Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1884 — The German Vote. [ARTICLE]

The German Vote.

New York dispatch: A lea’ding topic of serious discussion among the Republicans is the bolt of the Germans in Ohio and Illinois. They are credited with 60,000 votes in Ohio solid against Blaine, and of the 135,000 German votes in Hllnois Cleveland seems to .have 105,000 secured. The Prohibitionists claim 30,000 votes in Illinois, mostly drawn from the Republican ranks, and 35,000 in Ohio, taken from mixed sources. If these figures are approximately correct, and the sentiment of the vote is rightly placed, the Republicans would seem to have good grounds for worry. Boston dispatch: The news that the Germans are for Cleveland in the States of Wisconsin, Ohio, and Illinois Influences them here, and the leaders in Massachusetts say that the Republicans can expect no support from them in the Old Bay State. The New York World says: “The Portland (Me.) editor who was sued by Blaine in a heated campaign, some years ago, says that he was not invited to court. It cost him the service of the writ—no more. The suit was dismissed as soon as the election was over. This editor has no faith in the sincerity of Mr. Blaine’s Indianapolis libel suit. He has seen dramatic performances by magnetic politicians before. ” It is a heart-rending appeal the Ohio Republicans are sending up for funds to carry on their campaign. The Commercial Gazette solemnly adjures the rank and file in all the impressiveness of double leads to come up to the help of the party, if only by so much as “the price of a glass of beer or a cigar.” . ■ r ---- - .