New Britain herald., 1916-11-01

"duty' by not having also sent the U. s. army and navy against German barbarians.
 There they stand, united in arms against Wilson, the German Alliance, because of his actions against Ger many,-and their friends, the Roose- velt-Hughes combination, because of ''his inaction" toward Germanys ''vio- lation of international law!"
 The determined opponents of Wom- en Suffrage and Prohibition have not only to swallow that, but have also to swallow in silence the insults of- fered them by Roosevelts contemptu- ous reference to them and their po-
 itical activities as to professional German Am ericans,' whose foul 1n- trigues will gain them no influence over him. their chosen candidate Hughes, "worthy of their support"
 If they really had any "principles," they would see reason enough to thank God that during these critical years the American policy has been in the hands of man of strength of character and wise counsel instead of those of a smiling, non-committal politician like Hughes and a rabid German hater like Roosevelt.
 What are those ''prin ciples'' now, anyway, for which these professional Germ an-Am ertcans" stand? Tn view of their alliance with the party of Wall street, with Morgan & Go. and the pro-Allied element of the coun- try, they seem to have shrunk down to measly "rather vote for the devil than for Wilson," How long is this alliance going to last. this German American-Ant -German-pro British Alliance? Forsooth, the strangest team ever seen
 Now lacking the courage of honest conviction to admit their political blunders, these professional German Americans" are even brazen-faced enough to urge ~German-American citizens to vote for Hughes who con- graduates his friend Roosevelt on his speech in which he slaps them in the face.
 Why should German-Am erican cit izens vote for their pro-British can didate Hughes and his conglomera- ton of office-seekers, war speculators and enemies of laboring men The real German-Ame ericans have, since they know where Hughes stands, no interest in his campaign except one to see him and his henchmen de- fcated. He does not stand for the ''principles O. the German Alliance convention nor does he stand for "un- qualified loyalty" to our country. He stands for an office.
 It is the most idlotic campaign, America has seen in a hundred years, es far as the republican party is con- cerned. They have no issues except this: Get Wilson out, so we may get in! They are not offering solution for one single problem with which Wilson has had to wrestle. They have nothing to offer but the barefaced i'm 'pudence of the office-seeker who hopes to get into power by resorting to slander defamation, vilification of the government for the good 1t has done to the country by keeping Amer ica out of trouble. They are appeal ing to the hatred, the ignorance, the EreJudices of race, clOaking all this under stolen slogans like dominant mericanisn'-." loyalty to the country etc.
 After Roosevelt's speeches and Hughes 1ndorsement of them,-'T subscribe to every word MT. Roose- welt said '-let the cat out of the republican bag, German have no quarre! any more with Pres ident Wilson, who, as it appears now, has withstood like 9 rock all at tempts to make America the catspaw of foreign nations and sordid selfish private interests. But they recognize this danger in the campaign for Hughes.
 The politicians of the German-A1- liance may still have an issue against Wilson. But it is not the miscon- ceived issue of their May convention, when they tried their hand at ''mak- ing American Presidents" They have sunk down to the unenviable posi- ton of coolies of the party which made them the laughing stock of America. They have but one griev- ance against Wilson. as they them selves are forced to admit publicly in that appeal to German voters in the New York Staates-Zeitung :Wilson has called us creatures of passion, disloyalty and anarchy he has of- tended us.-down with Wilson,"
 Well, what of it? Hughes and Roosevelt did more to these pro fessiona1 German-American but what is that to us German Americans whom Wilson never offended. and v,ho are thankful to him for having kept America out of trouble. es~ pecially with the old fatherland, against which Roosevelt and HugheS as they stated, would have made war