The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-26
APPLICABLE DENIES IT.
He Says There Is No Trouble In the Ranks
Il The o. Il. T.
A disnatch sent out from Omaha, Mo

A dispatch sent out from Omaha, Mon
day night, says:
lone of the greatest sensations in ma
tiouat labor circles and one which Will
directly or Indirectly affect every railroad
teIegrapber in the country, came To light
today IN the disclosure of the fact that
Omaha Division of the Order OF Railway
photographers had filed charges TO Impeach
Grand Chief d. g. Ramsay, Grand Editor
\. d. Vhurstou ana Grand Executive
Committeeman George {. L-ggett. The
charges were prepared after an exhaustive
investigation. the division having sent a
member Carl Smith. to the headquarters
ut Nintou, L.. to Inquire into the situa-
ton. ugly rumors having been circulated
at tue last convention at Toronto.
The result of the iuqairy was thai
charges were filed by Grand Com mittee-
man l. T. Roche of Chicago on complaint
of Omaha division, :he charges presenting
thrty-siX specifications, charging Ramsay
wit incompeteucy, dishonesty seduction
and all sorts OF otfeuses.
The order was instituted eight years ago
at Cedar Rapids, Ia, by A. d. Ihurston as
/ "A uoustrIking organization. For SIX years
its growth was steady unit! IT numbered
/ y. $50 members, when it blossomed Into a
strike organization. with TEurston as
grand chief aud Ramsay, then An East st.
! Louis lawyer, as assistant grand chief. \
/ few mont hs afterward the executive COM
( mittee. of which Ramsay was chairman.
( made Thurston editor of its paper, and
I Ramsay succeeded TO the grand cbieftaln-
| CIV, aud at the next convention, held IN
| Chattanooga in 1892 this arrangement was
continued.
| A special tax had been ordered for a
! strike fund, the understanding being that
/ as soon as this fund reached $4,000 the tax
should cease. IL came dangerously near
reaching this figure several times, tor the
order numbered nearly 5000 operators.
The grand chief, It Is said, was equal to
! the occasion, and although S5i, 4o5 50 was
/ paid into this fund last year az Toronto.
4 but -. COZ 81 was shown TO be on hand.
! The Rock Island strike had wiped out
: s.. $50 So the Central Georgia strike SS,Oll--
80 the B. C. r & y. strike sl1, 40 - and
the Gulf trouble l,07LG6. AZ Toronto
( Ramsey and 1hurstou were reelected, bul
! the Omaha division was not satisfied and
/ il started n 10 fight the two leaders. One
OF the abIesr lawyers in Omaha was en-
1 gagged and today II was learned that the
( charges had beea carried Go the grand eX-
! ecutive committee.
A. J. Apologize of this city grand sec
rotary of the grand executive committee,
/ with whom the charges are alleged q
have been placed, was seen yesterday of
an EAGLE reporter, and be denies their ex-
isteuce in toto. He stated that 81. charges
against any grand officer OF the order
would have TO first pass through n;
/ hands before being referred 20 the com
rnittee for action, and that Geographic al
/ vices from the parties Interested, aud froG
Committeeman Roche OF Chicago, say thai
nothing or the nature OF charges asains
any grand officer OF the order has been
heard Of by them, and that everything L
{ prosperous and conteated with the mem
/ bership, a. far S. they eau ascertain TIT
| report, he says. Is supposed TO emsnIte
from one Carl Smith, a former member o
the order and an ex-newspAper man o
Omaha. who joined the order last May foi
the purpose Of obtaining the grand editor
ship and, being defeated at the grand con
ventiou, took this method OF bringing 1t:
management into disrepute-
Tue grand officers referred to. he saws
were elected unanimously by an Assem-
blace OF three delegates from each OF tht
two hundred divisions OF the order, and !
Is not likely that such endorsement as thai
would oe erroneous. Wichita has one o
the largest, il not eutiTely the largest
lodges OF his order IN the United states
X has a membership spread all thro1st
the southwest Of over Go. and this new
as well as Mr.. Applegale's statement vii
be of interest 10 them