Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-06-09
ROOSEVELT BREAKS LOOSE
AGAIN

AAAAN.
Theodore Roosevelt has Broken
loose again. AS usual he goes for
the "Hyphenates." ii Is his last at
tempt to frighten the Republican
National Convention al Chicago not
to nominate United States Supreme
Court Justice Charles u. Hughes 1t
is his last attempt to stampede the
Republican convention for himself.
Tho brave Theodore Is making this
last vociferous attack on his fellow
citizens of German origin in q letter
TO the former Maryland Senator W m.
p jackson who is the Maryland
member OF the Republican National
Committee, and who Is also a del
cgate to the Republican Convention.
The professional German Amer
lean" says the iigating gentleman
from Oyster Bay, acting through
various agencies, including the So
called German American alliances,
arc at this moment serving notice on
the members OF your Convention that
your action must be taken with
view 10 the interests not OF the
United States but of Germany and of
chat section of the German-American
vote which is anti-American to the
core. / believe with all my heart
that the action Of these sinister Ger
man-Americans will be repudiated
with angry contempt by the great
mass Of our fellow-citizens who arc
in whole or in part OF German blood
and who, as / well know. are unsur-
passed in rugged and wholesouled
Americanism by any other citizens OF
our land. But the professional Ger
man-Americans are seeking to ter
rorize your Convention; for they
wish to elect next November man
who shall not be in good faith an
American President but tho yiceroy
of o foreign Government 1t is for
your Convention in emphatic fashion
to repudiate them. This can be done
in effective manner only if such ac-
tion is taken as to enable Repub-
licans, Progressives, Democrats who
are true to the principles of Andrew
Jackson, and independents-in short,
all loyal Americans to Join in the
effort to reach the goal we all have
in view.
When Mr.. Roosevelt wrote this let
ter, he knew that he was writing q
lie. He knew that the German Amer
leans want a man nominated for
President who is an AMERICAN and
nothing else. While apparently at
tacking the millions Americans Of
German origin Mr. Roosevelt's secret
aim is to attack Mr. Charles E.
Hughes; his aim Is to throw the
suspicion into the mind of the people
that Justice Hughes can not be a true
American, because his nomination
seems to be satisfactory to the Ger
man Americans; because the German
American believe Justice Hughes a
level-headed American who, If elect
cd President Of the United States,
would be for America first, last and
all the time, who would safeguard
our rights against all violaters, who
would protect the lives OF our citi-
zens in Mexico as well as in the At
lantic Ocean, who would not call our
fleet away from foreign harbor and
leave Americans to the protection OF
Captains Of warships OF other foreign
nations, who would demand that our
lawful commerce on the ocean be left
alone, who would demand that our
foreign mail be left untouched, who !
would demand that foreign paasen-
gers on our ships not be intcrfered
with, and who would cloth his de-
mands in such words that would
bring the desired results.
That is the kind Of an American
the Americans Of German origin
want to be placed In the White House
for the next four years and forever
after. If Mr. Roosevelt could de-
clare and show that he is such an
American, no doubt the German
Americans would gladly vote for
him, II he could get the nomination;
but in his writings and in his public
speeches the thunderor from Oyster
Bay has shown that he is the OPP
posite OF such an American, he has
shown that he belongs in the same
class with the present occupant OF
the White House.
III the Republican Party nominates
an AMERICAN, lie viii get the votes
Of the Americans Of German origin; |