Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-29
The Progressive Germans.
Opposition to the Liquor LaVvs-Conve
 ton nj Tarn Hall eaterdaY.

yesterday afternoon The object or the So- | clety is to secure more advantageous legisla- l tlon for the liquor dealers from the Legisla ture. The society are strenuously opposed l to the present license law as being extremely oppressive, and they propose, without regard to party, to form combination of interests in which every member will pledge himself not to vote for any man, whether Democrat or Republican, who will not agree to oppose | what they consider obnoxious legislation on 1 the temperance question: and who nom- 1 mated for office on the State county or town l tickets It is understood that they will not nominate straight ticket, but will put their work and funds ''where it will do the most good"
 1 Weigand Schlein called the convention to order about 2:15. He made cordial speech of welcome and then proceeded to urge the delegates to put aside all their partisan prej-
 udices and select candidates from both the Republican and Democratic parties. They
 should bear in mind the object for which they
 had gathered
 l Charles E. Stockdar of Meriden, John Widman of this city and George Eckert of l Bridgeport, appointed committee on
 credentials and retired They were absent considerable time, during which the conven- 1 tion had virtually recess. 1 The committee retired and after considera- ble time reported the following list of dele | gates:
 Independent Rifle Company New Haven ! F. Bucholz, John Gulow and William Engle- l hardt.
 l New London-AIr Kaiser. l Meriden Turner Seciety-Charles Stockder l Charles HolnQemaQ Louis kOber, I Meriden Progress-Gustave Schne cider. l Gustave Rebstock, Fred. Henning. ! New Britain Progress-H Fleischner, Ed l ward Herbst, F. Wolf l New Haven Bavarian-Joseph Gislah, I Frank Hugo W. Englehardt. l Swiss Society-Henry Butcher.
 Helvetia Society-John Guyer | New Haven chillerbund-R. Fechner, A. ! Matthias, Ernst Rasuch
 Harugari Leidertafel-Otto Wall, H. Buss-
 mann, Henry Possner, A. Gouvernal Fred. | Henninger
 Teutonia Maenner Chor-John Macheleidt,
 Theodore Knipping, J. Myer, Emil Fleck.
 hpas tner weSg Miw aen haEsnGs9fge Bs9g Ma1T sshs
 Butcher.
 New Haven schwab Verein-Charles
 Pfuderer, Sigman Heck, John Widman,
 Fred Hoffmeister, William Satorieus. ] Progress of New Haven-W. Schlein, P. Gebhardt, Charles Deitterlein. | Workingmen's Society of New Haven-A Molkenheimer
 scheutzen Verein No. 1-George Reif | Derby Progress-John Schaefer, G. Mosig, A. F. Schmidt,
 ! Seymour-Henry Richard, Joseph Reigel ! Edward Weisner
 ! Hartford Turner Bund-William Loeser, E- Sanger, - Schlag - Wunder. ] Progress of Hartford-Joseph Schwab, F.
 Rudolph, R. Meyer.
 Hartford Singing Society-L. Zacher H. Spickske.
 l Meriden Social Society-Xavier Hartmann.
 Torrington Progress-C. Volkman, T.
 Thomas.
 ! Collinsville-Christian Reichle I Burlington-Henry Garriber. ridgeport-Edward Brosch, August Frenk,
 George Eckert, William Greisinger, George
 Rckel, Robert Steinkeller, A. Henninger,
 John Hummel, l.. Spielmann, F. Egge, o. ! Kroeger, Robert Weber, M. Loeser, Philip
 Flatner.
 were: Frank Hennig, Henry Buchter, Ernst
 Rausch, F. Hoffmester, Joseph Mann, Au
 gust Droeoe, G. E. Reif A. Gourrelmel, A.
 Madnes, Rudolph Fechner, John Mache
 leidt, Theodore Knipping, H: Buasman, John
 Mayer, Jacob Marx, Emil Fleck, John
 Strieker, Otto Wall, S. Seller, Morris Keith CT, w. Siebold, l.. Fenkelstein Charles l..
