The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-31
PATRONAGEDISTURBS THE Gu,
SPECIAL MEETING or CITY cow
MITTEE C~ONTOkED.
Luck OF Executive Committeeman In
Getting once Hurts the Feelings
OF the Unsuccessful The Indorse.
mcnt OF MacNnlty IL a Grievance.

The City Committee Of the Citizens
Union has been called together for a special
meeting on Monday evening of next week.
and several members of the Union said
last evening that the gathering would lie
of the ~liyeliest in its history.
The call was signed by a number OF
members of tho committee who are dis
satisfied with the action Of the members
OF the Executive Committee about patron
age. Dissatisfaction reached its climax
last week, when il was learned that several
Of the leaders Of the Union had Endorsed
for the place of Deputy COMMISSIONS o.
Correction. A, c. MacNulty. Mr.. MacNulty
is not a member Of the Union, but is the
head Of the Bryan League.
The dissatisfied members OF the organi-
cation also have a grievance against r.
Fulton Cutting. the President of the City
Committee. They declare that Mr.. Cutting
has been altogether too good natured in
Endorsing" people who wanted office,
and that his Endorsements have been 80
worded that they have been misleading
to the applicants and have not been con-
sidered by Mr.. Low and the other gentle:
men to whom they have been submitted.
Said a member Of the union last night
"Mr. Cutting has indorsed practically
every decent man who has old him he was
a candidate for appointment, The result
has been that no one among the applicants
has been able 10 tell exactly where he stood.
and this has led 10 confusion and hard
feeling. II is also "A fact that Mr.. Cutting
has in writing letters for men who de-
sired onice ended practically all OF them,
so far as ] can learn, with the phrase III
this man is not appointed. / shall not be
displeased.' Mr.. Cutting has done this
In order TO make everybody feel happy.
but IL that was his plan, he has been un-
successful in it, for so far as can make
out. nobody feels happy"
a good many of the members OF the
committee feel that the Executive Com
mitteemen have farcd disproport,onately
we'll at the hands of Mr.. Low compared
with the rank and file. F.. II. J.. Gould.
the Trea4urer of the Union. who IL 10 be
City Chamberlain, James II. Reynolds,
the Mayors secretary; Arthur +. Cosby
and George T.. Blackwell, Assistant Cor
poration Counsel; j. Hampden Dougherty,
Commissioned OF Water, Gas and Elec.
tricity; Homer Folks, Commissioner OF
Charities; ". +; Cogswcll, Tax Commis.
Of the Civil Service Board, are all members
OF the Executive Committee who got good
places. while n lot Of good men IN the City
Committee have been overlooked.
"MacNulty In not a member OF me
from it in his efforts TO get Office. There
were good Citizens Union men who were
applicants for this Office, and we think our
executive committeeman ought TO have
taken care OF them first. On Friday even
ing the members of the committee who
are dissatisfied started a petition calling
for the special meeting.
W. expect that Mondays meeting VIII
be the warmest session hat the COMMITTEE"
has ever held. MIR. Cutting i too popular
on account Of the good work he hos done
for the union in the past 10 he al'4ch"i
seriously. but there are Other cN"''i'l'"
committeemen who will come IN if SON"
pretty hard usage