El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-26

saying who should fill the various
federal Offices. In none of the fore
going grave, dignified and important
assumptions of power was the or
ganization requested to act. That was
! reserved for those apparently bes
adapted to destroy the organization
and build one-man machine
and al anti-McKinley machine at
that. And so the work of destructio n
| has run apace for months, they evi.
IDENTIFY surprising that the people and
office of the party would blindly sub
nit to their senseless vaporings and
ruinors balderdash. So it has gone
| from bad to worse, until some time ago
the tt en- state chairman issued call
for a meeting of the state executive
committee to be held at Dallas, October
y. No object for the meeting was as
signed officially, but from leaky mem
bers of the Green advisory-board-an til
Mckinley combine it could be heard
tn at the sta e executive committee must
be purged of its ObjectiOnal Mckinley,
antiGreen men. Members were mark
ed for the slaughter. First. it was de-
cided to cut off sixteen official head
but as time wore on the number de-
creased with their nerve, till at the
time of meeting it had gotten down to
seven of the regularly elected members
of the committee who were to be be-
headed. The day before the meeting
the then state chairman issued brand
new list OF mem rers with seven men on
it never before found thereon. At the
appointed time eighteen regularly
elected members marched in body to
the room of meeting and demanded
badges and right to participate in the
del Der atlOns. Part of them were ad-
mitted aad given badges and the bal
ance were refused both admission and
badges. 1t will be seen that eighteen
is a clear majority of the committee
(thirty-one), consequently they would
constitute the committee. Those adj
and demonstrated and pleaded with the
chairman to suffer the regular commit
tee to act, but evidently they had de-
termined to adopt the methods used by
Quincy ct al. at Austin, and refused to
do so. The roll was then called by q
man Mr.. Green had installed pc
secretary, he refusing to recognize
r. L. Smith, the regularly elected
secretary, and upon that list were
seven men never elected. A protest
was then made against such conduct to
the chairman aud he was begged to
accept the regular list of members that
had been recognized for year past.
This he ia led and refused to do,
Whereupon eighteen regularly elected
members withdrew 10 another room in
the building and held a meeting of the
committee, in which meeting Mr..
Green was charged latter due notice
and an opportunity to appear with
high crimes aud Otfenses against the
party, and after trial was found guilty
aud depOsed. His successor was then,
by vote of eighteen out of thirty-one,
elected to serve out Mr.. Green's unex-
pired term. Each and every one of
those eighteen members had bsen
known and recognized as members of
the committee for year past. They
have been published in the republican
the official list of members of the state
committee, without correction or COM
plant, either by the people of their
districts or by the then state chair
man. They have held undisputed title
to the position for that length of time
and even if the chairman had the right
to say who were members originally
he had so palpably slept on his rights
that it would be too late now. But he
never had the right. In an interview
in St. Louis in the Globe-Democrat in
the issue of Oct. Is, Mr.. Green is
quoted as saying regarding the
meeting at Dallas, "that a small
faction headed by Grant bolted.': He
further says: ''Those insurgents went
through the farce of organizing state
committee The statement tina: l
ne AIDED any faction or bolt is false, as
l was not in or anywhere near the
Oriental hotel then nor for five hours
afterward. The people will, by the
term, 'insurgents," understar how he
regards the officers they elected who
seek to preserve the dignity and laws
of the party. as we'll as to keep it il
tact He may regard eighteen as a
small faction of thirty-one, but it is
two more than ma jorit Y of the whole
committee and a majority can do any
thing the whole can DO Hence In
spirit aud strength the whole commit
tee were "bolters' and ''insurgents, ~
because forsooth he could not arbi-
trarily dictate, destroy and tear down
, the organization. Again Mr.. Green
says in the same interview that Il
Committee on credentials was appoint
ed to pass upon four contested cases.
don't see how or when motion was
pas ed creating such a committee, for
no mot; on was voted upon by those
eighteen mem bers, hence it must have
be n passed without quorum being
present ana is therefore illegal and
without force. Newspaper accounts
credit them with having also with tha /
minority passed resolutions indOrsin 9
President Mckinley and the admins
tration. Turning back in the news
paper files to q date corresponding to
the Austin convention and the district
conventions of 1896, held at that tim ,
to select delegates to the national cor
vention. one is struck dumb with
amazement to see the self-same crowd
who were then trying 10 keep Mr.. Nc
Kinley from becoming president now
| iu6o sing him. About the only notab 9
absentee was n. w. Cuney.
The question arises, were they
sincere? To satisfy yourself look st
the regular members whose heads
the chairman tried to cut off. And t.
further satisfy yourself, see the COM
plexion of those he tried to appoint in
their stead; and it that does not con-
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