The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-20
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From the 81. Louis Republican.
A Letter from Judge Stallo.

A Letter from Judge Stallo.
The Anzeiger des Westerns prints by way
Of explanation the following introduction
and letter from Judge Stallo Of Ohio.
in dispatch to the Anzeiger DIES
Westerns Judge j. B. Stallo had expressed
his opinion that Mr.. Samuel j. Tilden if
nominated upon proper platform would
be the most desirable presidential candidate
for intelligent Germans in the United
States. The West5Sche Post. that for
many years past has been making capital
out of its friendly relations with Judge
Stallo, has, since the publication Of this dis
patch, INDUCED in all sorts of filings and
taunts against him, which induced one Of
his friends hereby the-way, no one Of
his friends in the Anzeiger Office to
write to him upon the subject. The
following is Judge Stallo's answer to this
letter, which has been handed to us for
publications"
CINCINNATI, July IL. 1876.
HoNoRED SIR: Your communication
surprises me. The little tauDts in the
Westliche Post have in part at least come
to my notice, | had paid little attention
TO them, for ia the heat Of an election
campaign many things fall from the pen OF
n newspaper writer which are not meant
in hard earnest, or at least should not be
taken in hard earnest.
How the wording Of my dispatch can
give grounds for the reproach, that have
attempted to foist myself as an 'intelh-
gence metre of the Germans cannot
understand. The facts are simply these
While the St. Louis convention was in ses-
sion. received dispatch from Daenzer,
in which was asked whether believed
that Iilden would be acceptable to the
Germans in Ohio as Democratic candi-
date. This was the substance; | cannot
give the exact language, as | did not pre-
serve the dispatch. Naturally took it at
once that it would be used to exercise a
pressure upon the convention in favor of
Tilden, and presumed that similar dis
patches had been sent to Koerner, Hecker,
Muench and others. So l answered,
without hesitation that according to my
judgment Tiden, nominated on a proper
platform, would be the most desirable can
didate to all intelligent Germans. That
it never occurred to me, even 10 dream,
to brand as asses those who were not OF
my opinion, need not tell you, In my
simplicity thought to act entirely in the
spirit of the talk and addresses of the New
York conference, which / construed tc
point to Bristow in the Republican conven
ton; and if this did not succeed, to press
the nomination of Tilden by the Democratic
convention. Therein, as it appears, | have
erred, and it has Just occurred to me thai
perhaps / lack the necessary knowledge o.
language or the more necessary intuition
of diplomacy.
1t appears to me scarcely credible tha
anybody, by reading my dispatch, coulC
arrive at the thought that / wished all a
once to mount high political horse On
should, in certain things, be allowed t
read his own past record for himself.
did not know that / had ever found my
self strutting in the anti-room of the Whit,
House., or among the Representative
Germans"
In regard to what you write me abou
the design to discipline all Germans at al
prominent who will not condescend t.
serve as subordinate figures, or evei
pedestal embellishments to grant
statue-erected here some years ago-thi
| regard as mere guess work. Loft,
statues, especially on political bases hav
very ipsipid equpoise, and intellgcn
people, of whom we are now speaking, Civ
no preliminary thought to their mould an
stature, besides they we'll know that sue
men as l for various reasons are not to b
converted into side ornaments, or even int
ornaments Of any kind whatever. In N
sphere OF life, as a general rule, we do DC
need attitudinizers, but workers. Peopl
WILL without doubt, very soon learn,
they do not already know that | am dis
posed to stand not only on my feet, but o
my own ground, and this time, as indee
ever before, on the ground of my cor
victiOns If there are mOralizers, as it az
pears from an article in the WeStliche Post
who regard politics as kind Of jolly, hale
felow-well met association, the especii
purpose OF which is to keep their oil
comrades on their side, that is system c
ethics with which am not in sympathy.
/ hope before all things to hold goo
companionship with myself and my COZ
victions.
In regard to Hecker, never mind. Ii
has gained the right to be just once hast
in his judgment, through his long and uu
renting battle for freedom and progress.
A battle which he has waged in the study
as well as on the rostrum and he has ais
the right, on the ground of long and faith
full friendship, to scold me, even if,accorc
ing to my estimation,in such proceeding
the roles should be changed | kno
right well how he came to his present ~
sitiOD; he perceives in the triumph of tn
Democracy form of danger for the intriI
sic freedom Of our people while it is clea
to me that this danger, so far as it is az
parrant, threatens US from the other sid,
Whether | shall be able to convince hir
Of this, do not know, but this | do know
that my friendship for him is not in tn
least endangered through our temporar
difference Of opinion.
In conclusion allow me to remark tina.
do not share your opinion that il would
a great misfortune If in this campaign th
Germans and their" leaders" do not stan
on the same side. On the contrary | n
joice over this new authentic proof of tn
fact that the Germans, above all others
are called to the cause of freedom, becaus
OF their independent bearing, and, if yo
will, the self-thought heresies which seiz
every opportunity TO make their appear
ance. The Germans are in politics, Gs
everything else, no herd of sheep whic
follow the biggest bell. wether evcrywher,
Therefore, in consequence Of this phase
German character, there is no need to sto
the bell ringing in st. Louis or anywher
else. As ever, yours, j. Il. STALLo.
Godlove s. orth.