Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-07-27
CAN THE KAISER DEFEAT THE P~RESIDENT?

Whatever measure OF achievement " comfort the Wcrlt or any
BODY else a derive from asalng the Amercanism OF Charles Evans
Hughes may be accorded with perfect satisfaction" writes Colonel
George Harvey in the North American Review. Colonel Harvey, to our
certain knowledge, was brought up to know and behave better.
Nobody is assaifng the Amercanism OF Mr.. Hughes. Indeed, when
that fake issue was raised prior to the Chicago convention by the Roose-
Welt supporters, the World said:
"As for the pretended distrust of Mr.. Hughes AmercaniSn, we
doubt ii there is single human being outside the walls OF an idiot
asylum who seriously questions it. Hughes is the same kind OF American
that Wilson is that Roosevelt is that Root IS, that Taft is, that every
man IS who has earned high place in the service OF the American people"
Mr. hughes individual Amercanism is one thing, but the Ameri-
canisn OF the anu-Wlson campaign is quite another thing
Colonel Harvey will not dispute our statement that the German
American Alliance demanded the nomination OF Mr.. Hughes and that
Mr.. Hughes vas nominated. He will not deny that the German propa-
ganda is supporting MI. Hughes and proc1aiming the political destruc-
publican organization is IN partnership with the German vote, even
though the Republican member Of the firm poses as a silent partner
Nor can he doubt that ii Mr.. Wilson is defeated by Mr.. Hughes, this
defeat will be celebrated in Berlin and Vienna as a smashing German VIC
tory over the foreign policies OF the president
We need not tell Colonel Harvey what a calamity that would be t O
conduct OF American diplomatic affairs.
We should never dream OF Insulating that Mr. Hughes had made
proposals for the German vote or that he would offer to Germany a for
eBn policy less rigidly American than Mr.. Wilson's foreign policy; but
president ought to b. sufficient in itself to make Mr., Hughes election
impossible, regardless of what he would do or what he would not do
If Mr. Wilson can be beaten by the German OF because his foreign
pohcy IS dspleasmg to Berlin, tour years hence Mr.. hughes may be
beaten for reelection because the kaiser is disappointed in him, and we
shall have opened the door to a perpetual Potsdam censorship Owe the
presidency. Seeing what the organized German vote has accomplished
in the control OF American politics, every other European country will
have and convincing inducements to organize its former subjects in
the United States and direct their suffrage. What the kaiser car 90 in
one election the Ear OF Russia or the king of Italy is free o undertake
in the next election. 1t is a question merely of having a sufficient inter
est in American politics to organize the hyphenated vote from the vr-
ious European capitals
This is by II o mean a fantastic deduction. The effect of the German
propaganda in the United States, and the extraordinary power welded
McIemore resolutions were before the senate and house, show what cal
be done when there is a disposition to do it.
If the kaiser a defeat a president of the United States OF whom he
disapproves, it is a relatively small matter whether Charles Evans
Hughes or George Sylvester Viereck is the instrument by which the
imperial revenge is wreaked.
The quality Of Mr. Hughes W Americanism does OF change the
issue: Can the kaiser defeat the presdent2-New York World.