The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-04-27
THE GERMAN VOTERS

OF Ohio are utterly disgusted with the
Republican party and it's late Legisla-
tive action. They regard it as notice
to them to leave. The two Republican
German dailies of Cincinnati are open
in their expressions of disgust. 1t
looks as if the Republican leaders would
experience no difficulty in getting rid
of the German vote. Germans do not
want Freiheit with brickbat. One of
the most influential and widely known
who i'll other years has given largely of
his means to insure the success of the
Republican party, informed a reporter
of the Enquirer that thorough organ
izatiOn of Liberal citizens was being
formed to antagOnize the Republican
party because of its bigOtry and perse-
cutiOn. He observes:
If this is done, and there seems to be
no doubt of its accomplishment, We'll
see whether the Republican party will
gain anything by slapping the Ger
mans in the face because they make
beer and sell it. The party may get a
few recruits from temperance fanatics
and narTOwminded and sOrdid clOd-
hOppers, but not in sufficient numbers
to offset the deseTtiOnS from their ranks
of the very men who have helped to
keep them in power so long in this
State.
The same gentleman complained bit
terly because Germans, and especially
those who sell beer and drink it, are
| al, at1 10 In nI
emphatically the Republican charge
that beer drinking is responsible for a
great proportion of current crime:
claim that the Germans and those
who enjoy themselves on Sunday by
| taking their beer and going to the hill
| tops for fresh air and TecTeav ion are our
| best citizens-law-abiding, sober and
| intelligent. Look at New York City.
Last year there there were $1,000 arrests
made by the police, and out of this great
number hut $500 were Germans, and of
these $500 most of them were guilty of
only minor Offenses. The German pop
ulatiOn of New York is not far from
| 175,0OO.
Touching the Smith law, the same
gentleman said:
We are in favor of a quiet Sunday
anu puDllc morality JuSG as mucn as
Dick Smith or any of his hypOcritical
brethren are. We believe that every
man, woman and child, so long as they
depOrt themselves properly, have a
right to go where they please ON Sun
day. | claim that they have right to
drink their beer or smoke their pipes
where they please, or to go to church if
they please. The mere fact of a dozen
men or women patrOnizing A place
where malt liquors are sold on Sunday
does not make them criminals, nor does
the man who sells them what they ask
for put himself outside the pale of re-
spectability by so doing. We interfere
with no ones business, and we don't
propose to have these men stick their
noses into our business. We will de-
fend our rights all the time, and at the
ballOt-bOx we will be heard from un-
mistakably.
This representative German further
declared the defeat of the Republicans
in the spring elections was only fore
taste of what they will get next fall.
Said he:
Let me tell you that next fall the
Democratic majority will be greater by
80 per cent. than it was the last time
All we want is for the Democrats to put
up the best men in their party, and VIZ
will give them such a boom as will
make the Republicans sick.