Nevada County picayune., 1888-04-04
SHAMEFUL TREATMENT!
How Ans!ey & Go. run the Nevada
 County Wheel.
True Wheeler Exposes Their Base perss.
 cutions of a Democrat

pecially all wheclers in this county, ot the shameful treatment Demo crat has received at the hands of
 Messrs. Ansley, Jones & Co. Sev- eral months have elapsed. and suiii-
 cient time has been given for them
 to undo their work, which has not
 been done. Instead, they have az
 gravated matters, both in the last
 county wheel and in the Dispatch.
 Toward the close of last December
 Mir. J, w. Gardner, (cditor of the
 PIcAYrNE) through a member of the
 Emmet wheel. asked the Hickory
 Grove wheel for change of iurisdic-
 tion to Emmet wheel, he having
 q ticket on railroad and it being more
 convenient to attend meetings there
 for that reason. as he then had no con
 vcyance in which to attend at Hick- ory Grove. At a regular meeting of our wheel, (Hickory Grove) when
 there were about twenty members
 present this change of jurisdiction
 was granted by majority vote. At
 the next regular meeting of the Elm met wheel. MT. Gardner was voted
 upon and accepted, and was also initiated the same night by suspen- sion of the rules as has been done nearly all over the county. and I suppose the State. This is clear statement of facts as to his going in- to the wheel, he being mechanic and clearly entitled to membership by the constitution.
 Now comes the shameful treat ment accorded him by Capt Ansley Jones & Co. Mr. Gardner attended the meeting of the county wheel, at Holly Springs, tho last Saturday in December He tells me Capt. Ans ley informed him on the day before (Friday) that he could not go to Holly Springs, Mir. G. having invi- ted him to accompany him, which would have cost Capt. A. nothing Don't forget this. Notwithstanding this, Mir. Ansley was at Holly Springs Saturday, some time before the wheel opened, and was lively q learn) in canyassing with his politi- cal friends. Soon after the wheel opened, and before credentials of delegates had been passed upon and the body was ready for regular bus mess, Gas per "cut and dricd' ar engagements made before) on an al- legged point of order. which was sus- tained by presiding officer Robin son, Mir. Gardner was. by vote of the officers alone, declared not le- gal wheeler and therefore not enti- tied to a seat in the county wheel, on the ground that he had not been given change of jurisdiction to Elm met wheel, by majority of ALL the members of Hickory Grove wheel. and that his petition for membership into the Emmet Wheel had not been laid over for one meeting, for final action at its next. Messrs. Ansley and Jones lead the movement, to keep Mir. Gardner out of the wheel, and would not wait until the regular ly accredited delegates could pass on the case after the wheel was fully open; yes, they took an unfair ad- vantage to keep him out, (and it seems because he is DemocratO be- cause they knew nearly all the off cers. who alone could then vote were ex-grecnbackcrs who would vote with them to exclude him. They are afraid he will injure their pros- poets for riding into office by wheel influence. if he comes into our coun- ty wheels. IL is very plain case. Then at the last county wheel at Forest Hill, these same persecution ists, by msconstruction of the con stitution, and misrepresenting Mir. Gardner. prevented the resembling of the unfair action of the officers of the Holly Springs wheel.
 Bro. whcelers of Nevada will you stand silent spectators to such inius- ticc and mockery of wheeleri sm, which says no mans political or re- ligious opinions shall be interfered with: Will you thus let these men ostracise and keep out man be- cause of his politics? Will you thus let politicians, who are always rum ming for office, control the wheel in this county; Are you in favor of letting them dictate and say who shall be and who are legal whelers?
 To prove the great wrong and shameful treatment of Mir. Gardner, l cite all wheelers to the Subordi- nate Wheel Constitution. as to quo rum, it says: "FiNe members pres ent shall constitute a quorum for tbe transaction of business" and two pages further, on jurisdiction, which is certainly BUSINESS, it says: A majority of the wheel having juris- diction may grant change of juris- diction from one wheel to another. '" These quotations are quoted from memory as the substance, and cant he gainsaid, as can he seen by refer cncc. In all legislative and other organized bodies, the bylaws stipu- late what number of members shall constitute q quorum, and when this quorum transacts business, it is binding on all. This is the way our national, state and municipal laws, are enacted. As to petition not lv- ing over one meeting will say it is custom in many wheels in this and many other counties to suspend that rule and take in applicant same meet ing his petition comes in. And here