Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-12
A LAST WORD

EDS. RECORD. UNION: I missed for soros
'ine seeing that Mr.. Katzsnstein had m sde
general denial of the statements offered in nv
reply TO him In your issue of December 2asb.
Permit me now brief last word The rs.S.
ers OF the Rescue will sill recospizs the f.l.a-
hood OF Mr.. KS assertion that nv 1a....
save IN iss truthtulness, was st all a specimen
Quoted by me. Pvt it was entirely cons;. IN
With MIR. h.srs cot tactics to saw an in ~,
absence OF any IL defense to offer VIZ
This whole dh teditable tronbls Wa, l..
summed up IN few words. A chance -
editors on the Rescue, by action or conssnt -
the Grand Lodge, would have met WITH No
opposition or displessure on my psrt. in.
tended Offering my resignation at last session
In consequence of Mr.. X. : hostility to The
Rescue SIS an organ OF the Order, aud would
have done so but for the almost unanimoT,s
Endorsement and approval of that BODY ex.
tended to me and their manifest directions
Tor my continuance.
The opposition 90 my part was that Of
servant of the Order, protesting against n
treacherous scheme of Mr. X with the Ala
OF MIR. Thompson sud his allies in political
and private personal interests, to usurp Also.
lutte, despoiic, one man dominion over the I.
q. u. 7; to corrupt and coerce every EN-.
ploye OF the Grand Lodge to be his obsdieut
instrument, and to make the Rescue his mi.
yate pocket circular, open to all who espouss
his sovereignty, ana closed, SIS it is now 10
all honest members who presume to otfer an
opinion not dictated by him or To dissent
from his ideas Of sbsolutism
Inc experience learned by Mr. X in his
visit to the r. W. G. Lodge has been nm.
lucky for Us here. Last year he returned
with the information that the G. w. c. Y ~
Illinois hsd reelected himself for the last
nine years, against the will of the better
Good Templsrs, by letting the LODGES die off
till nesr the end OF the year, when be sends
out force to organize thirty or forty new
Lodges, which are instructed to seno mn isIe-
stes to the Grand Lodge to vote for him.
There is an evident intent TO do something
like this to perpetuate Mr.. X. in Office and
salary. II he was q competent leader. or A
leader st sli, OF desired to lead srjs hit we
could stand it. But when he makes il a car
ital crime in the Order to desire to see its in
terests ana the affairs Of our Home for Or
phsns conducted economically. honestly and
penny, snd takes measures to make it only a
fat pasture for him ana a ring of his obedient
satellites-the intelligent and upright Good
Iemplsrs who have helped to build up this
Order will see about it.
l am entirely content to accent Mr. X q
to let the public Judge between
us. II | make certain assertions and Mr.. K.
should deny them, that will not 10 the least
discredit them, with any one acquainted with
me. And assert here that disgracefuI ar
ray Of false information has been furnished
the Order and the public on Mr.. X. 3 side Of
this question.
In the closing paragraph of nv assailauts
helpless conclusion he evidently has a cor
afaN 40 -. 3 -
that was sheared, in his esthetic figure of com.
psrison other peopls will believe that the
clip of " WOO" and fur was eminectly
satisfactory to the ,hesrer. if not to the
shorn. ALBERT ID. WooD.
San Francisco, January 10, 1884.