New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-09-18
B4UER'S BEEF.

It is to be regretted that at every election,
State or National, the naturalized citizens OF
the United States, aud especially those OF
Irish and German extraction, should be In
suited by childish appeals and treated Ike
political infants in need Of guardianship.
Only q few days since Mr.. John Kelly gra-
ciously signifed to the citizens of Irish birth
in Massachusetts that they might vote for Mr..
Charles Francis Adams. And nov comes Mr..
Frederick Bauer, who is sort OF Frederick
the Great, we suppose; ut any race he Is said
To be the President of the United States
Brewers Association, and in the name or
malt liquor he advises his German fellow
"citiYensn not to vote for Gov. Hayes, because
he is what Mr.. Frederick Bauer is pleased to call
ga fanatic" Now, il we were German or
tue Germans, and regarded beer as az Eii1ir
Vita, we should hardly allow our passion for
the straw -colored fluid to influence our vote
for President of the United States OF America.
The Germans are justly regarded as an intelli-
gent, thinking people; most of them are quite
capable of coming to their own political con-
cluIsions; and yet, instead of appealing to their
brains, of which they have suticlency, ME-
Fred. Bauer, who manufactures beer ana mas
it for sale, goes directly to their stomachs, ana
advises them not to vote for Gov. Hayes be-
cause the Governor is so fanatical" that he
does not love lager We must confess that
this is making up a Presidential issue for
which we were not prepared, We scarcely
know how to grapple with it, If it were the
currency, or some point of reconstruction, or
the tariff, we could easily lay hold OF it;
but when the candidate to whom we give our
preference is assailed as disloyal to King Gam
bIinus, and therefore as unfit Tor the Presl-
dency, we aru nj little loss what to say. we
are almost tempted to recriminate Mt ven
ture, and to assert that neither does Gov. I'll
den adore lager as beverage. Does he take
it with his dinner, instead of champagne or
Madeira or clarct7 Did anybody ever see Gov.
Tiden wrestling with the tall schooner" or
the earthen mugl But though he may despiSe
the homely and cheap tipplc, as we have
reason to believe that he does, we trust that
no German will vote against lin on that ac-
count DE gHstiJHs non est dispataRd"m, as
they say in Heidelberg and other seats OF
learning.
The Ohio State elections may have TUNED
on beer, though we do not believe IT. but
certainly the issues OF the Presidential election
of 1876 do not flow through a faucet. Mr.
Frederick Bauer may think beer, drink beer,
and wish, but for the injury which 1t would
do 10 his business, that the Allegheny and the
Monongahela both ran beer; buS every in
telligcnt German must understand that beer is
not what the people of the United States at
present have in the Electoral hand. When
the beer question il regularly up we VIII al
express our opinions; if even the question were
one of internal revenue 10 be derived from
beer il would be different; but whereas neither
tire Republican nor the Democratic National
Convention put beer into its platform, we
will consider it, with Mr. Baucrs permission,
corked up for the present.
We think that our fellow-citizens of German
birth, and especially those who are intelligent
and well informed must be getting a little
weary of beer in politics. DO they like To have
it taken for granted by party leaders that
beer To them is the sole object OF existence,
and that they live only to drain one glass and
call for anothcr3 We do not believe 1t. They
read; they think they arc fond of business
they love amuScments of high Older; they
are scholars and artists and critics, and as a
rule they are well educated Are these pco-
ple TO have the beer question thrust upon them
rs paramount at q great political crisiSi We
advise Mr. Bauer and the Democratic newSpa-
pers not to oycrdo the dodge of beer. They
may awake natural resentment which will
not be good for them. There is no reason why
orr politics should be belittled in order that
MIR. Fred. Bauer may grow big.