, 1873-05-15
THE FIRST GUN.
Inauguration Of the Local Po-
11tioa1 Campaign: !:
Meeting Of the Gormans Of the
Seventeenth Ward.
A. G. 1Icsfng md "Duffh1o y Miller
Announce Their Departure from
tho Republican Party.

A mootmg Of Seventeenth Ward Germans waa
held at Thieleman's Thoatro, on Olybourn ave.
nuo, yesterday evening, for tho purpose Of or
KAnizing movement toward chhngtng tho
present state Of municipal affairs ut tho election
noxt fall Thoro woro about. 900 persons in at-
The mcetng was called to order by Mr. A.
Hottingcr, who proceeded to mako speech
denunciatory Of tho manner in which tho city
government is boing run. Ho said ho beloved
that tho -eocalled temperance notions, with
which tho loads Of cur local ruorH goom
10 be full, could DO eradicatod .as we'll
Hs elaVery bad boon. Flo WAS opposed
to tyranny in oyory form and could SEQ
nothing but tyranny In tho action Of tho
present City Government. Tho Germans wonld,
unauestionably, obey tho law, or what Ia called
1aw, but would sock tlofr .relross, with other
liberal people, at the polls next November.
.Mesars. Adolph Schooningor md Fric1 wore
elected President and seorotary, respectively.
Tho formor said that tho object Of tho meeting
was to organize movement, regardless Of party
politics, whereby tho liberties Of tho people could
bc accured and retained. It appeared to DO tho
aim Of tho present City Government to abrldgo
tho Constitutional rights Of citizens, and mako
them Bubaorviont to its will The Gcrmana Ind
como under It's Know-Nothing diaplcaauro moro
thnn my other people, but they wcro determined
to assort their manhood, and lot tho
ao-callcd temperance people know that
they we're nethoT dTaaafas ~ ,ot zG5te g
tyrants and retain their liberties. It was to or
Canize for this purpose TINT tho mooting had
Boon called. THO BpoaAor hoped TINT tho move
mont would bo of such character that tho three
German papers could consolontloualy unto in it's
support and that other pooplo, WHO voro suffer.
fnE IRON, Tho Know-Nothiug oppression, could
ioln in it.
mado very excited adaroaB saying that tho
normans Ind bocn drivon to organize for solf-
protection by tho narrow-mindol men who aro
1t tho load Of municipal affairs, aud who aso On.
deayoring to forco thor own .heetarlan and
They had succeeded in this, to great degre':
owing to tho fact TINT the people lad
heon misintor7nod grossly by tho Eng
lish Journals. Tho Germans woro 9nter- 5,t
wero going to organize for tho preservation, Of
tho rights and priviloCos guaranteed theu by tho
Constitutions OF tlo country and tho Sta!e. They
wore going to battle for those inostin.h!le bon,
eats at tho polls, for they woro law-ooldlng ana
moral people, nverao to mob-goTer7mont and
difficulty with constituted authorSy. Flo be-
loved tho result Of tho Novembe: election III
Chicago would bo a stern rcbuke to tho Know
Nothing and so-called Temperance element. It
would show them that the Gorrans and people
OF other patlonalties were NOT puritanical but
progressive and free, in their doau, and Jealous
Of their political rights. ITO movement could
helped sproad It to other divisions OF tho city bo-
tween now and November Germans must sup
port 1t, or become tho Hlsyc5 OF tyrantB.
The following we're a'pqi1teba committee e,f On
8ohmoAl, Lengaoler. and Llndan..
Mr.. A. G. Hcsin5, boing loudly cal1cd for,
mounted the platf.riu, anu spoke IN favor OF
any movement wlch would froo tho people, from
- vim anrf tf11
pretudicos, b3 rhich our municipal rulera secm-
ed to bo awayc. II ouch a movement could bo
organized by Republicans and Democrats who
beloved In eedom Of though; and acsiiel and
liberties Of the people, go much tho better. The
success OF tho city was beng imperrlod by tue
Know-Ncthing courHo Of tho mon in power. Tho
record q the Germans in this city and in othor
to with pride. by every .Gormau. Ihoy
wero not drunkardB because thoy
loved the conyiviaf boor, yet
the English press OF tho city bad ondeavored to
mako them appear as such. Their history iu tho
war for tho preservation Of the Union and tho
abolition Of slavery WAS as honorable "a that nf
my other pooplo. They showed their patriotism
and love Of American institutions on many .
cory field. But 1t Heemod, from present appear
nnces that all their sacrifices only entitled theu
to be trod undor foot in civil life, Their moral
record wns clearly shown BY the national Btatia'
tics Of crilne -NothingiBm was striving
,So131d 'I he mt down a. it sas bofore. Native
Xmoricaps Ind produced more public men ai
whom tho finger Of scorn could bo pointed thau
ciruer5 Woro Brooks. and Ameg. and the
oti.er nublio men who had enrnad 70,
thomsoEos tho contonpt of the whole ooun
fry in tho Credit Wobitior mnttor. foroienora
TRo epaakor olosed by saving thnt ho yonli
vote for any man, bo ho Republican, Liberal. O,
Damocrat. who woull exort himaoI} to keen thf
nsrgopal riehts Of citizonB inyiolntn. "t '@'>
He told some funny stories, denounced the tom