Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-06-12
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They Xrpf a issiose u6aniuouss for Sound

Money,
Mr.. Gustav III. Schwab is president OF
the German society of New York city
and is therefore iii touch with Germans
and Observation-Disclosures In this country.
Being also a prominent business man,
he is familiar with the Views of Ger
mans on the financial question. In an
interview on May II he said:
am convinced from my knowledge
OF my Germnn-Amcrican fellow citi-
zens and their ways of thinking that
the vast majority of them in the coming
political contest will entirely disregard
party ties and will vote for that party
! which declares for the maintenance, be-
You'd possibility of doubt. OF the gold
standard of value, and that they will
not give their suffrage to any candidate
who may lie suspected of II leaning To-
ward free silver coinage or toward any
I compromise with the silver people.
They consider that the paramount
question before the country at present is
the integrity of our monetary system,
and their votes will go to that party
which they believe will uphold the
tountry's financial honor; regardless of
what their views may he on other polit
zeal questions. Previous expert; nee has
shown that German voters on questions
relating TO or affecting the STANDARD OF
value have always stood for common
honesty, and TINT they have uniformly
opposed all forms of financial hcresy.
When, 90 years ago, the paper money
initiation question was ngitatcd in Mis-
,t,,t .
arrayed on the side OF sound money.
The Germans of Illinois arc on record
MS always having been on the right side
of the money question. and as never
lhaving been led nstrny bJ'chcnp money
propaganda at any time. a Gerenan
business man. cashier In o lnrgc bank In
Chicago, who hns a wide acquaintance
with the small bankers and merchants
Throughout the west, tells me that no
has had OCCASION to hear expressions
from his German countrymen for years
pnst on the question of monetary
standard, and that he hns never vet
found one who wus not in favor of The
gold standard and opposed To the free
coinage of silver.
His opinion is that .hc German c;ti-
zens OF Illinois are unanimously opposed
to any impairment of the present gold
standard.
1t is fact, universally known, that
the sound-moncy victory In Ohio in the
gubernatorinl campaign OF ISIS. In
which rutherford u. Hayes RAN or n
republican hard money platform
~fgainst William Allen on democratic
rapcr-mone;yc --l9 fla i9n -.rSllatforp-. why
due TO the firm stand taken by The Ger
mans, who, Disappointing party lines,
turned thescnle In the election in fnvut
of honest money. This fac: was cor:
coded at the tim" by the republican
press of the state, and the democratic
candidate voiced the sentiments Of his
party leaders when he gave ut;croncc 10
his lacerated feelings utter the election
by eXclaiming: The Dutch are ID
unreliable" The German voters arc
certainly not to he relied npon when
they are asked to prostitute the conn
try's financial honor nj their party's
bidding. In the state of Wisconsin The
Germans have taken .hc same united
stand in favor of sound money aud the
same may be said ofMich!gaa, towaand
Minnesota.
The entire German newspaper press
In this country, with few exceptions, is
cmphatically for sound money, as il hns
been in the past, md can lie depended
upon to pronounce in favor of the main
tenancc of the present standard Of value
md for the parity that represents this
principle, regardless Of prcY!ous party
affiliations. Several'important German
democratic papers in the WESTERN states
have already threatened 10 bolt their
ticket If free silver plank shoIld be
adopted. AS an Indication ~ the gem
eral sentiment OF the German press r
refer to the position taken by the Inrgcst
and oldest German newspaper in the
south, the Democrat. of Louisville, In
the last state election in Kentucky. Al
though always democratic up 10 that
time, this paper bolted the dcmocrntic
free silver candidate and urged the cleo
ton Of the republican sound murey can
didatc for governor.
The importance of the German vote
will be apparent when the numerical
strength of the German-American popu-
lntion in the pivotal states is consid-
cred. The returns of the census of 1890
show that the state OF New York then
contained 072,G03 Recommendations
Ohio, 541 ,407; Illinois, G9O,5SS; Penn
syivania, 472,423; Michigan, 276,2js:
Wisconsin, 551,S34; Minnesota, 2l4.634;
Iowa, 2G9.G03; and Missouri, 2oT,095.
Whatever may be the decision of the
national conventions on the money mes-
tion' this issue will be fairly, squa;cly
and most thoroughly placed before the
German voter In the course of the cam
paign, and us to the nature of his re-
spouse do not entertain the slightest
doubt.
Simple Question for Silver Lenders.
Who would be benefited by adultern-
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