Our German Candidate for Governor.
Illinois Staats-Zeitung, April 20, 1872
The day before yesterday we proposed the "liberal" German, Gustav Körner of Belleville for governor and declared ourselves willing to support him. Naturally we expected the most enthusiastic indorsement of the "liberal" Germans. Our proposal opened to them an excellent way out of the predicament into which they were sure to fall through the candidacy of the signer of the Temperance Law, John M. Palmer. Of what quality the German scribblers are, who have been hitched before the cart of the new party, one can see from the fact that they have not even communicated our proposition to their readers...........
