The Green Forest tribune., 1896-06-04
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
They Arc Almost Unanimous for Scum.
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| .Mr. Gustav Fl. 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 business man,
he is familiar with the views Of Ger
mans on the financial question. In an
interview on May IA he said:
am convinced from my knowledge
Of my German-Anerican fellow citi-
zens and their ways of thinking that
the vast ma iority OF them IN the coming
political contest will entirely disregard
party ties and will vote for that paTty
which declares for the maintenance, be-
yortF possibility of doubt, OF the gold
standard of value, and that they will
not give their suffrage to any candidate
who nay be suspected Of leaning to-
ward free silver coinage or toward any
com promise 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 70 that party
which they believe will uphold the
countyy's financial honor, regard6ss CT
what their views may be on other Polit-
ical questions Previous experience has
shown that Gernfan voters on questions
relating to OF affecting the stardard OF
value have always stood fer common
honesty, and that they have unlfs~naly
opposed all forna OF financial heresy.
When. go years ago, the paper money
| imitation question wus asy!tated II Mis-
souri, the Germans of that state were
arrayea On the side Of so,rnd money.
The Germans OF Illinois a4e On record
es always having been on the right side
Of the money questson. and as never
having been ledxastray by cheap rncney
propaganda at sany time. German
business man, cashier In large bark In
Chicago, who has wide acquaintance
with the small bankers AID merchants
throughout the west, tells me that he
has had occasion to hear expressions
from his German countryme1l for years
pest on the question Of q 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.
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Zens Of Illinois are unanimously opposed
to any impairment Of the present gold
standard.
It is' fact, universally known, that
the sound-moDey victory IN Ohio ID the
gubernatorial campaign Of 1878, in
which Rutherford B. Hayes ran On q
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 in favor
of honest money. This fact was con-
ceded at the time By the republican
press of the state, and the>democratac
candidate voiced the sentiments Of his
party leaders when he gave utterance to
his lacerated feelings after the election
by exclaiming: .The Dutch are Id
unreliable" The German voters arc
certainly not to be relied upon when
they are asked to prostitute the coun-
try's financial honor at their partyS
bidding In the STATE of Wisconsin tho
Germans 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
IN this country. with few exceptions, Is
emphaticaily for sound money, as It hsss
been in the past, and cen be depended
upon to pronounce N favor of the main
tenance OF the present standard Of value
and for the parity 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 II free silver plank should oe
adopted AS an indication of the gen-
eral sentiment OF the German press
, refer 20 the position taken by the largest
and oldest German newspaper III the
south. the Democrat, Of Louisville, In
the last state election In Kentucky. Al
though always democratic up 10 that
time, this paper boltea the democratic
free silver candidate end urged the cleo
tiop of the republican sound money caa-
didate for governor.
The Importance OF the German vote
will be apparent when the numerical
lation in the piyctaa states is consid
cred. The returns of the census OF 1886
show that the state Of New York ther
, contained o72.G03 German A inericaus
l Ohio, 541 ,4o7; Illinois, e0o,5ss; Penn
:. sylvania, 472.423; Michigan, 27a.25s;
: Wisconsin, 1884; Minnesota, "A, ,634;
, Iowa, 2so.c03; and Missouri, 107,o95.
: Whatever may be the decision Of ths
national conventions on the money ques
: ton, this issue will be fairly, squarely
and most thoroughly placed before ths