The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-11-03
MAINE Law FANATICS.
Why They Want Gen. Marshall
Elected.

Why They Want Gen. Marshall
.srr Elected.
rheir Persecution Of Germans.
MINNEAPOLIS, November 1, 1866.
70 tie Editor of tie Power:
When man has for years been exposed to
he unrelenting prosecutions of Temperance
anatics and OF Puritans. It is but natural that
le should watch with great interest the in.
rigues OF the Black Band" which tries to
pread over the whole State the mannacles in
which it has for long time held Hennepin
county.
Tie undersigned is prepared to state facts in
.e's'lsa to the puritanical gang. which seems
~ 70 m fair way to extend its power over the
"Io,e OF our lourishing country. I am no
Pon.,cl.n, and it il not without reluctance that
! .n1e.sAe 70 write letter for the newspa-
Pes-ous ss . goa citizen, deem it TO be my
duty to raise my voaes in time AMI TO warn nv
ieno" ciuzens again* the dangers which,
threaten them. In Hennepin county, and in
Minneapolis In particular. Puritanism. Jesuit.
ism, Pharisaism, have been more deeply
seated than in any other part OF our State Il
is here about the first agitation and the ar.t
steps originated, which led to the en..,,..,, 80
the Maine liquor law, and now It Is Al the .o,.n
place that steps are taken to saddle the oor,,,.
try with similar damnable law. Al Won hsv.
observed in one of your late issues, the Mn.
neapolis Atlas has let the cat out of the bes in
disclosing the aims of the Temperance men,
We, who know these Puritans, were not aston
ished at this discourse, but to the public at
large it was new light The Republicans are
endeavoring to throw suspicious on the author.
ity which disclosed these facts; it 10 contended
that Bill King never seriously advocated the
Temperance cause, and had no other purpose
than working against Marshalls election
Every citizen Of Minneapolis knows that the
Atlas is the mouth.piece Of the hypocritical
press their ideas. The leaders Of the tempe
rance agitators in Minnesota, who live in Hen.
nepin county, expressed their ideas and their
intentions through the correspondent of the
Atlas, in saying that the German saloons are
sinks of iniquity, low guzzling shops, ETC.,
which ought to be destroyed and that Marshall
whom they knew to be temperance man.
law, Is would save the State from disgrace,
etc. The Press and the Sta0ss Zeits.g. deny
this and publish letter from certain A. HaT-
mon of this place, in which It IL denied that
,Ihe Republicans intend to have Temperance
law enacted. This A. Harmon Is truly good
authority and Is you may not know him, win
make you acquainted With him.
that time there existed here numerous tenn
perance ledge, the principal member Of which
was A. Harmon. This lodge, through this
Harmon, gave me notice to close my saloon
and no longer to sell any liquors. I thought
that I was In free country and took no notice
OF the request. Now began persecutions of o
diabolical kind. At the instigation of this
Harmon was arrested as criminal and his
jhirelings were summoned as witnesses against
me. was taken eight miles from Minneapo-
Lis to Justice of the Peace who Wa one of the
benighted party. The lstices of the Peace at
Minneapolis were Democrats and likely would
have released me. Judgment was rendered
against me. According to the liquor law passed
at that time with the assistance of w. r Mar
shall. to sell liquor was crime.
Therefore I was denied the privilege to
give bonds, whereup0n at last Judge Chatfield
issued writ of habeds corpus and was allowed
to enter into recognizances did not give up
my business and again and again was WIS.,
tied and dragged to the temperance justice.
In the meanwhile, they undertook to drive me
out per force. Fifty temperance men, headed
by A. Harmon forced their way in my house,
armed with sticks and axes, threatened to
demolish everything and summoned me to sur
render my premises. Harmon had o rope in
his hand and was ready to lynch me, if longer
resisted.
But knew the cowardly breed. was pro-
vided with several six balrelled revolvers, and
l threatened to shoot down any man that
should attempt to pass my threshold. This
had NE desired effect and the Temperance men
withdrew. These prosecutions lasted till 1867,
and If my German friends Of Henuepin county.
sometimes fifty men strong, had not watched
and protected my house, had been compelled
TO surrender. For political consideration these
fanatics kept out OF my way, but Harmon and
his satellites continued to be active-to see the
Sunday law enforced, which prohibits the sale
OF single glass Of beer under the penalty OF
$500. Atpresent these political considerations
no longer exist, and there are now no more
important questions mooted, % the correspon-
dent OF the Atlas says, and the prosecutions
can be proceeded with. The preliminaries are
agreed on. The Republican candidates for the
legislature are HarmOn's men; Marshall is
Harmon's man. In the Republican County
Convention iors the nomination of delegates
to the Republican State Convention, the
Marshall men and the Gilfllan men-that
is to say, the Temperance men and the Anti
Temperance men, had hard contest. The
Anti-Temperance men were headed by Colonel
Aldrich the Temperance men by A. Harmon.
Before the nomination took place, Col Aldrich
called upon every German ana declared to
them that the nomination and election of Mar.
shall would be considered a. victory of tie
Temperance cause.
Col. Aldrich came to me, Democrat, and
requested me to work against Marshall. who
was enc of the parties who had persecuted
me. The time Of the meeting of tie County
Convention approached; the contest beoan
and lasted nearly two days. Harmon delivered
ten or twelve speeches. He appealed to his
Temperance friends; called Gilfllan Q vulgar
was Temperance man, with whose influence
and assistance mortal blow would b given
TO the invading evil Marshall-the man of
the fanatic Peritan Harmon-received the
nommatson. Now elect him; elect to the Leg.
islature the satellites of Harmon. then e eure
= the sun rose to-day, % sure The persecution
again.
Il Col Adrich, leader Of the Republican
party. NOT good suthoeity? Il not also this
HARMON, who would HE now to e6Deool the