, 1877-11-11

Mr. Perry H. Smith Denies With Great
Emphasis Part Of Kehoe,s
Story.
Mr. T. O. Hesing Replies to Certain Fibs
Published in the Times"
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

1t has been stated that appointed the mem
bers OF that Committee Such is not the tact
| After the Convention, the candidates on tn,
Democratic ticket met and selected the Cam
1'aign Committee, and invited me to act as Chair
man. at first declined to accept the Chair
manship, saying that in case OF the defeat O
the ticket l did not Want to hare ail tn
growlers say that was the cause OF defeat. Il
| is the constant practice Of certain set o
| slnall-1ninucd, unhappy creatures to assign a
| the reason for dcfeat the action Of one man
whereas the real causes Of the disaster lie ,nucl
! deeper and entirely beyond their power of com
| rrehcusiou. At the urgent request Of scvera
! OF thr candidates, and under tic advice ol
many prominent Democrats, finally consented
| to act As Chairman OF tile Cam paign Committee
| defy any man to show where single mis-
! take was made in the conauct Of the campaign
which is attributable to the action Ut the faiur.
to act Of the Comulittcc. II the result of tht
election had been victory instead Of defeat
every one would have praised tile management
and yet We could not have done more even if nc
had won.
Since tue election has shown that the Social.
lists pollcu nearly 1000 votes. certain wise
heads now say, Why did you not unite with
ones before the election opposed union with
ANYBODY, and even fought against the efforts oi
the Committee to llarlnonlze and consolidate
the Democratic and tt: Industrial tickets They
abuse us for doing what VIC did to unite the
Democratic strength. and abuse us still more
for not uniting with the Socialists, when every
one At all acquaint ed with the facts knuws that
d union with the Socialists Was impossible. All
money received by the Committee was re-
hr ri In
Committee, who has kept an account Of tho
amount received, from whom received, and to
whom the same has been pad-
Considerable remark has been made in regar1
to the form il which the ballots were printed
Oh the State. House appropriation, and certain
members u tnc Democratic Campaign Commit
tee pretend to be Very ANXIOUS to clear them
selves IRON all connection with it.
While the matter was under discussion in the
Committee, no one pretended that the form Of
ballot which was finally adopted was in every
way unjust to the voters. Tint seems to have
been discovered since, and certain persons ap-
pear to be very anxious to show that they had
nothing to do with the matter.
l had not Intended to say anvthnc upon this
subject until Iobserycd that few oycr-yirtuous
politicians we're trying 10 make i little capital
los themselves and against me out Of 1t; but
have concluded to state the facls OF the case:
Thursday our Committee discussed the form Of
the pallot, and agreed to print the tickets
For )" tile appropriation and Is Against u the
approximation. This was agreed upon. because
the Committee thought it would help the
ticket, and not because the members were op
posed to the appropriation 1t was supposed
rnat the Republicans would print their tickets
III the same forul.-
Friday moruin. the Republicans sent COM
mittee OF three, Col. Thompson. Il. 3. Brayton,
and Senator Riddle to confer with us upon this
subject. Mr.. David Haliinau was appointed on
behalf Of the Democratic Committee to confer
with them, which he did. When he returned
from the conference he stated that he did not
understand the question bclore, out that i: was
important; that the State-House people would
have men ut every poll Oh clect1ou-day, and that
i tie Republicans printed their tickets sFor''
the appropriation, and the Democrats should
print theirs both '<For' and ''Aeainst," We
would certainly lose great many votes. The
Republican Committee suggestedthc expedicucy
OF printing the tickets = EUr u the approximation
alone, and agreed to so priut them in case the
Democrats would do the sanc.
The whole subject was then unanimously re-
ferred to the Printing Committee ION whose
motion the Sncrctary can show, consisting Of
Austin J. Doyle, the Hon. NJ. 4. Delaney,
Thomas Brenan, J. j. Crowley, James O'Brien,
and myself. We all met the same evening in
conference with tile Republican COMMITTEE,
and j. was agreed that tie tlccts Of both parties
should be printed alike IN regard to the appro-
priations Tor the State-House and the Court
House, and tnat the tickets should be printed
sFor' the State-Iouse appropriation alone,
and * For u and I. Against :" the Courthouse
appropriation. They instructed me- as Char
man OF the Democratic Committee, to sign
stimulation with the Hon. c. B. Farwell to carry
out tue programme agreed upon by the confer
ence.
Tie reasons urged in favor Of the proposed
plau we're that the Courthouse appropriation
was By law submitted SO as to be determined by
4 majority Of the votes cast on that subject;
while the St.ate-House appropriation by law rc-
ouircs majority oi ali the vo;cs cast at the
election, hence no necessity existed 10 express
IN the ticket t'against" " the appropriation,
s.a.ainst'' it., for by simply scratching out
"for" the appropriation would make tile ballot
4 vote against" tile appropriation.
The Conference Com. .1'ittce we're unanimous
on the question, believing it was tile taircst way
to submit it to the people. and no one even
to the people. In this connection, may say
that a number OF Democrats advised us to print
the tickets .'For the statc-Housc appropria-
tion.'' Among them will mention Ferry t.
Suith, John G. Rivhbrr1, K. E. Goo4eii, j. Il.
IIltrctb, auti many others if necessary.
The sum ot S!2JU was paid to Mr.. nrenan tour
Trcasurer} to cover the exuense OF printing.
Monday before the election, some one appeared
bciore our Committee and claimed THAT tue Re
o,b]ita1s had received 81 ,000 towards printing
their ticket, and that our Committee ought TO
pct the same amount. 4 sub-comnllttcc, con-
sisfjnr OF P. II. Srllth, Malcolm McDona1d, and
John Forsythe, was appointed to enleavor to
~et the other $5J0, or to give back the SOU
already received, and change babk the form OF
tl,e ticket Il failed to lear Mr. Storey or any
al his virtuous associates oppose tile appoint
mcnt of tho $500 Cuulmlttee.)
The Sub COMMITTEE WAS not successful in
cettinr the $500 additional, but found the par
1irs with whom they uea}t ready and willing to
lake bacS the 500 already paid. The Commit
rrc 1uok no action on tile matter. Although
the meeting was j very full Que land there was
,lrnty nj time in which to do it), no one sug-
restcI a change in the ticket, or proposed to
reccce from the arrangement made With the
Republicans. f,o.s =,
III. above statement covers the mann 1acts IL
rcgard to tho Statc-House appropriation anu
he mode agreed upon to submit 1t TO the peo-
nIe Of Cook County. thought the arrange
,nent fair at the time it was made anu thlak so
still. | should not have given myself tue
r trouble OF making auv explanation Whatever
ah,ut the matter but for tie 1act that certain
nersons have tried to make out OF 1t something
wrong. and have sought TO cast rcproach upon
~ nj nthcrs MILES kEHoE.
4R. SMITH.
DESTROYS OF learning something more about
+be art1pns of the '' subcommittee" the name
or the mysterious gentleman from Springfield,
and GENERALLY of seeing how nearly Miles story
with " hut tue Chairman OF the SAID
q Subcommittee had to say, reporter
searched out Ar. Perry H. Smith last evening
for these further particulars. visit to Air.
Sn,;fh's house resulted in the reporters being
told tnat the OBJ cct OF his quest could nc 1ounu
Mt the Grand Pacific, where hc was no doubt at
tia; moment enjoying the annual game d:nner
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