New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-12-05
BU ] RI D DECIDES / /
AGAINST new ULM
RULES THAT MAYOR FRITscHE
AND MAJOR PFAENDER
BE REMOVED.
COUNTY AUDITOR voGEL GETS
REINSTATEMENT IN THE
SAME ORDER.

By an order issued by GddHernor Burn
: quist, Saturday, DR.. L. Aftsche is
removed from the office of Mayor and
Major Albert Pfaender is removed from
the office Of City Attorney Of the city Of
New Ulm for malfeasance in Office on
account of their connection with and
participation in the meeting held in the
city.o New Ulm July 25th. By the
same order Capt. Louis G. Vogel, Audi
tor of Brown County, who was under
Suspension for the same offense is re-
instated, Gov. Burnquist finding that
the charges against him were insufficient
to justify his removal.
The publishing of the findings and
the order Immediately relieved City
Clerk William Backer Of his duties as
acting County Auditor and Fred Behn-
Ike, President Of the Council, under the
provisions of the city charter becomes
Acting Mayor. For the purpose of
choosing a successor to Councillor Behn-
Ike, the city council met in special
session Monday and elected H. D
!. Beussmann. The appointment OF a
. city attorney will 60 over to the regular
meeting of the council which was held
last night.
Last Monday the suspended officials
appeared before the Governor to give
their reasons why they should not be
removed. Mayor Fritsche and City
Attorney Pfaender argued their own
cases and set forth the reasons which
J in their opinion, were sufficient for re-
8 instatement Attorney Mueller APP
peared for County Auditor Vogel.
Governor Burnquist's findings are
at length in the order. He char
acterizes the widely advertised New
New Ulm meeting, which was attended
by between 5000 and 10000 persons,
as unpatriotic and un-American and on
this finding and their connection with
y it is the basis. Of the order ousting Fritz
B sche and Pfaender.
''The mass meeting was reported by
aale newspapers over the state OF Min
sIins;ssota as an anti-draft meeting and as
: being in effect pro-German and dis
loyal to America" says the order,
''and did tend to create among the
drafted men who attended it feeling
that the draft law as enacted by Con-
gress was unjust and illegal. The
intended effect of the holding of the
meeting was to interfere with the plan
of the United States government in the
raising Of it's army and in the prosecu-
ton of the war
The meeting August 8 at Gibbon ad-
vertised as a continuation Of the New
Ulm demonstration and that subse-
quently at Hamburg, also advertised
as protest against sthe ending of sol
diers to Europe, are also arraigned in
Governor Burnquist's order.
Mayer Fritsche's removal from Office
is based en- a finding that he acted as
chairman Of the New Ulm meeting af-
ter aiding in it's organization and aG-
vertising, and introduced speakers who
3critized the war as unworthy of pop
ular support and stated that the draft
/ law was unconstitutional and undemo-
Ssssratiic. 2
S&EThe order cites the fact that the pur-
pose Of the meeting was to protest
vent the United States from sending
its soldiers to Europe to which DR..
Fritsche apparently gave approval.
This order also reviews the standing
of DR.. Fritsche at New Uln, where
he had long been practising medicine.
It also is set forth that Re approved
speeches made by Mr.. Pfaender at New
U.m Gibbon and Hamburg.
The conduct Of Albert Pfaender in
participating in and promoting the
meetings, designed and calculated to
discourage the success of the United
States in it's war with its enemy" is
the reason assigned for his permanent
removal from office. His services CT
Is years in the state national guard,
latterly as major with the forces on
the Mexican border, and his service in
the state legislature for six years are
referred to. Then follows a review Of
the disloyal meeting in which he par
~ icipated.
..s.. .1ss,ender's speech, the order recites,
Pm s.ined his opinion chat the draft
D law was unconstitutional SO far as it
attempted to send American soldiers to
Europe to engage in war; and his ar
gument that he with others would do