Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30
Mailing Democratic Lies.

Ii the Democratic papers that have
assailed Mr.. Koch in an Extensively
vulgar manner, designating him as a
weak creature and an entirely imcom-
petent man, a plaything in the hands
of his party, now seek to make it APP
pear that the Republican press had
been guilty of all this, and as if Mr..
Koch withdrawal was forced by GER
tain Republican politicians who
couldn't stomach the German, . it is
not only unspeakably disgraceful, but
it is SO assinine that one wonders
how even such a paper as the good
old Seebote can offer it's readers such
stuff. The same Koch who is first
put forward as the tool Of Republi-
can ring, is now said to have been put
to one side by this same obscure ring.
More idiotic tWadQle has never been
offered to newspaper readers. The
truth is that Mr.. Koch was practical
ly the unanimous choice of all the
Republicans of Wisconsin. Only one
Republican politician of any import
ance sought to wrest the nomination
from him. This one, Mr.. Taylor, was
and is a candidate for himself, which
after ali is simply the right Of every
citizen. AS a matter Of fact no man,
whether Democrat or Republican,
has had the matter made so easy for
him as it was made for Mr. Koch, at
least so far as his own party was
concerned. The Democrats have, of
course, not failed in their attacks on
him. The local Journal has not left
a day 90 by without casting the most
shameful suspicious on Koch, and
just such German brethren as The
Seebote, The Madison Botschafter,
The Northwestern in Manitowoc, ETC.,
have assailed Koch with that fiendish
rage that The Seebote would now like
to place to the credit of the Republi-
cans. Only a few days ago The Nord-
weston said, and the brilliant Bot
schafter copied it, that Koch was
not the candidate of the Germans at
all, but the candidate of the Ameri-
can politicians.
Now Republicans are to be held re-
sponsible for all this stuff that has
really appeared IN Democratic papers,
and to cap the climax of dishonor-
ableness the Catholic Seebote adopts
a Lutheran communication in it's to-
days issue to suit it's own purposes.
This communication complains of
criticisms that have appeared in GER
tain newspapers (but only Democrat tic
ones, as we have already shown re-
fecting upon Koch and that have
been read by. the writer of the COM
munication. He then gives the good
old Seebote a testimonial to it's hav-
ing told the truth in asserting that
the Republicans have dropped Koch
because he was a German.
1t is a source of shame and humili-
alton for every German-American
who has sound senses and reads the
newspapers, if his attention is occu-
pied by such wretched lies. But it is
necessary to nail lies, even if they
have such short legs as the aforegoing
ones. AS far as the Lutheran" of
The Seebote is concerned, he is prob
ably OF the same sort as the famous
pamphlet addressed to German Luth-
Grams and scattered about in Milwau-
kee shortly before the mayoralty
election, and which received no atten-
ton. The Seebote has either COM
pounded this communication for it.
self or 1t has been the victim Of some
Dem ocrat who seeks to catch idiots
with his lies.-Transldted from The
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