Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-06-02
GERMAN-AMERICANS
THEY ARE ALMOST UNANIMOUS FOR
 SOUND MONEY.

centage of the Voters of This Country.
 Mr. Gustav H. Sehwab 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 a prominent bus. mess man, he Is familiar with the views or Germans on the financial question. In an interview on May 14 he said:
 am convinced from my knowledge ot my German American fellow citi- zens and their ways of thinking that the vast majority of them 4a 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 go to that party which they believe will uphold the country's financial honor, regardless of what their views may be on other polit- l 1cal questions. Previous experience has i 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 1 opposed all forms of financial heresy.
 When, 20 years ago, the paper money imitation question was agitated ill Mis- souri, the Germans of that state were arrayed OH 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 as never having been led astray by cheap money propaganda at any time. A German business man, cashier of large bank in Chicago, who has wide acquaintance with the small bankers and merchants throughout the west, tells me that he has had occasion to hear expressions from his German countrymen for years past on the question of a monetary standard, and that he has never yet found one who was not in favor of the gold standard and opposed to the free coinage of silver.
 His opinion is that the German citi- zens of Illinois are unanimously opposed to any impairment of the present gold standard.
 It is q fact, universally known, that the sound money victory i'll Ohio ill the gubernatorial campaign of 1875, ill which Rutherford B. Hayes ran on Republican hard money platform against William Allen on Democratic paper money imitation platform, was due to the firm stand taken by the Ger mans, who, disregarding party lines, turned the scale in the election ill favor of honest money. This fact was conced- ed at the time by the Republican press of the state, and the Democratic eandi- date voiced the sentiments of his party leaders when he gave utteranee to his laeerated feelings after the election by exclaiming, The Dutch are d-d un- reliable The German voters are cer- tainly not to be relied upon when they are asked to prostitute the country's financial honor at their party's bidding In the state of Wisconsin the Germans l have taken the same united stand in favor of sound money, and the same may be said of Michigan, Iowa and Minnesota.
 The entire German newspaper press i'll this country, with few exceptions, is emphatically for sound money, as it has been iii the past, and can be depended upon to pronounce ill favor of the main- tenance of the present standard of value and for the party that represents this principle regardless of previous party affiliations Several important German Democratic papers in the western states have already threatened to bolt their ticket if a free silver plank should be adopted As an indication of the gen. eral sentiment of the German press 1 refer to the position taken by the largest and oldest German newspaper iii the south, The Demokrat of Louisville, ill the last state election i'll Kentucky. Al though always Democratic up to that time, this paper bolted the Democratic free silver candidate and urged the cleo tion of the Republican sound money can- didate for governor
 The importance of the German vote will be apparent when the numerical strength of the German American popu- lation i'll the pivotal states is consider ed. The returns of the census of 1890 show that the state of New York then contained 972, eos German Americans, Ohio 541, 4O7, Illinois 690, 588, Penn sylyania 472, 423, Michigan 276, 258, Wisconsin 551 ,834, Minnesota 244, ,634, Iowa 269, eos and Missouri 297 ,095.
 Whatever may be the decision of the national conventions on the money ques- tion, this issue will be fairly, squarely and most thoroughly placed before the German voter ill the course of the cam paign, and as to the nature of his re- sponse I do not entertain any doubt.
 The Tail Too Small to wag the Dog.
 The total population of the silver mining communities including all those who are directly or indirectly dependent on silver money for living, cannot ex- ooad r00 00O Why Should fhe interests