"Germans for Cleveland," Carroll Demokrat
1884 Prohibition Act; 1884 Presidential Election; Hermann B. Scharmann; Grover Cleveland; James G. Blaine; Thomas A. Hendricks; Neal Dow
<p><strong>Why the President of the National Brewers Association won't vote for Blaine</strong></p>
<p>Hermann B. Scharmann, President of the National Brewers Association and a very influential Republican of the 21st Ward in Brooklyn, has as of now wholeheartedly declared his support for Cleveland and Hendricks. When asked as to how he had come to this point, he responded:</p>
<p>Because, in my view and opinion, Cleveland's candidacy has very much to do with personal freedom as well as with the lack of restrictions in every respect for many of our best citizens. Republicans of various states, particularly those of Kansas and Iowa, have attacked the gift of personal liberty most injuriously with their Prohibition laws, and some citizens must sacrifice their liberty for these laws. I believe that no one should have the right, by way of his vote, to say whether I must or must not drink any type of alcoholic beverage. A few of my Republican friends say to me: Scharmann, this Prohibition question is something which concerns states on an individual basis; the President has nothing to do with it. My answer is that the last Congress, due to the efforts of Neal Dow, the father of Prohibition, and of Mr. Blair of New Hampshire, appointed a committee solely for the purpose of reporting to the next Congress whether, in the committee's view, it would be advisable for the government to press for a Prohibition law against the sale and production of alcoholic beverages.</p>
<p><strong><em>What does this have to do with Mr. Blaine, in your opinion? </em></strong></p>
<p>You will recall that during the Republican National Convention Herr Blaine had the support of every delegate from Maine, Kansas, and Iowa, all three of which are Prohibition states. And you will further recall that when the Prohibitionists were encouraging Mr. Neal Dow to run for the presidency, he promptly answered: No, I will vote for Blaine; the man is enough of a temperance advocate for my vote.</p>
<p><strong><em>What portion of German voters agree with these views of yours? </em></strong></p>
<p>I have many good reasons to assume that my views are the same as those of a vast majority of the thinking German electorate, regardless of their political allegiance. However, I have other reasons to oppose Mr. Blaine. There is namely nothing that can be said to his benefit in the fact that the Republican Party has portrayed him as their shrewdest politician. Note well that I say politician. During the twenty-one or more years that he has sat in Congress, he has not helped write a single law that did any good for the public, and wherever Blaine could do a good deed, he has never forgotten his best friend: himself.</p>
<p><strong><em>In your opinion, which states will show the strongest German opposition against Blaine? </em></strong></p>
<p>New York, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana, and the opposition in these states will likely be fatal for his candidacy.</p>
<p><strong><em>Hence the interest of our nation's brewers will also be against Blaine? </em></strong></p>
<p>I believe it will be so. However, as president of the Brewers Association of the United States, I am not authorized to suggest that all brewers will be against Blaine, although I think the majority is. My belief is based principally on the opinions of those men who are involved in the same trade as myself.</p>
<p><strong><em>What do you think the probable result in this state [New York?] will be? </em></strong></p>
<p>I positively believe Mr. Cleveland will win our state because I know a great number of my Republican friends will vote for the Democratic candidate. When I voted for the first time I voted for Abraham Lincoln, and if I now vote for Cleveland it will be the first time ever that I voted for a Democratic candidate. I am a Republican and thus do not belong to the Democratic party even now. I have however stepped down from the Republican general committee, so that I might be free and able to conduct myself freely without having to neglect my duties as a member of this committee.</p>
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Carroll Demokrat
<a href="http://iagenweb.org/boards/carroll/obituaries/index.cgi?read=10450">Franz Florencourt</a>
August 8, 1884
State Historical Society of Iowa
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German
newspaper column
microfilm newspaper collections, State Historical Society of Iowa
Carroll County
<em>Carroll Demokrat</em> on Republican Presidential candidate James Blaine
James Gillespie Blaine, Republican Presidential Candidate
Discussion of Blaine's views on Prohibition and on German Americans
Carroll Demokrat
Carroll Demokrat
20 June 1884
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German
text
Carroll, Carroll County, Iowa
<em>Davenport Demokrat</em>: Petition for the Taxation of Church Property (<em>Petition wegen Besteuerung des Kirchen-Eigentums</em>)
religion; taxes; church property
The text of the petition, translated from an English petition in circulation at the time, requests that the Iowa General Assembly revoke the tax-exempt status of church property. In support, it claims that the value of church property (in Iowa?) quadrupled between 1850 and 1870, even though church membership rose much less. It argues that such a concentration of a wealth in the hands of clerics is dangerous for civil liberty.
