"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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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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Carroll, Carroll County, Iowa
<em>Iowa City Daily Republican</em>: "The Very Latest" (eyewitness reports of the Iowa City Beer Riots)
Iowa City Beer Riots; Conrad Graf; John Dostal; John Englert; Horace Kimball; C. G. Swafford; Lewis Swafford; W. H. Bailey; Samuel Fairall; Mike O'Riley; J. W. Schell; J. J. Parrott; Milton Remley; Frank Schell; M. W. Davis; George Ewing; George J. Boal; L. H. Jackson; C. M. Reno; Women's Christian Temperance Union; Union Brewery; Great Western Brewery
A collection of eyewitness accounts concerning the Iowa City Beer Riots, which began during the trial of local brewers Conrad Graf and John Dostal for having violated the state's new Prohibition law by selling beer on July 4, 1884, the day the law went into effect. The trial was held in Scott Township to the east of Iowa City: following the tarring and feathering of H. Bailey, an attorney for the prosecution, a mob of anti-Prohibitionists, led by John J. Englert and Conrad Graf, followed two witnesses for the prosecution, the C. G. and Lewis Swafford, into town and threatened them with violence.
Stephen B. Howard (editor)
Iowa City Daily Republican
Republican Printing Co.
14 August 1884
State Historical Society of Iowa; Iowa City Public Library
From the <a href="http://iowacity.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?t=33755&i=t&by=1884&bdd=1880&bm=8&bd=14&d=07011884-07311884&m=between&fn=iowa_city_daily_republican_usa_iowa_iowa_city_18840814_english_4&df=1&dt=4" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">August 14, 1884 issue of the Iowa City Daily Republican</a> in the digital historic newspaper collection of the Iowa City Public Library
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Iowa City Daily Republican, microfilm newspaper collection, State Historical Society of Iowa
Iowa City; Scott Township; Johnson County; 1884-08-14
<em>Iowa Staats-Anzeiger,</em> Iowa Press Review
support for Anti-Monopoly party; woman suffrage; Republican party; party allegiance of German voters; Des Moines City License referendum; Turner Picknick; opinions of Davenport Demokrat, Carroll Demokrat, Dubuque National-Demokrat, Elkader Herold, Clinton Volkszeitung, Lansing Post, Dubuque Times, State Register, Dubuque Herald
Eiboeck reviews both German and English newspapers in the state regarding matters of interest to "liberal" German voters. Some German papers have endorsed the Anti-Monopoly party ticket, while others advise rejecting the party, which refused to include a saloon licensing plank in its platform. Additional columns concern German positions on woman suffrage and the Republican party.
Joseph Eiboeck
Iowa Staats-Anzeiger
Joseph Eiboeck
1874-07-23
Iowa State Historical Society
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Iowa City Historical Library Newspaper Collection Microfilm, State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Iowa; 1874; Des Moines; Polk County
<em>Iowa Staats-Anzeiger</em>: Eiboeck's "English Department" moves to the front page
current events; politics; Anti-Monopoly state convention; candidates for state office; Henry Kellner; John Kasson; S.H. Fairall; Prohibition
Three months into his tenure as editor, Eiboeck moved the <em>Staats-Anzeiger</em>'s English-language editorials, his so-called "English Department," to the front page of the paper. In all subsequent issues, an overview of state news appears in German in the left-hand columns, including the feature "Rundschau über Iowa," while English-language news and editorials appears on the right. The Feuilleton section, which had previously occupied the front page, moved to page 2.<br /><br />Due to the large size of the original, file 1 reproduces the top left of the front page; file 2 the bottom left; file 3 the top right; file 4 the bottom right.
Joseph Eiboeck
Iowa Staats-Anzeiger
Joseph Eiboeck
7 May 1874
State Historical Society of Iowa
First page of first issue under Eiboeck's editorship: <a href="https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2280">https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2280</a><br /><br />"Rundschau über Iowa" from this page, with transcription: <a href="https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2354">https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2354</a>
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Des Moines; Iowa; Polk 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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Allamakee County; Clayton County; Clinton County; Delaware County; Dubuque County; Jasper County; Marshall County; Polk County
<em>Iowa Staats-Anzeiger</em>: To the Members of the German-American Liberal League of Iowa
Joseph Eiboeck; Deutsch-Amerikanischer Liberaler Staatsverband von Iowa; Max Rathberger; Charles Sass; J. Baumbach; John Rath; Dubuque; Waterloo; Dysart; personal liberty
Joseph Eiboeck, who had passed away on 8 January 1913, had been president of the German-American Liberal League of Iowa. With the annual meeting of the league imminent, Paul Krüger, secretary of the organization, requests that other members of the League contact him in person or by letter regarding the proper course of action following Eiboeck's death.
The John Rath mentioned here is likely the father of John Washington (J.W.) Rath, co-founder of the Rath Packing Company of Waterloo.
Paul Krüger
Iowa Staats-Anzeiger
Paul Krüger
17 January 1913
State Historical Society of Iowa
Joseph Eiboeck obituary: <a href="https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2286" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2286</a>
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Iowa; Des Moines; 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
A lying, malicious attack<em> (Ein verlogener, niederträchtiger Angriff</em>)
Eiboeck’s dispute with John P. Irish over saloon licensing at the Anti-Monopoly party convention
In reaction to a letter John P. Irish had published in the German newspaper <em>Dubuque National-Demokrat</em>, attacking Joseph Eiboeck's 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 publishes an affidavit in his own newspaper, accusing Irish of lying and political blackmailing.
Joseph Eiboeck
Iowa Staats-Anzeiger
Joseph Eiboeck
1874-07-23
State Historical Society of Iowa
<a href="https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2300"><em>Iowa Staats-Anzeiger</em>: Unmasking a Liar</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
Carroll Demokrat on current events in Carroll
Carroll community
Various events and activities around Carroll, and an aside on Prohibition measures.
Carroll Demokrat
Carroll Demokrat
4 July 1884
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Carroll, Carroll County, Iowa