Year: 1871

ACTION OF TIE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC
EXECUTIVE CoMMITTEE-AN ANTI-TAMMAEY
DELEGATION TO BE SENT TO TIE STATE
CONVENTION.


The charges Of fraud and corruptfon IN
office which have lately been noey made against Mayor
Hall and Controller Connolly without elictng any
proof OF their faisity, have made deep impression
among the German population of this city. No OF
citizens were more earnest positive In donunoiatons
OF tho officials supposed TO be guilty The first effect
was severely felt by the principal German paper
Of tho city, the Staats Zeitung, which had
long been organ Of Tammany, and which continued
for several weeks after the charges OF corruption had
been published, to apologize for Tweed, Connolly. and
Hall. Tammany leaders had early observed the power
and influence this paper welded among the German
voters and by avors and perQutes given to prominent
Germans influenced it 10 support that faction Of the
Democratic party against the Ledwith and O'Brien
branch 1t largely owing to the solid German vote
that Mr. Hall was elected TO the MayOralty last No
vember.


But the Stnas Zenr some three or four weeks be-
came convinced probably by large decrease in ts crcu


aon that would bo suicidal to continue its support OF
Hall and Connolly against the manifest disapproya OF
its readers. The editor Mr. Oswald OtendOrfer there
upon wrote to Mayor Hall that he should be obliged to
sever his allegiance from him and his party OF the Ring,
and last week the announcement was made Ia the SddtS
Zeitg that the paper would longer support the Tam
many Hall party long a5 its present leaders
were upheld by that organization. 1t distinctly
stated that its future course would be In op-
position to these men, though the German
Democratic General Committee continued its allegiance
to them. Prominent German Democratic Office
holders under Ring rule discovered that
trouble was brewing A member Of the Americus Club,
who has Mr. Tweed's ear and Obcys and carries Tweeds
orders sent to OtendOrfe and urged him to dscon
tnue his opposition TO the Ring ruinous to the Demo
cratic party Mr. OttendOhcr is said to have replied at


length, declaring that the Ring must relieve themselves
OF the suspicious under which they suffer- and that the
Germans generally satisfied that the charges were
true. At any rate he said the Germans were not con-
tented with the promises Of explanation which the
public had been fed for six weeks.


still more significant action had meantime been taken
by other leading Germans Within the last fortnight a
meeting Of leading German politicians and the principal
members OF the Democratic State Central Committee
has been privately held at Utica, Y or tho Commit
tee Horatio Seymour and Samuel j. Tden present.
as was also Mr. Francis Kernap. The Germans were
represented by Mr.. Magnus Gross Coroner Gershon N
Herman and Alderman Edward schlichting. The latter
very outspOken and Informed the members OF the
Committee that their people would not countenance or
support Tweed and his fellows in their OF thevng
and Fraud" adding that unessa decisive stand was taken
against Tammany by the State Committee the German
Democrats I'm NewYork would go with the rest Of their
countrymen in America over to the Republican party


Ex-Goy. Seymour, in the Of the long consulta
ton which followed said that the deeds OF these men
Tweed, Hail. and Connolly abhOred OF all upright
citizens and that their transactions reflected odiun on
the whole party He had always endeavOredt preserve
the Democratic party from the faint OF official corruption
and added that the power Of the Ring must be taken
from Tweed Hail. and Connolly II they did not at once
their skirts Of the charges which had been made
against them


Mr. Herman was also loud and positive in his denunci
alton Of Hall and Connolly and sai that they had done
more injury TO Democratic principles than the whole
force OF the Republican party.


II was taeitly admitted by all those present that they
beliered The charges true In the entire consuta
ton no suggestion that the charges were possibly false
was made but it seemed be understood that they Uere
undnsuerdbie.


1t was asked by the members OF the Committee II
Gov Hoffman connected with the Ring in Its infa-
nous transactions or identified with Tweed's policy.
The German representatives declared 1t to be their
vlction that Hoffman antagOnistc to the Ring,
although pOweress to oppose its dctaon as illustrated
in his submissive appointment Of DR.. Carnochan as
Health Officer.


The gentlemen parted with mutual good will and the
understanding that in the next campaign they would be
a unit against like those OF the Ring who insist that
they will ruin II they cannot rule On the return of the
Germans TO New-York call was made for the German
Democratic Executive Committee to meet and take this
matter OF frauds among the public officials under consid
Grafton 1t designed originally TO absoye tho Com
mtee from any responsibility for the acts OF the Ring
leaders by recommending to the General German Demo
cratic Committee series of resolutions ndemninG the
actions of Hall and Connolly.


Information Of this proposed action on the part OF the
Executive Committee was given TO Mayor Hall by one
OF the members who is attache Of the Mayors Office
The Mayor Immediately drew up paper and compelled
some of the weakened and ofce-hOlding members OF
the Committee TO sign f. pledgng themselves not to
vote for any resolutions rc1ectng himself and Con
molly which might be presented to the German
af tha pXf A
number of the members signed Halls paper. Among
those whom he ap reached Alderman schlichting.
when asked to vote against the resolutions this gentle
man declined. The Mayor asked his reasons and showed
him the list already signed Of those who had promised
not to vote for the resolutions Alderman schchting still
declined to give his reasons and referred the Mayor to
Mr. Ottendorfer. The Mayor said Otendorfer was an
tagonistic to him. he had received letter from him an
nouncng dscontnuance of his support and still the
Alderman declined TO discuss the subject.


Yesterday Sunday, at II o'clock the German Demo-
cratic Executive Committee met at Germania Hail. No.
900 Thirdaye. 1t noticeable that some OF thOSe
who had signed the Mayors paper were abb
sant The resolutions which offered had been
somewhat modified from those originally proposed III
was evident that disposition to compromise existed
among the members Of the committee VINO had Deeome
ACQUAINTED with Mayor Halls action and that they did
NOT desire TO proclaim themselves in open hostility TO
Tammany Hall They yet stood in some doubt and dread
q, ts mower The motion adopted for the purpose Of
concIiatina their constituents, and at the same time
making concessions to the Ring was that " the German
Democratic Executive Committee recommend the Ger


man General Committee to adopt resolutions declaring
,hs,ves opposed to fraud corruption, and dishonesty
On nubI office and that II the gentlemen accused ofmal
feasance in Office do not Immediately relieve them
selves Of the odm and prove themselves innocent OF
tbose charges that the German Democrats no longer
acknowledge them as leaders, or representatives OF the
Democratic party or its principles


The German Democratic General Committee meets at


carly day and its action upon this question awaited
I a IS lrsat a., Siety by the Ring and German c