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Show THE GERMAN VOTE. If it be tine, "as ia generally stated ' in tiie newspapers, that the bulk of the Germans in all parts of the country coun-try lavor the ticket headed by the names of Tildeu and Hendricks, the .vote of this class of citizens will furnish fur-nish a more than saScient accession to the democratic party to render it the winner in the presidential con-teat. con-teat. In the middle and most of the northwestern states the German vote, when united, is a controlling one. According to the census of 1S70, , there were living in California 0,701 persons born in Germany; in Ulioois, "03,753; Indiana, 73,060; Iowa, G3,-162 G3,-162 ; Michigan, 04,143 ; Minnesota, 41,364; Nebraska, 10 ,9-34; New Jersey, 54,001; New York,316,902; OIuo,lS2,-S?7; OIuo,lS2,-S?7; Pennsylvania, 10,146; Wubcn-siu, Wubcn-siu, 162,314. During and since the war a large majority of the Germans have sustained the republican parly, and their accession to that nartv has been the main cause of its long series of successes. It will be recollected Hat a German it.9uescc was brought to bear very strongly upon the St. Louis convention for the nomination of Mr. Tildeu, and subsequent events have strengthened the EUipicion that a great many voters of this nationality will refuse longer to support the republican re-publican party. Zs'ot that they have become democrats particularly do they take this course, but because they desire a change, and see in the election of Mr. Tiiden the only wy i of bringing it about. The German iu- fluence upon American politics is a very important element, and if its al-; leged change of front is to be credited, we must look to the states of Indiana and Ohio neit week, lor the practical indications of the fact. Tbe I3 Angeles Express says: "Xowiiere is this German revolution more striking strik-ing than in California, and we are grossly misinformed or it 13 markedly true of Los Angeles county." |