The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-13
QUIT BEING A RED
Braunschweig's Friends Says He
Has Given Up Anarchy.
Reported that He Once Carried Dyna-
mite-The Silly Joke Played on
Mr.. Edward Elan.

There has been slight mention IN the
newspapers during the last few days of the
presence of r. Braunschweig in the city.
Mr.. Braunschweig is credited with being
an Anarchist rampant and for that rea-
son the police have been keeping eye on
his movements. Mr.. Braunschweig was in
Peru yesterday. but he is expected to be
in the city on Sunday, when a Socialistic
meeting is TO be held in the evening at
Columbia Hall. The gentleman is alleged
TO be the same man who got in trouble
in New York on account of incendiary
speeches. He has admitted, 1T was stated by
friend, that he made dynamite bombs
and carried them in the big city of the sea
board. but he now claims that he has I'M
dergone a change Of heart, believing in
bloodless rather than a sanguinary rev.
olution. 1t is not known what eff
feet the bare walls of the prison
may have had on the change of views,
although Ii is insisted by several of his
friends in this city that he did not cease
to be an Anarchist until a few years after
his release from prison. There is a little
story in connection with the publicity given
his appearance in this city.
Braunschweig is now the representative
and collector for the Arbeiter News, a Chi
cago Socialist paper edited by Schwab one
OF the Haymarket Anarchists. August
Spies, who was hanged for participation
in the massacre of officers, was before the
riot an editor or a writer on the same pa
per. Mr. Braunschweig claims that Schwab
has also taken to other views on labor and
social problems and believes less in red.
flowing blood than he did before the muir
der" as the Anarchists call the hanging
ar a mum hny~ of
years Braunschweig was a furniture work.
er In New York. having come from Ger
tator and was friend of Herr Most
in the city is credited with saying
while in the New York parade in honor of
the 'martyrdom'' of Spies and others
Others had dynamite about their persons
Anarchists claimed that they did not in
tend to use the deadly stuff unless they
were attacked by the police.
When he changed his opinions. Braun
schweig determined to proselyte in behalf
or the socialistic views to which he had
fallen back; Then he went to Chicago to
work Tor Schwab's paper. He Is said to
make about SIS a week by his work for
the paper and in organizing German labor
unions among furniture workers. beer
wagon drivers and other employees of big
corporations.
The unions In indianapolis among the beer
wagon drivers and the furniture workers
schweig came here with the ostensible pur-
pose of strengthening them. One OF the
beer wagon drivers unions was about to
surrender its charter. 1t had several hum
dred dollars in its treasury and this would
have been divided among the local member
ship. Braunschweig heard of this and one
night he addressed the union. 1t Is said he
denounced the members as traitors for
giving up their charter, using the word
traitor as Ii applies to the unions relation
TO the general union and To organized labor.
This made a few of the members angry and
they gave out the fact that Braunschweie
was making incendiary speeches.
Braunschweig, however, claims that he is
not making incendiary speeches. He is a
man of about thirty-eght years of age large
and broad shoulders. He wears a red
mustache and is said to resemble an Irish
man more than a German. Those who
know him say that he is a very witty man
and a thinker.