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Show riftm IN REPUBLICAW LUTE Opposing Factions of County Committee Show Decided Variance of View. ASSERTIONS, DENIALS James H. Anderson Talks 1'ree!) of Altitude Which Me Assumes. Dissatisfaction among managers of the count Republican .committee who were rr prpson: at .ci:"."1pv nlMe meeting -3 .ouch .-.trenail! patrdsy aa to w.irrant U WUinPtlon iat a"-,,1,,,r ni-etlnr of the eommlltee will be ailed : for n day earlv in the Weak It 1 ronlemled DJ these thtt the meet-in meet-in eras irrrjrniar thai H hurrladly called by 1 1 wo- anti-Spry mn -Jolvn U Bowman and r.eorpe Wilson and bj them pa-kd with Wtf-fiprjf proxies pro-. pro-. ured from pro-Spry memhers of the . ...,,,ill.- in orri-r ce-l 8S county rha;rma.. T. A Callfater. Who hi declared to be eart and soul In favor of JpD- r thai of Stephen H. Love a- secona I choice ss againal Governor Bon Governor Not in Strife am a pj Is himself keeping digni- fipdi aloof from the controversy between ihe .. factions, ifuvinjf his Interests .ntii!- with hi rriendF. whom hi doubt-le? doubt-le? considers to he nmpl iiW t. nro-t.-t their own desires in Mi- matter. I u EEldredga Jr.. said that lie resigned re-signed In good faith e explained In hla iM'f.r nf resignation which Is On file wit! the committee. ."-.i thai It lias been h;f desire nt all times that the name he accepted At the meeting of the com-mlttee com-mlttee in p far os the action of iha. committee in acrptinir his resignation t concerned it met with hla approval. Regarding the action of the committee ,. plecti g chairman st this meeting, he declared tht was a matter that oon- , a ii, p committee and 'ho Republican part) of this county t. approve or dls-aporove dls-aporove . . , Jam H Anderson approached in id matter reaterdas and part- to The Tribune's representative the foil.. wins; statement: ' .... There la no reason whs I snouic discuss aii anti-Spry movement, he-i he-i ij T knO Of none. ?n far as I am personally concerned- I have no musi 'oi oppoalng Governor Spry in .j:iir for renomtaatlon nnd reelection re-election So far as is concerned my pari in fiaturdaj night's committee meeting II was lir1,1 35 anj plm"-of plm"-of any anti-Spry movement In the Republican puriy. Only "Did Duty." In the first place I llisd no idea ..f attending th- meeting at all, because T hai nol been active with the coun-i coun-i committee. I did not know that a meeting was to be held. II was not Until abOUt " O'clock at nlftht that I w.is urgent! requested to k aK prosy for ; member who was unable '.. attend, and thni proxy came lo m without solicitation on my part"- I attended only as matter of duty a citizen ami a? s member of the R-publican R-publican party, with that organtut-velfare organtut-velfare at heart. Thla contention that !at unlay niRht - committee meeting was Irreg-ulai Irreg-ulai Is utterly ndnaenalcal, Thirteen of iiie fifteen members of the committee com-mittee were represented at that meeting, meet-ing, either In prr.on or bv proxy of i he members, a majority, i.einj: I rie personally. if was as regular m- a:r meeting HiHt the committee hx. ever held, so far as I Know. Discusses Resignation. Another thins. If Mr ISklredge did pot desire to have his resignation a'- pteil. 'hen il could not have been 'resenteil y hi.n In Rouri faith. Aa n partlclpanl in Saturday night's rheetlna I assumed that Mr. Mid -redge'e's resignation wo? lilo.i with iiie committee In good Ealth, ami that the committee had a rlrhi to make - ) il.p'.IHiin of it as it saw ht. m voting to accept it I acted in the ame good faith i.iat 1 assun.ed wa -.T. iseil bv Mr. iCldredge In filing it. i bavi never clayed a crooked crame in my life 1 don't know how to play it. and 1 don't want to know how. Vnyway, li really is not a question of whether or not Mr. Ddredge de-irei de-irei t,, resign from the ihaiimar.-s'llp ihaiimar.-s'llp Of the committee It is a necessity neces-sity that he resign, under the rule concern! ns tedrai officeholders In tl"- mutter of political activity This file lias ieon made and Indorsed hy the niirlv froro President Taft down. It prescribes that no holder of federal nfAVe Hlial act as chairman either of a political committee or of a political 'en lion. The chairman of a committee com-mittee is the Anal arbiter, as ia the chairman of n convention. For thls rssBon, a permitting them too mucii political power, su.-h officers are havie.i from the' position ,jes'gIMf v f---iiral officeholder may net inere- i a memher of ;i ommitte". or as d'ec.ite to a convention, or he mav be otherwise arth In lehalf of his party, but (hat is as far he can go. Tnerefor f.ie resignation of Jgr. ITidrcdpe was a rnattr of necessity, and !t should have been presented and ctert ,ipon Without regard to hla r-niTonal defcirev. I ran not see Why Mr THilrerlcr should now comport i.,ne1f as If he had presented It with some mental reservation or with any other string attachment. I assumed hat lie sept il in with honesty of purpose, an-1 It wan in all hottest? i' ( voted to a rept it. |