Daily globe., 1882-09-27
Especial Telegram to the Globe. I

Fiuey the Missouri Split.
Especial Telegram to the Globe
| ST.. LOUIS, Sept. 26.-A reporter met
Chauncey I. Filley, the Republican leader.
to-day. Mr.. Filley was asked if he thought
the attitude of the Globe Democrat of the
morning indicated that the Pahlman city
committee is to be ignored by the silk
stocking Republicans, and that we are to
have double city as well as double state
committee. What do you think of it ?"
was quried
"Think of it! 1 don't think of it. When
this volunteer association of boiling Re-
publicans met at jefferson City and
named a state committee, you would nat
urally suppose that its first duty would be
to go to work and select state ticket
would you not? And what do these people
do but to appoint delegation to go to
Washington and establish their regularity.
They go on the defensive really before
they are attacked
Il wish you would state your position
clearly on this natter
My position is this: Our state commit
tee derives its authority from the national
convention held in Baltimore in 1854
which conferred its regularity by avote of
440 to 4. There is but one state commit
tee, of which l am the chairman, and it will
continue in existence and l will continue
at its head until we have called the state
convention to select delegates for the ma
tonal convention of 1884, and until new
state committee is regularly appointed by
that convention in 1884 to take our places.
That is my position as clearly as can put
it. and that position will not be affected
by any volunteer band of disaffected peo-
pie whatever. This so-called state COM
mittee has come into existence for the
purpose of electing a state ticket. Nobody
wants to interfere with them, but they will
find out if they interfere with our duties
that the time for trifing has gone by.''
who do these people representa-"
"John B. Henderson starts up in
the convention and tells them
after fifteen years the party has come to
him; that he has not come to the party,
and it looks like it, too, The Globe-Demo-
crat, the accredited organ of the bolt, says
that the success of the Republican party
in Missouri is secondary matter. 1t al
ways has been secondary matter with
! them, when that success came between
them and their interests. They charge me
with having dragged down the party.
suppose we dragged it down in 1875, when
we elected four congressman. In 1873 the
policy of the Globe Democrat and Mr..
Henderson lost every district in the state,
except the one controlled, where they pre-
dicted 5000 majority against Cole, and
yet he was really elected and counted out.
The. methods which they criticise have been
the methods of success, and they have been
successful. The very dangers we feared
from this convention are already upon us.
1t is admitted that now the state will go
Democratic by 50,OOO.'
Amotter FORCED Poray.
Ne wYoRK, Sept. 26.-It appears that
another forged proxy was used at Sarato-
ga. Judge Smith, of Cortland. few DAYS
before the convention found he would not
be able to fill his place on the state COM
mittee. He is half-breed. He commu-
nicated with Mr.. Vroman, to whom he
sent a proxy with directions to fill it up
with the name of some reliable half-breed.
Vroman was casting about for some trust
worthy proxy of that description when he
got kilograms purporting to come from
Judge Smith telling him not to fill
the blank until Ex-Assembly-
man Carley arrived. Believing the dis
patch to be genuine, Vroman awaited the
the coming of Carley, and when that indi-
vidual arrived, he told Vroman that Judge
Smith wished Mr.. Montaney of Marathon
to act as his proxy. The secretary of the
committee thereupon called Montaney's
name in proxy, and that gentleman served
and voted with the stalwarts for Madden
to the surprise of all hands but those in
the secret. The French affair and Mon
fancy of course made Vroman suspicious,
and he wrote Judge Smith, and he pro-
nounced the telegram bogus.
The Republican state committee elected
John F. Smith chairman.
The following resolution will be consid-
cred at the next meeting of the commit
| tee:
Resolred, That in future meetings of
this committee no persons, except mem
| bers duly elected at state conventions, be
authorized to vote, and that no persons be
permitted to appear by proxy.
General Sharpe offered the following,
which was adopted:
| Resolred, That the state committee ex-
presses its detestation of the attempt made
at Saratoga to influence the decision of
the late committee by the use of forged
telegram, and its detestation of all meth
DDS and purposes with such meanings > as