Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-07-22
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the people, anu fi0e uuWn WnombocNef ~ tVV
manly TO put himself IN the market for The
veriest pittanco Of patronage pap and TO do the
dirty work Of a demoralizing, prostituung, pro
scription policy, inaugurated to punish live
Democrats for stability OF principle and fidelity
TO pledges; policy which seems TO have taken
possession of the fountain head but to exhibit
itself internally, externally, etemally.
! DO you ask what this meansl lie any one so
deluded as TO suppose the Lecompt0n sword has
ever touched the scabbard since il was first
drawn, and 10 doubt that postmasters and dep
uty collectors are etill taking the little paltry
offices loaded down with conditions selling
their manhood and their souls for one-fifh the
price asked for the poor venerial nigger John,
aud keeping up secret orgenized dens Of per
secution to hunt down every man who even
now refuses to "bend the plant hinges Of the
knse" before the god Lecomptonl |'.'.
The secret record of the doings Of one OF
these meetings, in printed pamphlet Of six
teen pages is before us, aud our readers will get
some rich developments from it soon, an ink
ling Of which we will give by a few ex'
tracts.
The book opens as follows:
FREMosr, Oct 10, 1858.
Pursuant to arrangements a number Of Dem
ocrats met at the Collectors Office for the pur-
pose of organizing a Political Club for tue fur.
therance of Democratic principles.
On motion of. d. Botefur, 8. NJ. EllnwoOd
was chosen temporary Chairman, G. W. Steele,
Secretary
his Boteiur was sub-collector, and for
this dirty work gets $500 year. Elnwood
is p NJ at Fremont
The next meeting is "at EllinwOod's private
Office We quote from the records, italics
aud all. At the next meeting G. W. Steele, s.
NJ. Elinwooj, J. d. Botelur, T. W. Wood,
and J. r. Francisco, were elected SACHEMS.
Francisco is a route agent on the Q. d I r r.
He is sold for about four times as much as BO-
tefur, but not up to a sick niger price. AT Il
meeting Dec. 3D. 1855 A l. Chandler p. NJ,
Of Bellevue, and Isaac Kagg, P. Nj. of Green
Springs, were elected members, and the Sec
retary instructed TO correspond with A. J..
Dickinson in regard to public documents.
The following questions TO candidates for
membership were adopted
l Are you willing to support and abide by
the Constitution and BY Laws of this Club,
aud be ruled as they direOt
Will you at all elections for delegates,
either for township, county, district, State, or
United States Conventions, vote and strive to
elect members, or such other persons as a ma
jority may direct, as delegates to such Conveu-
lions
8, Should you be elected as delegate to any
Convention, will you attend in person and poll
your vote a majority of the members Of this
Club may direetl
4. Will you at all times, and under all cir
cumstances, give your support to the regularly
nominated ticket, and vote the same without
any erasures
8 viii you pledge yourself to keep all dis
eussons aud other matters pertaining to this
Club secret, and not to speak of the Associa-
ton or its doings outside of the Club room,
except to members
6. Will you at all times strive to advance the
interests of the members Of this Club, poti-
oally, to the exclusion Of all othersl
The caudidate answering in the affirmative is
then instructed" part Of which reads as
follows:
One object Of this association will be to as
sist one another, and it should at all times be
the duty of the members Of this Club to sup
port for office members of the Club; and in or
der TO exert the largest influence upon the well
fare of our party, it becomes necessary that we
as an organization, should pay particular at.
5ention to the primary elections The election
of the right kind of men as delegates will ut
all times give us mojOrities in conventions, and
through these m0jouties we should succeed in
nominating our candidates Therefore, 1t is
ekpected of you that you will exert yourself to
the utmost to elect such men as delegates as
the members of the association shall direct -
1t will be your duty to obey implicitly all orders
issued through the SACHEMS to you by the
President of this Club
In the proceedings of February l7!h, 1859,
we find the following:
ResOlUed, That committee of three be ap.
pointed TO confer with the people of WoodviIle
in reference to THE REMOVAL oE CHARLES Pow.
ERs from the Post Office.
Powers is a Douglas man.
On the 2lst Mr. Botefur laid before the Club
matters relating TO the removal of the p. NJ at
Clyde Mr. Bush is a Douglas man and has
since been removed, and still persists in get
ting subscribers for the Plain Dealer which cost
him his official head. On the 25th of Feb, a
screw got loose, evidently IN the minutes we
! find
ResolUed, That committee of one be ap.
pointed TO confer with A j. DICKINSON to OBJ
tain his influence in defeating the appointment
of Mr.. Grammeling as route agent-adopted,
and the Chair appointed as such committee L
w. Woods. The following gentlemen were
proposed as proper persons to become mem
bers; William Carter and 7. P. Finefroek.-
The following amendment TO the Bylaws was
referred TO the Sachems
ReSOlUed, That the Bylaws be 80 amended
as to add the following Section All candi-
dates Lust be proposed at least one week be
fore being reported upon by the Sachems. All
propositions tor membership must be made in
writing.
Mr.. Caul moved that committee of three be
appointed to enquire into the eXpedieHcy of re-
moDing Mr.. Bush from the Post Office al CLYDE
Amended by Dr. Woods 20 as to enquire INTO
the expediency of removing Mr. Parks, (Super.
intendent of Tunpike) The amendment was
amended by DR.. Wilmer as to read that a com
mittee of three be appointed to enquire into the
eXpedencV of removing all the Government
and State Officers in the County. The motion
and amendments were discussed by Messrs
| Wilmer, Wood, Caul and HOcke.
Adjourned to meet on the 4th of March.
F. WILMER, Pres.
r. W WooDs, Sec
The Sth article in their Constitution reads
ARTICLE 9-sEcREsYl
1t being expedient that all matters belonging
! 10 this Association DE KEPT FROM THE PUBLIC
EAR, therefore, it will be expected that the
members will attend the stated meetings, and
| that all matters discussed therein will be done
in fair and candid manner, and that all such
discussions, together with all other matters per
tanning to the welfare of the Club, will be con-
sidered PRIVATE, and that no member will speak
Of them outside OF the Club room, except TO
members.
The last meeting mentioned in this printed
pamphlet was Dune %, 1869, so that il was in
full blast when the pamphlet containing the
record of these Jacobinites broke from It's secret
hiding place. since which several persons whose
names appear in il have published cards repu-
dating the whole concern. Itwoud be a SLAM
der to charge such man as George Click and
Jack Dickinson with having any sympathy
with the concern, or one p NJ in twenty -
Look out for them and look out for further de-
vcopments. Thus the campaign opens, and