Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
A STORM IN SIGHT.
The Daughters of Liberty Expect a
Lively Meeting This Week.
LEAVING TO-DAY FOR WATERBURY
Local Delegates Will Support Their No
tional Councillor.
MUCH LEGISLATION TO BE OFFERED

MUCH LEGlSLATlON III BIZ UffEhEl
The National Council of the Daughters Of
Liberty, an auxiliary to the Senior o. u
A. NJ, will convene in Waterbury, Conn.,,
on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day of next week. There will be
about 200 delegates present, including
probably 40 from this city, and
representing nearly 10000 members. The
Pittsburg delegation, headed by National
Councillor j. w. McCleary, Deputy Ma
tional Councillors w. B. Lowman, w. j,
Young, c. B. Wylie, G. E. Kepple, Frank
Thompson and other prominent members Of
the organization will leave this morning IL
a special car attached to the day express
via the Pennsylvania Railway.
1t will be the fourteenth annual session
and it promises to be the most important
meeting ever held. There have been many
exciting developments connected with the
internal affairs of the organization during
the past year, during which two factions
have sprung up. The principal fight for the
last six months has been between the
National Council and the Board of Officers
over the refusal of charters to new
councils, and this will probably be
made the basis for bitter struggle
next week The trouble is said to be ex-
ceedingly complicated, and the feeling so
bitter that it will not be surprising if a
complete division of the order takes place
in Waterbury.
EXPLANATION OF THE TROUBLE
The existing trouble is best explained by
the following interview secured last night
from member of the senior
order. Said he: "Our trouble dates
back about year or more
1t is really fight between the senior and
Junior orders Of American Mechanics. Pre-
vious to the Pittsburg session, two years
ago, our order was controlled entirely by
the seniors, who composed nearly four-fifths
of the male portion of the membership. The
Pittsburg session proved boom for the Or
ganization and during the year fol-
lowing it, the junior members in
the d. of L. increased from about 200 TO
over 500 and the membership in Pennsyl-
vania increased from little over thousand
membership of the organization at that
time
cat the Pittsburg session, for the first
time in the history of the order, Junior
was elected to an office in the national
council Last year in Salem, Mass,
he was elevated to the highest
office within the gift OF the
organization: lie was the only Junior on
the Board OF Ohcers, composed OF seven
members Inc others seemed TO grow leal-
Gus OF the progress OF the order IN the west,
and coldness soon sprung up between
Set:i Ca;Io-,~ a,'thS-;. ~ ~
latter being of a characteristic Pittsburg
temper. resented the dictation.
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There came case at Steubenvllle, O.,
climax. One council had been organized in
Steupenville early last November. About
the holidays second was organized. Mem
bers Of the first sent in protest against
lnstltutlng new council, as they claimed
1t would 1nJure their organization. The
National Councillor went to Steubenville,
made a personal investigation and found
that In city OF ,ooo inhabitants, when
four or hye councils OF the Mechanics are
supported there was no good reason why
TWO councils OF Ine u. OF l.. should not
exist anu oeciueo 10 issue charter.
In tne meantime letters were writ
ten 10 the members OF the national
= poaiu' ' WHO ofuereu MI. ~hcOlear! 10 win
! ilolu cnatte5 rom tne ne" council. lhis
ne reused 10 no ana tne council was 1nstl-
sute9' Inc boa1u heid meetlng ana re-
iuseu 10 recognize tne new council, ana
IL issueu au circelar III "nicn they sald that
theT "oulo reluse 10 grant charters 10 such
as were GDJlrelV cOmDOSeQ OF
juniof hielnoers'
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uTb;s ia the coat of tho troubl. u,b;obh
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have been refused to about a doyen Councils
and nj least 90 additional ones arc
nearly ready for institution bnt
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