Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-07-21
CONGRESS IN THIS DISTRICT.
Mr.. McJunkin's Nomination at Mer-
Ger Regular---The Causes that
led to it Fully and Fairly Sta
ted and an Answer to the
Same Challenged.

LdSt WCCh VIC COuCCuICu Oui 10 -
giving the proceedings of the Congress
sional Conferees, called to meet at Mer-
Ger at I O'Clock, on the evening of July
9Th. We propose now to defend and
justify tie action of the Conference then
and there organized, and that resulted
in the nomination of Mr. McJ unkin of
this county. This we do from the fact
that some papers in the district are ap-
parently suppressing from their readers
some important facts that they should
give, and that ought to be known. For
instance, we take the account given in
the Mercer Dispatch of the 9th inst,
which we will here say is pretty fair
and correct in some of its statements,
but wholly incorrect in others and
Withholding important parts. From it
alone we can base our statement justi-
flying the action taken and the nomina-
tion made. We quote from itas follows:
'sShortly after the hour of seven o.
clock, Messrs. Miller and McJunkin,
with their conferees, held an informal
meeting to determine the possibility of
securing an amicable adjustment of the
difficulties, and after free interchange
of opinion, separated with the under
standing that they (Messrs. Miller and
McJunkin) should call upon Messrs.
Dick and Roberts, and if they could get
the consent of both to submit their cas-
es to the conferees of Miller and McJun-
kin, then the said conferees should meet
at room No. IL and organize the con-
ference, and thereupon hear and deter
mine the rights of the Crawford county
candidates to voice in the future ac-
tion OF the conference"
Now, in the first place, it was just
about the hour of o'clock when Mr.
Miller, with his conferees, appeared in
the room that he and Mr.. McJunkin
had agreed upon. to wit: room No. II
of the hotel at which all parties had gen.
orally stopped. The Dispatch states
that it was an ''informal meeting" and
so we believe Mr.. McJ unkin was con-
strained by Mr.. Miller to so treat it for
the time, but not to be treated in so
"informal" a manner as Mr. Miller af-
forwards did, and in which he made
his great mistake, as we will show.
The Dispatch then says that 'after a
free interchange of opinion they mil
ler and McJunkin conferees) separated,
with the understanding they MILLER
and McJunkin) would call upon Dick
and Roberts, get their consent to sub
NIT their cases to their conferees, and
then their conferees to meet again at
room No. IL and organize the Confer
ence." Now, this statement, while
making important admissions, is yet
quite wide of the real facts as they oc-
Cured. The fact is, that after talk of
about an hour and half, in which Mr..
Miller's demand was the immediate
admission of the Dick conferees from
Crawford county as the conferees of
that county and to compose part and
parcel of that meeting before organic
ING 1T, and which demand was resisted
by the Butler conferees as dishonor
able violation of the agreement under
which all the Crawford and other par
ties had assembled there, and pre-
Judging of the Crawford case in advance,
without evidence, that then did Mr.
Miller say, in about these words, ''that
he wished to have consultation with
his conferees," and thereupon rose and
asked them to retire with him, which
they did. In answer to o question of
the Butler conferees, as to chow long
they would probably be absent" his
exact answer was, eve will return
shortly" And this is the manner Mr.
Miller and his conferees separated"
from the Butler conferees, who he had
agreed to meet and did, thus far, meet
with. Neither he or his conferees ever
did return to that room. Although he
said they were retiring for "consulta-
tion," and would return, yet they never
did return. We are particular in stat
ing this, as upon this fact is based the
action subsequently taken by the But
Ter conferees towards organizing the
Conference had. AS to the statement
that he (Miller) separated" from the
Butler conferees for the purpose of
o further calling upon the Dick and
Roberts parties of Crawford, it is not
correct, but is disproved by his own
language and all the facts. The posi-
tion of both Dick and Roberts was well
understood-had been told hundred
times by both during the previous af
tern0On-had Deen asserted by Mr..
Miller himself over and over again be-
fore his own and the Butler conferees
in their meeting, and to the effect that
Dick refused and Senator Roberts as
sented to the Mercer and Butler con-
ferees hearing and disposing of their
case, as to which should be admitted
in the Conference.
The Butler conferees finding them
selves thus separated" from by the
Mercer conferees, and this done contra
ry to the agreement made between their
the question then arose with
them as to their rights and proper ac-
ton. On due consideration they re-
solved that their county should not be