New-York tribune., 1922-11-16
Nonn,an(laarges
treason Among
Republicans
airs. Persons Tells Associates
Votes We're Traded and
Candidates KNITTED by
Officials of Own Party
says Proofs Are Ready
sssse Senator Meyer One of
Victims, She Ayers; Will
Present Case To Morris

: q
xthin the Republican organization in
stw York City were made yester-
ssy by Mrs. James Russell Parsons,
esairnau Of the Republican Women's
stighhorhood Association. at l: post
snpaign meeting at the home of Mrs.
xslser B. James, z East Seventieth
Street.
Mrs. Parsons referred particularly
10 Sstrict officials on the upper East
Sas, maintaining shat votes cast there
fefMllier had been counted for Smith
ss< that Schuyler Meyer, candidate for
nslection to the State Senate. had
stsn knitted by the officials of his own
party.
Mrs. Parsons said she had affidayits
covering certain instances of treachery.
but that she was not yet ready to make
known the names or places where they
occurred. She was ready, however. to
tell the whole story to State Chairman
aeerge Morris in the hope of getting
thorough reorganization of the party.
Mr. Morris could not, be reached last
nignt for comment.
Rallies Women for CIean-Up
mis-. Parsons urged her organization,
Fhicn numbers among its members
many e. the wealthiest women of the
sity,. to use their influence to demand
cieaning up of the rotten spots in
The iocai Republican party.
Speaking entirely for myself" she
rld. not for the Republican Neigh
borhood Association, to whose board l
S-st not as yet submitted my convic-
tons and plans, ! am prepared to give
those In authority what seems to me
svideree not only of incompetency, but
q disloyalty, of actual treachery, with
IN the party organization. And, whether
Of not this information is desired by
those temporarily in authority, | am
prepared to act upon this evidence my
tH and to use whatever influence l
nay have in the future TO oppose every
Effort to put or TO keep in Office of any
Inscription the individuals who have
saown themselves unworthy of men,
i ssGship in the party of my choice.
B you represent thousands of voters
4 ID New York City; your influence is
& one that cannot be ignored in the days
8 ahead of US. | wish to say to you, in
81 oil earnestness, that | believe we have
= come to parting of the ways I be-
81 lisve that in the near future we must
choose whether we shall continue to
j give hard and loyal service to any or
ri
psr which is rotten in spots, and
q sksre car service is discounted, or
whether, without fear of criticism or
thought of personal popularity, we
1 shall nsist on a reorganization so fun
asmsaalas to command the allegiance
4 al aaagent, courageous and high
minded Ryublican men and women"
q as officials Ignored Protests
Asa to enlarge upon her knowl-
j n#d treaehery within the ranks,
AN PARSONS said that she knew of
Ttsl cases where votes had been
II Mi IN the count or had been
yaped" before Election Day with
fs opposing party, where with the
I haTledge of Republican officials local
n isadidates had been knitted, and where,
shen these matters had been brought
leshe attention of Republican officials
ass had been treated as of no concern.
& She declared that it was her belief
4 that State Senator Schuyler Meyer
would be found to have been reelected,
sould recount be ordered. Last sum-
ner he was opposed for denomination
bsa group of election district captains
In the northern part of his district, she
sad. and these men had not given him
loyal support in the recent election. In
The southern part of the district, she
explained, where the captains had been
favorable to his denomination, he had
received approximately the same num-
Der Of votes as had Ogden l.. Mills, the
Republican candidate for Congress, but
In the northern districts where the
captains had opposed him he ran from
thlrty to one hundred votes behind
Representative Mills. She cited one
district where Mills had received ap.
proxlmately seventy or eighty votes,
stelnberg more than 100, and Meyer
only nifty. She said she, herself, had
visited these election districts during
sae evening when the vote was being
,oaated, and that the officials had told
w mat Meyer was leading, but two
asss later when she visited the head
ss.0rs again she saw that the Meyer
agafss had been changed.
afs Parsons said that 1900 more
w;s vg!ss had been cast for Governor
sI'aeI tnis year than two years ago
.a,ief = nef district, and that this was due
tls,siiy lug 10 the efforts of the women of
Ser organization who had made a 1
~. ssasg 70 house canvass to get out
Ms :, Republiean voters.
,nfS Parsons has been a member
i, y ae Republican County Committee
i Ass women were given the vote and
a. n member of the executive commit
AZ ~ the Republican Committee Of
Aseenth Assembly District