Noting Charles City large pro-German contingent, as well as the fact that many are "moneyed men," which enables and protects them. Also including story of German man beating his wife for wanting to "be an American."
Sample front page, with prominent masthead, of Guttenberg, Iowa's Clayton County Journal, an English-language paper with occasional German-language insets.
Clock on his recent work, as well as recent electoral defeat, which he clocks up to a bloc of anti-prohibitionists contesting his dry politics. "I was gloriously defeated."