Mr. Brookfield Disgusted; William Brookfield tired of politics

MR. BROOKFIELD DISGUSTED.

He Says He Will Not Attend Another Meeting of His Organization.

William Brookfield, the leader of the Republicans of the County of New York, said yesterday that he did not propose to attend another meeting of that organization. The meeting in the Mott Memorial Hall Monday night, he said, disgusted him.

"I think," said he, "that when Col. Roosevelt hears what happened he will be as mortified as I am."

Mr. Brookfield was asked if there was any likelihood that he would return to the regular Republican organization. He replied, "I am tired of politics."

Lovell H. Jerome, the leader of that part of the organization which insisted on holding a meeting of their own to offer resolutions indorsing Col. Theodore Roosevelt for Governor, dropped in among the politicians at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last night. Seemingly he had not the slightest regret for the trouble that he and his followers had caused.

"Why, what have I done?" he exclaimed, "We simply held a meeting of our own to express our views, which we had a perfect right to do. If Gen. Swayne has seen fit to see a quorum when the regular meeting was called to order there were enough members present to pass our resolutions then. There was no reason why we should have been shut off on the plan that a quorum was not present. There wasn't a quorum present at the meeting a month ago when Mr. Brookfield and his friends brought out their resolution indorsing Black. But they went ahead and did business just the same."

"How about Mr. Brookfield's statement?" he was asked.

"Oh Brookfield has said the same thing before." Said Mr. Jerome. "I hardly think he is going to get out of the organization. He may feel sore for the time being, but I guess he won't leave us. Our organization is not going to break up just yet. It's the same old crowd of independent Republicans who have stuck together for a long time past, and who have passed safely through more serious difficulties than this."

Another member of the organization said last night that the outlook was very serious. "Mr. Brookfield," he declared, "is sick of the whole business, and without his active interest and support, how are we going to get along? I am very much afraid that the action of Mr. Jerome and his following is going to seriously injure, if not destroy, the organization."

Mr. Jerome's followers do not intend to abandon their plan for holding a special meeting in a few days to pass the Roosevelt resolutions. It has not been decided whether a special meeting of the organization will be called before the next regular meeting, which will come in September. It is said by some of the members that the resolutions indorsing Gov. Black will not be brought up again, and that the Jerome men will be the only ones in the ring until the regular meeting. What will be done then is a matter of a good deal of speculation.