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Show IDy W. U. Tolcjrraph. TIIU NSW YORK. TRllll.NB. New York, 15, The "Tribuno" trustees hvd a meeting"on Friday afternoon. after-noon. Every member was present. Mr. Sinclair brought forward the Colfax Col-fax proposition. It received tho support sup-port of only himself and one other, six out of'oight trustees opposing it, sut-taining sut-taining Keid's conduct of tho paper, and urging that he bo retained, with no instruction, savo to continuo carrying carry-ing out tho policy of Grcoley's card. It was settled that no chango bo made in policy. Sinclair then went to work to make up a pool of outside stockholders, to sell a controlling interest. It is understood un-derstood that ho, with Dr. J. 0. Ayer. and tho representatives of the citatca of ono or two decoasod proprietors, not including Grccloy's, have noarly or qui to mado up tho filty-one shares n:cdcd, and propose selling at tho rate of a million dollars to a combination representing telegraph and administration administra-tion interests Keid said, in caso the proprietorship and policy woro thus changed, ho would also sell four shares, and at onco retire. It transpired today to-day that in tho trustees meeting Rcid protested against Sinclair's proposal to abandon tha ground on whioh Greeley placed tho paper in his card. He said Sinclair was the last man who ought to do this, in justice to Grecloy's memory, becauso it was through Sinclair's solicitation, long continued, Greeley finally consented to becomo tho presidential candidate. Sinclair admitted this but said he urgod Greeloy to it and wrote letters over I ho country to further Greolcy's chances at Cincinnati because ho knew that Gre ley would nut support Grant, lie thnughl tho next best thing was t'i gut h;ru to be a candidate himself. K'.'id said ho lumnelf did not faor Greeley's caii'lluey but had discouraged discour-aged Greeley from it nearly up to tho time when (Jrecley directed htm to go to Cineinnnti u-i Uh reprcecutnlivo, but he believed in tho Ciueinnuli platform ox Greulry did and wuuM not roiunia in charge of tl;o "Tribune1' if that pla'.f trm wcrn ojqn sed, and tho poi-i-tiou in whi':h 'I c'- y ploved tho paper by hi enrd n' d bin la'ft writings wcro lUtly abandoned as ho understood to bo now proposed. |
