The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-06-02
GERMAN AMERICANS
THEY ARE ALMOST UNANIMOUS FOR
SOUND MONEY.
Ready to Break Party Ties To Vote Against
Free Coinsge-rhey Form . Large Per-
ccntsge Of the Voters of This Country.

Ready to Break Party Ties To Vote Against
Free Coinage-rhey Form . Large Per-
centsge Of the Voters of This Country.
Mr.. Gustav H. Schwab is president
Of the German society of New York
city and is therefore in touch with
Germans and German Americans in this
country. Being also prominent bus
mess man. he is familiar with the views
of Germans ON the financial question. In
an interview ON May Ii he said:
am convinced from my knowledge
OF my German-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-
yond possibility OF doubt. of the gold
standard of value, and that they will
not give their suffrage TO any candidate
who may be suspected Of leaning to-
ward free silver coinage or toward any
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 60 TO that party
which they believe will uphold the
counuy's financial honor, regardless of
what their views may be ON other polit.
ical questions, Previous experience has
shown that German voters ON questions
relating TO or affecting the standard Of
value have always stood for common
honesty, and that they have uniformly |
opposed all forms of financial heresy.
When, 90 years ago, the paper money
imitation question was agitated i'm Mis- |
souri,, the Germans Of that state were |
arrayed on the side of sound money. |
The Germans of Illinois are ON record |
as always having been on the right side |
OF the money question, and rs never |
having been led astray by cheap money
at any time. A German
business man, cashier of large bank in
Chicago, who has a wide acquaintance
with the small bankers and merchants
throughout the west. tells me that he
has had occasion to hear expressions
rom his German countrymen for years
past ON the question of monetary
standard, and that he has never vet
found one who was not in favor of the
gold standard and opposed 10 the free
coinage Of silver
dis opinion is that the German citi-
,ens of Illinois are unanimously opposed
o any impairment Of the present gold
standard
1t Is fact, universally known, that
he sound money victory in Ohio in the
campaign Of 1875. in
which Rutherford b. Hayes ran ON a
republican hard money platform
lgalnst William Allen on Democratic |
'aper money initiation platform, was
lue TO the firm stand taken by the Ger
mans, who, disregarding party lines,
urned the scale in the election in favor
I honest money. This fact was conced-
d al the time by the Republican press
I the state, and the Democratic candi.
ate voiced the sentiments Of his party
,aders when he gave utterance 20 his
lcerated feelings after the election by /.
1.-THE Dutch are ID un- !
allable. The German voters are GER
ilnly not 10 be relied upon when they
re asked 70 prostitute the country's
nancial honor at their party's bidding.
the state of Wisconsin the Germans i
ave taken the same united stand in u
'yor Of sound money, and the same u
lay be said of Michigan, Iowa and U
Minnesota.
The entire German newspaper press in
us couairy, with few exceptions. is u
nphatlcally for sound money, as il has u
ZEN III the past, and can be depended u
ION TO pronounce in favor Of the main Z,
nance OF the present standard of value u
vi for the party that represents this
1nciple, regardless of previous party c.
nllations. Several important German
emocratic papers in the western states u
we already threatened to bolt their u
'ket II free silver plank should be IL
opted As an indication Of the gen III
al sentiment of the German press |
fer to the position taken by the largest Il
d Oldest German newspaper i'll the x
nth, The DemoSrat of Louisville in pl
last state election in Kentucky. AL io
ough always Democratic up TO that oi
ne, this paper bolted the Democratic
70 silver candidate and urged the cleo. or
m of the Republican sound money can. on
late for governor. pc
The Importance Of the German vote 1t
IL be apparent when the numerical ca
ength of the German-American popu- tr
ion in the pivotal states is consider.
The returns of the census of 1890 tr'
Nv that the state OF New York then ex
ltained 972, COB German. Americans. a
10 BAL, 407, Illinois 600, 5ss. Penn. Is
vania 472. LAB, Michigan 276, 25s. re-
lsconsin Dol, S34, Minnesota 244. 634. in
va 300, 603 and Missouri 297, O95. tn
Whatever may be the decision of the I'M
iional conventions on the money cues Al
n, this issue will be fairly, squarely
most thoroughly placed before the
rman voter in the course of the cam.
gn, and as to the nature of his re. bo
nse do not entertain any doubt AN