The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-01-04

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postotti;e indicates. For that position bis
indorsers outnumbered those :of all the
other candidates MANIFOLD:
The LETTER:
200 CHESTNUT STREET,
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 2, 1884
To the Globe. Democrat:
My DEAR Mr.. EDlToR-You reveal .
severe attack of Authorization. This 10
chronic with you In all matters concerning
myself. have not written, sent, author.
IL ed or been privy to any such dispatch as
you charge me with sending to the National
Rcpub ilcan. The action that have taken
a member Of one Of the committees Of
the two Republican organizations in the
city IN connection with the two sub. COM
mi tees OF the same, was merely as In duty
bound to secure. In the interests of the
party, and OF the then united parsy--that
vested me with the trust--a Joint call, and
united action for the future, aud one con-
vention of the Republicans, city and state,
which action is Of record and speaks for it.
self and cannot be miscOnstrued or mis-.
represented, except by those who
desire to do so. do hope
that you and Van Horn
have not been manufacturing mares nest
when all Of our exertiOns should be in the
direction Of harmony and unity. The call
ing of conventions to take party matters in.
to consideration, Ia, at this late date, all
that the comm ittees have to do, and when
called, virtually ends the duties Of the
same. The pending question Is, shall the
committees avoid future division and dis
aster, and shall there not be Joint calls and
one set Of conventions throughout the state.
This should not be, and is not hard
proposition to decide. Those who favor
uuited action and conventions represented
by delegates from the whole and united
party will talk and vote aye. Those
opposed will vote nay. have
voted ave and the proposition has
unanimously passed In our city
Committee, the one that represents IA pre-.
| cincts and 1872 precinct committeeman.
Upon the conventions called, representing
| the whole party, wall, devolve all questions
for which they are called, and all matters
Of party policy, party management, and
| party managers, and the delegated repre-.
sentatives who 20 up from reunited con-
| stituency will have the contrib Of and the
| deciding OF the same. The conflicting
and divided committees have nothing TO do
| with deciding wnat the convention shall or
| shall not do, nor will the Joint committees
be vested with any such power beyond the
customary practice OF naming the time and
place OF holding such conventions and the
positions to be nominated for,
and the election of new committees.
When the State Convention meets un.
der Joint call. then the existing State
committees will give way to The new com.
mittce elected hy il. After call q State
committee mas 49, act to perform until the
assembling of the convention so called. So
that the city and State committees have
but one duty to perform really and that 10
calling conventions or meetings that shall
create their successors. The primary duty
Of all Republicans whether vested with
committee powers and duties or nOt-but
particularly with committeeman II will be
conceded, is to secure unity aud success
and avoid division and consequent defeat.
You should not after your repeated claims
and assertions that the 129. 900 Republican
votes in the State last fall were behind you
and backing you up be now afraid or show
any signs Of fear Of q united and Jointly
called convention, city or State,
representing the whole party. Let, my
dear Mr.. Editor. all Of your party griev.
ances be submitted to q convention OF the
whole reunited party. Go to such majority
convent ions and concert with the Republi.
cans Of the city and State For ten years
and over you have been missed. You and
any one from your office have been missed
from all Republican conventions in the city
and State, rs delegate. Let me say that
| have not favored separate action BY either
city or State committees, and that am only
executing now my convictions and practices
Of the past. You will recollect my
resolution and action proposed In the
Regular State Committee Of 1870
and 1871 after the disastrous division of
1870, for the then reunion Of the party
which was made the basis Of that reunion
and OF the Joint call and one State conven.
ton In 1872. You will also recollect the
more recent efforts at Joint action, my reso-
buttons OF March and October last 10 the
City committee, for Joint action, which
resolutions all OF them we're adopted by the
committee to which they were presented.
So unity and Joint action Is nothing new to
me or to the committee with which have
been connected, and have ney er been con.
nected with any but regular Republican
committees. But somehow when the op.
portunty offers, you oppose, that Ia, your
paper opposed all of the above pamed reso-
lutions and propositions State and city, and
you seem to avoid the subject Of unity and
joint action as a mad dog does wa
ter. But you cannot avoid the
responsibility that the party attaches to the
question. II there is q reasonable ob1ec-