The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-17

Inc Numpai8u In new AOrk-Ufant o"u
Griswold-Frce liquor and Free Lager.
The State of New York is to be the great
battle ground in the approaching Presidential
struggle, and will be holly contested, inasmuch
as without the electoral vote of New York 1t
would be utterly impossible to elect the demo-
cratic candidates any way. As the Irish and
Germans hold the balance of power in New
York it may happen, singularly enough, that
our adopted fellow citizens may be called upon
to decide who shall be the next President OF
the United States. 1t was their vote that turned
the State last fall over to the democracy by q
majority of fifty thousand, the whole of which
was secured in the cities Of New York and
Brooklyn; and the principal incentive to
the solid movement of the foreign ele-
ment at that time was the offensive fanatical
legislation of the. republican party in
regard to liquor, lager and the Sabbath.
But the democrats who were elected last year
by the Irish and German votes cheated their
friends and proved false to all the pledges they
made before they got into power. The radi-
Gals originally passed the Metropolitan Excise
law, it is true but the democrats, by refusing
last year to amend it or In any manner to change
| it's Odious features became its parent by
| adoption and it's unjust and exorbitant fees,
its detestable spy system, its blue light Sunday
regulations, which they failed to alter when
they had the power to do so, are now to be
laid at the doors of the Tammany democracy.
| The liquor question is not the sole induce
ment with citizens of Irish birth or parentage
to support the republican ticket this fall in
preference to that of the democratic party.
Two years ago the Irish Fenian vote beat Hoff
man for Governor and elected Fenton, on the
ground that the republican State government,
by refusing to interfere with the raids upon the
| Canada border, had done more to practically
| help the hereditary enemies of Great Britain
than had ever been done by the democrats,
with all their professions of sympathy with the
| Irish. 1t is well known that General Grant,
as an American soldier, would have no obJec-
| ton to war with England during his term of
| office, and would, at all events, evince no dis
| position to allow the British government to
| trife with us upon any of the important inter
national questions arising out of the war of
! the rebellion. General Grant, who fought
| that war through to successful termination,
would not be very likely to mince matters with
the nation that sympathized with the rebels
from first to last and went as far as their cour-
age permitted them in aid of the Confederate
cause.
These considerations, joined with the fact
that Grant is firm believer in free liquor,
good liquor, and plenty of it, and that Griswold
is a perfect King Gambrinus in regard to
lager which he deals out with a liberal hand
to his army of employees, will be very
likely to turn the Irish and German
vote over to the republicans as solidly
as last year it was cast for the demo-
Gratis, and TO give the State to Grant and Girls
void by fifty thousand majority Seymour and
Hoffman, the Tammany candidate for Cover
nor, are both Puritanical in their notions and
live upon cold water and weak tea. Hoffman,
we believe, did attempt glass of lager at
German meeting during the campaign of 1866
but was compelled after drinking it to go home
to bed and send for his family physician. Grant,
on the other hand, would scorn to drink water
without something in it. and when Griswold
built the monitor for the government in the
early part of the war, he succeeded in pushing
forward the work to q speedy conclusion by
distributing free lager in unlimited quantities
among his men. The Irish and Germans natu-
rally sympathize with the men who fought
out the war for the Union, and as the republi-
cans have now presented to them liberal
liquor and lager ticket for their support, free
| from all the offensive characteristics of
straightlaced, New England radicalism, 1t is
very likely that the entire naturalized vote in
New York will turn over to that side, and by
electing Grant and Griswold will forever wipe
out of the republican party Fourierism, free
love and fanaticism of every sort and de scrip
ton.
Minister Romero-Mexico and the United