The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-06-16
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cal depravity, are trying 10 fool
some Of tho American public into
believing there Is some sort Of secret
relationship between Hughes and
the malignant hyphenates in this
country know there isn't any such
thing. They know It 10 impossible.
They aren't afraid that the Ger
man Emperor, or the German gov
eminent, or the German nation will
ever be able to do anything with, or
get anything out Of, Hughes. They
aren't afraid that he will be weak
and vacillating in dealing with sub
marine atrocities, or any other viola
ton of American rights and slaugh-
ter Of American lives.
What they are afraid Of Is that
thousands Of Democrats, Disguised,
Inundated, outraged by the way the
Wilson Administration allowed the
Berlin illegalities to 60 on month
after month until the German gov
eminent itself grew sick and weary
of a butchery business which was
accomplishing nothing but to earn
the hatred Of the world will draw
contrasts unfavorable to their own
party's. candidate.
They are afraid that such Demo-
crats-and there are thousands Of
them who feel as deeply on this sub
ject as Republicans and Progressives
feel-will give their ballots to Mr..
Hughes, because there Is nothing in
his whole public career to leave any
doubt in the mind of any man who
seeks the truth that If Hughes had
been in the White House at the time
of the Lusitania horror there never
would have been another deliberate
submarine atrocity, because the mes
sage he would have sent to the Ber-
lin foreign Office at that time, and
the steps he would have taken in
this country to be prepared to back
up his words, If necessary, with
deeds, would have stopped the sub
marine campaign Of frightfulness
against neutrals and noncombat-
ants dead short in it's tracks.
But If the Administration organs,
which are so unblushingly vitupera-
tive Of Mr.. Hughes Americanism,
know in their hearts what he would
have done as against what Mr.. Will
son did not do-and they do know
it is singular that they do not stop
to think of the consequences to their
own candidate Of their slanderous
and libelous imputations against the
Republican candidate when Mr..
Hughes stands up, as he will stand
up at the proper time, to denounce
these organs and to arraign their
Administration for the way 1t failed
to do its duty against the German
government.
Then there will be nobody, not ex-
cepting the malignant hyphenates,
who will not see that II the hyphen-
ates want to get something out of
the White House for Berlin they will
get 1t more easily, q thousand times
over, from Mr.. Wilson than from
Mr.. Hughes.
We mean they will get It mega
lively, for this paper doesn't ques-
ton Mr.. Wilson's American spirit as
a theory any more than 1t questions
Mr.. Hughes American spirit as a
fact. But, in all matters which re-
quire direct and forceful action, Mr..
Wilson is destitute Of will to carry
out his purpose, or to continue to
have the same purpose, or even to
remember that he ever had II.
And SO we say that If the hyphen-
ates are to get anything out Of the
White House their choice, as be-
tween the two candidates, would
have to be, If they had any sense OF
discrimination whatever, always Mr.
Wilson, never Mr.. Hughes.
It is this very thing which Hughes
the strong man; Hughes, the man OF
action; Hughes, the man of, unbend-
ing will in the cause of his commun-
ity, his State or his country, is going
to make so Enthusiastically clear to
the American people that the jour.
nalistic villifiers who are now trying
to cast reflection upon his attitude
toward the hyphenates will have te
eat their own words. When they
do that they will be admitting that
the only hope Of the hyphenates is In
the reelection of Mr.. Wilson as the
weaker vessel, and then Mr.. Wilson
will indeed have been destroyed By
his own foolish friends Of the Sian.
der bund in exactly the manner tn.
Berlin cause in this country was -.
stroyed by its own foolish bund OF
hyphenates.