Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-07-10
HIT HIM AGAIN.
Is il a Crime to be a German /!

10 j. N. Elmonds, Esq, Chnirma7,
of The National Republican Ecccn-
the Committee, Washington, ID. g.:
DEAR sSIR-IIaving been Repub-
lican ever since the present Republi-
can party was formed. and having never
voted any other Federal ticket than
the Republican, I claim the right to
call your attention to matter which
lies within the control of your COM
mittee, 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 p1rty-the Washing
ton National Republican-by some
letters in the New York Herald con-
tanning the results of investigations
into the political aud industrial cor
dition of several Southern States and
your organ accordingly informs 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 in
capable or inaccurate observer-but
on the ground that | am Dutch
jew, ""Dutch' standing here, Of course
for German. | have noticed that
ignorant Americans commonly call the
Germans butch" r;gLI.4.
Now, if | were, in the Organ. ele-
CANT phrase, Dutch Jew" l don t
see what that has to do with the credi-
bility of my statements. L am, inf fact,
a German, and am proud of my descent
from people who have been the faith
full supporters of liberty on two con-
tinents. | lain not Jew, but if L were,
| should not be ashamed of it; for the
Jews in this country are an intelligent.
industrious and peaceable body of
citizens.
But the Organ thinks differently.
Speaking in the name of the Repub-
lican administration, whose mouth
piece it is, it has the folly to assert
that if man is German by blood he
is therefore not to be believed; it he
is jew by religion he is thereby un-
worthy OF confidence. -ilf asgE
Is this really Republican doctrine ?
If not, is it prudent in you to allow
your organ to offer such wanton in
suit to very large number of citizens,
Germans and Jews, who mostly vote
the Republican ticket, and whose votes
next year will be absolutely indispen-
sable to the success of the party?
You ought to muzzlc your dog, the
National Republican. A recent and
notorious overdose of government pap
has given him an Indigestion, and he is
swapping at the heels Of your friends.
If you let him go on he will presently
do the party damage. s1JaF .s-ftlg b
We are to have Important elections
this fall and next year there will be
Presidential election Have you
forgotten this I? Is it not an insane
folly to let your official organ. under
your very nose, fiEg q gratuitous IN
suit in the faces of several hundred
thousand German and Jewish voters,
aud this in the name of the Republlc:n
party, and as presumably an omc,ai
declaration Of the sentiments OF the
party chiefs I? Do you really want 10
drive these voters away from the Re
publican ranks or do you Imagine
they have no self-respect orresentmeh9
And have You no fear that the Demo
Gratis will use such declarations, mate
in your chief organ, against the party .
next year? Or even in Ohio. and Penn
sylvania this year ,aa,, 90
The Republican party should have
a respectable organ m washington
But If sou can not get rid Of the Ma
tionaI Republican, you ought at least
to change its name. You might call It
The National idiot. | make you the
suggestion as sincere and earnest
Republican.
49, Yours truly, Hd ~ auHis !
CHARLES NoRDHoFF.
Atlanta, Ca. june q, 1871. IN
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