The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-03-12
NOT IN IT.
Chauncey J., FiiIey Says He
Has no Controversy With
the City Committee.

the City Committee.
Below will be found an intercstin!
letter from Mr.. Chauncey | Fillci
denying in toto that he is taking any
part with Mr.. Ford Smith in his eight
on the Republican City Central Com.
mittce. The publication in The Re
public was based on information of {
republican who claims intimacy Will
Mr.. Fillcy and says he has one Of
Mr.. FiIley's ''opcn letters" in hi,
possession:
10 the Editor Of The Republic.
ST. LOUIS, March 2, 1S91.-Again
am l called upon without any foun.
dation of truth to refute an entire
article in your columns of this morn.
ing headed, "Filley's Little Game"
| certainly have no intention of inter-
fering with the decentralization
of the city committee. There will not
be q meeting this or next or any other
week at my suggestion, or upon my
call to consider as asserted therein
of the state committee. There has
not been and will not be any confer
ences held by me for the considera
ton of any such subject as the GUST
ing of the present officers and COM
mitteemen.at.large Of the present
city committee and the reinstatement
Of the old members. l did not issue
on last Wednesday Cor any other
day. an open letter that is being
freely circulated round in republican
circles, declaring the present city
committee an illegally constituted
body and denying their authority to
shape republican politics in the COM
ing campaign. Mr.. Filley SIS not al,
most daily engaged in consultations
over the situation that concerns ''the
reorganization of the present ccm-
mittee or the formation of another
committee under the call of the State
Republican Committee" ] have no
controversy with the city committee,
and have not had. With but three or
four exceptions they are all my
friends, SO they assert and 1 believe.
They have a grave responsibility to
discharge, and II that should be
aided and encouraged instead of OBJ
structed duties, too, which require
this spring unusual caution and un.
usual work, and the unity of the
party to succecd-duties should not
be lightly considered or triiied with.
If ever there was a time in the history
of the republican party that required
sagacious management it is now All
elements should so look at ii and ac-
cordingly act. l know of no DISPOSE
ton otherwise TO do, and rs for my.
self | shall recognize the ticket nomi-
mated under the call of the present
city committee and vote and work
for 1t. Unquestlonably the committee
had no right to remove the com
mitteemcn-at large, because such
were the creation of the city conven-
ton of 1879, both as to number and
tenure of Office. Neither had the
committee the right to increase the
number of the committee.men.at-
large, rhus departing from the order
of the said convention and the OBJ.
servancc Of it since and up to this
departure, If anything further is de-
manded l cannot see it from me in
refutation of The entire article so far
as it relates 70 me, or of pretended
action Or pretended and unfoundcd
purposes of mine. There are friction
and factions enough now to worry
the best disposed management, and
the interests of the party should be
paramount and controlling, and while
l am invested with delegated trusts
from the party I shall now, as al
ways, prove my fealty and loyalty to
such and to party friends by stand
ing up for regularity and success. l
IA be pardoned, however, for refer
ring to the satisfaction that the de-
cision of the supreme court gives TO
me, in the fact that it stands up for
regularity and party discipline and
refutes the idea of assertion of the
assistant democrats and hitherto
boilers vt the republican party Of The