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Subject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Mann,Payton,Collins,Jacobs
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:32:06 EDT



Thursday August 27 ,2009 Troy Record Article 100years ago Friday, Aug. 27,
1909.
“Tomorrow’s Republican Club outing on Baerena Island is expected to have
one of the biggest turnouts in party history, The Record reports, in part
because of the prospect of a showdown between Mayor Elias
P. MANN, and his rivals within the GOP.The mayor has confirmed that he
will attend the outing, according to A. L. PAYTON, one of the committee of
arrangements. Payton also confirms that state prison superintendent Cornelius
V. COLLINS, the leader of the party organization, has returned from vacation
in time to attend the event.Collins has made it clear that he doesn’t want
MANN to run for a third term, informing interviewers that he no longer
considers the incumbent the strongest possible Republican candidate. The
mayor, in turn,has stated publicly that he has unfinished reform business that
requires him to run again.The last meeting of the GOP executive committee,
chaired by COLLINS, appointed a special delegation to visit MANN with the
purpose of persuading him not to run. That visit was delayed when COLLINS
left town for his vacation. The two men are expected to meet during the
outing, most likely at a nearby Coeymans hotel.Interest in the outing has grown
to the extent that it may prove an opportunity for friends and opponents of
Mann to show their relative strength within the Republican party. Mann has
a strong core of supporters in Lansingburgh and among reform-minded
Republicans, while many party insiders reportedly resent him for failing to
distribute city patronage (i.e.jobs and contracts) along strict partisan lines. “
We will have a big – yes, the biggest crowd we have ever had on an outing,”
arrangements committee chairman Jacob V.JACOBS tells our interviewer this
morning.“The fact is that we have had to stop the sale of tickets for the
boat and bake. We will stop at Rensselaer and Schodack Landing on the way
down, and expect to take on about fifty ateach place. We have also arranged
for small boats at Coeymans to carry to the park on Baerena Island those
who come down during the day on the West Shore trains from Albany.“There is
no doubt about it, we will have a bang-up outing and it looks as if all will
be happy during the day and later.”Later today, Jacobs announces that
tickets will go on sale for a special West Shore train to the outing due to
sustained demand. The one-dollar ticket admits the bearer to the park for
sports activities, but not to any meals."
Friday August 28, 2009TroyRecord Article 100years ago Saturday, Aug. 28,
1909.
“ Everyone’s eyes are on the mayor and Republican chairman Cornelius V.
COLLINS, in search of signs of open intra-party warfare.“The mayor came in
with a smile and was welcomed by friends,but the radical organization men
[i.e. strong Collins loyalists] kept away from him with studied purpose. All
watched
anxiously to see what attitude the mayor and Superintendent Collins would
bear toward each other, taking it for granted that a friendly greeting
would mean that differences had been adjusted and that an absence of such a
greeting would mean that there had been no reconciliation.“Those who watched
were not long left in doubt. As the mayor entered he passed within touch of
Superintendent Collins. They neither spoke
nor recognized each other. The mayor circulated through the assembly room,
and in doing so he and Superintendent Collins passed each other several
times, but there was never a smile, a word or a nod
exchanged between them while in the place.The Republicans are all smiles,
however, as they march
from the clubhouse to the dock, where they board the Empress for Baerena
Island.No formal confrontation
between MANN and the GOP leadership takes place on the island, since three
members of the special committee appointed to meet with him stay home
today. But “radical organization men” still manage to send the mayor a message.“
“There were no overtures by the organization to make the mayor feel at
home and during that hour his arm was not lamed by those who rushed towards
him to shake his hand. "




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