Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-19
THE WHISKY MEN.
First Annual Convention of the E8.
tionaI I.fqaOr Dealers Association.

MILWAUKEE, October 1s.-The FIRST annual
convention of the National Liquor Dealers
and Manufacturer Protective Association
OF the United States met this forenoon, Leo
pold Balleuberg, of Peoria, ILL.,, presiding.
Congressman Duester delivered an address
OF welcome.
H. Rubens, delegate from Chicago, then
made a motion 10 exclude all outsiders, in
Guiding press reporters, which, after dis
cu,siop, prevailed, and a guard WAS placed
al the doors. The proceedings of the secret
session resulted IN the election OF Frank X
Fslk, Milwaukee, chairman; August Timm,
Illinois, and ]. H. Roth, Missouri, secreta-
ries. The chair appointed committees on
finance and organization.
All States in the Union were represented
except three, among which is Indiana, which
telegraphed that organization there is just
being effected.
In the secret afternoon session the Com
mittee on Organization recommended that
the name OF the association be changed to the
Personal Liberty League of the United
States, to be composed of various State pro-
tective associations and of the National
Brewers and Dsiillers' Association, the mau-
agement to be in the hands of an executive
committee, one from each State, one from
the Distillers', and one from the Brewers Az
ISOLATION, the annual dues TO be 81 50 for
each State society, and 81 so for each society
in the Territories.
The Committee on Resolutions reported the
following:
WHEREAS The Prohibition party has for the
few last years entered upon an aggressive warfare
succeeded by hostile legislation in some States in
passing laws violating the principle of personal
liberty, destroying legitimate business and in
furious to the productive industries and CONNER
cial interests of the people; and whereas, as the
said Prohibition party has Of late years formed a
strong, energetic and pow erful national organza-
ton, and by the means thereof has met with a. IL
its successes while on the ether hand the Liberal
party has been inactive, and either not organized
at all only insufcieutly and in few localities;
therefore be it
Resolved That there now exists the most urgent
necessity for the formation of a national organiza-
ton capable OF meeting the enemy when and
wherever he attacks our rights and business inter
est, and of strengthening our common cause in o.
der TO save our property from conhscatisn and de-
struction.
Resolped. That our cause is not only the cause OF
legitimate business but the cause of great priuc-
PIES the principles OF personal liberty OF the pro-
lection Of men against the unwarran ted and des-
potie usurpation of power belonging to free citi
OF this city, and tue destruction oil the
OF which have not and never can be surrendered
Resolped. That we Congratulate and at the sam :
time thank the State OF Ohio for its last victory
by which, for the frat time of late, it has arrested
the wild and fanatical prohibition movement and
that We commend its example of union and
organization to the rest OF the States.
The report was adopted and the following
Executive Committee chosen: Illinois, Leo
pold Ballenburg; Wisconsin, Guido Hansen
Minnesota, George .B.ntz; Kansas, Chris
Schubert; Pennsylvsnia, Z. F. Becker; Ne
hrasks, Charles Kaufman; Missouri, j. III.
Roth; New York, j. III. Long; Dakota, NJ.
P. Ullmann; Maryland, William metzger;
National Brewers Association, Emil Tehan-
dein, Milwaukee.
The session then adjourned till tomorrow,
and will probably last till Friday.