Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-22

AS is SHOWN, Ln6 e4tremes were %, fSt II anu
81, 200, or an average of 81 $50 03 for the
ton, was awarded the publication of the
Rescue His first years management cost the
Grand Lodge Treasury. over and above all
receipts of the paper, 81, sec SO, and he then
petitioned the Executive Committee to be
relieved from his three years contract"
which was done. But the Executive
Committee made mistake. Either
he should have been required to
finish his contract, or be relieved himself also
from the management. However, he was
continued on to manage and publish the
paper for the Order. The result for the next
wear was a deficit of 81 200. the Executive
Committee meanwhile adopting every sug
gestion offered BY him as to the improvement
OF the paper. But his intolerant, dogmatic
and arrogant disposition, led him into open
conf ct with many religious and moral peo-
pie, and his open defiance of expressed re-
auirements from the Grand Lodge estranged
many members of the Order, so that, though
the official organ of the Order. they would
neither read the Rescue themselves nor per-
NIT it 20 be read by their families. Matters
grew from bad to worse, until at the last ses-
sion of the Grand Lodge, over and above all
the receipts of the paper, deficit was re-
ported and paid out of the Grand Lodge
treasury for account of the publication Of
the Rescue, of s., 651 As. The appropriation
in its behalf at the previous session OF the
Grand Lodge was So, 900. Now come the off,
cial auditors and Finance Committee of the
Grand Lodge, who reported to the last session
thereof az follows: eve find the quarterly
reports of the publisher, as submitted to the
Executive Committee, to agree with and b9 a
copy from book KEEP in his Office, purport
ing to show the weekly expenditure and re-
fhcco of 4
to 60 back aud examine the debts and credits
from which these statements were made Up.
IS well as to see whether each item Of re-
ceipts and expenditures was properly posted.
We were not little surprised, when calling
for the publishers books, to be presented With
little pocket memorandum book. which
purports 20 constitute the cash book, day
book, urnal and ledger. With this book
we attempted TO check off the items on his
subscription book, but failed. as did we also
when attempting to check off the expendit-
ures from the bills paid, which were presented
to us on file hook" journal of proceed.
ings. page 1856. And further, the following:
The appropriations in some departments
being overdrawn tends to cripple other depart
meats of the work wher fore we recommend
that the @. w. S. be instructed not TO issue
any warrant in excess of the fund upon which
it should be drawn"
The appropriation in support of the Rescue
was again fixei at 50. 0J0 but coupled with
the foregoing restrictions-never before i'm
posed
Immediately after the adjournment Of the
Grand Lodge, the Executive Committee met
to plan the work for the year, ss usual, and
to elect an editor, or arrange for the cOntinu-
sncs of the Rescue. The matter of the Res
cue was, however, continued for one month,
at which time Captain Wood was called be-
fore the committee. His statements of re-
ceipts ard expenses were examined, when il
was discovered that the paper was continuing
at deficit OF SOS 10 weekly, which prom
ised to aggregate as large so amount az last
year, or more, fully 6o1bling the amount of
the appropriation. This he disputed, but
upon himself revising the figures, acquiescsd
in their correctness, and expressed his sur
price at the result.
With view, then, of reducing the cost il
possible. ii was decided to advertise for pro-
posals for the publication Of the paper under
contract. This he characterized as an act Of
uaurpatiou," and construed it in opposition
to him. He was not an "ofi GER " Of the
Grand Lodge, as he states, not being elected
by the body, but chosen by the Executive
Committee IS an empoye. His previous
election was for one gear only at a monttiB
salary. Proposals were adv -tised for mean
while.
Unfortunately, Mr.. Wood was unwilling TO
yield to what seened to be the inevitable
He did not accept the decision of the Grand
Lodge az final, but immediately thereafter
announced that the officers Of the body were
not elected by the 81 best servants Of the o.
DER" etc The action OF the body was mis-
represented. He ignored utterly the new Of
6c.rs and administration by emitting from
the g official organ any aliu7ion TO the list
of the officers or their postoffice addresses,
thing never done before, and in various ways
not necessary to mention here manifested
disposition Of hostility to the administration,
plainly indicating his purpose to conduct She
official organ Of the Order as his own personal
organ and the mouth piece OF a faction and
coterie of indictments.
So it was when the time came for action,
another man was elected to fll the place
until then occupied by him. His term had
expired, so that he was neither discharged
nor removed, unless, perchancs, he believed
himself possessed Of life-lease Of the posi-
tiou, and that it belonged to him rs q matter
of right which, in view of mis- recent conduct,
is not OF all unlikely.
A committee of three (of which l was not
oue) was appointed to wait upon him, APP
prise him Of the change, receive the property,
deliver the effects to the new publisher, aHd
purchase Of him whatever f=cts were neCes-
sary and not already the property Of the
Grand Lodge.
He utterly refused to surrender his posi-
ton or yield up the property Of the Grand
Lodge, hoping thereby to balk the action Of
the COMMITTEES and secure suspension OF tho
paper or the continuance Of 1t Tor q few more
is ues. under bis management, to Willy and
abuse thos. in authority over him, his printer
acting likewise, under his direction. The
authority Of the Order representing the Grand
L-dge was thus set at defiance. 1t must
either submit to the edict of the self constl-
tuted consciencs-keeper and boss of the whole
institution, or he must be taught a lesson in
civiity and obedience to the properly consti-
tuted authorities. To further delay matters,
with show at submission, he asked for and
received a further extension Of twenty.four
hours time, at the end of which, as before,
and as was expected, he refused to deliver up
or surrender his position as before. writ
of repievin was procured, he, by his con-
duct, making it necessary, and the sub
scrption books and other property was taken
charge Of for the benefit of the proper owuers,
under the protection of two officers Of the
law, as he complains ~.
Such Is a plain statement of facts, without
unnecessary comment or vanishing, and With
10 allusion to the insulting Communications
received from the viii ON editor Of a moral
anu IelhLiuaLuIl BGilOutCal' HIS a'hlCu40hs
ia made ore in sorrow than anger. That
the action of the Executive Committee is
fully indorsed-iu the disposition Of the mat
ter il questioo-will be made evident to shy.
one sufficiently interested TO call on the writer
and sx anime the numerous communications
and resJlu ions from the best servants of
the Oder" received without solicitation, and
which it has not been deemed necessary to
print or publish.
OF myself pardon me if l say that l am
neither an sdventursr among. cor a stranger
TO, the people Of California. My lifetime has
been spent among this psople through child
hood, youth and manhood l have grown mp
almost within ths very eye Of The public.
My life and work has been an open book
not page missine-and its best years have
been assidiousiy devoted and freely given to
the work of he l. 0 C L and the cause it
represents. II will, therefore, in my opinion,
require more than the bald assertion of
misguided old msn to lead the people Of
tpis CON, II, on vyaelth n beiieva that | wouid