The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-03-13
That's What the Hoodlums or
Regular Republicans of
Missouri Want,
And by the Eternal They Mean to
Have It Right in the City
of St. Louis.
The Day of Suppression and Misrepresen-
tation Near It's End--Adjourned Meet
ing of the State Committee.

in old Turner Hall to-day, is taken from
local evening paper. 1t contains some
"mighty interestin' readin'" for those
particularly concerned;
"The Hoodlum Republican State Cen
trail Committee met in open session again
this forenoon, considerably smaller than
the one Yesterday. Chairman Fillcy and
Secretary Beach were on hand early, the
former looking trife careworn. Preyi-
Gus to the opening of proceedings the ac-
ton of the Silk-stockings in refusing to
recognize the "lIoodlum" Committee
was discussed on all sides, and a great
deal of loud talk was INDUCED in by the
irate committeeman and the supporters
of the Boss. Tho feeling was
strongly in favor of ignoring
the Van Horn men entirely
hereafter. The sentiment in favor of
"unihcation of the Republican party" had
evidently undergone a serious change,
and there was nothing said about har.
nony or joint action The Hoodlums
protested to the reporter that the silk
Stocking manifesto of yesterday would
not effect them in the slightest degree,
and that the Sedalia Convention would be
fzzle. The delegates who would attend
that gathering, they said, were in many
cases elected by a handful of sore-hcads,
and in some cases elected by themselves.
CHAIRMAN FILLEY
called the meeting to order at half
past eleven O'Clock, and said that it
was impossible for the commit
tee to correct the msstatements
which were being made, as
fast as they were made At the eXecu-
tive session, yesterday, an address to the
Republicans of the State was agreed
upon, and that address would answer
all the mlsstatements made, fully and
truthfully. No assertions were made in
that address which could not be proved
to be absolutely correct. Mr. Fillcy re-
piled at some length to the state
ment made by Mr.. Crowell, yesterday,
10 the effect that all the Republicans Of
the State had been invited to take
part in the Jefferson City Convention
Of 1882. lie held that this was not
true, but that, on the contrary, only
those Republicans We're invited who
approved of the Jefferson City plat
form, which excluded ninety per cent
| of the Republicans of the State. He
| then went on to give a history of
| the secession movement, beginning
| with the mass-meeting at Mercantile Ii
| brary Hall and ending with the conven-
ton which gave birth to the Van Horn
committee. He denied the charge made
in the silk Stocking address that "the
Filley committee in this city, under the
direction of the boss, refused to endorse
the State ticket" regularly nominated,
and that "even the honOred name of Judge
David Wagner, the candidate for Judge
of the Supreme Court, was refuSeda place
upon the ticket because, forSooth, the
convention which nominated him was
neither called nor managed by the eX-
boss He said that this charge had
been denied often enough and that it was
absolutely untrue. In the course of his
remarks Mr. Filley denied
HE WAS BOSS.
He said there was no necessity for any.
body being afraid of him. He would eat
nobody up. He didn't have any hoofs,
nor did he have tail. Those who had
acted with him acted with him from
choice and not through fear. He then
went into a review of his course from 1874
to the present time, denying the charges
which had been made against him by the
UeSHiche Post and the Globe Democrat.
He charged Emil Praetorious with organ
izing a bolt ut Jefferson City in 1864
against Abraham Lincoln, and with being
a chronic boltcr ever since. He was will
ing to follow men who staid in the party,
but he was not willing to stand by men
who tried to lead him outside of the Re-
publican party, as the HObe- Democrat did
when it entered into an alliance with Still
son Hutchins in 1877 to defeat the Repub-
lican party. During the course of his
remarks Mr.. Filley alluded to the fact
that the Gi0Jc- Democrat would not print
his speech, and that the evening papers
did not have room enough for it. A gen
tleman in the audience said; eve ought
to have Republican paper of our own"
"And we will have one and don't you
forget it, replied Mr.. FlIey, which re-
mark was greeted with loud applause.
SECRETARY BEACH
read from his books statement regard.
ing the condition Of the treasury, which
showed it to be depleted. The assess
ments made for the campaign of 1880
amounted to $3.50, and the amount col
lected was 500. 81 couldn't build a
$1,000 brick house with that" said Mr.
Filley.
DIDN'T ANTE.
1t seems that the candidates on the Re,
publican State ticket of $50 were assessed
and paid their assessments after this
manner; ID. p Dyer agreed to pay 81, 600
and paid $500; Milo j. Blair agreed to
pay $500 and paid nothing; Jas. Broad
well was assessed $500 and paid $50;
Larkin A. Thompson was assessed $500
and paid nothing; Horace A. Harding
agreed to pay $500 and paid $50; Geo, Is,
Hernden was assessed $500 and paid 800;
j. V. c. Harms agreed to pay $3.50 ana
paid S250--the only man on the ticket
who paid in full.
THE COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE
appointed yesterday made the following
report:
Sr, LOUIS, Mo-, March II, 1884.
To the Regular State Republican Com
mittee;
Your committee of conference appoint.
ed Yesterday to confer with a similar COM
mttee, which was appointed prior to
yours by the committee Of which the Hon.
r. T. Van Horn Is chairman, have the
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