The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-12
sREOIAL NOTICES.
p@v TO JOHN OovoDE, ESQ, CHAIR
MAN STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

tnat am not Onalrman Oh the Executive
Committee of the Republican State Central
Com mittee, and that none of the gentlemen
who sign the action of that committee, under
date of September 6, are members of the
same, has been duly received
Permit me to express, in behalf of the
committee and myself, surprise that simulta-
neous with my receipt of your letter find
the same promulgated to the public in the
advertising columns of the daily press.
would submit for your information that
at the meeting of the State Committee held
at Altoona, August 16, 1870, Mr.. Patterson,
of Juniata county, offered the resolution
directing that the dispute in the Second Con-
gressional District be referred to the Execu-
tive Committee, and that both the parties be
afforded an opportunity to be heard before
that committee.
Mr.. Heistand, of Lancaster, desired to be
informed who the gentlemen were const-
tuting that Committee Either Mr.. Quay or
Mr.. Hammersly, Secretaries of the State
Central Committee, announced as the Com
mittee-Mr. Leeds, Chairman; Messrs. Elliott,
Tittermary, and Miller, of Philadelphia;
Mackay, of Allegheny; Scranton, of Lu-
zerne; and Garrettson, of Schuylkill. You
accepted, without a single remark; nor
was there an expression from any gentle
man present taking exceptions to the gente-
men named as constituting the Committee
appointed by yourself last year. The gentle
men constituting this Committee assisted
Treasurer Bingham during the last canvass in
obtaining funds, and under your and his in
str uction expended moneys, adjusted diff
tanning to an executive committee.
The Committee, of which I am Chairman,
accepted the re sponsibility placed upon it by
the general committee, at Altoona, and in
sincere observance of the responsibility of
the resolution, notified Messrs. Greeley and
ONeill that they would be afforded an oppor-
tunity to be heard in the matter of their dis
pute before the subcommittee. At the first
and second meetings of the subcommittee
there was no quorum, but at the third meet
ing, quorum being present, an examination
was entered into, and conclusion arrived at
which the Committee believe would bring har-
mony to the party in that district.
This committee, from its announcement in
the meeting at Altoona, up to the date of its
final action, acted in accordance with the
spirit of the State Central Committees s reso-
luton, and for the good of the Republican
party.
You never officially notified me or the COM
mittee that we were not tho Executive Com
mittee until your published letter of the 7th
instant. What you assume now to be the
Executive Committee is either of recent ap-
pointment, or you permitted the general
committee at Altoona to be deceived as to
who constituted it. That we were appointed
as an Executive Committee by you and per-
formed the duties during the last campaign
is and was certainly the opinion of the under
signed. Whether or not you had two Exc
cutive Committees is best known to your
self.
Mr.. Dickinson, so far as l am aware, did
not act as Chairman of any Executive Com
mittee during the last campaign. MIR. Fl. G..
Jones also states that he never knew he was
on any committee. In fact, no one of the
committee knew anything about it except Mr..
Pennypacker; how he obtained his informa-
tion, you are probably aware of.
My reputation, and the good name of the
gentlemen associated with me, is as well
known in this community as your own; the
unwarrantable allegation contained in your
letter of the 7th inst. forces me, in view of
the recent honor which the party have ten
dered me, to publish this statement.
respectfully request that the State Central
Committee be reconvened and the question
settled as to who constitutes the Executive
Com nittee. Should you determine to ig-
more my request, would respectfully tender
to the State Committee my resignation of
| membership Very respectfully