The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-14
NOSE ANDERSON
THE BIG CAR
OF DEMOCRACY
Creating All Sorts of Frac-
tionaI Strife In the Cross
Following.
HE USURPED HIS PLACE
Petitions Said to be Out to
Have Him DepOSed.
HE USURPED HIS PLACE
WORKERS Trent ASUNDER
Uses His Power to Make His
Leadership Exclusive.

Oklahoma City. o. T., June 13.-Con-
sternation rules among the hackers Of the
Democratic candidate for Congress,
'Bn" Cross. A well laid plan has been
discovered to be working, by which Nose
Anderson. chairman of the Cross cam
paign committee is to be decapitated as
chairman of the territorial central COM
mittee on various charges, the principal
one being that he is a usurper.
Anderson is not member Of the ter
ritorial committee Garfield county. his
home. refused him both a place on the
delegation to the territorial convention
and on the central committee. AS chair
man Of the old committee il is charged
that he worked a very clever scheme
which accomplished his reelection, al
though the Democrats are contending
that his selection was not legal in any
sense.
The claim is that the meeting was not
properly called at which he was re-elect-
ed. and that there were less than a dozen
members Of the committee-which con-
sists Of ffty-two memDers-present at
the time Of his selection. The members
of the central committee were named on
the same roll call in the congressional
convention on which the convention COM
mittees were selected. The meeting was
held during the noon recess of the con
vention. which lasted two hours. and only
q few members Of the committee were
given a chance to participate in the meet
ing and no opportunity was given to con-
slider the selection of chairman. IN this
meeting a motion was passed authorizing
the chairman TO select a campaign COM
mittee and proceed with all arrangements
for the campaign. On this account it was
found when the territorial committee met
here on the day Of the Cross ratification
that it had no say in the work of the
campaign: that it could not select cam
paigs chairman, secretary, headquarters,
or any Of the members Of the campaign
committee.
A protest was there squelcbed and the
proposal to rescind the action of the
handful Of committeeman at Enid was
finally abandoned by the dissatisfied
members OF the committee This left
Anderson everything his own way. While (
the committee recommended headquar- /
bSIS lof lne campaign ana IN caucus I
agreed upon the members of the cam
paign committee and secretary. yet none /
OF this action was Of any force
Anderson has since transacted all af- |
fairs as he pleased. ignoring practically 4
all Of the leading Democrats Of the ter
ritory and arrogating To himself manda- /
tory power in all matters. In the mat
ter Of craftsmanship Of the campaign com +
nittee he threatened that unless Mr. +
Cross selected him to conduct his cam
paign he would resign as chairman Of .
the territorial committee. and in this (
matter compelled the candidate to throw I
overheard his friend. {. Johnson Porter. /
who had engineered his campaign for the /
nomination. When the campaign com /
rnitt9-e which he had selected met here
last Monday it is charged that he pre-
vented the selection Of n secretary by I
proionging tho matter until j O'Clock at
night. and thus succeeded in getting the
committee to invest him with the power .
20 name a secretary at his own pleasure.
These things. together with the fact
that he has ignored the requests Of every I
Democrat VINO was a candidate before