The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-15
Edward and Fred erick.

All Is not harmonious in that formidable
political body called the Deutsche-Ameri-
kanisher Reform Bund. The trouble, or
~"drubbles," the word generally used among
the interpreters of that organization, arises
from the disagreement between the politi-
cal opinions of FREDERICK or FABRI-
] DETTMANN. the Chairman of the
Committee on Organization Of the
Bund, and Herr EDWARD or YED-
YARp DAMsEN. Other political parties
hold their primary elections for the choice
Of delegates In the month of January.
usually, but the Observation-Disclosures
Reform Bund holds it's primaries in June
and with considerable disturbance and
ceremonial. In anticipation of the first cleo
tion under the Greater New York, they will
be held this year on Thursday, June "a,
the anniversary of the battle of Bannock-
burn and also the anniversary of DAMsEN's
arrival in the New World from Holstein.
This event, important in it's influence
upon political events in New York, East
New York, and Union Hill, n. j., took
place on June "a, 1870. DETTMANN was one
Of the grotesque firm of Sheriffs auction
GERS, one of the quartet of n%on-partisan
SheriTs auctioneers who were appointed
by DAMsEN in the early days of his tempes-
tuous administration of the Office Of Land.
vogt. Recently, however. Herr DETT-
MANN has taken in, so to speak, the red flag
OF the Sheriff's auctioneer and raised instead
the black flag of revolt against DAMsEN as
leader of the Observation-Disclosures Re.
form Bund, retiring with precipitancy from
the firm of KLEINAU. LUTZ, DETTMASN &:
GLAUrIER. DAMsEN occupies in respect to
the German organization the position OF
hGuptman, or all.round boss. He presides
ut the sessions of the members. He car.
ries the funds Of the organization in
his wallet. performs the notarial duties,
with which he Is familiar. when there are
any legal papers to be filed or legal &C,
acknowledgements to be taken. He makes up
the roll Of membership, which is elastic,
and based on the city directory, and he is q
court Of review and appeals on all points,
military, parliamentary, and agricultural
DAMsEN having been a farmer, or. more
properly, q herder, before he was q soldier
The trouble between DAMsEN and DErT
MANN arises from the intolerable tnsubor
dination Of DETTMANN to his chief and ben
~efactor. He has presumed to declare il
German, and, 1t Is said, oven In Plat
deutsch, too. that DAMsEN Is incompe
tent. q statement ascribed by friends
Of the LandvoGt to jealousy and envy
DAMsEN has answered, and we quote II
English the following declaration mad'
by him in Plattdeutsch to a SUN repre-
sentative and published on Sunday:
About the month ago already an interview witt
TETTaAEx was published in which he criticised IN
generally. and said that he could tell the inside stor
Of my nomination. ] sent word TO him TO go ahea
and tell 1t. but DO careful not to bring himself int
contact with the District Attorneys ONCE"
DAMsES knows what it Is to be In wha
he calls contact" with the District AttoI
pey's Office. He was in pretty close contac
With that Office some time ago when a pris
oner in the Court of General Sessions, Of
trial for alleged culpable negligence unde
an indictment found by the Grand Jury G
this county. Such contact is not usual
agreeable to a defendant, and DAMsE
shows a ~forbearing spirit in his admon
tion to DETTMANN to keep clear {
any contact with the Office of public pros
cutor, as a means of eliminating DETTMAN
~ a "unifying force from the politics
the enlarged New York. A committee
the German organization reported on Sa
urdAy In favor of s~uspending DETTMAN
from the Union for the period OF 81
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