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Davenport Demokrat
Henry Lischer
12 February 1874
State Historical Society of Iowa
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newspaper text
Davenport Demokrat, microfilm newspaper collections, State Historical Society of Iowa
Davenport; Iowa; 1874; Scott County
<em>Davenport Demokrat</em>: Suffrage Amendment Defeated
1916 Woman Suffrage Amendment;
Report on voting trends in the following counties: Cerro Gordo, "Claron" [Clarion, county seat of Wayne County?], Clinton, Crawford, Decatur, Des Moines, Dickinson, Dubuque, Emmet, Floyd, Fremont, Greene, Grundy, Hamilton, Hardin, Henry, Ida, Jefferson, Linn, Lucas, Mahaska, Marshall, Mitchell, Page, Pocahont[a]s, Polk, Ringgold, Scott, Story, Tama, Wapello, Wayne, Webster, Woodbury.
Candidates: W.L. Harding, Cosson, Allen, Kuehnle, G.R. Moore, W.S. Allen, W.C. Brown,
Newspaper article with updates on successive ballot countings for the women's suffrage amendment. Results of the Republican primary for governor and for other state offices.
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<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110713052349/http://webbasics.iowajmc.com/cmmay/newspapers/demokrat.html">Davenport Demokrat</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lischer_House">Henry Lischer</a> Printing Company; <a href="https://qctimes.com/mansion-linked-to-legacy-of-german-americans/article_59894bce-55a4-11df-8de7-001cc4c002e0.html">Fred Lischer</a>; Oskar Lischer; Eduard Lischer
6 June 1916
State Historical Society of Iowa
Full June 6, 1916 issue of the Davenport Demokrat from the "Chronicling America" collection of the Library of Congress: <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84027107/1916-06-06/ed-1/">https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84027107/1916-06-06/ed-1/</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/suffrage/">Women's Suffrage in Iowa: A Digital Collection</a>, Iowa Women's Archive, University of Iowa
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newspaper article
microfilm newspaper collections, State Historical Society of Iowa
<em>Davenport Demokrat</em>: Vote Against the Women's Suffrage Amendment Tomorrow (Stimmt morgen gegen das Frauenstimmrechts-Amendment)
Constitutional Amendment on Woman Suffrage; Women's Rights; Women's Emancipation; Friedrich Schiller; Women's Role in the Household
Editorial appealing to (male) voters to vote against the constitutional amendment for woman suffrage. The editorial argues that granting women the right to vote will alienate them from their traditional role as homemakers.
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<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110713052349/http://webbasics.iowajmc.com/cmmay/newspapers/demokrat.html">Davenport Demokrat</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lischer_House">Henry Lischer</a> Printing Company; <a href="https://qctimes.com/mansion-linked-to-legacy-of-german-americans/article_59894bce-55a4-11df-8de7-001cc4c002e0.html">Fred Lischer</a>; Oskar Lischer; Eduard Lischer
4 June 1916
State Historical Society of Iowa
Full June 4, 1916 issue of the Davenport Demokrat in the "Chronicling America" collection of the Library of Congress: <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84027107/1916-06-04/ed-1/seq-1/">https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84027107/1916-06-04/ed-1/seq-1/</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/suffrage/">Women's Suffrage in Iowa: A Digital Collection</a>, Iowa Women's Archive, University of Iowa
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newspaper editorial
microfilm newspaper collections, State Historical Society of Iowa
Scott County
<em>Iowa Staats-Anzeiger</em>: Rundschau über Iowa (survey of the German-Iowa press, with particular focus on temperance issues)
Temperance initiatives in Clinton; Clayton City saloon proprietor F. Taake robbed at gunpoint; gymnastics festival in Lansing (Bezirks-Turnfest des nordwestlichen Turnvereins); break-ins in Newton in the businesses of Wright and Son, Vaughan and Son, Gardner and Co., J.H. Chapman, Dubus and Bodly, and J. Meyer; Charles City and Osage raise the price of saloon licenses; acquittal of Adam Glab of Dubuque's Plankroad Brewery, who had refused to pay a license fee twice; temperance advocates pelted with eggs in Manchester
First "Rundschau über Iowa," Eiboeck's regular survey of notable news culled from the state's German newspapers
Joseph Eiboeck
Iowa Staats-Anzeiger
Joseph Eiboeck
7 May 1874
State Historical Society of Iowa
<a href="https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2282">https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2282</a>
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German
newspaper article
microfilm newspaper collections, State Historical Society of Iowa
Allamakee County; Clayton County; Clinton County; Delaware County; Dubuque County; Jasper County; Marshall County; Polk County
<em>Iowa Staats-Anzeiger</em>: Unmasking a liar (<em>Ein Lügner blosgestellt</em>)
Eiboeck’s dispute with John P. Irish over saloon licensing at the Anti-Monopoly party convention; support of German voters; J.P. Stibolt, editor of the <em>Davenport Demokrat</em>; Frederick A. Gniffke, editor of the <em>Dubuque National-Demokrat</em>; Simeon Hotz? (co-owner of the Union Brewery in Iowa City); J.J. Hotz? (contractor and son-in-law of Louis Englert, founder of the City Brewery in Iowa City)
In reaction to a letter that John P. Irish had published in the German newspaper <em>Dubuque National-Demokrat</em>, which attacked Joseph Eiboeck's alledgedly insulting rhetoric in a speech at the Anti-Monopolist state convention in July 1874 in favor of including a license plank in the party platform, Eiboeck presents his version of events and defends his actions. In addition to a translation of an English-language declaration by leading citizens of Des Moines that Eiboeck did not use the language that Irish claimed, the article also contains a comparable statement by well-known German-Americans in Des Moines, including Conrad Beck, Eiboeck's predecessor as editor of the <em>Iowa Staats-Anzeiger</em>.
