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Of the Compromise COMMITTEES
APLIN OFSETTLEHENr

APLIN OFSETTLEHENT
Which Should BE Acceptable to Boil
Sides, Being Both Honorable and Fair.
-Nessrs. Editors: The political diff
culties that bcsei the pathway Of the
party are indeed serious.
This is trae both IN the county anI
the State.
| II is possible, may probable, that So
far as the State is concerned the chasrn
will !e bridged at least for the time
and the Democracy will stand with
out division a, The approaching gen.
eral election.
Is the situation in Fairfield 81. hope
FIJI? Unless something, oy> much, is
done in the next few days, a nnion OF
the warning factions upon common
ground, will be impossible.
Time can only widen and deepen
the breach already existing and if we
are wise we will need the saving,
1T 'twere done, when It's done
Then it were well, it we've done quickly" ,"
ave are confronted With 4 con-
dition and not a.theory."
What is that condition?
Two Executive Committees, two
gentlemen claiming to be the Exc
cutive head of the party, and in one
month four conventions have assem-
bled and four sets Of delegates elected
to two State Conventions.
The division in the party ranks
grew out of differences in the County
Convention Of the second of August.
The friends Of Gen. Bratton con-
tended for one plan Of organic alton;
the friends and supporters Of Capt.
Til,man, for another-Ca3t. Gaillard.
the County Chairman, construing the
party law, sustained the position Of
the Bratton men and Of course necs-
sarily overrulcd ;hc position of the
opposition.
The Tillmahites left the Court House
and organized another Convention;
the Dratton Mcn remained and COM
pleted organization on the line of the
County Chairman's decision. Two
Conventions resulted and heated con-
tests in the August State Convention
-.nAa- naturally the outcome. One con-
vention was legal and The OrIer Er1oS !,
one position on the law was right and
the other wrong; this is necessarily so.
And it is right here, Messrs. Editors,
we find the core and heart Of the
trouble, the real. veritable "apple Of
diScord."
TO have union again, to bring the
elements of the party together IL tt'"th
as we'll as in name, the ''cause Of all
our woes" must be removed. This we
cannot expect, by an ayect surrender
from either side.
Both sides, it is only fair to say,
believe in the honesty and impregna-
bility of their respective positions and
of the legality of the acts done in
pursuance thereof:
I repeat it, neither side can in
conscience, make an unconditional sur
render.
To demand it, is unreasonable. and
to yield to such a demand would be
humiliating and compromising in the
extreme.
Some honorable way out Of it will
alone suffice.
In the humble judgment of the
writer, there is but one, and that is to
submit to honorable and diSinterested
persons, outside of the State, the de-
cision of the question, which of the
two first Conventions was legal and
which County Chairman and Exccu-
tive Committee is the party authority
in the county.
Let the Lyles committee select one
referee, the Gaillard committee another
and the two gentlemen thus selected
choose q third. Let the COURT Of
TRAITORS thus constituted sit in
j Igment, not upon the passions OF
men, nor upon the merits Of the issues
that seem to be severing the party in
twain, but upon the sole question
which Convention was the legal body
and which one, the illegal.
Let both factions agree to abide the
dicision, favorable OF adverse. If Mr..
Gaillard is held to be the County
Chairman, let Mr.. Lyles resign and
his committee join the Gaillard COM
miitee-if upon the other hand, the
decision is the other way, let Mr..
Gaillard resign and his committee take
their seats in the Lyles committee.
This would be All honorable adjust
ment of the dificulty-the writer can
conceive of none other. Can any one,
who may be sincerely desirous Of
uniting the party, enter an objection
to it. IF each side rests in the strength
of its position, it is the proper plan.
If each side is desirious of obeying the
demand of the masses that the factions
should be united, it is the fairest,
most honorable method Of attaining
that end.
Once this vcxing question is out of
the way (and it can get out in no
other way unless one side capitulates
absolutely no barrier will remains to
prevent absolute, and enduring union.
The details are easily of solution, if
the plan is right.
The writer is for peace, but honor
able peace Let the factions now show
their hands. CONSERVATIVE.
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