The sun., 1916-10-30
WHO IS THE MS7TCATOR OF DIVIDED
ALLEGIANCE IN THIS COUNTRY?
an Examination Of the Record, Is Woodrow Wilson,

American Alliance consisting OF Stat.
alliances distributed through the conn.
try. the only important system Of soci..
ties called alliances founded upon ,bs
basis OF the prior (forsworn) ALLEGIANCE
OF their members. Within ten dave
after the adoption OF that platform Ia
and all his Cabinet Except his son.In.
law and all the members OF Coueres,
Of his party Except Rcprcsentatiys
Buchanan) were put upon notice bv
letter from the writer to each Of them
that this system OF alliances was teder.
ated under a charter granted by special
act of Congress which 1t was in their
power to repeal. Congress was in SOS.
sion for some twelve weeks thorcaft.r.
but the President rcfraincd from recon-.
mcnding that action and his party 70.
Trained from taking II. yet at this tina
he and his party would seek to have the
country believe that upon the record they
are entitled to the support OF citizens
opposed to disloyalty.
This failure to use the @ glSlatiys
machinery for the protection ~ the ma.
ton from the inroads OF alienism FOL.
lowed the failure to use the executive
and judicial machinery in suppressing
the agents who under foreign pay were
promoting alienism in this country. The
statute of March 3. 1909. specifically
designed to punish persons. whether cit.
zens or foreigners. who upon our terri.
tory ngage In any Intercourse with
agents of foreign Governments for the
purpose OF aiding those Governments 10
their controversies with the United
States. was treated as "A dead letter.
The New York World published In
facsimile form in August. 1915, docu.
ments which had passed between on.
Gals Of the German Embassy and pei.
sons In this country engaged In uphold
ing the right OF Germany to- murder our
citizens on the high seas facsimiles OF
checks. one signed by the German AM.
bassador himself. another by his chief
financial subordinate. were published.
all to no purpose. These insidious prac-
tees were not intcrfcred with In any
way by the President whether under
our neutrality laws or under the act TO
which | have called attention.
Is disloyalty to he stamped out or
even lessened by electing for a second
term a President whose record during
his first term In regard To the problem
OF divided allegiance is as the facts
above recited show 1t to he?
Any lingering doubt on this score will
be swept away by consideration Of the
facts revealing the intriGues Of one %
the chief Administrator spokesman N
the Senate. tie chairman OF the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations. and u
Mr.. Wilson's Postmaster-General. II
has been shown beyond dispute that
shortly before Mr.. Wilson reviled ore
O'Leary. one of his Cabinet officers
was c%onsortinc with George sylvester
Nicreck. whose occupation ia lie T. u
secure fair play 10 Germany and
Austria-IIungaiy" in their cpntr"vcr.,cs
with the United states. while Senator
stone spent nearly a whole night lu a
beer garden with various part.stus -
Germany seeking to convince them that
interest would gain 10y the
victory Of his party's nominee and -
arouse their racial ~autdgonism a-a.nS'
his opponent upon the gruunl Of the
%lattcr's Welsh ancestry, The score,
having failed at must have
'"h Nv iNlhlAN "lVt Ill'N'
them realize better tina anything the
dangerous folly Of their past course AMI
set them more than ever against the one
responsible for their errors q
week elapsed and the method " public
insult was again resor,ed to. M -
occurred only last month.
Nothing more despicatle can lo
than this B~urleson-Store en-.
sodc. and II must Lee remembered that
Mr.. Wilson has not pleaded that le wis
aware OF what was heinz done 90
his interest by these Spokesman and
emissaries OF his Administration, AND
has not ~disavowed them in any VIZ
Instead he set his national committee
tthe same committee which has been
delSging the country with literature
the statement that president
Wilson compelled Germany to dlsdyow
sinking OF the L~usitania") at work
in n desperate endcavor to reflect upoa
integrity of his opponent. I'm orl'r
to draw a herring across .
trail' of his W devious course IN re.
gard to this very matter OF disloya''}
The task proved hopeless and has been
abandoned.
Americans az German descent have a
good reason for supporting NJ
a reaso' which Is equally
TO induce all true Americas -
for him. II ie that C;crA4.
need his guidance in o'd,-
to rehabilitate themselves among '''r
as Americans NJ heart v.r
would have remained loyal prac'i 49,.