Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-10-07

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country refuting charges preferred
against him which very few persons be-
lieve to be well founded, and most peo-
pie care nothing about, one way or the
other, nothing has yet been published
and widely circulated in those States
where it would be beneficial, showing
that MIR. Tilden was from the very first,
as he now is, an incorporating Union
man. Mr.. Tilden's record, as speak
er, a writer, and liberal donor to the
Union cause during the war, is so we'll
known in New York, that the prepare
ton of the pamphlet that is now the
great need of the campaign ought not
to he delayed.
THE WESTERN GERMAN VOTE.
The indications are unmistakable
that Indiana and Ohio will be carried
by the Democracy next month. Two
months ago, this was not expected.
1t was then pretty generally conceded
by leading Democrats that the Repub-
licans would certainly carry Ohio, and
most probably Indiana. Since then,
however, the German Republicans in
those two States have been coming
over to the Democracy, owing to the
course generally pursued by the Re-
publican party on the temperance ques-
ton. Attempts have been unsuccess-
fully made by Republican writer's and
speakers to convince the Germans that
they will belittle themselves, and sink
in public estimation, if they desert a
party whose general principles and
measures they approve, merely because
it has failed to meet their wishes on one
petty issue, unworthy of the priority of
consideration which the Germans give
to it.
To the above specious sophistry the
German newspapers reply that citizens
of foreign birth do not primarily object
to the enactment and enforcement of
sumptuary laws, because they interfere
with their personal interests, convent
ence and enjoyment, but because such
laws are wrong in spirit and principle.
-" The men, say they, who threw the
tea into Boston harbor were not neces-
sarily. all tea drinkers. Probably, some
of them even disliked the beverage. 1t
was the principle of taxation without
representation to which the people OF
the thirteen colonies objected; not the
amount of the tax. Millions for de-
Tense; not one cent for tribute was
their motto. And it is to the principle
involved in sumptuary laws and Sunday
laws that most naturalized citizens and
a large and rapidly increasing proper
ton of native citizens object. Adopted
citizens of German birth would not be
worthy of the high honor of American
citizenship if they did not endeavor to
secure, by the peaceful use of the ballot,
the abolition of all arbitrary restrictions
on their personal liberty"
I have given you, above, the concen-
trated essence of the German press on
the temperance question and Sunday
laws; but the Democracy should bear
in mind, however, that these are local
questions, and that if we carry Indiana
and Ohio in October, we do not, ipso
facto, necessarily carry them in Novem-
Der. The U. s. Government has moth
ing to do with the Sunday question, nor
that of prohibition; and many men may
therefore vote one ticket in October,
and the other in November. For that
reason, and others equally obvious, no
matter how large our majorities may be
in Indiana and Ohio in October, it will
be necessary for us to 60 on working
harder than ever from then till Novem-
Der in those States, and in all others
which have large German vote.
CHEHALLs.