The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-10-06

One of the best products of the cam
paign is the open letter of Jacob Schiff,
of New York, addressed to Carl Schurz,
Oswald Ottendorfer and other Germans,
in response to their appeal to him to
support Mr.. Cleveland. Mr.. Scliff is
regarded as one of the ablest hnanciers
in America. He is the head of The bank
ing firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., of
80 Nassau street, and is widely known
as a most successful business man. Mr..
Schiff supported Cleveland in 1888 and
it is not surprising that the Schurz COM
mittee were astounded when they read
his ringing letter announcing that this
year he will work and vote for Harrison
and Reid. Mr.. Schiff says:
Gentlemen: have received from the
secretary ofthe" German-American Cleve-
land Union" an appeal addressed to
the German-American voters (Which APP
peal also find published over your name
in the public press) with an invitation
to append my signature and coupled
with the enquiry whether will consent
to become one of the German-American
national committee you now temporari-
ly constitute.
l have already informed your secretary
that, since shall cast my vote for the
nominee of the Republican party, can
not well join your committee, but being,
like you, impressed with the usual i'm
portance of the coming presidential cleo
ton, regard it, like you. my duty to
give my reasons for believing why the
welfare of our adopted country requires
the election of Benjamin Harrison and
Whitela W Reid, the Republican candi-
dates, and why they deserve the votes
of the naturalized Germans as we'll as
the votes of intelligent citizens in general.
Above all, should state that 1 CON
ceive it duty to my country to vote for
a vice-president as we'll as for president
and fail to discover in your appeal any
reference to the qualifications of the gen.
tleman who appears on the same ticket
with Grover Cleveland as candidate for
the second office.
Far be it from me to detract from the
high character of Mr.. Cleveland. But
you have made this one man your idol
and if by any fatality he should become
incapacitated for his office the candidate
who is the nominee of the Democratic
party for vice presidenti is one over whose
qualifications you have evidently found
it wiser to pass in silence. Nor have you
much to say in your appeal. except in
and apologize way, i'll favor of the
party whose banner bearer Grover Gle
veland has again been chosen. Well do
l understand your silence in this respect.
Better than many of those to whom
your appeal is directed do you under
stand that the administration in the
hands of the Democratic party, with its
present presidential candidate called by
accident to the presidency, would be a
standing menance to the country.
Mr.. Schiff then takes up the Democratic
party, with it's vacillatiug policy, and
handles it without gloves. He says to
the committee that they knew that any
attempt to unsettle our tariff legislation
at this time, when business affairs have
just adjusted themselves to it, would
be followed by the gravest consequences
to our commercial prosperity" The
real issue is the silver question and on
this thu. Democratic party is not to be
trusted by either side. 1t blows hot and
cold, pledges itself to honest money in
its platform and violates the pledges IN
it's legislation, and while nominating an
ultra anti-silver candidate for president
neutralizes this act by placing man on
the ticket with him whom nobody knows
and nobody trusts. ''You are willing"
continues Mr.. Schiff, ito stake the veal
OF your country upon the one human
life you have constituted your idol and
for which, if perchance it should be brok-
Ell, you have no substitute whom you
find it even worth while to mention In
you appeal"
Concluding Mr.. Schiff says:
The German-American voter is accus-
toned to reflect, and, reading your APP
peal, the conclusion must force itself up
on him, both from what you have pre-
terred not to say, that the welfare of his
adopted country demands that he cast
his vote for Benjamin Harrison and
Whitelaw Reid, the nominees of the Re-
publican party.
The prominence of Mr.. Schiff and his
high character in business circles give
great weight to his utterances and his
letter is regarded as one of the most
significant events of the New York cam
paign.-[ Minneapolis Tribune.