St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-23
Gepman-American Cleveland
Union Out With an
Address.
Powerful Reasons Advanced
Why Cleveland Should Be
Elected.
inciSive Review of a Career
That Is Unassailable by
Trieksters.
Gen. Weaver Is Convinced the
Republicans Have No
Chance.

NEW YORK. Aug. 22.-The German
American Cleveland union has issued
an address. signed bv Carl SchurZ, Os-
wald Ottendorfer. William Steinway,
Henry Willard, Louis Windmuller and
Gustav II. SchwanZ, which. after prais-
Ing Grover Cleveland and giving its Iea-
sons: urges all German-Americans to
east their ballots for the Democratic
candidate. Translated, the address is
as follows:
To Our German American Fellow
Citizens: Impressed with the impor-
tance of the coming presidential election
we regard it as our duty to give you our
reasons for believing that the welfare of
our adopted country requires the elec-
tion of Grover Cleveland. and that lie
deserves the votes of the naturalized
Germans. Above all we believe that he
is thoroughly honest man. which fact
even his most bitter enemies don't dare
to dispute. No one ever attempted to
create the slightest suspicion in this re-
spect. When he returned to private
life after having held the highest posi-
tion i'll this country, his name was as
unsullied as that of Washington.
Among his most marked characteristics
are his undaunted courage and his
Adherence to Convictions,
In his career as governor of the state
Of New York and as president of the
United States he demonstrated in the
NEST impressive manner that in this
respect he is second to no other hlstor-
ical character of this country. AS
bearer OF the executive power he inva-
3riably subordinated party interest to
the common welfare. He never hesi-
tated to solve the most important ques-
tions according to his own unbiased
conviction, resisting all pressure from
members of his own party.
On several occasions, seeing his party
in danger of being misled, he success
ftltS and uilfiinGhinglN withstood their
pressure without considering the OppO-
sitiou of party leaders. We need only
refertO the firniness'with which. rot
wittsstanding the strong tendency of
his party III the South, and far West to
bring about an unlimited coinage of
silver, he unhesitatingiy warned them
of the dangers liable to arise from such
policy. His innate sense of duty can
not be better proven than by the fact
that during his presidential administra-
ton. as well as during his second can
didacy. he never was fayorite with
machine politicians whose aim was
their own welfare.
Politically Sagacious.
Grover Cleveland also distinguished
himself by more than ordinary meas
ure of political sagacty and stateman-
like foresight. 1t is not only by his de-
tefmined stand on the silver question
that he has shown himself to be an adj
iIhrabIe exponent of these qualities, but
by his highly creditable treatment of
the tariff question he forever secured
for himself one of the most conSpicu-
GUS places in the history of this re-
public.
He keenly recognized in the protec-
tive tariff system fOstered by the Re-
publicans for many years, with the
tendency of levying still more Oppres-
siye duties. steadily growing evil that
required immediate and strong RENE
dies, and he fearleSsly expressed his
views in his celebrated message to con-
gress. 1t was owing to his intelligence
and courage that tariff reform was in
scribed Oh the banner under which his
whole party was united and led to
glorious victory. There is no doubt that
by following the same banner it will
win another victory at the end OF the
present campaign.
The Appeal Positive.
Therefore. we earnestly beseech our
fellow citizens to aid US i'll securing the
election of Grover Cleveland, the indie
pendent, far-sighted statesman, the
true patriot, the honest aud courageous
man. We expect hearty cooperation
on the pant of the German-Americans,
the more so as we are convinced they
particularly should favor his candidacy
as a true and immediate expression OF
the people, which at Chicago triumph
ailtEy prevailed over all party usage.
Notwithstanding the opposition from
the delegates from his own state, as
well as the politicians in general.
We don't hesitate to make this appeal
to our cOuntrymen, because the plat
form of the Democratic party is entirely
satisfactory in regard to the main ques-
ton. 1t calls for civil service reform;
it advocates that gold, silver and paper
money be placed on all absolutely equal
basis, and that the obnoxious so-called
Sherman law be repealed. 1t aims at
the formation of the existing protective
system, that only tends to enrich the
owners of industrial establishments and
to iinpoveriSh the masses of the people,
and strives to re-eStabliSh the good old
pri uciple of limiting the amount of du-
ties levied to the actual requirements of
. the government.
Desperate Bandit Killed.
H.