Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-09-27
A GERMAN VICTORY IN NEW YORK

The Hughes Whitman German American Alliance WA too much for
Robert Bacon i'll the Republican primaries, says the New York World.
Mr.. Bacon might have won against the iIuIhes-W hitman machine. or
he might have o against the k"iscri"nd, but the hyphenated coalition
was invincible
The votes that nominated Mr.. Calder came from Manhattan and
Brooklyn, where the iiughes-Whitnan organization and the German
propaganda cxcrted themselves to the utmost to defeat Mr. Bacon.
The German newspapers have a right to congratulate themselves on
the result. They made a most effective campaign against Mr. Bacon in
behalf of Mr.. Calder, and Mr.. Cadcrs victory is their victory.
The hyphenaed press has had few German oversees to record in
Republican primaries since Mr.. Hughes a nominated for president.
1t is not without eason that the Newly orker IIerold boasts that in
Illinois every single congressman who voted against Mr.. Wilson's for
cign policies has been renominated." This is true. Illinois Republicans
in the house, under the leadership of James r. Mann and Joseph G.
Cannon, supported the McLemorc resolution declaring that Americans
had no rights on the high seas that Germany a bound to respect, and
these men are all renominated in the Republican primaries.
it is not strange that the German press grows more and more con-
hdcnt OF defeating President VIII on and more and more vcnomous in
its attacks upon him.
The Illinois Staats-Zcitung is fairly representative OF this sentmcnt
when it says:
"Wisons hypocrisy, unmaskcd, disgusts every true American ci-
zen. Wilson's lie about prosperity and his slogan, 4 have saved the
united Republican party and OF those independent voters who do not be
leve in 4 prosperity founded IN bloodshed and taking the place Of
peaceful, legitimate commerce.
"Wison's removal from the nations political lie is ardenty hoped
for by the majority of American citizens. The train that will take Vii
son away from Washington, eve to return, stands ready"
Each successive surrender of the Republican party to German de
mands gives the German propaganda lev confidence and new resoiu-
ton. Naturally. Mr.. Bacon had II chance OF being nominated for Unit
ed States senator in New York by a party that is ILL open partnership
with the German propaganda and whose candidate for president has
never ventured to deny that partnership o repudnnc it. The exraordi-
nary thing about his candidacy for senator is that he did SO we'll against
the Hughes Whitman kaiserbund.
His vote proves that a very large element of the Republican party
in New York is still free and indepy ndent of Berlin Sc far as the primaries
go, But will it be free and ind, pendent at the polls? Or, sacrificing
everything to regularity, will it meekly reJoin the Hughes Whitman
German-Americau Alliance and use its franchise to help make the Ger
man party the balance of power n American politics:
Republicans are much AYERS to meeting that issue II eve TO dis
cussng it. Mr.. Hughes hides himself whenever it is raised. Yet it is
indefinitely the 10 important question lat ne campaign presents. II
presidents can be elected or defeated as the German vote DEGREES, tae
United States is little more than a Prusslan colony. Ii a majority Of
the American people are prepared to tolerate such dictaton, then the
Republic Oft the Fathers has ceased to exist.