The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1875-07-17
Hit Him Again.
Is IT A CRIME TO BE A GERMaS?

To J. n. Elmunds, Esq. Chairman Of th.v.
tional Republican Executive Commiii.s
Washington, D. G.:
DEAR SIR-Having been q repub,;.
can ever since the present republje,,
party vas formed, and having pere,
voted any other Federal ticket TIN.
the republican, l claim the right IA
call your attention to q matter vhieI
lies within the control of your CON.
mittee, and which threatens to IN.
jure the republican party BY ain.
ating from it . large mass Of its an.
pOrters.
have been 40 unfortunate a. I.
displease the central and chief organ
of the republican party-the Wall.
ington National Republican-by some
letters in the New York Herald con.
tanning the results of investigation
into the political aud industrial con.
dition of several Southern States;
aud your organ accordingly informs
it's readers, in an editorial article,
which has just come into my hands,
that ought not to be believed not
because l have misstated facts, OF
am an incapable or inaccurate obser.
ver-but on the ground that l am =
''Dutch jew" "Dutch" standing here,
of course, for German. l have mott.
ced that ignorant Americans com.
monty call the Germans "Dutch."
Now, if l were, in the organs Gle.
giant phrase, a "Dutch Jew,n don't
see what that has to do with the cred.
Utility of my statements. am, ia
fact, German, and am proud Of nv
descent from a people who have been
the faithful supporters Of liberty On
two continents. am not q Jew, Int
if l were, I should not lie ashamed Of
it; for the Jews in this country 40
an intelligent, industrious and peace
able body of citizens.
But the Organ thinks differently.
Speaking in the name Of the republi-
can Administration, whose month.
piece it is, it has the folly to assert
that if Il man is u German by blood
he is therefore not to he believed; il
he is a Jew by religion he is thereby
unworthy of confidence.
Is this really republican doctriae'
If not, is it prudent in You to allow
your organ to offer such q wantou
insult to a very large number Of eiti.
zens, Germans and Jews, who mot.
~ vote the republican ticket, ed
whose votes next year will be abso.
luteIy indispensable to the success 4
the partyf
You ought to nauzzle yeur dog, ths
National Republican. "A recent 81
notorious overdose of government PIP ,
has given him 40 indigestion, aadhs
is swapping at the heels of ysar
friends. If you let him 80 On b VII
presently do the party . damage.
We are to have important eleeliDes
this fall; and next year there vii b
q Presidential election. Have ~
forgotten thisi' IL it not 40 isoaae
folly to let your official organ, as1e
your very nose, fling grataitsae d.
suit in the faces of several hsslssd
Thousand German and Jewish votese
and this in the namo. of tho repsH.
can party, and as presumably NJ
fetal declaration of the sentimeoed
the party chiefsi Do yoa really
want to drive these voters away III
the republican ranks? or do ~ -
agine they have no self.nspeot =
resentment {, And have yoa setr
that the democrats will no 6leA -
clarations, made in your chifspas'
against the party next year, OFsVo
in Ohio and Pennsylvania the ~!
The republican. party shoald ~
a respectable organ in Washing!n.
But if you can not get rid Of IT, NJ.
tional Republican you ought q ~.
to change its name. You might az
il. the National Idiot. I make ~
the suggestion 40 . sincere and eas
nest republican.
Yours truly,
CHARLES NoRpH0rF.
Atlanta, Ga, June q, 1875.