The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25
Where is the German Vote Going ?

The Teutons are politically aroused
One by one the organs of German
opinion, throughout the Union, change
front and declare for the democratic
presidential nominees. The Germans
are escaping from the republican par
ty as though it were rotten hulk
about going down at sea. In the /
great German strongholds of the
north, and especially the northwest
our adopted German citizens are at
last awaking to sense of awful reali- !
zation, in which they discov-
er they have been heretofore
led by delusion. They realize
at last, that, while they have left op-
preston behind them in the empire,
they have really been lending aid to
the cause of popular oppression here
in sustaining the power of the repub-
lican party. In Indiana, O,tio, Illinois,
Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Wiscon-
sin, Nebraska and Kansas the strong
est support republicans receive-that
which decided elections-was obtained
from the German citizens. They have
been long time waking up to sense
of their political vassalage, but at last
they areaversed and are really in revolt.
Carl Schurz, ex-Gov. Koerner,
, of Illinois; Judge Stall, of Ohio;
ex-Goy. Mueller, of Ohio; Rasher
! and Rapp, of Chicago; the Turner
bund," and many others have openly
declared against Blaine, and in let
/, ter, published few weeks ago, the
well-known divine, Father Schwin-
O ringer, the originator OF the German
! Roman Catholic Central Verein" OF
, the United States, spoke warm words
G for Gov. Cleveland and recommended
n his election for the presidency. In
; this revolution the Germans are lee
o alone by questions concerning ract
tastes, but they have inquired into the
official records and they are satisfied
Blaine is not to be trusted. They art
u not only outraged at the presumpt
u i've tendencies of republican legisla
r ton, but at last seem to understand
it that republican leaders are not to b
n trusted with public administra
ton. Personal liberty has bee
attacked, and having fled, a
said, from popular oppression in Gel
# many, they are now revolving agains
,e it here. Proposed restrictions are nc
if only of political nature, but they al
10 as well of social and religious nj
II ture. They now understand the
d have been aiding the very power thu
III would plunge them into an abyss {
an destruction. In Illinois there al
20 seventy-three German papers, and {
at all those but three to-day remain wit
20 the republicans, while one of the:
70 three was started only few weel
90 ago by republican money, aft,
es the Anzeiger declared for Clevelan
be In Minnesota, but one small Germs
Of paper continues to support Blain,
nc all the rest have gone over to Clev
to land. In Iowa. Kansas and Nebrasl
no there are none supporting Blaine;
,st w lSCOuSlu, MlCllSdu anu OulO III
70 abandonment is about complete. II
un Stats Zeitung, of Chicago, asser
10 that but two German papers of II
no Importance in the United States d
al fend the candidacy of Blaine. TheS
,o are the Westliche Post, of st. Louis,aI
,t Volksblatt, of Cincinnati, but it
- known neither of these Is very enth
- siastic in such support. We have co
10 tended all along that admission to lie
bo taxation-opposition to protection
No would carry more in the northwe
,w than could be lost in the east. Add
NJ to this influence, which the German
or are espousing, they are also coming
oh the democratic party because it is tt
es party of political, personal and re-
,rc gious freedom. When the northwe
10 is heard from in November there wi
7s be CONSERVATION among the republ
- can army of bloodsuckers.