Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1857-09-08
The German Press on Cross, the Bars.
tow Candidate for Governor.

The German Press On Cross, the Bars
tow Candidate for Governor.
Cross, the candidate of Barstow and
the balance, and the Know Nothing clique
for Governor, is not likely to receive a
very enthusiastic support from the sens
ible and intelligent German voters.
The Watertown "a NJ ei g er % the
organ of the Democratic Germans of
Watertown and the vicinity, denounced
him, In advance of his nomination, as
"a member of the Barstow party, a clique
"that, by It's corruption, had ruined the
democratic party in this State
The Milwaukee &c daus,'' a wide
ly circulated and influential Democratic
sheet, published in the German language,
is still more emphatic. la It's daily issue
of the Goth inst, the day prior to CRoss'
nomination, it employs the following sig
nificant language:
'As in Baltimore the various political
parties forgot their quarreIs, and united
with the single election cry: ''DowN
WITH THE RowDIEs - = SO the great
mass of the people of Wisconsin JON to-
getheE III exclalming: 'DowN WITH
BARsrow AND HIS ASSOCIATES ~ If
CROSS, WHO BY A HUNDRED
AFFILIATIONS IS CONNECTED
WITH THAT FACTION, IS NOM
MATED, WIRE PULLING AND
FRAUD WILL HAVE TRIUMPH
ED, AND EVERY HOPE OF A
DEMOCRATIC VICTORY WILL BE
LOST thin hardly can any honest
man, aoho has not permitted himseF
to be concerted into a Win3 party run
ner, or aoh0 Is not docoid Of sense and
reason, go 10 the baltot6or, or desire a
gtctOry, FOR VICTORY WILL ON
L1 MEAN THAT THE STATE
HAS BEEN A @ A n GIVEN
| OVER TO ITS OLD BLOOD
SUCKERS - and 5nstead Of q Re
/ pubJlcan aaai0rlty Of thirteen thou
sa1ad, as at the last election, ne shall
see one Of Il WENT Y THO u
1 s 4 " u :"
The ,,Gradaus's closes its article by
declaring that it ''can only, as matters
''stand, give its support to upright Demo
''crats who love their State and their party:
"D0aC1o a0jth tie Barst01y saoi2ao5Linq
'.party and their app9,elages, thus or
thus ~
WE commend to the careful attention
OF the Barstowites who thought they were
playing very fine game III procuring -
/ by a system of Wire-pulling that extended
all over the State, and had its tap-rool, ii
Is alleged, in the X n. organization
the nomination of their faithful agent.
! Cross, the above specimen of German
literature, faithfully done into English
Two years ago the Germans were msled
into supporting the Barstow ticket. They
nave had their eyes opened since. The
infamous election frauds of that campaign,
the attempted usurpation, the rotten and
/ retklng mass Of corruption exposed by
the Investigations of last year, have dis
abused them of their former misplaced
confidence. There are no people on earth
that hate fraud, that delest corruption,
/ that abhor official peculation and swind-
/ ling more than the Germans. From the
gray antiquity when TACIrUs described
them, down 10 the present, they have, as
a nation, been distinguished for a robust
integrity III thought and deed. In this
country they rank among the most indus
lrlous and honest of our citizens. Their
sentiments are liberal their sympathies
with the cause of Free Labor and Free
! Territory. In almost every State In the
Union, last year, they enlisted under the
Republican banner. Here, local causes,
dlstruSt OF the Republicans as prohibit
DRY liquor law party, especially-a charge
industrious y urged by the sham Demo-
cracy-kept them out of the Republican
ranks. That distrus, no longer exists !;
and with their Unborn love of freedom,
and their native hatred OF corruption,
falsehood and wrong, we cannot believe
that II is possible, with all fertility and in
genmty OF misrepresentation and detrac-
uon, which long practice has given to
the so-caIled Democracy, to induce the
mass OF the Germans to vote this pro-
slavery, sham Democratic ticket, with
such a man as JAMES b. CRoss at its
head, and tainted throughout with the
odor of official peculatlon, forgery, de-
falcaton and fraud, all of which IL III
Guided and intensified under the general
term of Barstowism - Ma /. Journal.
I'D he ok SZeItun g. IS the
title Of a new German paper, Published
at Watertown, IN this State. 1t Is lnde-
pendent in politics, but not neutral. The
editor, IN his salutatory, says;
1--WE believe that man, wherever born,
possesses the inherent right of self-gov-
eminent, and that every arbitrary restrlc-
ton of that right is an cHense against
freedom. We shall therefore oppose ev-
cry abrldgement of civil rights, which
are guaranteed 10y the Constitution, and
especially every dIminution of the rights
of the foreign born.
eve are opposed to the institution OF
slavery We believe it inhuman, i'm
moral and Incompatible with genuine
Democracy. We believe that the great
est danger to the Democratic administra-
ton of the government lies III slavery
and we shall combat against 1t wherever
II annparS IN the notifies of the cOnfe1pr.