Joseph Eiboeck
Iowa Staats-Anzeiger
Joseph Eiboeck
1874-07-30
State Historical Society of Iowa
<a href="https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2292"><em>Iowa Staats-Anzeiger</em>: A lying, malicious attack (Ein verlogener, niederträchtiger Angriff)</a><br /><br />"<a href="http://publications.iowa.gov/31029/1/Winter2019.pdf">Iowa's Prohibition Plague: Joseph Eiboeck's Account of the Battle over Prohibition</a>," The Annals of Iowa 78 (2019): 1-74, at 15-16.
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Iowa City Historical Library Newspaper Collection Microfilm, State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
1874; Iowa; Des Moines; Polk County; Dubuque County; Scott County; Johnson County
<em>Iowa Wöchentliche Post</em>: Abraham Lincoln for President
nomination of Abraham Lincoln as Republican candidate for President; presidential election
In 1860, the <em>Iowa Wöchentliche Post</em>, a Republican newspaper based in Des Moines, announced the nomination of Abraham Lincoln as Republican candidate for President to its readers.
E. J. Pleyel
<em>Iowa Wöchentliche Post</em>, Des Moines<em><br /></em>
E. J. Pleyel
30 June 1860
State Historical Society of Iowa
<em>Die Iowa Post</em> (newspaper map): http://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/neatline/show/newspaper-map#records/17
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newspaper text
Iowa Wöchentliche Post, microfilm newspaper collections, State Historical Society of Iowa
1860-06-30; Des Moines; Polk County
<em>Muscatine Herold</em>: 1918 Sample Election Ballot
city elections in Muscatine; Peoples Democratic Ticket; Republican Citizens Ticket; Socialist Workers Ticket
Sample election ballot for the Muscatine city elections of March 4, 1918, published by the <em>Muscatine Herold</em>. By publishing the ballot with an affidavit in German from the City Recorder, the <em>Herold</em> allowed its readers to familiarize themselves in advance with candidates as well as with the English text that they would have to navigate at the ballot box. There was strong local support for the Socialist Party among workers in the city's pearl button industry and other factories.
Harry B. Caple (City Recorder)
Muscatine Herold
Henry Heinz
1 March 1918
State Historical Society of Iowa
Muscatine History and Industry Center, 1911 strike: <a href="http://www.muscatinehistory.org/1911-strike#sthash.wUd91UP8.dpbs" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www.muscatinehistory.org/1911-strike#sthash.wUd91UP8.dpbs</a>
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German; English
newspaper text
Muscatine Herold, microfilm newspaper collections, State Historical Society of Iowa
1918-03-01; Muscatine; Muscatine County
<em>Waverly Phoenix</em>: An Appeal to Men
Women's Suffrage
"The Women Who Do Not Want Suffrage" make their case why they should not be given the right to vote in the upcoming constitutional referendum on 5 June 1916.
Women's Antisuffrage Committee ("Die Frauen, die kein Stimmrecht fordern")
Waverly Phoenix
Waverly Phoenix
May 17, 1916
State Historical Society of Iowa
<a href="https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/suffrage/">Women's Suffrage in Iowa: A Digital Collection</a>, Iowa Women's Archive, University of Iowa
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German; with English translation
newspaper article
microfilm newspaper collections, State Historical Society of Iowa
Waverly, Bremer County, Iowa