St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-13
THE GERMAN VOTE.

GermanAmeriean in the coming election.
They have lost confidence and patience in
and with the Republican party. The result
of the election in Maine and Mr.. BlaineIs
attitude in regard to it have confirmed the
wayering, showing, as it does, that the spirit
and purposes of the grand old party are ut
terly hostile to the pretences the leaders have
hitherto held out.
Mr.. Emil Schandein, vice president of the
Philip Best Brewing Co., Milwaukee, day
or two since, was the guest of the Americas
club, at Philadelphia. For an hour or more
he was surrounded by members, to whom he
gave glowing account of the prospects of
the Democratic ticket in Wisconsin, Mich
igan, Iowa, Kansas and Illinois. ''We Ger
mans of the northwest said Mr.. Schandein,
care of the opinion that our personal liberty
is incidentally, if not directly. involved in
this presidential election. We deem it right
and necessary to protect ourselves from
movement aimed in large measure against
our peace and comfort. We are prepared to
deliver an overwhelming blow in this cleo
ton"
In reply to the query as to what he meant
by an Overwhelming blow" he said he
meant that the Germ ans of the northwest
will vote almost solidly for Cleveland and
Hendricks and against Blaine and st. John;
that he firmly believed that the Germans are
numerous enough to carry Wisconsin and
Kansas too, while Iowa and Illinois are made
extremely doubtful by their attitude. As to
Ohio, look out for the German vote in north
l. T. oN
mans have for years been the salvation
of the Republican party in that state.
They will do nothing to save it this year.
Mr.. Schandein said he based his confidence
on thorough canvass of the German vote in
the states named Work was begun a wear
ago and local clubs formed everywhere for
protection. The result is an organization of
extraordinary extent and strength and the
force of events has turned that strength
against the Republican ticket.
In Ohio the Germans, as Mr. S. stated are
standing together with solidity that is per-
feetly alarming to the Republican leaders.
At a mass meeting at Cleveland few DAYS
ago, an Independent German club was
formed with membership of $500, which
has now been increased beyond 1000. The
club ratified the nomination of Cleveland
and Hendricks, and declared its intention to
heartily support that ticket. The former
Republican ex-Lieut Governor Mueller made
an address showing why the Germans
should support Cleveland. Among other
things Gov. Mueller said that in the lofty
recognition, coupled with his humane Gull
ture lies the certainty that Grover Cleveland
will use his best endeaYors to bring nearer to
a conclusion the solution of the labor prob
lem. His modest resources prove that higher
purposes in life have guided him than the
acquisition of riches. Aud Blaine is here
again Cleveland's opposite. Who ever has
heard it said of Blaine that he has ever used
one of his for many years. influential posi-
tons in public life in thinking of or promot-
ing the well being of the laboring classes
that he has ever utilized an opportunity or
carried through a measure in order to better
the lot of the laboring and producing elassesl
Gov. Mueller said to call James G. Blaine
friend of labor and an anti-monopolist is
shameful mockery of the good common
sense Of the American people and especially
of the laboring classes. Blaine's violent op-
position to the Thurman arti-monopoly bill
and his vote alone against this just measure
is enough to brand him as a tool in the
hands of the Pacific railroad monopolists. In
deed, his colleague, Senator Edmunds, pub
Icly charged him in consequence of the
course he took on the Thurman bill with be-
ing the agent and attorney of Jay Gould.
He did not think that the laboring men of
the country would allow themselves to be led
by anti-monopolists such as Blaine or Butler
to betray their own Interests, for certainly the
fact both, that without having performed any
productive work, have by subsidies and lobby
services as well as by demagogical tricks en-
riched themselves at the cost of productive
| labor, must characterize them both either in