The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-29
HENDRICKS is CHAIRMAN.
No Legal Meeting Has Ever Been
Called to Remove Him.

Hotel in Plymouth, Saturday after
noon, went through the farce of elect
ing an entire new list of officers for
the Republican county committee; but
as none OF the officers regularly elect
ed at tie organization of the com
mittee in January, have resigned or
have been removed, no vacancies ex-
ist and no new officers can be elected
until there is a vacancy.
State Chairman Goodrich made this
very plain in a letter written March
IA, in which he states over his own
signature that there is not a particle
OF doubt that w. G. Hendricks was
legally and fairly elected chairman
of the Marshall County Republican
committee at the meeting held Janu-
airy 10, 1906, and that he would con
tinue to hold that office for two years
unless he should die, resign, or be
legally removed.
In that same letter Mr.. Goodrich
stated that a precinct committeeman
could not be removed until charges
had been preferred and proven.
Now it is we'll known that no
charges have been preferred against
Chairman Hendricks and no com
plant of any action of his has been
made by any one since he was elect
ed.
AT that regular meeting held in
January all of the other officers Of
the committee were elected unani
mously, receiving the votes of every
member OF the committee and no
| charges have been filed against any
of them and no legal attempt has
been made to remove them or the
chairman of the committee, conse-
| quently no office Of the committee has
become vacant and new officers an
| not be elected until there is a vacan-
cy-
After the meeting at the Grand
| Hotel was called TO order Saturday, a
| statement of these facts was made,
and a motion was made and duly sec
onded, to appoint a comittee to select
an attorney to give an opinion as to
whether or not there were any vacan-
cies, but District Chairman Moormar
declared this motion out of order, and
when an appeal was asked from the
decision of the chair he refused to
/ allow it.
This certainly was a proceeding
never before heard Of in an organize
meeting of civilized men and at once
rendered all proceedings illegal, the
chairman having decided that no mo
ton or question to which he was op
posed should be voted upon.
When all arguments failed to move
him from his position, the intelligent
members of the committee, who were
in favor of honesty and fairness, and
wished to conduct the meeting in &C
~cordance with law and parliamentar,
usage, refused to be considered a par
of it and withdrew from the room.
This is a simple statement of the
case. As for the animus of the mer
who have engineered this movement
to disrupt the Republican party %
Marshall county, the attempt TO ad
vance their personal interests by ~.
ing and tricker", the graft that the,
expect to secure by a Republican de
feat in this county, we shall explai-
and prove fully and clearly in the
future. 1t is a job we do not like
but it has been forced upon us and
when we get through with those dis
honest leeches, it will be seen that
Il they had the ability they are more
dishonest, treacherous, sneaking and
care less for success Of Republican
principles, than any of the corrup
t~ionists of the great cities. We do
lot intend to spare them, and we
know that nine-tenths of the people
of Marshall county will be with us
when we get through with them.
In conclusion we might say that il
rs evident TO every man of common
sense that If a few smooth talking.
lying, sneaks can travel over a county
and by any sort of deception can sue
coed In getting a quorum of a county
committee together and by a major
ity vote of those present can remove
all the officers of the committee with
out giving them any notice or prefer
ring any charges, there will be no Re
publican organization in this state at
the end of six months.