The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
TO DIsFRANcHISE COUNTY
earn Faction Trying to Prevent Any
Election in Marshall County.

VOlcQ III MdISidll County uHiSoo thSii
ticket is put on the ballot as they ask
without hearing any evidence.
This faction has played a game OF
bluff and attempted fraud from the
18th day of January to the present
time.
Its attorneys have had men make
affidavits that contained many false
statements and seems to have found
tools that nobody would have expect
ed would play into their hands.
Samuel Schlosser swears that the
convention which nominated him,
June 2, was a delegate convention,
when he and everybody else who at
tended it or read the call knows that
it was a mass convention.
There are a number of other false
statements, which we may specify al
some other time. He made these
statements in an application for an
Injunction and mandate in Judge Ber-
netha's court Tuesday evening. 4
man that will swear to anything that
SOMEBODY else tells him to swear to,
would be the tool of designing men in
the legislature and is not fit to repre-
sent Marshall county
This attempt to stop the election
commissioners from having the coun-
ty ballots printed this week, looks
like an attempt to prevent any cleo
ton in Marshall county.
The commissioners had heard all
the evidence of both factions, and
were ready to decide the position and
emblems of tickets.
1t was stated Tuesday evening in
the court at Rochester that the cleo
ton commissioners contend that the
legislature in enacting section 6215
of the election law purposely avoidei
imposing controversies of this kind
on the County Board OF Election
Commissioners. 1t provided that where
two or more authorities in poiitica'
osrty, each claiming to be the right
full authority of the party calls two
or more conventions of the party, and
these conventions nominate candi
dates. the Board shall NOT attenpi
to decide which is the rightful att
thority of the party to call the COZ
vention, but that the Board shall CIV
neither a preference, and shall selec
some suitable device to distinguish
one faction from the other.
1t makes no difference what the
State Committee of party does o.
does not do in the way OF recogniz-
ing one of these contending factions
The Board of Election commission
ers need go no further than to know
and be informed that there were two
or more conventions of party each
called by authorities claimed to be
he rightful authorities.
The Board of Election Commits
sioners do not take their orders iron
the State Central Committee OF any
party, but from the Statute enactc.
| by the General Assembly of the state
And this was all that was asked an
all that was contended for by the at
torneys of Mr. Hendricks in the tria
before the election commissioners.
Yet in the face of this evidence
Samuel Schlosser swears that th'
election commissioners are going te
print what he denominated the Hen
bricks" ticket on the ballot under tn
emblem of the eagle.
1t is claimed by the Republican
party of this county that the evidence
before the election commissioner
showed conclusively that w. G. Hen
bricks has not been removed from tn,
position of chairman of the Republi
can party of Marshall county, and tai
minded men of all parties who heart
the evidence conceded that fact, bu'
Mr.. Hendricks and all real Republi
cans are willing that the law enacted
ay the legislature as stated abov'
shall govern in this case.
In the absence of written rule OF
law of sie Republican party, or uni
versal custom and usage, having the
force and effect of party law, we dis
pute the proposition that man car
be elected 20 the chairmanshio OF a
deliberative body, position purely
honorary in its character and that nc
can be without notice, and without
cause, ruthlessly and summarily de
posed from that position at the be-
hest of any coterie or cabal IN the
ranks of the party.
Every principle of parliamentary
law and proceedings are violated by
such action and contention. III such
were the rule and if the courts are
70 give sanction to such doctrine no
self-respeoting man would ever con-
sent to accept or serve in the position
Of Chairman of a political party
The very act of deposing and re-
moving any individual from such a
position casts stigma and reproach
upon him and is a distinct reflection
upon his manhood and standing in
community.
If the incumbent of the chairman
ship has been guilty of any acts or
emissions of duty that merits his re-
moval from the position to which he
has been called they have only to pre-
fer charges against him, give notice
of such charges and afford him an
opportunity to defend himself against
them Then, if the charges are prov
en-, he may and ought to be removed
and the rules of justice and regularity
have been stfbserved.