Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-23


Spouse to +. Il. Dray.
The State Executive Committee of the
Anti-Chinese Non Partisan Association has
made the following response to the letter of
F. r. Dray, of this city, resigning his mem
bership of the committee:
To F. z. Dray, Esq, ESGcrameato: Your resig-
nation rs member of the State Executive
Committee of the California Anti-Chinese Asso-
citation has been received. The third section of
the definition of the boycott, which you saw Won
cannot conscientiousy approve or support. has
been entirely distorted by you. The one senti-
ment which has characterized every act and
council of this committee has been to make the
application OF the bOycott'ls mild and kind to
the Chinese and their selfish EMPLOYERS as can
De done without Jeopardizng the triumph of
our cause tertainly II would be a strained
conception of the third section which Would
justify the refusal to furnish any human being
with the necessaries OF life. There are, how
ever, large class Of men in whom the money
getting impulse Is so strong that they would uSe
every effort to retain the Chinese in Californis
so long as they could gain dollar from their
patronage ms class, under the accursed
Thirst for gold, are earnest advocates of the
boycott They attend i-Chinese Conven-
ions ana take prominent part in the delibera-
IONS; tney issue ringing resolutions and ADOPT
strong platforms they make eloquent speecbas
70 mass meetings called to indorse these plat
forms they pander to the popular feeling in
order 10 attain political preierment. BIt a
change passes over the spirit of their dream
Tney md that they may be called upon TO make
some personal sacrifice TO achieve the end
marked ont. The large landowners are opposed
10 the measure. a voice from the great Chinese
employer. who represents California in the Sen
ate denounced the boycott Then these earnest
men SEES Ior some manner of escape from the
responslblililes they have assumed. II is to
TINS class the third section is intended to amply
GU have discovered in this section an eScIlse
Ior aoanuoiilng n cause which should receive
your energetic support. There can be no moral
dinerence between refusing to sell goods to n
Chlnauau aud pledging yourself not to give
that Chlnaman the labor which would afford
MN the means TO purchase the necessaries of
NE We therefore regard your excuse as worse
thah subteTiuge. The subterfuge was the
more apparent, as the committee expressly left
the severity with which the boycott should be
applied to the discretion of the local leagues
only recurring them to conform to the reSolu-
TONS adopted by the State Convention We re-
greet that our first official act was to censure Won
as a member Of this committee for cousentipg
IN violation Of the letter and spirit of the reso-
luton OF the State Convention, to put off the
boycott ia your county until the 10th of Novem-
Der. The object of this delay was too trafsDar-
eent, and the explanation offered entirely unsat-
lslactOry and, anxious rs we are to avoid
severity we could find no excuse TO remove the
cenSure. We cannot say that we regret that
you have determined to withdraw from our
committee, but we cannot avoid expressing our
reprObatOn of your effort TO iuiIre n cause
Which you prOfesscd to have so much at heart
by SO Himsy . misrepresentng of the measures
we are adopting to carry out the peaceful rem
N's9 Va t-4t bbAtDll. DelleF lar nave honestly
admitted that you have experienced change
OF heart and have come to believe. as you init
mate III your letter, that you no longer regard
the boycott as a necessary measure but hope
redress from Congressional action. Your resig-
nation IS accepted. Respectfully by order Of
the state Executive Committee,
V. HoFFNEYfR. Secretary.
NB. DRAY INSISTS UPON REsIGYING.
Mr.. Dray Yesterday forwarded the follow
ing communication to the committee at
San Francisco
SACRAMENTO, April %, 1856.
10 ne SUB i-cecutye Committee Of the AHt Chinese
A0n-IiartisdR association, No. 122 Pb,laR Block
San FTINcisc9, Cdk.-GENTLENIEN: I have been
notified by the Secretary of the Sacramento
Anti-Chinese Association that at their regular
meeting, held last Tuesday eY ening, a resolution
was offered by Senator Reuter- and adapted
requesting me to withdraw my resignation as a
member Of the State Executive Committee AS
the thlru section of your definition of the boy
colt must bc binding a ic1Si upon its authors and
probably on the entire State Executive Commit
tee, feel that in justice to you ! should not
Withdraw my resignation, thereby enabling YOU
a. elect some one who can give you his SYM
pathy, as web as his support and having al
ready indicated your choice by selecting the
chairman of the Committee on Agricultural
Labor OF said Association Senator Routier)
whose views are manifestly more in complete
harmony with the definition adopted by YOU
therefore decline to withdraw my resignation
Yours respectfully, t. R. DRAY