The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-07-21
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IS TIA CRIME TO BE A GERMAN?S


| June %, 1875.
10 J. NJ. Edmunds, Esq, Chairman of
the National Republican Executive
Committee, Washington, D. c.:
| DEAR SIR-Having been republican
ever since the present republican party
was formed, and having never voted
any other Federal ticket than the re-
publican, claim the right to call yonr
attention to a matter which lies within
the control of your committee, and
which threatens to injure the republic
can party by alternating from it large
mass Of its supporters.
i have been so unfortunate as to dis
please the central and chief organ of
the republican party-the Washington
National Republican-by some letters
in the New York Herald containing
the results Of Investigations into the
political and industrial condition of
several Southern States; and your or
gan accordingly informs its readers, in
an editorial article, which has inst
come into my hands, that ought not
to be believed-no because. I have
misstated facts, or am an incapable or
inaccurate observer-buton the ground
that ! am a'Dutch Jew,,p 'sDutchn
standing here, Of course, for German.
| have, noticed that ignorant Ameri-
caIs commonly call the Germans
"Dutch.u m 4ltastas "a. i
Now, if | were, in tie Organs ele...
CANT phrase, Clutch Jew,n / don't
see what that has to do with the credi-
bility of my statements. l am, in fact.
a German, and am proud of my descent
from people who have been tho faith.
ful supporters of liberty on two conti.i
nenfs. l am not Jew, but if were,
4 should not be ashamed of it; for the
Jews in this country are an intelligent,
industrious and peaceable body of
citizens. ..5;..5
But the Organ thinks differently.
Speaking in the name Of the republican
Administration, whose moutlpiece it
is, it has the folly to assert that if a
man is a German by blood lie is there
fore not to be believed; if he is Jew
by religion he is thereby unworthy of
confidence.
Is this really republican doctrine 2
II not, is it prudent in you to allow
your organ to offer such wanton
insult to a large number Of citizens.
German and Jews, who mostly vote
the republican ticket, and whose votes
next year will be absolutely indispen-
sable to the success Of the republican
party7 5
You ought to muzzle 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.
II you let him go on he will presently
do the party damage.
We are to have important elections
this fall and next year there will be
a Presidential election. Have you for
gotten this9 Is it not an insane folly
to let your official organ, under your
very nose, fling gratuitous Insult in
the faces of several hundred Thousand
German 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 vo-
tiers away from the republican ranks9
or do you imagine they have no self
respect or resentment? 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
year7
The republican party should have a |
respectable organ in Washington. But
if you can notlget rid of the National |
Republican,, You ought at least to
change its name. You might call it
the National Idiot. I make you the
suggestion as sincere and earnest
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Yours truly,
CHARLES NoRDHoFF.