 Pfuderer, Charles Weidig, John Gulow,
 William Englehardt, John Hermann, G. ] Harder.
 
 Kroeger, Martin Loeser, Frederick Egge,
 William Gressinger, Robert Weber, Gustave
 Boch, George Richel, Louis Grathwohl, ! George Eckert, August Frenk Robert Stien-
 keller, Gustave Bender, John Hummell l Charles Hass, August Henninger, c. Spiel l mann, Philip Haffner, Philip Harfner.
 From Meriden-Lewis Krocher, Gustave
 Schneider, Charles J. Heinneman From
 Hartford-E. L. Wunder, Joseph Schwab, H. Spieske, William schlag, Julius Rudolph | T)o1>c ti,o T,0o ser, Peter Poeser. From Birmingham-E.
 F. Schmidt, John Schaffer. From Seymour Henry Pickhardt, Joseph Riezel. From Ansonia-Gustave Mosig, and Henry Gambler
 of Burlington. Leonard Sohn of West Haven , and c. w. Volkman and J. H. Thomas of l Torrington.
 I The report was accepted, and Weigand
 Schlein was chosen president of the conven- , tion. Charles Dietterlien vice president, and , l Paul Gebhardt secretary.
 Mir. Schlein suggested that committee o1
 twenty-five be appointed to bring in resolu tions. Delegates from Bridgeport Merider l and Hartford opposed this. They wished ! everything done by the convention itself
 The matter dropped to let the delegatet ! free their minds.
 FIeischner, of New Britain. spoke at sou1t @ length, urging the nomination of the bes ] l men, who would work for their interest, nc
 matter whether they were Democrats Re ! publicans.
 l CudrleS IT, SLOChC6I Ol NeTlOeu lOAO"S1 \ in enthusiastic speech to the end : He didn't urge a German ticket, but ont l made up of all kinds so long as the nominees . l would favor the repeal of the liquor laws The Democratic and Republican parties hat v done nothing for them and it was time to GU - l loose He closed by moving that a resolu l tion be adopted asking the Legislature tt enact law providing the penalty fo
 spies in saloons (men who buy liquor unde r false pretences) as for liquor dealers wht ! i11o kJ,A 1ox,
 After remarks by Charles Dietterlein the res
 olution was unanimously adopted. Mir. Stockder spoke further, asking for : ticket that should have nothing to do witl | other tickets.
 Malkenbuhr, of this city, spoke upon thu l platform question. He advocated socia democratic principles and was loudly ap : plauded.
 8 George Eckert objected to the length of the l speech another moved to give him five min , ! utes more Mir. Eckert aeplied that all pres ent were social democrats at heart, (whicf ! statement was loudly applauded), but tha
 was not the time to thrustl the social demo
 cratic question into the campaign. President
 Schlein permitted him to continue few min utes longer Herbst, of New Britain, contro l. verted socialist views. r A committee of nine to draft resolutions l was appointed as follows: Joseph Schwab o1 :, Hartford, w. Greisinger of Bridgeport, Mr Fleischner of New Britain Mir. Ruther of New I1dVeu, H. oOuu OI orauSo, h1OSiS Ol All l sonia, Mir. Thomas of Torrington and Joseph i Riezel of Seymour. r The committee retired, and after an ex l | tended consultation reported the following 8 Whereas, We, the German citizens of Con : necticut, without regard to our politica principles do agree to unite as one andSop s pose all encroachments on personal rights by F l all lawful means. n And whereas, In the furtherance of above f | object we pledge ourselves to vote for only } honorable and suitable men, who will regard
 the sovereign rights of mankind; therefore. l Resolved, That we will elect an executive council of from each Senatorial district from the State. who shall inform themselves r about the candidates and inform the Germans S of the State about the candidates of both y parties.
 . Resolved, That this executive committee l shall have power to select State ticket from t both parties to be voted for by this Progress 0 sive Union. Should the candidates of both a parties be such as not suited to prin r H.