Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-29
JOLLYING THE GERMANS.
n Address to the Republicans of Iui-
nois-CaT on Them to Stand Together
and Not Be Diverted From the Main
Issue by Any Sidp-shows.

n Address to the Republicans of Illf-
nois-Cau on Them to Stand Together
and Not Be Diverted From the Main
Issue by Any Sidp-shows.
CHICAGO, Aug. 2S-The German -Ameri-
can Republicans of Illinois have issued an
address TO the German-American voters of
Illinois, which will be circulated In pamph-
let form throughout the State 1t is signed
by large number of weIl-known German
American citizens, including George
Schneider, William Woke, Hermann
Schroeder, Charles Burmeister, Jacob
Gross, Hermann Felsenthal, Franz Amberg,
C. Hermann Plautz, William Loeb, Henry
C. Bartels Henry C. Zenne and others. It
is in part as follows:
On the eve of the national election the
undersigned Republicans of German birth
deem il their duty as citizens to enter a pub
lie protest against the attempts of the DEM
ocratic party to capture the German vote in
this State by the mIsrepresen tat tion of facts.
1t is evident that the Democrats are max
ing desperate effort to obscure Qustions of
grave national importance, involving the
most vital interests of the country, by try
ing to raise tie school law, which both
parties are agreed shall be abolished to a
controversy of overwhelming political i'm
portance. In this address cannot under
take to enter unOn a Iull discussion OF the
origin of the school law and the subsequent
struggles for its repeal. We shall take occa-
sion hereafter TO treat this subject more
fully, and viii confine ourselves now to the
brief statement that both parties stand
pledged through their platforms to secure a
repeal OF the law, and that among the Re-
publican statesmen of Illinois, Governor
Fifer was the first who advocated the repeal.
An Attempt to Shift Horses.
II, in the face of these facts, the German
Americans are called upon to oppose the
Republican party on account of the school
law, we can only see in this an attempt on
the part of the Democratic party to divert
the attention of the voters from the great
national issues. By declaring in favor of
free trade the Democracy has placed itself
recklessly in opposition to the most vital in
terests of the people, assuming, as it does,
an attitude of open hostility to the indus
tries OF the country.
Not less dangerous is the attitude of the
Democratic party with reference to the
financial questions OF the campaign. The
Democratic party has not only In great
yer coinage swindle, but has also, its
national platform, declared itself in favor
o. abolishing the 10 per cent tax upon State
bank notes, and thus, in blind disregard of
the best intereses OF all classes of our people
without distinction of party, proposes to
pave the way for the reissue of the wildcat
nores which, before the reform of the cur
rency instituted by the Republicans over 30
years RIo, we're daily cheating the people
out of thousands o. dollars.
The iact Is. that for more than 80 years it
has been the destiny of the Democratic
party to place the seal of condemnation
upon everything which the progressive
spirit of the age demanded and which the
Republican party has accomplished. In the
interest OF the Southern shareholders the
Democratic party opposed the free-soil
movement and the benefcent homestead
laws; it denounced as unconstitutional the
introduction OF a monetary system estab-
lished upon the firm basis Of our national
r. hrrT-l -lad seo = oiraof
protective tariff system and stigmatized it
as fraud upon the people.
Always "a Party of Followers
History shows that the Democratic party,
unable in the march OF progress to keep |
abreast with this great people, has always |
limped behind as jealous and hobbling |
camp follower. This became evident also, |
when the matter Of the Worlds Fair appro- |
pria5ion was before Congress. But for the |