What kind of ticket did Quigg give Us. at the
What kind OF Democrats were they? Cold Demo
Gratis? No They were good Is 10 l ana to-heIl-
with-the-suRTe Tne-Court Democrats. and what
down on Election Day was the XXIst Assembly
strGJ t4ey say want 10 De e6 o0s ao eo2Ss
and Quigg picks q Mazet. which chooser will you
XXIXth QuIgg's orders were carried out and after
the election Quigg's candidate, Homer Folks. was
carried out also
Who was consulted about the appointment
OF the Mazet COmmitteef No district leader,
though every district leader felt that fl was
called the right time, and many
thought not with the right purpose.
CoMIUNEs WITH HIMSELF
After the returns from the last election were all
in, Quigg said 10 himself: The whole Republican
party in New-YOrk County has gone TO smash,
kind Of thing like. and I must have more Of it..
I viii add the XXIsU my list" and he made
vooe Yoa 46nt 1t u IT, Abe Pm Just do for
Austin And 50 this sagacious leader OF our
election, has stirred up factional fight here, say
ing III put down that Abe Gruber ana III tear
RooseveIt, or in the XIth Commandment as laid
Quigg had started with the avOwe1 motive Of
have done better than to start light in this dis
trict, and I want Mr.. Mckinley and Mark Hanna
successful trick Of turning Republicans into Demo-
Gratis: Now, Quigg declares ne is not in this hght
ar all but when ne says that he comes as near
telling the truth when he vowed that our last
VINO is going about this district dispensing the
little bit OF Republican patronage there is 70 dis
Mr. Austin II a man wants job as census taker
or poll clerk re must go to Austin, who gives out
Is tSs done To make Fe6ubiisans? 30! To defeat
II man wants a polling poota IN his store, he
not tell these people that the police locate the
polling booths and that Quigg not allowed within
three blocks Of Police Headquarters. When Quisg
can come 10 this district and say Gruber your dis
trct did act right az the polls last election.
viii take my hat of and step down; but am not
going stand idly by aad my district disrupted
from the outside
Here Mr. Gruber made the appeal. quoted al
ready. to his hearers 10 indicate his amenity
TO orders. and In which he referred TO the tea
merchant and then proceeded TO critcise Mr..
Austin for opposing an old friend al Quggs
request saying in part.
II Austin isn't making this attack on me upon
personal grounds he must be making Il on political
grounds and II he IS making II on political grounds
00uigg ought not 10 be ashamed TO openly sustain
s5F us f-ar- 70 make this igGt Saying George
Wv Won a