New-York tribune., 1907-04-19
O U[GG MEN UNSEATED
DAVIS REPORT ADOPTED.
Stescart, Hahn and Associates Pvt
ont of County Committee.

,,.,s,,,or r,,,rasy COMMITTEES last nisht
coated the twenty QuiEg delegates tTo'a tae 9C
Assembly District and seated the PARSONS nsA- Gns
debate on the repor. OF the comnntsse on sSAsess'
80 ~ WHICH Onersydt Davis vas chairman. oc-
cupied nearly Tho entire ssazlen ana vrolnpsse
sneeches by John S. Wise. jr.. Gllensst stewart.
exA Alderman John J. Kahn. che Cuigg leader or
the 1Sths and DFla1 s-~'e'4e--S ~
psrs.ps who presided.
grh, conrnitte reported that the sitting members
.he frtends os Hahn and Qulgg-clearly were not
sp.sr,ed 10 thosr seats and gave facts ana ngures
20 proYs t3eir contention
,r a,nw.vt IS the regro who personally invsstt-
sre1 .he brownsville case. LAsS night &e destroyed
1,bs,avar chance the Hahn men ever hAh on q test
v,+e nv CHARGING that President Roosevelt heo' as
ne nut It, "decreed that Ills poht'cA act''IHes 10
c,,rtoils1" THIS raised such a storm ot Jeers'
bJsx.a md laughs that tie Hahn men did not vots
ot all on the motion to accept the report OF the
COMMITTEES unseating them.
1--WE used 70 hear It said" said Stewart. that
Mr. Parsons would not succeed as president o. tnls
COMMITTEES because he was a reformer and was
not practIcal want TO say to you gentlenien ti'at
s,p,e have come In contact with him know that
he can give all the old machine ronticiahs co'us
and spades in rough house politics.
.,Nvov, II doesn'. make any difference 20 me. per
60 continued Stewart, pausing 70 see what eftect
..per se' would have on the crowd what thls
committee does with this CONTEXT. but want 10
saw TO you gentlemen that there are oSWo coiored
IN this state, ana WHen you uHSNeS tiAS W.
ored men from the 18th you tell those 5000 voters
that YOU have no use for them
Describing the alleged brutalities OF the Parsons
men on primary day. Stewart said;
"And. gentlemen they absolutely shot colored
man named Dewey Yes sir. gentlemen Dewey
was absolutely shot!"
You mean he half shot?" suggested
facetious man in the front row.
NO" beloved Stewart. as the delegates laughed
at him. Dewey absolutely shot"
John s. Wise. jr.. speaking In behalf OF the COM
mttee said that It had acted with justice and
fairness.
Ex-Alderman Hahn said he knew ne going
to be thrown out He asserted that the Farrell
men stood in with the Tammany men in the dis
trct, and that his carried every Republican
election district. one. while his opponents
ried every TammRny district He said he had won
the face of the returns.
President Parsons made a brief statement. telling
OF a letter which Stewart had sent him. and which
to the county committee. He said that Stewart
said In his letter that II he (Stewar) was thrown
out IL would agRravate the Brownsville incident
Following this Stewart got the floor and said that
the president had ordered the curtailment OF his
political activities.
Amid storm OF protests. Kisses and laughter
President Parsons put the motion. and the report
OF the committee unseatng Hahn. Stewart and
their associates was carried without a dissenting
vote.
The reappoFtionment ~ the county was referred
20 the executive committee with power.
lam HaIpin In the 7th District. has been aban-
doned.