The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-27
AN 0. M. B. SPLIT
Conrad Mayer and RObertHitch-
cock Are Expelled
And Serious Trouble to the
Order VIII Result.
POLITICS THE WEDGE
That Has Sundered the Order
In Topeka.
Mayer Says an Attempt Is Be-
ing Made
To Lead It Into the Leedy
Camp.
POLITICS THE WEDGE

There is a good sized row in 0. NJ B.
circles and two prominent members
have been suspended. They are Con
rad Mayer and Robert Hitchcock. They
are the men who have been holding
Republican meetings in the basement
at the northeast corner of Seventh and
Kansas avenue and dispensing beer.
According to Simon Greenspan the
men were suspended because they re
fused to support the legislative candi-
dates indorsed by the 0. NJ. B.
When a man takes the oath of the
o. NJ. b." said Mr.. Greenspan, ''he
agrees to support the men indorsed by
the o. NJ. B. Both Meyer and Hitch
cock violated their oaths and we were
justified in publishing them to the
world as traitors. They have been
holding their meetings under the guise
of an o. NJ. B. organization, and the on
~ thing for US to do was to drop them.
and drop them quick"
There was a meeting at the same
place last evening under the supervis-
ion of Mayer and Hitchcock, but no
beer was dispensed.
The men who have been deposed do
not think they have been treated right
by Police Commissioner Charles K. Hol-
liday and Simon Greenspan, who are
the Topeka members of the state eX-
ecutiVe committee who suspended them
from membership in the organization.
Conrad Mayer, who is this year work
ing for Governor Morrill, and who says
that the free beer distributed at the
Republican meetings in the basement
of the building at the northeast corner
of Seventh and Jackson streets, is his
personal contribution to the campaign,
said.
TN tell you just what this business
means 1t means that Simon Green
span and Charlie Holiday think that
they can turn the O. N. 3. just as they
want to. They think that when they
whistle the O. NJ. B. viii dance. See
Well, when they whistle, I don't dance.
"GreenSpan and Holiday are Schen-
ing to turn the O. N. B. over to this
man Leedy. Holiday, too, wants to
see his father in the legislature. I'm
going to vote for Gov. Morrill,. I'm go
ing to vote the straight Republican
ticket from Mckinley down, and all
hell and the devil, nor no little Hebrew.
either, viii turn me from it.
The whole thing came about this
way. That man Greenspan came to
me and asked me how I was going to
vote. I told him that I was going to
vote the straight Republican ticket
" That's enough, that's enough said
he, I don't want to hear any more.
That's enough Now, we will show you
who we are. We will blacklist you in
every O. M B. lodge in the state, and
we Will turn every O. NJ. B. member
against you. Wen hurt your business
and We'u down you every chance we
get. Wen show you who we are
well I told him to go ahead. I told
him to turn me out of the O. NJ. B.
and do whatever else he pleased. I told
him that could live without the 0. NJ
B. and get my beer just the same, and
I told him something else, too
L have lived in Topeka q good many
years ard I have always been a reSpec-
table citizen. L have never violated the
law, never. It's pretty thing for
Charlie Holiday to say that we We're
violating the law at our meetings, when
Ina ~ loo =
3. lodges. Every one of the lodges is a
saloon. and Charlie Holiday is police
commissioner and he knows it.
L tell you what, you can't have a
meeting of German people or Swedish
people and treat them with water.
They're like me; they don't like hy-
drant water as we'll as they do beer So
at our meetings they have a little red
ink. I pay for this red ink, and 1 am
violating no law when treat my
friends.
I have lots of friends. and many of
them viii leave the 0. NJ. 3. on my ac-
count The O. NJ. B. can do whatever
they can. but they can't take my right
as an American citizen to vote as 7
please away from me"
Mr.. Hitchcock said.
What L know of this business is
this: Charley Holiday and simon
Greenspan came down to one of our
meetings Thursday night and asked me
where we were getting our beer L told
them that / didn't know. When I told
"
me to lie like that. as they knew that
did know, and that if the meetings
were not stopped there would be trou-
BILE and some one would be arrested.
then told them that I didn't think it
was their place to come down to a Re
publican meeting and make trouble
and if they wanted to make trouble
they would find that they had a fight
on their hands.
Il went to my lodge of the 0. NJ B
the next day and offered to resign. but
was told that my resignation would not
be accepted until the meeting OF the
lodge tomorrow night I met Simon
Greenspan on the street afterwards
and told him TO be sure and be at the
meeting of Standard lodge tomorrow
night and to tell Charlie Holiday to be
there, and I would meet him face to
face and make what statements had
to make. He said both would be there
Il have no use for that fellow Green
span, but Charlie Holiday IS all right
1 have never made any fight on Colonel
Holiday as a candidate for representa-