El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-14
THE SPLIT COMMITTEE.
The Heads and Tails of the State EX-
ecutive Committee.

The expected happened yesterday
| and the Texas republican party is di-
vided into two hostile camps. The
Grant committeeman, led by Cecil A.
Lyon and @. M. Ferguson, bolted early
in the engagement, alleging the un-
warranted removal of seven Grant par
tisaDs, by Chairman Green. The in
surgents not only walked out of the
| counmit.ee-room, but they defied the
state chairman's IS authority and later in
the day unceremoniously fred Chair
man Green and elected Hon. John
Grant in his stead. The Green forces
claim twenty-five of the regular COM
and that only nine got away. The
Grant managers asserted that sixteen
live committeeman are with them now,
were with them yesterday and will
stay with them until the last ditch has
been crossed. In addition they claim
ed the proxies of Messrs. Loudon and
McAndrew, who are out of the state.
"With the two proxies we had eight
cen committeeman in our meeting,"
said Cecil A. Lyon to News reporter,
"a nd the fight will not end until 1900,
when the national committee and the
national convent on of the republican
party will return verdict. 1t will not
be an adverse verdict, for We have
right on our side" Hon. Q. W. Ogden
of San Antonio, Judge W. K. Makem-
saa s99 %aoe Sf SsSsR d Dr. Wi%ot Mdgso
ex-Chairman N. B. Moore of Fort
Worth, Capt. Thomas Mcconnell of
Sunset and other Old-time repu olicans
made the fight for Chairman Green.
If the predictions of the leaders are
verified henceforth there will bs two
repub blican parties in Texas and war to
the knife will be waged from this time
NJ q irsrn mr. 10 10 ovsc
say that no olive branch will be ex-
tended to the "insurgents," as Judge
MakemsOn christened them. On the
other hand, National Committeeman
Grant and his lieutenants say that
Hon. E. H. r. Green has been
shorn of all political pow
er, stripped of his yellow peacock
officer. And Chairman Green, when
informed of these things last night.
merely showed his teeth and said: "I
am the chairman and the committee
will continue in business at the old
stand We had magnificent meeting
today with twenty-four of the thirty
one members participating from start
to finish. We transacted our bus
mess and adjourned; that's ALL"
DR.. Grant had the following to say
concerning his announcement:
1.-The republicans Of Texas, acting
from a standpoint Of defense, of the re-
publican organization of this state as
created by the people and inspired by
them, seemed to feel it incum bent up
on them to removed f. H. r. Green.
Eighteen of the regularly elected
N bers of the state republican execu-
tive committee voted for his removal
and my appointment was made without
my solicitation. Believing that
this body was the highest
tribunal in the state and
knowing that they had the power to
remove as we'll as to appoint, did not
think it consistent to decline and con-
the fact that I greatly deplore anything
like lack of harmony. [ am going to
defend the interest OF the republican
party Of Texas as L see it. l shall at
tempt to do the best l can. l shall ask
tie people of the state to stand by me
and hope they will do so."-Dallas
News