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

'eave the senatorial executive commit
tee without chairman. No such
power is, nor ever has been vested in
the state chairman, and the assump-
tion of such power or right is without
| authority and can not and will not be
| sustain ed by either party law or usage.
| If the state chairman had the right, OF
his own volition or motion, to indis-
| cri ~ inately remOve party officers. then
| indeed, a state chairman could remov :
| all his enemies and supplant them with
b S friends and thus control the organ
ization, thereby, perpetuating himself
in power Indefinitely. Again, if the
people elect aud he has the right to
| remove their choice, then they really
have at last no voice in the matter.
Or if state chairman was for Reed
and there were a majority Of the party
sll the Mckinney men and supplaut
them with Reed men, and thereby
comp letely subvert the will of the
| people and set up his own instead,
thereby changing the entire complex
ion of the organization. Hence it will
| be seen il that power was granted a
state chairman, it would be useless to
elect any officer but him as indeed the
other officers would be subject to his
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appoint those who suited him at first.
: The senatorial executive committee is
formed by the election Of one member
from each county in the district and
the chairman from the district at
large. The district is under the con-
troll of that committee and
not the chairman. The county
committees are composed by the cleo
| tiOn of one m en- Der from each precinct
and the chairman from the county at
| large. The county committee has con-
| troll of affairs in the county. the sena-
tOrial committee has charge of affairs
pertaining to the election of senators
| in that district and the congressional
committee has charge of affairs over
| the election of congressman, etc. Each
! has its specific rights and powers urder
its own Jurisdiction and cannot be in
terfered with, so long as they act con-
| sistently and do their duty. In none of
the committees mentioned bad the
chairman the right or power to remove
NJ EN- bers thereof, but all the comm t.
tees have that power. Hence 1t Will
be seen that the chairmen of all the
committees are but the presiding Of
ficers and that the power of creating
vacancies rests and remains in the
committees and not in the chairmen.
With that explanation we will now
proceed to take up and digest the Dali
las meeting For a considerable time
reaching back to and during the last
campaign, the then state chairman, E.
II. r. Green, has INDUCED in the APP
parent pastime of removing congress
sional, senatorial and county chairmen.
During the last campaign such action
on his part created undue disturbance
in the several localities, costing us
perhaps thousands of votes. Since that
time it has continued at intervals and
as a result many of our counties have
had two who claim 20 be the chairman:
one elected by the people and one de-
signated by Mr.. Green. The same is
so in One'or more congressional districts
and the late meeting at Dallas disclOs-
ed the attempted removal by Mr..
Green of seven of the members OF the
state executive committee and in their
stead others We're placed Prior to the
election of Mr.. Green last fall, all the
county, senatorial and congress
sional chairmeu had bean elected at
the same conventions at which the de-
| legates were selected who created him.
| He WAS therefore the official product
of the same people who created the
other chairmen. After his election,
| the names of the various senatorial,
congressional and county chairmen
were sent into the state campaign
headquarters at Dallas, and official
| lists were made of all the various class
| es of chairmen. Those were
| issued to the various bureaus conduct
| ing the campaign by him. The men
on those lists were then aud have
been ever since recognized as the
proper officers. They were kUown and
used as the official lists. L, as chair
| II an of the bureau of organization re-
cognized the men on'those lists as their
proper officers and issued orders and
| instructions to them in their counties
and districts, aud they acted IN the
various capacities. The bureau on
e ections and that on literature and
speakers the same way. There was
| neither dissent nor obi action to them
| by the then state chairman. Those
| lists were obtained from Mr.. Green
and we acted upon them ard the men
on those lists fulfilled the functions of
their ice without objection or dis
claimer. The people in the var Gus
localities recognized them as their
regularly elected officers, 50 far as we
could see, and aside from occas onal
| edic.s of removal by the chat man, the
| organization was frictiOnleSS. Since
that time disquiet and unrest has crept
| in. MIR. Green after the campai ga for
patronage was opened since the
inauguration organized, breathed life
into and set to work w hat were known
as advisory boards" cOmp0ss I'd ia the
IN st part of private citizens not con-
nected with the organization and with
what seemed almost if not quite
plenary power. They were almost
exclusively anti-Mckinley men and all
Green meH, or suppos d to be. They
were empowered, or supposed ID be, to
reorganize the party in the state. L t.
'ers of inquiry were sent to various Of
icers asking how they s.ood, whether
Green or Grant with the ms rue
lions that it was the purpose to have
all the officers of the party in harmony
with Mr.. Green. In many cases where
the replies indicated the contrary
their office was declared vacant and a
successor appointed. These "adyisory
| boards were ga to be also charged
with the duty and responsibility Q +