Washington sentinel., 1900-03-03
Oongressman Len g

| ludu VOleS maze recently at IN
Democratic National Committee
has been so distorted and garble,
by the Administration press tina
the editor OF the SENTINEL, VIII,
was present at the meeting ant
witnessed the active proceedings
feels in duty ! ound % set that gen
tleman straie { before his German
colleagues. He called upon Mr.
Lentz last Monday night and in
reply to our question as to whS' he
had to say in answer to the iasser-
ton that be had said the German
press could be bought, he spoke
as follows:
There were anywhere from three to
five hundred witnesses to the fact that
in my urging the Democrat, National
Committee TO pay some attention to the
German vote, I did not say "the German
papers can be bought" in the sense
attributed to me, nor did l use the
language attributed to ME. was argu.
ing to the committee that the Republican
party for many years had Leen in the
habit OF appointing certain parties to
confer with and operate with the German
press OF the country, while the Demo
cratic party had apparently ignored this
large and increasing vote.
suggested that Mr.. Mckinley was
already bringing prominent Germans
connected with newspapers end with
other enterprises to Washington for
conferences. stated that there are
some $40 German newspapers in the
United States; that only a few Of them
are great newspapers, and that many Of
them are small plants having but few
hundred subscribers, and that they were
located throughout the country where
there were German settlements large
enough to sustain paper. suggested
that many OF these small newspapers
with only a few subscribers could be
bought outright for a hundred dollars,
and that the Republican party, with its
gigantic campaign fund which woald
undoubtedly be contributed By The
trusts, would make 1t their business to
buy outright many OF those small papers
and thus control the political matter
which would go into their columns,
l specifically stated at the time in so
many plain words, that did not mean
to say that you could buy German
opin, ons, nor that you could buy German.
editoria s. / emphasized the fact that
among the German editors there we're
but few men who were so low as TO have
opinions for sale. am rather pleased
to fad that the Republicans think it
necessary to misrepresent everything
we Democrats say. II ought eventually
to demonstrate to sensible men that the
Republican party is not devoted to ma
tional honor or to any other honor, but is
swallowed up in the insincerity and
hypocrisy which characterizes imperial
ism urged, in the few minutes l had
before the committee, that if the National
Democratic Committee would begin
now it would not take it long to convince
every German in America that our
party could furnish at least seven planks
that would meet with the approval of
every honest minded German. For
instance, said, in our platform we can
say:
Ist. The Democratic party is opposed
to the Philippine war Of the Republican
party; and the German will say THAT
is my PLATFORM"
and. The Democratic party is opposed
to the Imperialism of the Republican
party; and thu German will say "that IS
my platform A"
3rd. The Democratic party is opposed
to the militarlsm OF the Republican party;
and the German will say "that is my
platform"
4th. The Democratic party Is opposed
to the British Colonial policy OF the
Republican party; and the German will
say THAT is my platform"
5th. The Democratic party is opposed
to the British alliance OF the Republican
party as it is opposed to any and all
foreign alliances; and the German Will
say THAT is my platform
9th. The Democratic party is opposed
to the Republican policy of promoting
aud perpetuating trusts. combines and
syndicates; and the German will say
that is my platform"
9TH The Democrat: party is opposed
to the Republican party's sympathy
with Great Britain in her arrogant,
immoral and brutal warfare upon the
South African Republic anil sympathizes
with the Beers in their heroic struggle
for their homes, their religion and their
liberty; and the German will say "that
is my platform"