Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-11-10
PHRNEx. NOVEMBER 10. 1899.

Hyphenated Americanism did not
win out in Ohio. There is room for
congratulation in that.
DELIVER Schurz and other little
THE GOODS. Americans to stampede
the German vote to ;he
democratic party either utterly failed
in accomplishing that result or if it
succeeded the places OF the seceders
were at once taken by others whose
votes counted for quite as much. Ohio
swung into line in an off year in sup
port of the republican PLATFORM and a
republican president and admin.strl-
ton by a majority so rousing and so
emphatic that no room has been left
to question the verdict.
The country has become very tired of
the insolence and the arrogance of the
leaders of hyphenated AmericanisIn.
1t is learning to resent the threats of
foreign born alleged leaders of foreign
born opinion that unless the views of
this or of that striker are made para
mount. the naturalized voters of a race
will cast their ballots for the opposing
candidate. The foreign born and nat
uralized voter stands under our laws
ON just the same plane as the native
born citizen. He has every right that
the boy born in this country and forced
to live twenty-one years in the Unitel
States before qualified to exercise the
franchise has. But he has not and
ought not to have any more and when
he enters the campaign with threats of
what the German American or irish
American or Polish-American or Be-
hemian-American will do, if his de-
mands are not complied with, he runs
up against a stone wall. The public
generally only requires to know that it
is about to be held up or is threatened
with being held up to put Itself in
proper preparation for the call.
At the same time, the foreign born
traders in votes are finding it increas-
ingly difficult to deliver their goods.
The hundreds OF thousands of Germans
in the United States and their sons
cannot be so easily transferred as they
were years ago. before they learned the
selfishness and political ambitions of
their self constituted leaders. Natur-
ally conservative and thinking for
themselves, standing for honesty and
thrift and good government and the
family, which is the basis of all good
government, they are declining to have
their ballots marked for them in adj
vance by WORKOUT politicians and by
discredlted ''exes.' The attempt TO
stampede the German Americans Of
Ohio is evidence in point They looked
around them and saw universal pros
perity. labor everywhere employed,
capital seeking workmen, mills and
factories running full blast and bank
deposits rolling up and they declined to
vote for platform whose defeat three
years ago resulted in the change from
poverty to prosperity. Not even Carl
Schurz's five column appeal against
imperialism so called. could swerve
them from a knowledge born of obser-
walton of pregnant facts.
Sooner or later the professional ma
nipulators of the foreign born vote will
find. like Othello, their occupation
gone. 1t has been Il profitable one in
times past. 1t has kept men like
Schurz in lucrative Office during the
greater part of their lives in this coun-
try, supported on fat salaries and very
quiet while they were on the govern
ment pay roll. Their bowls against
the party in power never rose above
the political hub-bub unless they were
on the outside, when instantly their
foreign born friends were called upon
to line up in opposition. But the day
has gone by when the voters of the
United States will consent to take their
politics from Berlin, Vienna, Buda
Pesth. Dublin or Prague or when
loud mouthed threats Of what various
hyphenated Americans viii or will not
do influence political platforms or
cause party managers TO shake in their
shoes. The game is too transparent
and too old.
Carl Schurz must now look up an
other job. The last one which ne LOST
was as agent Of the German lines Of
steamships in this country and lobby
list at Washington to prevent restrict
i've legislation against immigration
laws. The next one from which he
viii be dismissed is as the self consti-
tuted owner in fee simple Of the Ger
man American vote of this country. He