Foreign Language Press Service

Position of the German American Press in the Presidential Election

Illinois Staats-Zeitung, August 7, 1872

A complete register of German-American papers has appeared recently; 119 papers support Grant, while 105 favor Greeley. Of the German papers supporting Greeley only the Milwaukee Seebote and the Louisviller Anzliger are important ones.

In favor of Grant are the largest and oldest German-American papers, as v.g. The N.Y. Handels Zeitung, the N.Y. Belle & Journal, The Illinois Staats Zeitung and the Cincinnati Courier, etc.

In regard to Chicago, our conservative estimate is that the total number of subscribers of Greeley papers does not exceed one-fifth of the subscribers of the Illinois Staats Zeitung. It is thus evident that as far as the German reading public is concerned, Greeley is in a pitiful minority.

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