, 1877-11-09
LOCAL pOLITICS.

Settling tho 1sIltk--ft Was Miles Kc1loc VIM
Changed tho Democratic Tickets.
The Republican County Executive Committee
held iss laat meeting yesterday afternoon for
tho purpose Of auditing bills l1. closing TN tic
various odds and ends Of tic canpugn From
the wny reporters wero bnu.lcc1 when they cx-
pressed MI all-consumEng desire to s!t around
and listen to thu proceedings, and from tho
fnct tllut there vas more or lees preliminary
talk about tho COURSE Of the press in attacking
members o! the Committee and accusing them
Of acccpt!ng bribcs for omLtt!ng the linc
"Agalust tic Statc-uouso Appropriation !" OIL
tho tickets. It began to be apparent that that
500 business would come up for MI airing.
Under such circumstances, 1t would. of coursc,
hare been utterly Improper to let thu reporters
stny, although some people Will oIst!natr1y
think tint II the business had nil been straiglt,
with nothing to conceal, tlIero could l1ayo been
no possible objection to letting tltu proceedings
70 before the public. Dut tho Chairman nj thu
Ce,n.nlttcc, alr. Chur]cs u. Farwcli, thought
differently. So did several Of the n,cnlbcrs,
and tllu result of caucus Oh tf,p subject wnS
t!lat tle reporters Wero Invited to taku u walk.
More LlAn tlat, thc invitation was repeated ut,-
III II bccanu loo pressing 10 withstand, I'M, the
reporters withdrew u tle outer courts to
wait until tlso iE was over. 1t took about un
hour to audit tho bills md Investigate tho
tiEkGkrpEluLllH uASlWc&8s NAkutAlIT EllDuNHs
several Of tho members Of tho Committee who
hal been charged with lcnE connected With tho
lsrcputablo business werc exceedingly wrotu,
unu
DEMANDED AN EXPLANATION
from Mr.. farwcll and Mr. brayton. They would
probably haye put Scnator Hl1tllc anu X. =.
Thompson On the rack. but the former hld
walked forth beforc the nceting catnc to order,
~! tue litter DID no, aprear IT all: From all
tDEs, Mr, FprWblt eurFOUUrutetl tllt
Nhoio story,. VIII, ,,,,, thY exception ,ol
t!!e @ eharg9 TINT goo haa passed be.
stcaliastly denied. BY wny Of explanation, lc
is rcportei 10 hayo sald that tso believed tho
omission VI tho linz WIS perfectly right anu
proper. Il people didn't clo"ss TO yoto for tho
"For ths ssute-ll0uso Appropriation" md fthc
appropriation did not get i majority 0f tho
yotcs, ~ was the casc, It would be lost. Hciley-
Ing shat the onu line was all that was necessary
tie li,lu "AEalnst, ese.," ltc had taken thu lib
erty to hare thv t.cscta SO printed, after cosut-
tatlon with tho nlcMbers Oi the sultD.nmttcc.
y, n,ayton. "! H. Mddle,, ana rho'1psoa. FIR al It
hiscii' Ito T staal u I'll ''ths' to 'tssss" sursss"
Dir. Farwcll also acknowledged tho truth Of tho
story about at, agreement In regard to the
printing Ut tho ticket between tue Republican
Committee aud allies kchoe, but alsuin denied
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