The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-07-21

10 j. NJ Edmunds, Esq, Chairman o.
the National Republican Executive Com
naittee, Washington, d. c.:
DEAR SIR :-Having been a Republi-
can ever since the present Republican
party was formed, and having never voted
any other federal ticket than the Repub-
lican, l claim the right to call your at
tention to a matter which lies within the
control of your Committee, and which
threatens to injure the Republican party
by alternating from it large mass of its
supporters.
| have been so unfortunate as to dis
please the central and chief Organ of the
Republican party-the Washington Ma
tional Republican-by some letters in the
New York Herald, containing the results
of Investigations into the political and in
dustrial condition of several Southern
States and your Organ accordingly in
forms its readers, in an editorial article
which has just come into my hands, that
| ought not to be believed-not because
| have misstated facts, or am an incapa-
BILE or inaccurate observer-but on the
ground that / am a dutch Jew"
"Dutch" standing here, of course, for
German. | have noticed that Ignorant
Americans commonly call the Germans
Clutch"
Now, if were, in the Organs elegant
phrase, a Clutch" / don't see what that
has to do with the credibility of my
statements. | am, in fact, German,
and am proud of my descent from peo-
pie who have been the faithful support
ers of liberty on two continents. L am
not Jew, but if l was, / should not be
ashamed of it; for the Jews of this coun-
try are an intelligent, industrious and
peaceable body of citizens.
But the Organ thinks differently.
Speaking in the name Of the Republican
Administration whose mouth-piece it is,
it has the folly to assert that if man Is a
German by blood, he is therefore not to
be believed if he is Jew by religion,
he is thereby unworthy of confidence.
Is this really Republican doctrine :?
IT not, is it prudent in you to allow your
Organ to offer such wanton insult to a
very large number of citizens Germans
and Jews, who mostly vote the Republic
can ticket, and whose votes next year
will be absolutely indispensable to the
success of the party?
You ought to muzzle your dog the Ma
tional Republican. A recent and notorious
over dose of government pap has given
him an indigestion, and he is swapping
at the heels of your friends. If you let
him 60 on he will presently do the party
a damage.
We are to have important elections
this fall and next year there will be a
Presidential election Have you forgot
ten this !? Is it not an insane folly to let
your official Organ, under your very nose,
fling a gratuitous insult in the
faces of several hundred thousand Ger
man and Jewish voters; and this in the
name of the Republican party, and as
presumably an official declaration of the
sentiments of the party chiefs? Do you
really want to drive these voters away
from the Republican ranks? or do yOnr
imagine they have no self-respect or re-
sentiment? And have you no fear that
the Democrats will use such declarations,
made in your chief Organ, against the
party next year? Or even in Ohio and
Pennsylvania this year
The Republican party should have q
respectable Organ In Washington. But
if you cannot get rid of the National
Republican you ought at least to change
its name. You might call it the National
idiot. / make you the suggestion as q
sincere and earnest Republican.
Yours truly,
CHARLES HORDHOFF.