The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-06-23

mistakes in the campaign. Also not
to overdo our business As far as we
can see, there is no necessity for Ger
man-Americans to work openly in the
campaign. We also believe that neith-
er for the campaign nor for the Ger
manAmerican Alliance is it of advan-
tage if they and their branch associa-
tions take any kind of position in the
campaign. The present election is not
one in which the COMMUNICATIONS
can participate as Republicans or
Democrats, but that does not include
their forming a political party. Such
would, aside from other severe
thoughts, become rather an element of
weakness than of power for German
Americanism.
I'VE have no reason to suppress the
fact that we are for Hughes, and we
have no cause to be silent about the
reasons that make him for us an ac-
ceptable candidate, which reasons are
to be found In the anti-neutrality and
injustice of President Wilson. An agi-
tation that would enlighten Americans
as to these points would be all right,
but to go beyond that would be bad
After presenting the above positive
evidence of the attitude of the repre-
sentatives of the Kaiser in this coun-
try and of the program of those hy-
phenates, self-designated as German
Americans, with the country of their
adoption dragging behind the country
of their nativity in the hyphenate, to
defeat President Wilson for his red
blooded Americanism, and because un-
der his administration the United
States has not become a subservient
province of Germany, the World con-
cludes it's remarkable editorial as fol-
lows:
Practically all the German news
papers of the country are for Mr.
Hughes. All the pro-German news
papers, like Hearsts New York
American, the Evening Mail and the
Chicago Tribune, are for him. All the
professional German agitators are for
him. The German propaganda is for
him.
Whatever Mr.. Hughes may say
whatever Mr.. Hughes may do, he is the
German candidate for President of the
United States. He may not welcome
this professional German support, but
without 1t he could not have been NOM
mated and without 1t he can not be
elected. 1t may be unfortunate for
him that he should be placed in such a
position, but that is the fault of cir
cumstances over which he has no con-
troll.
'If Mr.. Hughes should be elected
President his success would inevita-
bly, be regarded throughout the world
as tremendous victory for Germany
in the United States. 1t would be a
notice to all civilization that the Ger
man vote, and through the German
vote the German Government, holds
the balance of power in American poll
tics. 1t would proclaim to the nations
that no President of the United States
could hereafter hope for reelection un-
less his foreign policy was satisfactory
to Berlin and the Kaiser. 1t would
make Potsdam the political capital of
the United States, and in its moral eff
feet upon Germany it would be more
potent than great victory of the Ger
man armies in the field
THAT is the situation that the
American people face Must their
President, in the words of Colonel
Roosevelt, be the victory of foreign
Government in order to be reelected? :?
Can a President of the United States
he defeated by the Kaiser? Willingly
or unwillingly, every American voter,
be he Democrat or Republican, must
vote on that issue when he goes to
the pole In November"