Bisbee daily review., 1916-06-27


 that when my fellow Prosressives cooly consider the question tonight, they will, for the most part. take this position. They and l have one pur- pose-the. purpose to serve our com mon country. It is my deep convic- ton that this moment we can serve it only by supporting MT. Hughes. It is urged against MT. Hughes that he was supported by the various so-called German-American alliances l believe that the attitude of these professional German-Americans was due, not in the least, to any liking for MT. Hughes, but solely to their antagonism to me. 1 They were bound to defeat for the nomination. The only way by which they could achieve this subject was supporting MT Hughes and they sup 1 ported him accordingly. without any regard to other considerations. need hardly repeat what I have al ready said in stern reproduction of this professional German-American el- ement, the element typified by Ger man-American alliances and the siml- lar bodies, which have, in the pre- nomination campaign, played not merely an un-American but a thor oughly anti-American part. These men have nothing in common with the great body of Americans who are in whole or in part of German blood: and who are precisely as good as Americans as those of any other ancestry There are not. and never I have been, in all our land, better citi- Zens than the great mass of the men and women of German birth or des- cent. wh5 have been or are being conl- pletely merged in our common Ameri- can nationality; nationality distinct from any in Europe, for Americans who are good Americans are no more German-Americans than they are English-Americans,o or Irish-Americans or Scandinavian-Ameri They are Americans and nothing else. No good American, whatever his ancestry or creed, can have any feeling except scorn and detestatfon for, those pro fessional German-Aplericans who seek to make the American president Tn effect viceroy of the German emper- or The professional German-Ameri' ! cans of this type are awaiting purely in the sinister interest of Germany. They represent adherence to the pol itico-racial hyphen which is the badge and sign of moral treason to the republic. l have singled these men out for specific denunciation and assuredly, if l support candidate it is accepted as proof that l am con- vinced that the candidate is incapable of influenced by the evil intrigues of these hyphenated Americans.
 ! MT. Hughes character and his whole course of conduct in public affairs justify us in the assured con viction that the fact that these men have for their own purposes supported ' him, will in no shape or way, affect his public actions before or after cleo tion. His entire public life is a guarantee of this.
 i The events of the last three and q half years have shown that as much i cannot be said for MT. Wilson. In MT. Wilson's case we do not have to consider his words. put his deeds. As regards Mexico, the situation which MT. Wilson confronted was nothing like as difficult that which President Mckinley confronted in connection with Cuba and the Philippines at the time of the Spanish war. Under the actual circumstances we could with only minimum risk, have protested on behalf of Belgium, small we'll behaved nation, when she was exposed to the last extremity of outrage by the brutal violation of her neutral rights; this violation being itself violation of The Hague conventions to which we are signatOry power. As regards the foreign situation gen erally during the great war, the fact of the existence of the war made it far easier and safer for MT. Wilson to assert our rights than if he had to deal with some single strong power which was at the time un- hampered by war.
 I do not believe that Mir. Hughes would have been nominated if it had not been for the fight on behalf of public decency and efficiency which the Progressive party has waged dur ing the past four years.
 In any event. and without any re- gard to what the personal feelings of any of us may be as regards the ac- ton of the Republican convention. wish very solemnly to ask the repre- sentatives of the Progressive party to consider at this time only the wei fare of the people of the United States. We shall prove false to our ideals and our professions if. in this. grave crisis of the nations life, We permit ourselves to be swerved from the one prime duty of serving with cool judgment and single minded de S3tion the nations needs. Our own political fortunes, individually and collectively, are of no consequence whatever, when compared with the honor and welfare of the people of the United States. Such things do not count when weighed in the bal ance against Our duty to serve well