preparation for the convention on the part of the F. C.,
the notice to the delegates was only given at the last moment. Both
the first circular after the convention, and the so-called "report"
of its proceedings, issued by the Triangle in the name of the
delegates from each district, contained deliberate misstatements of
facts. There was no Committee on Credentials, and the word of the
Secretary of the F. C. was the only voucher for the genuineness of
the delegates. There were three persons present who were not
delegates, and one of the three presided. The composition of the
committees appointed by the chairman, after dining with the men who
controlled the F. C., and disbursed its funds, left every
consideration of decency and bona fide investigation out of
account. To investigate the work of these men, a Committee on
Foreign Relations, consisting of two of them, and a man who was
entirely dependent on them for information, was appointed. The
Financial Committee consisted of three district members, two of
whom were the agents of the F. C., in the "active policy," and
notoriously their partizans. These committees, sitting jointly, and
having out of the six members only two who were not previously
concerned in the work of governing and spending the funds, had the
coolness to report that "The Finance Committee are fully satisfied
with the economy and prudence with which the expenditures have been
made, and the Foreign Relations Committee find complete exactitude
in the financial acknowledgments of the R. D., etc." That is, two
members of the American part of the R. D., who had been receiving
and spending, in the name of that body, vast sums of money, of
which the three home members knew nothing, aided by two
accommodating district members who had been helping them to spend
the money, find "complete exactitude" in their own accounts. And
then, on the plea that "lives of faithful and devoted men are in
the keeping of each of us who have served on either of these
committees," they appeal to be allowed to keep the knowledge to
themselves, and assure the organization that they "individually and
collectively agree that it is a misfortune that so many of us
should have this knowledge." They describe their anxiety to "see in
the flesh the officer in charge of