Los Angeles herald., 1892-03-03
THE ANNEX ROW.
MRS. WILDER RESIGNS AND WRITES
A LETTER.
She Goes Over the Whole Fight-Her Posi-
tion Clearly and Plainly Stated-Mrs.
Senator Cole to Be Appointed

While the annex has knocked ou
Mrs. Wilder, the appointment will no
60 to any member of that body, Mrs
Senator Cole, it is said, having been se
lected by Senator Rose as the appointee
Mrs. Wilder handed in the followins
communication last evening:
EDITORS HERALD: The main facts
brought cut at my examination before
the grievance committee of the ladies
annex We're, That the statement made
that l allowed the annex to nominate
their candidate, and then to their great
surprise l sprung my appointment upon
the ladies, was incorrect, inasmuch as
Mr.. Roses letter of my appointment
was read by Mrs. Hartwell to eleven OF
twelve of the fifteen members, who aft
erwards composed that body when il
was called to order. At the same time,
and again during the meeting, l gave
them a history of my connection with
the affair, which was confirmed in all
points by Mrs. Rose. who had been pres
ent at every interview have had with
Mr.. Rose
That 1 did not stop over night in San
Bernardino when en- route to Chicago
about year ago and 60 on with the
delegates the next day, but that 1 con-
tinued on with the delegates 1 left Los
Angeles with, arriving in Chicago Fri
day, in just four days and about four
hours.
That l have not assumed Mrs. Sproul's
duties as corresponding secretary, as
evidenced in Mrs. Sprouts letter in the
HERALD of Tuesday.
That did not assume Mrs. Hamlin't
duties in writing the letter to Mr.. Rose
about space, but on the contrary l wat
appointed by the president to write thai
letter, and upon suggestion OF Mrs. Nc
Creary, Mrs. Hamlin was added to the
committee. and when the communica
ton was written I courteously asked
Mrs. Hamlin to sign as chairman of the
exposition committee.
1t was clearly proven to four of the
committee (three is majority that my
course throughout has been free from any
intriguery and perfectly straightforward
in every particular. was asked as an
individual to accept the position, and
was not asked in the name OF the annex.
1t was also clearly shown that l, after
all this talk in the papers, waited upon
Mr.. Rose to resign, asking him if he did
not think this would hurt my work in
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and he and Mrs. Rose thought 1 would
be doing very foolish thing to resign.
In justice to myself and friends make
this statement that they can see that
my course throughout has been thor
oughly gone into and examined, and l
have been completely exoner-
ated by four of the five mem
bers composing that committee.
A statement has been made that
those four had been "6xed," but want
to say right here that l had no talk up
on the subject with any OF them. An
other thing, four of the committee were
appointed five months ago by the presi-
dent, and the fifth one, Mrs. Winslow,
| is late addition. Having nothing to
regret az to my own conduct, but being
| fully aware that all this will rebound to
the damage of the worlds fair work in
| this section, as it is a self-evident fact
that charges and lies will continually
pour in while I hold the Office, l take
this opportunity of informing friends
and enemies that have written a letter
of resignation to Mr.. Rose.
MRS. d. r. WILDER.