Republicans Protesting Loudly

New York, 1895

On Thursday, April 11th, the Republican County Central Committee passed resolutions approving of the work done at Albany by Assemblyman Vacheron and William J. Youngs. Now there is rebellion among Republicans because of this action, and the excuse is offered that there were but a few committeemen present, and that they were the particular cronies of Boss Youngs. As Boss Youngs is not the representative of the people at Albany, what occasion had the committee to indorse his conduct? His work there has been that of an office seeker and lobbyist, and the indorsement of him in those capacities is disgraceful, and proof of a packed meeting, and will not be ratified by the Republican voters, and we see that the Republican newspapers are saying unpleasant things about him. On the day that the committee indorsed Vacheron and Youngs, Vacheron sneaked his Commissioner of Jurors bill through the Assembly, and lied to Mr. Fairbrother to do it, as Mr. Fairbrother has since told a Flushing Journal reporter. By this indorsement the Republican party is made responsible for the bill, drawn by Boss Youngs, and which so good a Republican authority as the Brooklyn Times says has no other end in view than to provide a fat office for Vacheron himself, who is very needy, and if that be true a worse piece of legislative corruption has never been exposed. In view of what the committee did we can readily understand why only the cronies of Boss Youngs were bidden to the meeting, for we believe that some of the excellent Republicans who are members of the committee would never give their sanction to this bill, and we are confirmed in this view by the hearty condemnation of it that is heard on every side by Republicans. Fraudulent use has since been made of this indorsement at Albany, it being urged in support of the scandalous bill that the resolutions represent Republican sentiment as favorable to it. Republican sentiment no more favors the bill than it supports Boss Youngs in setting himself down in a $5 a day position in violation of his pledges to the party, while all the time telling the men who really needed a job that it was impossible to get a place for any one. The Republicans of North Hempstead express very clearly the sentiments of the party respecting Youngs, Vacheron and the robber bill.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 26, 1895, p. 4.