The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-07-15
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Charles Nordhof, of Georgia, has beer
writing series of letters from the South
based upon personal observation, which
appears does not meet with the approva
of the Washington Republican, the only
organ of the administration now at the
winter residence of the Government
Mr.. Nordholf addressed a letter to Mr.
Edmunds, Chairman ofthe National Re-
publican Committee at Washington
which we give below;
DEAR SIR;-Having been q Republican
ever since the present Republican party
was formed, and having never voted any
other federal ticket than the Republican
| claim the right to call your attention to
a matter which lies within the control Of
your committee, and which threatens
to injure the Republican party by alien
ating from it large mass of its supper
ters. IS. or ii. .t.N
| 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
Yew York Herald, containing the results
of investigations into political and indus
trial condition Of several Southern States,
and your organ accordingly informs its
readers, in an editorial article which has
just came into my hands, that | ought
not TO be belieyed-not because | have
misstated facts, or am an incapable or in
accurate observer-but on the ground
that / am Dutch Jew" "Dutch" stand
ing here, of COURSE, for German | have
noticed that ignorant Americans COM
monty call the Germans Dutch"
Now if were, in the organs's elegant
phrase, Clutch Jew" | don't see what
that has to do with the credibility of my
statements, am, in fact, German, and
am proud ofmy descent from people
who have been the faithful supporters of
liberty on two continents, | am not a
Jew, but if I were Ishould not be asham-
ed of it; for the Jews in this country are
an intelligent, industrious and peaCeable
body Of citizens.
But the organ thinks differently.
Speaking the name of the Republican
Administration, whose mouthpieCe it is,
it has the jolly to assert that if man
is German by blood, he is therefore
not to be believed if he is a Jew by re-
ligion, he is thereby unworthy Of conf
dence.
Is this really Republican doctrine? If
not it is prudent in you to allow your or
gan to offer such wanton insult to a
very large number of citizens, Germans
and Jews, who mostly vote the Repubh-
clan ticket, and whose votes next year
will be absolutely Indispensable to the
success Of the party? Ia
You ought to muzzle your dog, the Ma
tiOnal Republican. A recent and notori-
GUS overdose of Government pap has
given him apindigestion, and he is snap
ping at the'heels of your friends Ifyou
let go on he will presently do the party
a damage.
WeJare to have important elections
thisfall, ahdneXtyear there will bea
Presidential election. Have you forgot
ten this? Is,it not. an insane folly to
let your OlllCldl organ, uHueT your very
nose; fling a gratuitous insult in the faces
of several hundred thousand Germans
and Jewish voters and this in the name
ofthe Republican party, and as presuma-
bly, an official declaration of the senti-
ments of the party chiefs? Do you
really want to drive these voters away
from the Republican ranks? or do you
imagine they have no self-respect or re-
And have you no fear that
that the Democrats will use such declara-
tions, made in your chief organ, against
the party next year? Or even in Ohio
and Pennsylvania this year?
The Republican party should have a
organ in Washington. But
if you cannot get rid of the National Re-
publican you ought at least change its
name. You might call it the National
idiot Imake you the suggestion as a
sincere and earnest Republican.
CHARLES NoRDHoFF.
Atlanta, Ga. June %. 1875.