Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-07-21


could prepare it, to Mr.. Miller, asking
him to return, and that they were re-
naming there for the purpose of COM
pleting an organization for the nomina-
tion of candidate for Congress. This
letter the Dispatch does not give in its
account-no doubt unintentionally on
the part of it's gentlemanly editor Mr.
Miller made no reply to that letter.
After waiting reasonable time on him
to return with his conferees, and find
ing he would not, then the Butler con-
ferees, as the next proper step, address
| ed a note to Messrs Dick and Roberts,
inviting them to come and make known
their claims to an admission. Had the
Butler conferees not right to do so !?
Crawford was the only other county
and was in serious trouble and dispute.
Mercer had abandoned the meeting
agreed upon. But that did not blot out
the meeting, or send the rights of But
ler into thin air. So their step in calling
the Crawford parties for hearing was
right and proper. The Dick party re-
fused to appear The Roberts party
respected the invitation and he with
his conferees-three gentlemen in every
sense-did appear and laid their Gre
dentials, papers and proofs before the
meeting, which were duly examined,
and no one appearing to dispute or op-
pose them, they were recognized as the
conferees from Crawford county. The
Dispatch is greatly in error when it
says Dick had not this notice. The
Conference then organized, as stated
in the officia! published proceedings.
And, be it noted, all this occurred on
| the same evening, commencing at the
hour agreed upon and in the place
agreed upon with Mr.. Miller, and con-
tinuing to the end of the organization.
1t is error and injustice to say that the
Butler conferees had any meeting with
the conferees of Senator Roberts pre-
vious to the one above stated. They
met with them in the only manner con-
sistent with the rights of themselves
and all there present at Mercer, and all
of whom came there out of respect to
the notice from Messrs. Miller and Nc
Junkin. Dick and Roberts and their
conferees coming on that notice and
appearing there, how then could either
of them, at that time, deny the right of
Messrs. Miller and McJ unkin to notify
them to come? 1t was too late for that
The fact was they respected said notice
aud were there present, thus admitting
the action of the Mercer and Butler
candidates to have been the proper and
right course. They did not go to Mer-
Ger to stand around and look at one an
other. All went there for the business
of nominating a candidate for Congress
in the 26th district. Organization of
Conference was the first thing lecessa.
ry for that purpose, and the one organ
lied by the Butler and Crawford confer
ees was the only one organized. 1t en-
braced more than half of the district,
as appeared by the vote of the prima-
ries. And no other Conference being
then and there organized, how could
there be an adjournment of any other
one? That is misnomer Nobody
cal adjourn properly without being
first organized. And hence those un-
organized conferees that agreed to meet
at Greenville on August 5, did so on
their own account only and bind only
themselves and no others. They (Mil-
ler and Dick well knew of the organ
ization effected, and effected at the
proper time too, and they were unable
to effect any other organization, or at
least did not All that go to Green
vile therefore are simply boilers. A
nomination for Congress has been made
and is binding upon every county and
Republican in the district, for the rea-
sons above given. If they are not
sound or sufficient, the way out of the
difficulty and danger will not be for a
part to agree among themselves to go
to Greenville or elsewhere and make
second nomination. That will but COM
plicate the situation, and if done, upon
those who do it ought and will rest the
responsibility for the consequences.
And to the facts above stated we
challenge any successful contradiction.
THE NOMINEE FOR CONGRESS.
The Independent Press, of Frank
lin, Venango county, of tie 18th inst,