The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-07-07
NOR sTRICTLY CORRECT


In bis speech at the Democratic rat.
ification meeting on Saturday night,
Henry Brown, Esq, referred to the
position taken by the Gel mans,-that
they were supporters OF T''den, and
would go for him to man. Speakers
often indulge in generalitie oftbis kind
IN order to impress their audiences,
sometimes with view to mislead them
We do not intimate that the latter was
Mr.. Browns intention, but the result,
uncorrected. would be the same. Not,
therefore. with a view of confounding
the sneaker, but with the intention OF
showing how easily he could be mista-
ken in his conclusion, and how his
statement, it accepted without explain
alton. might mislead some of our Ger
man friends, we give the prominent
resolutions adopted by the German ed
itors assembled in Convention at Gin
cinnati, the evening before the Demo
cratic Convention met and organized.
If there is one trait in the German
character more prominent than anoth-
er it is devotion to metallic currency,
something which contsins within its
composition a value equal to that for
which it is exchanged, end which does
not depend for its value upon the
- mr. iS i'm dam
ger of being repudiated. This prem
ised. we give the resolutions, ceiling
attention especially to the second;
This meeting, composed of German
Americans from oil parts of the United
States, beliey ing, both from their own
Knowledge and from Information de-
rived from many editors of German
papers, itself to be correctly reformed
of the feelings of the Germau-Ameri-
cans of this country, declare the fol-
low ,1g to be their unanimous opirion:
First That the partisen wer of sec
ton upon section should cease, and the
old fraternal feeling of a people at
peace with itself be restored, but that
the war upon the corruptionists of the
sttNiCC, WIZ looh uPOu thO ohh-
ces and business of the country as their
spoils, should be vigorously prosecuted
to successful termination.
Second-That, according to old, Il de
Democratic doctrine, gold end silver is
the only money known to the Consti-
tuition of the United States, and We
say, with Senator Benton, that it is
''the only money which deceives no.
body" that the legal tender notes are
no money, but constitutes a debt long
ago due, end that the whole financial
policy of the Federal government
should be so directed as to restore spe-
Gle payments.
''Seventh-That Samuel J. Tilden
stands before The country as the fore
most representative man of the re-
forms Indicated; that the German
Americans so recognize and viii sup
port bin as such. They feel certain
that fis nom'nation will secure the
Democracy and strengthen it N every
State, where there ore numerous Ger
man-Americe1 voters.
We ask Mr.. Brow and those likely
to be nisled by bis statement to read
the above second resolution several
times over, aud then remember that it
was adopted in advance of the action
of the Convention-that it is not i'm
hs-mony with the platform adopted by
the Convention: that it neither be-
lieves II or calls for a repeal of the
Resumption Clause, THAT not a word
in all the seven resolutions looks to
that end. Again, the Democratic plat
fol II does cell for a repeal of the ''Re-
sumption Clarse," of the act of 1875,
the only clause which relieved that act
ON being an Initiation measure, and
which, once repealed leaves the issue
of bank notes aDithOut Limitation, ,prac-
tice''y placing the day of resumption
IN the ;ndefi1ite future, and defeat;lg
the demp 1ds of the Germans ''that the
whole franciel policy of Federal gov
ernment should be so directed as 10 re-
store specie payment" The Demo
cratic platform suggests no measures
for reaching specie payment, except
I;ttle f;gh- f!oen rhetoric, that has no
existence or 'rtluence ir the practical
life of aii1ns or jndiI iduals. In
Democratic economy it is easy to de-
mend, but he'd to suggest a remedy.
1t is easy to pull down, but difficult
to br'Id. Some men bu'ld wiser than
they knew, some build not atail. The
latter is illustrated by the Democracy,
who ia a'l their platform have not pre-
sented one practical idea, let alone one
which jf carried into effect, would re-
suit in benefit to the county; aud more
particularly have they not yielded to
the demands of the Germans upon
which their pledge to support Tilden
was predicated. The practical German
will vote for Hayes aud resumption,
aud 'the only money which deceives
nobody"
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