Weekly journal-miner., 1916-06-28
SUPPORT HUGHES IS REQUEST OF
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faith and meant what l said. They
 knew that my utterances were to be accepted at their exact face value as meaning that if the Republicans nom- mated man whom we could consci- cautiously support we would support him. The Progressive convention came together knowing my public
 statements and therefore knowing ex- actly what my attitude was.
 In my judgment. the nomination of
 MT. Wilson meets the conditions SC, forth in the statement of the Progress sive national committee issued last January. and in my own statements. Under existing conditions, the nomi- nation of a third ticket would, in my judgment. be merely move in the interest of the election of MT. Wilson.
 l regard Mir Hughes as a man whose public record is guarantee that "ie will not merely stand for program of clean-cut, straight-cut American ism before election. but will resolute
 ly and in good faith put 1t through ii elected. He is beyond all compari- son better fitted to be president than | Mir. Wilson. l. would be a grave detriment to the country to re-elect | MT. Wilson. I shall, therefore. strongly support Mir Hughes. Such being the case. it is unnecessary to say that 1 cannot accept the nomina- ton on a third ticket. I do not be- lieve that there should be a third tic ket. l believe that when my fellow Progressives coollv consider the ques- ton they will for the most part take this position. They and I have but one purpose-the purpose to serve our common country. 1t IS my deep conviction at this moment we can serve ii only by supporting Mir. Hughes.
 It is urged against Mr. Hughes that 1 he was supported bv the various so- called German-American alliances. I believe that the attitude of these pro. fessional German-Americans was due, not in the least to any liking for Mir | Hughes. but solely to their antagon, ism to me. They were bound to de-
 feat me for the nomination. The only way by which they could achieve this object was by supporting Mir. Hughes and they supported him accordingly
 without any regard to other consid- erations. I need hardly repeat what I have already said in stern reproba- | ton of this professional German American clement-the element typi- fled bv the German-American alliances and the similar bodies which have, in the pre-nomination campaign. played not merely an un-Amcrican but a | thoroughly 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 Amer jeans as those of any other ancestry. | There are not. and never have been, in our land. better citizens than the orcat mass of the men and women of German birth or descent who have been or are being completely merged in our common American nationality: a nationality distinct from any in EuroDe: for Americans who are good Americans are no more German Americans than they are English | Americans or Irish-Americans or Scandinavian-AmericanS. They are Americans and nothing else No gooi | American, no matter what his anccs- IT. or creed. can have any feeling eX- cept scorn and detcstation for these professional German-Americans. who seek 10 make the American president in effect a vicerov of the German em Dcror The professional German Americans Of this type are acting purely in the sinister interest of Ger many. They have shown their eager readiness to sacrifice the interests of the United States whenever its inter est conflictcd with that of Germany They represent that adherence to the Doliticoracial hyDhcn which is the badge and sign of moral treason to the republic. I have singled these men out for specific denunciation and assuredly if l support a candidate ii may be accepted as proof that I am certain that the candidate is incapable of being influenced by the evil intri Gucs of these hyDhenated Americans l
 Mir. Hughes character and his whole course of conduct in public af 1 fairs justify us in the assured convic ton that the fact that these men have l lOl l.lClT ONH purposes SuppOIlcu Hlin | will. in no shape or way, affect his pub | lie actions before or after election. His entire public life is guarantee of this.
 The events of the last three and q half years have snown that as much i cannot be said for Mir. Wilson. Tn Mir. Wilson's case we do not have to consider his words. but his deeds. His deeds absolutely contradict his words: and for the matter of that. his words absolutely contradict one another. It is folly to pay heed to any of the promises in .he platform on which he stands in view Of the fact that almost every promise contained in the plat form on wilicn he stood four years ago has since been broken. We owe all of our present trouble with inc professional German American rlc mcnt in tho United States to Mir. Wilson's timid and vacillating course during the last two years. The dc lenders of Mr. Wilson have alleged in excuse for him that hc confronted a difficult situation. As regards Mex II leo the situation which Mr. Wilson was nothing like as diff cal. 1S ,b1, ,,.birb prcS.Jcn4 Nrk iu-