Daily Republican., 1881-12-03
COM N ITTEE MEETING.
Mr.. Hastings' Committee Decides
to Listen TO no Other Sugxestions
from Mr.. Bak er's sCOmmlitee-Mr.
Hsstinss' Address to the Repub.


to Listen 10 NO Other Suggestioni
from Mr.. Bak er's sCOmmiltee-Mr,
Hastings Address to the Repub.
llcans.
A meeting OF tho City Republican
Committee Of which Mr.. Hastings il
chairman was held last night, when
one maa from each ward, except one
or two, was reported as inspectors on
that side to hold the election on De.
cember 10th. Places for holding the
election were also reported, but not
being complete no publication of either
judges or places will be made until
Tuesday after the committee shall have
held another meeting on Monday night.
A communication from John G..
Baker, chairman of the other commit
tee, was read, stating that he returned
the resolutions passed at the last meet
| ing of the Hastings committee, where
in he was asked to appoint judges to act
in conjunction with the other Judges,
alleging for his reason that his sub
committee of Mr.. Hastings ycommittee
had acted in bad faith and stated that
cline to have any further communica-
tion with Mr.. Hastings committee.
The following address to the Republican
voters was read, and ordered to be pub,
lished in tbs Republican papers OF the
city. The address was also ordered
| with the correspondence between the
two committees to be printed in pampll-
let for distribution to the Republican
voters:
To the Republican voters of Whining.
ton:
Until the present we have steadfastly
avoided alluding to the unfortunate oc.
currences of last summer, which led t.
tie formation Of two bodies of Repub.
licans, each claiming to be the City
Executive COMMITTEES Of the party.
The time has now arrived, however,
when further silence upon this subject
would be unjust to ourselves and result
in no benefit to those most Interested.
We therefore desire to submit the fol-
lowing statement of facts to the kepub-
licans of this city for their Information
in view OF the election to be held ON the
tenth Of this month for an Executive
Committee for the ensuing year.
1t has been the uniform custom of the
party for many years to hold a meeting
on the first Saturday in June, at some
| Lvenient place, at which time a com
mittee is appoir ted to nominate or sug-
gest the names of persons in the
several wards suitable to be elected as
an executive committee, and willing to
be elected as such this meeting then
adjourns for Que week, and upon re-
assembling, the report Of the nomina-
ting committee is removed and the
Executive Committee for the ensuing
year chosen. This custom was observed
as usual this year, the first meeting
being held in the Lincoln Club room on
on the evening of Saturday, June 4,
and committee appointed as usual tt
nominate an Executive Committee foI
this year. The meeting then adjourned
for one week according to custom.
Upon the following Saturday evening,
al hour before the time set for the
meeting to organize, it was found that
most of the seats i'll the room had been
occupied by a body of men and hoys,
apparently organized and under leader
ship. Th9 OBJECT of this proceeding
was developed the instant the meeting
was called to order, it WAS then madt
evident that the meeting WAS likely tC
result in :. mob, and probably riot.
Motions were made in rapid success
sion, hooting and yelling began, appeals
were taken from every attempted de
cision of the chair. The committee ap
pointed to nominate an Executive Com
mittee found it impossible to present
| their report and after several unsuccess
full attempts toproceed with business
unsucces sful, because Of the riotons AM
disgracetul conduct of men who wer.
apparently there for that purpose
motion was made TO ;ld jOurV the meet
| ing for one week This mo ion Was
| fairly put to the meeting and adopted
by an almost unanimous vO'c; a large
portion of those present then withdrew,
and, subsequently, notice was given
through the newspapers that the ad,
journed meeting w-utd bs held on the
following Saturday evening in Institute
Hall, where there would be room
enough for all, who chose to do so, t
assemble and act on the rerort of lis
committee. That adjourned meeting
was held on the evening and at the
place above mentioned; it was a quiet,
orderly and genteel gathering of near y
four hundred Republicans, and as fee
as air tor all who chose to participate,
without fear of insult, or worse, upon
opening ones mouth. AT that meeting
this committee was appointed. We, ct
course, claim to be the only Republican
City Executive Committee in existence,
and deny positively the claims Of any
other body to that name or theirauthor-
ity to exercise the functions Of the or
ganization of the party. That meeting
of the party adopted resolution in
structing this com mittee to order an elec-
tion by the people in the several wards
for q new committee on the first Satur-
day in December, or at such other time
as it might deem advisable.
This resolution was passed for the
purpose of changing the time of choosing
"a City Executive Committe to conform
to the laws, changing the time for hold
ing the city election and to place the
authority Of the committee 50. chosen
beyond all question. After The adj
journment of the meeting in the lin.
coin Club room, before mentioned, it
came to the knowledge of this commit
tee that another body of Republicans
had met and elected another committee
which claimed to be the Executive
Committee Of the party. Without Il
shadow of doubt as to the perfect regu-
larity Of our own committee, and con-
stquently Of the irregu'ari y of the 9TH
ercon mittee, we desired for the sake of
settling all questions OF that nature, to
appeal to that body to set aside all 9TH
er considerations and unite with us
upon u perfectly fair and equitable ba.
sis in choosing the judges to hold an
election for new committee, whose
authority none could or would dispute.
Tie ceres pondence between the two
committees has been made public and
is, no doubt, fresh in the minds of all.
We refer with confidence to our part in
this correspondence and ask candid
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