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feiiesmn bociety, zu members, 90.The following candidates were nominated for the ensuing year, the eleciiou to take place at the next meeting: ' .President—Joel Steinberg. «Vice President—Cbas. Remelin.Secretary—Benuo Damus, Dr. Otto Waltster.'treasurer— John Schneider and J. J. Abbihl.Trustees— Messrs. Spiegel. Waltster, Dietz, Burck-ha user, Carl Fritz. Peter Schvvan, H Koeppel, Franz Friedrich, iieury Husemann, Franz Haffher.It was agreed to fix the contribution of five cents per year for each member of a society belonging to the Bund, and twenty-five cent* per year for e*ch delegate. •§w ]_ --’if *VL t»R flThe committee on regulating the manner andr?re-quirements of voting by the members reported that, each society be entitled to three delegates for every fitly members or a fraction thereof, and for each ad- \ditioual contingent of fifty members an additional delegate. The report was adopted.A great deal of indignation was manifested against the espionage system of the Law and Order League and the bribing of witnesses, hired by their agents, in order to bring the saloon-keepers into trouble. Especially was it denounced as a shameless proceeding to hire boys, bribe them and induce tbfem to buy beer in buckets in order to bring toe saloonkeeper before the Police Court, have him fined and sent out to the Wdrk-house. One of the members of the Board was emphatic in declaring that a man who bribed a boy in such a way ought to be suspended from the next lump post, and be was in favor of organizing a Vigilance Committee for that purpose. The feeling of indignation on that subject was very general, and the position of the Law and Order League was ridiculed in looking after the enforcement of law by bribing young boys to commit crimes and offenses against the btate. It was asserted that the Germans, in r/tbe spirit of the free American Nation and the liberties it guaranteed should arise in a body and crush out this oppression and nativistie tyranny—the narrow-minded, sectarian views of bigots, who would have everybody think as themselves. The fight was on. and all libertv-loving, liberal-minded citizens would unite In stamping out that spirit which would rule over the actions of men, like the slave holders in theBoutb ruled over their human cattle.In connection with URs.mutter, Mr J. R. Wolf,Secretary of the f-aloon-keepers’ Protective Associa^ tiou, mentioned that the Miller Outcalt bill, closing theaters 011 Sundays, had passed the House, and would come up before the Senate in a few days. He advised immediate action on the part of the Board against the bill, which was entirely in the interest \f the tyranny of the Law ami Order League.Messrs. Bode, Spiegel and Chas. Reemelin, of the Board, ail three of them able lawyers, were instructed to proceed at once to Columbus in order to accomplish the defeat Of the Outcalt bill.The following resolution was unanimouslyadopted, with a great deal of enthusiasm:“Resolved, That we hold in abomination and condemn »hat proceeding of all citizens, societies Rnd ublic officials whereby they bribe with money those v whom they wish to accomplish truusgressions of existing laws. But such proceedings become specially despicable 011 the part of a society like the Lhw and Order Learie, whiclj professes to prot the law and prevent its transgression, for it must aIpear evident to every one that in this case transert sions against the law are really occasioned. It i moreover, our emphatic judgment that the Judge the Police Court, in bis recent sentence in such a case, encouraged these practices of the Raw and Order League without the necessary examination in detail of the whole occurrence—and this is a manner of acting on his part, which, to our regret, stands in contradiction with his former decision,”in regard to the case of the saloon-keeper Van Fynden, who wai requested by Judge Fitzgerald cither to sell his saloon or go to the Work-house, it was unanimously resolved to give him the wholesupport of the ’‘Bund,” now numbering about eight thousand members. It was emphatically declared that a certain lawyer, by the name of “Brooks,1' in the employ of the Law and Order League, hau bribed two boys to get beer from this saloon-keeper, in order to have him arrested subsequently.The meeting adjourned until two weeks hence.
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Cincinnati Commercial
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Wed, Oct 27, 1880
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