St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-07
MEDICAL BOARD ROASTED
Friends OF DR.. Dedolph Pass
Singing Resolutions, and Will
Flight the Case

FrIenuS Oh LIE. lIeuOlpu Ass
Singing Resolutions, and Will
Fight the Case.
Friends of DR.. Dedolph to the num-
Der Of over $50 assembled In Turner
hall at $50 yesterday AFTERNOON, to take
action upon the course OF the board of
state medical examiners in reyOking
the license of the doctor. Ed Schur-
meier called the meeting to order.
Ferdinand Willius was made chairman,
and Charles Neumann secretary. The
chairman stated the object of the gath
ering, during which he remarked that
the boards action was not based on JUS
tice, but possibly other motives. A.,C.
Ehrmantraut moved that a committee
tons. The motion carried and the chart
named as the committee, Hermann
Schetfer, A, c. Ehrmentraut, Ed Schur-
meier, John b. Brisbin, George
Moeller, Judge j. j. Egan, Otto
Kueffner, Col. A. r. Kiefer,
Ben Sommers and Thomas Draz. Dur
ing the absence of the committee ro-
marks were called for from those pres
ent. Attorney Pr0pping said that the
statutes of the state Of Minnesota con-
tanned clause which distinctly stated
that no citizen could be deprived of his
property rights. The right of DR.. De-
dOlph to practice medicine was prop
erty right of which the doctor had been
robbed. In such case as this, the
board of examiners should follow the
rules of evidence as did court of JUS
tice. They had not done so. but had
acted in a more summary manner than
would have been done in the case of a
common criminal. Conviction should
not have followed upon such evidence.
Undue haste had been exercised. The
action of the board was high-handed
measure.
DR.. Stone said he was not able to
Judge the board, as he did not hear the
evidence, but he believed that DR.. De
dolph was not guilty Of the charge.
DR.. Jenner made few remarks in the
same strain, and DIR. Dedolph spoke
briefly in the German language.
The committee on resolutions re-
portei the following:
Resolved. That in the matter of the action
of the state medical examining board in re-
voking The license of DR.. Theo DedOlph,
we, citizens of st. Paul, in mass meeting as
sembled do protest against their course, and
submit to the public that DR.. Theo De-
dolph is, and has been, practitioner of medi-
cine in the city of ST. Paul under the laws of
the state that he has the confidence of the
community, and that under. the constitution
of the United States no property rights can
be taken away without due process of law,
and that the right to practice medicine lisa
property right aud cannot be taken away
without such legal process, and that by re-
cent decision of the supreme court of the
United States a board of commissioners ap-
pointed by the state legislature have no such
power, and their decisions are not equivalent
to judicial decision. Therefore, we, the
citizens OF st. Paul, viii exert our best en-
beavers to right the Wrong inflicted upon Dr.
Theo Dedolph, and that it is not matter
concerning ourselves personally. bnt affect
ing each citizen; and be it further
Resolved, That the chairman of this meet
ing appoint committee of five to thorough
ly Investigate this matter, and do all we can
to carry out the foregoing resolutions.
A motion was made and carried that
the resolutions be printed in the daily
papers, and that a committee of five be
appointed by the chair to examine the
evidence and details presented to the
board, the committee to report at "a
meeting to be called by the chairman.
The following gentlemen were named
as the committee, after which the meet
ing adjourned: G. ii. Lienau, j. j.
Egan, Otto Kueffner, Hermann Schef-
fer, Ben SommerS. ffg
The state medical board sent to the
GLOBE last night the following state
ment: So
III the matter of the revocation of the
license of DR.. Theodore Dedolph, the
state medical examining board desires
to state, in Justice to its homeopathic
members, that its judgment was not in
fiuenced in the slightest degree by DR..
Dedolph's articles on homeopathy, as
claimed by him in recent interview.