Defense of Mr. Phipps

New York, 1895

Did Boss Youngs Use His Name Without Authority?

The Long Island City Herald, the leading Republican newspaper of this county, prints the following:

"At a meeting of the Queens county Republican committee on Thursday, Mr. Charles L. Phipps announced that he was not a candidate for the appointment of clerk to the board of Supervisors. The report of the proceedings of the meeting in the Brooklyn Times stigmatizes the report that Mr. Phipps wanted the place as a Democratic lie. We beg to correct the Times. As a matter of fact, the Hon. William J. Youngs demanded the place for Mr. Phipps. If Mr. Phipps has been misrepresented, the guilty party is his friend and patron, Mr. Youngs, and not the Democratic papers. Any member of the board of Supervisors can certify as to that fact.

"Possibly Mr. Youngs did not consult Mr. Phipps and on his own hook undertook to have the latter appointed clerk to the board of Supervisors. Mr. Phipps must be somewhat of an obstacle to Mr. Youngs at Albany as both are looking for a lucrative office, and there is not the slightest possibility that Queens county will get two such offices when there are so few of them. Mr. Youngs is not running the board of Supervisors and therefore Long Island City expects some recognition from them."

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 26, 1895, p. 8.