Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1900 — Appeals to “Ignorant Foreigners." [ARTICLE]

Appeals to “Ignorant Foreigners."

Four years ago Bryan did not expect much help from the GermanAmerican voters, an overwhelming majority of whom were and are sound money men, and he did not take any special pains, to win their support. This year he appears to believe that he can deceive them with his “paramount issue,” and is trying to coax them to overlook his financial heresies on that account, and in doing so* he fs appealing to them as Germans and seeking to flatter their German pride and instinct, forgetting that after his 1896 defeat he attributed it to “ignorant foreigners.”