Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1889 — A CLANDESTINE ORGANIZATION [ARTICLE]

A CLANDESTINE ORGANIZATION

TJ># Ctntes Scnttisb Bite D> dared Sack r ._, . • -r i : v’s"' The controversy which has been general among the masonic fraternity throughout the country respecting the loerße«aßeottis&zts», has fulminated in the issue of an edict by Harrison Dingmao, Most Worshipful Grand Master of Masons of the District of Columbia, nnder date of Joly 29,. pronouncing the Cancan organization clandestine, and warning all members of that rite that they are liable to discipline from the grand lodge nnloss they at once withdrew from said Cerneau body. The main reason for the edict, asiae from other questions arising in the Scottish Rite controversy, is stated to be that the Cerneau organization baa established relations of amity and Masonic eorreeSmdence with the grand orient of ranee, the governing body of the Maaona in that country, which is under the ban of at least every Eaglish speaking grand lodge in the world, because the grand orient has stricken the name of God from its rituals. The grand lodgM of this country, it is said, have an additional grievance against the grand orient of France, because the latter purists in recognising the negro grand lodge of the United States. Grand Master Dingman directs that all visitors in the District of Columbia shall be required to state before admission that they are not members of the Cerneau organization. The meeting of the Cerneau organisation in any Masonic hall is also prohibited.