Clipping:Caylor expelled from the AA meeting; reporters
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| Date | Wednesday, September 14, 1887 |
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| Text | [reporting the AA special meeting of 9/5/1887] ...the only incident that occurred to mar the otherwise serene meeting was the expulsion of one of the Metropolitan delegates, Mr. O. P. Caylor. This gentleman whose pen and voice have for years past been at the command of the Association fo which he was an honorary member, has by his newspaper connection as contributor to The Sporting Life and other papers, aroused the opposition of business rivals, who claimed that in his capacity as a correspondent he had undue advantages over contemporaries, and also the enmity of some of the Association members, whom he in the past has seen fit to criticize. Indeed, the entire Association felt aggrieved at his comments on the Cleveland meting at which the generally condemned “blacklist” resolution was passed and it was determined to cut off his supply of inside information by barring him, as well as all other delegates connected with newspapers, from the meeting. For this reason Harry Weldon, of Cincinnati, did not come on and Geo. Munson, of St. Louis, found business elsewhere to attend to. Before the meeting was opened he was quietly informed by a committee what was in store for him in order to spare him humiliation. Mr. Caylor, however, insisted that he had done nothing warranting such extreme measures, and that he would stand his ground. … Immediately after the foll-call Mr. Caylor's presence was objected to by Mr. Byrne, on the ground that he (Caylor) was a newspaper correspondent, and that he should either be compelled ti withdraw or all newspaper men be admitted alike, and Mr. Barnie, of Baltimore, offered a formal resolution requesting withdrawal. Mr. Caylor declined to withdraw, on the ground that Mr. Byrne himself was a newspaper contributor and that another delegate, Jimmy Williams, of Cleveland, was also a contributor to the Cleveland Plan Dealer, and that they also be requested to withdraw. This point was met by the statement that these gentlemen were simply occasional contributors, were not paid for their work and did not make it a business. Caylor next made the point that he was a stockholder in, as well as manager of, the Metropolitans and therefore a regularly qualified delegate to any convention of the Association. This point was met with the assertion that every convention is the judge of the eligibility of its members, and then the resolution was put to a vote. 7 to 1 was the result, the Metropolitan Club alone voting for Caylor. The latter then resigned his honorary membership and left the room in high dudgeon and outspoken in denunciation of Messrs. Byrne and Barnie, whom he charged with having manoeuvered to bring about his expulsion. The Sporting Life September 14, 1887 [See same issue p. 3 for Caylor's response.] |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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