Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-09-04
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

The German Turner'S Convention.-In the
month of September, 1856, at the Turner'S
convention, held in the city of Buffslo, N T.,
set Of strong anti-demOcratic resolutions
were adopted by small majority, as an OK
preston Of the political creed of the Turner's
IN the United States. Up to that time there
was complete harmony and concord among the
members Of the Turner Bund Turner's
League) But as soon as this platform was
promulgated, a number Of Turner societies,
particularly in the southern States, declared
IN strong language their disapprobation of the
Buffalo PrOnuneiGmientO, as well as Of the
tendency of few aspiring men, to seduce the
+" Bund" from its legitimate course, and tc
make it at all hazards, political force to
have its weight in the balance of elections.
The central organ Of the Bund," the
g. Tam Zslt~ng," Turn Gazette,) published
at Cincinnati under the supervision of the
Vorort," "a central executive committee J
Immediately adopted the pronunciamento'
and commenced, in the most violent terms and
abusive and vulgar language, to excommuni-
cate from the Bund" all who, though active
members OF one or other Of the different local
Turner societies, chose to entertain either less
hostile or favorable opinions Of the Democratic
party. Strong protests against this course Of
the Turn Zeitung' were forwarded to the
"VOrort' by the Turner societies of New
York, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Poughkeepsie,
and other cities /; but these circumstances were
Of 10 avail for goOd-they SCI led only to still
more envenom the editors wrath, and to call
out upon the pTOtsstaHts the whole power Of
an invidiOus and maliciously vulgar pen.
Thus stood matters when the time ap-
preached for the assembling of the "Tagsat
zung" tconventiop) Of the "Eund' for tie
year 1856. The Buffalo Convention had fixed
by resolution, the city of Washington as the
place, and the first day of September as the
day, for the meeting Of the Tagsatzung; :"
but the Executive Committee, (the Vorort = q,
Cincinnati, assumed the power, four weeks
before the day of meeting, to change the res
OlutiOn Of last years convention, and to call
the delegates Of the different societies together
TO meet at Pittsburg, Pa. Those of the Tur-
ners who do not recognize the power of the
"Fcrort" to act thus in contrayention Of an
express resolution Of tho Buffalo "Tagsat
zung sent their delegates here, the rest cor
Piled with the Cincinnati call and sent their
representatives, to Pittsburg, though there are
evidences that several societies now repre
scented at Pittsburg will not recognize tina A.
thority Of that Tsgsatxupp
In this city, the convention met q, Ia,
Monday. There are represented by twenty.
eight societies with thirty-nine votes. Tbsv
repudiats everything that the delegates at
Pittsburg-whom they do not acknowledge a,
rightful convention--may do, or resolve upon
and one Of their first acts was to appoint com
mittee to draft a solemn protest against the &C
tion Of the tIieksters in the Cincisnati " We
rort, ard to protest also against any and al
attempts to sell cut the great " Turner Buud'
Ct The United States to either Of the politica
parties Of the country asserting th at they al,
Lot a p0iiftoat association, aud are unvilIin,
to be made one.
We are, indeed, sorry to see this split anon,
the Turner'S. Their Objscts-gymnsstic sx
ercises for the strengthening of the body. and
exercises for the cultivation Of the mind. ar,
most laudsble, and we'll worthy Of tn. mo-.
vigorous and extended support. But vhsr