The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-07-09

THE wEsrLICuE rOsT.
The Gerswan Vote. Independent Of Mr..
Carl schury or Uis 0rEan.
IHt. Louis Tiinea.l

Va
Whether Mr.. Schurz shall conclude to
support the Tilden ticket or not. is OF
some minor Importance. but It IL by no
means vital to the issue of the contest
The great majority Of his countrymen
throughout the Union perceive In the
Democratic ticket the symbol and rep
resentAtivs Of reform. They discern
nothing that IL likewise symbolic or
representative in the Cincinnati nonii'
nations This Of itself settles their
course in the eanvass. nor IL there any
reason to feel that the inllance OF MT
Sehurz. Or of the piper with which he
Ii associated, IL ut all essential to Demo
cratic success in this county or Stlte
He aud his paper have been negative, II
not unknown. quantities. IN the pollti
pf Missouri. aud we can get along
without them. however much we might
desire their cooperation IL VIII
he fecolected that the influence OF
Mr.. Suhutz, In he First District, for in
stance. when IT. was much greater than
ii ia now, was thrown. on recent
OCCASION ia favor Of liili dtosvenor. but
the honest Germans OF that district,
naturally enough. preferred Mr., stan
ard aud Mr. Stanarl was elected. IT.
/ will also be- recolleeted TINT two years
ago the influence Of Mr.. Schurz and his
paper was thrown for Mr.. Sthnnrd. but
! this time the honest Germans Of that
district preferred Mr. Kehr, and Mr..
Kphr was elected In neither case
did The voice Of The eg Senator
exercise any pereeptible force. or
swerve his feilow.citi1ens In the
| lrnet from mn independent
course If action. And so it will be
again. II the lFesHiche Post chooses to
| advocate tho election Of Hayes nnd
| Wheeler against this manifest prefer.
once Of the Germans. from Wisconsin
| to Texas. and New York to Illinois, it
| only oxereiaea n clear and admitted
right, but the effect If such u self-willea
| line of conduct upon the German vote,
| however dognatic and imperlous, will
| 10 ifsarnstirnbly less thnn II was even
| III the famous Hardin Gentry campaign,
when Mr.. Sehutz made that sorry and
unfruitful canvass for the Tudpole
| ticket.
Hence, there need be no apprehension
IN tp the reHut in Missouri. or III st.
| Louis county, or IN the Firat District, or
| in any other Of the Congressional Dis
| lrirtA The nomination Of Hayes and
| Wheeler elected but feeble response
| from the friends If Reform. il fell WIKI
| friglilty aud linbbiness wherever there
was decent. henlthful aspiration for .
change In Tile policy Of the Government,
| II only needed The nominations OF the
| tst Iiuuis Convention and the platform
| that ACCOMPANIED them ~ glva direction
10 The popular mind and Brttle It's CON
Gluatou4. 10 no other class of citizens
are platform and candidates SO accept
able as to the great mass of German
voters. and simply because this plat
form aud these candidates carry with
them Significance that Ia not to be
| mistaken
Tie action Of the Cincinnati Convcn.
tion signifies nothing more than II per-
petnatiou of the present administration
under another firm name. Il renewal of
Its pifnticnl leaschold on the revenues /.
Il continuance Of It's cnerpaUhmens
upon tho liberties Of The people. u re-
petition Of the men and measures that
have SO long stoIidly misrepresented or
positively disgfaced the Government.
The st. Louis Convention. upon the
other hand, means in all senses, hnd III
the fulleat sense of the term. thatsystem
Of administrative reform which alone
promises relief to M impoverished and
tax burdened commonwealth. and tho
Germans Of Missouri, MS Of the country
NJ large. have not been slow 10 choose
which Of the two holds out the better
promise to the welfare Of the country,
| The truth Of this assertion will be de-
muustrated next fall by larger Demo
| cratic vote In all OF the Congressional
| Districts Of the State than was ever
gigen before, and by the most effcctual
rebulte that was ever given To the ano-
mnlous and impracticablo element Of
| Western politics, 40 conspieuously nal
administered under the leadersh ip OF
| Mr.. Carl Schurz