The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1851-10-01
MONDAY MoNlNG, SEPTEMBER 90
VALUABLE DEVELOPMENTS.

SPIRIT OF THE GERMAN DEMOCRACY.
We have obtained translation Of the follow
ing well-wrtten article, from the German 1ri-.
bune, printed at ST. Louis 1t will be seen that
it is from the pen of eur we'll known townsman,
Mr. Koch, and, besides giving very candid and
lucid description of the negotiations between the
Wing party of this city and few Germans,
who assume to be the guardians of the German
population of Northern Iowa, it developes dis
position for pipe laying in the offers made to
MIR. Koch, peculiar to the Wing party in times
when it is desirable to overcome strong De-
mocratic majority. We were aware, before Pc
rusng the article Of Mr.. Koch, that very
strong effort was m1dc by the Sachcms of the
Wing party of Dubuque, prior to the late cleo
ton, to secure the German vote, and that some
hundreds of dollars were raised by subscription
among the Wings of Dubuque, and appropriated
for obtaining control of the German press, but
we were not aware before that a bold and reck-
less attempt had been made to buy over MIR.
Koch. This fact reflects no credit upon the
Wing party, and among the more conscientious
members of that party, we should suppose,
would cause a blush of shame to mantle their
cheek
Mr. Koch proves very conclusively the in
consistency of an appeal from the Wing party
to the temperance prcjudlces of the German pc.
t pulation. No greater deception ever prac
II sed upon a people, than this effort to persuade
i he Germans that the Wings, as a body, are ii
g favor of the free sale and of liquor, and tho
d Democrats, as a body, opposed to it. 1t il
susceptible of the clearest demonstration, tina
e the first agitation of this question in the Stat
IS was by prominent Wings, and that the leadn:
d Wing organs in the State have repeatcdl
- spoken out in the most emphatic terms i'll tavo
v of law prohibiting the retail Of liquor. That
IT while in the Northern part of the State the G2l
mans are desired to sustain the Wing party be
IN cause of their opposition to the temperance law
e. in the Southern part of the State temperate
Democrats arc desired to abandon their part
/, affinites, and go over to the Wings becaus
re they are the only true friends of the law. Gel
We mans in this city are made to believe that mi
> nicpal regulations, which they deem prcjudicis
to their intcrt SITS, are the result of Democrat
,g legislation.
p AS an evidence of the susceptibility of Il
~ Germans to be imp ,sed upon by those who a
til disposed TO take advantage of their ignorant
ed of our language, laws and customs, they we
T. persuaded at the April election to vote for Il
=, very man who drafted and reported the pre- Sc
no temperance law in preference to one who HI
ed always been conscientiously opposed to it.
re- But while this agitation is reserted to by t
ps. would be ,oity leaders Of the German peopl
at as the most specious plot for exciting their pr
wd JUDGES, we have no idea they seriously 10
'"' upon this question as one in any measure dir
ding the two parties. 1t is qaesuoh VIM
The addresses itself 10 The moral and not the poll
ord cal sense of the community, and although
hc' has SO happened that prominent wings a
at wing organs were the first to engage in its a
n; vocacy, we are by means ready to belle
ew that the question has, as yet, assumed distir
The party face.
Die In MIR. Koch's allusion to The members
,nn the Congregational Church, we TANK he
an unnten,ionay done them injustice. We ha
err no doubt ma o-ity of the members of I'll
,,r body view temperance as strictly moral que
m. ton, disconnected entirely from politics.