The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-04-09
SAYS TEUTON
BALLOTS WILL
BEAT WILSON.
German HeroId' Analyses
Conditions in Country to
Prove Contention. 81.

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NEW YORK. April s.-The German
Herald. Of this city, says that there
is no chance Of the reelection Of
President Wilson. principally because
Of the hostility toward him OF Amer
leans OF German descent. The ar
t'cle says In part: 7H'a .''s'
THE president and his friends are
evidently thoroughly alarmed. Every
circumstance goes 10 show that moth
Ing will be left undone to win back
the German Americans. Not on ac-
count OF any special fondness for them
nut Wilson needs their votes. This
view can be mathematically demon
strated to be correct.
There are 531 votes in the, cleo
tLral college and 1t requires 266 OF
these to elect president. Let us
now give MIR. Wilson the entire Solid
South and he has 142 votes to start
with. We shall then make him u pres
ent Of the following small doubtful
etates: Arizona, Colorado. Idaho,
Maryland, Montana and New Mexico.
thirty-one votes, making in all 173.
1.-THE following states have gone Re-
publican in the three elections. 1900,
1904 and 1908; California. Connecti-
cut. Illinois, Indiana. Iowa, Kansas.
Maine. Massachusetts,. Michigan, Min
nesota. New Hampshire. New Jersey,
New York. North Dakota. Ohio. Ore
gon, Pennsylvania. Rhode Island,
South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Wash
ington. West Virginia, Wisconsin and
Wyoming. That Mr.. Wilson obtained
the electoral votes OF some Of them
is due to split in the Republican
party. Mr.. Wilson had in the popular
vote, 2.450.504 votes less than the
other candidates combined.
Where Republicans Will Win.
1.-THE New England states and Penn
sylvania are 'cinched' for the Repub-
licans. They have eighty-two votes.
or the entire number Of 531 votes we
have now awarded 265. leaving 276.
These votes were. all Republican in
three elections and would have re-
NAMED so II Mr.. Roosevelt had not
been able to hypnotic his followers
to a sufficient degree that they bolted
the regular nomination. of their party.
But this bolt Is a thing Of the past.
as the Progressive party Is a shadow.
1.-THE parts Of the United States
where the German element Is strong
est are New York, New Jersey and
the middle West. Combined they have
226 electoral votes. Even II we make
Mr.. Wilson. q present Of California,
West Virginia, Washington and few
other states ordinarily Republican,
having in all fifty votes. he still lacks
forty-three votes. It is impossible for
the president to obtain them with the
German vote. or rather the vote OF
the Germanophiles against him."
A table is then presented giving
total population Of 41,542,000 to I'LL
nois, Indiana. Iowa. Kansas. Michi-
gan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska,
New Jersey, New York, North Dakota.
Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
It Is said that in those states there
are 8,126,000 natives of the central en-
pires and their children, while the
natives Of Ireland, Sweden and Swift
erland and their children compose g.
519,999 Of the population. Contiuu-
ing the article says:
ITO grasp the true significance OF
these figures the following circum-
stances should be remembered:
81. All these states have gone Re-
publican three times in succession,
$500, 1904 and 19O8) and even 1912
the vote Of the Republicans combined
with that OF the Progressives exceeded
that of the Democrats.
"2. The natives from the Allies
countries are of little Importance In
these states, there being only few
English, French and Russians, and
the Italians are most not naturalized.
Can See No Chance for Wilson.
with the active support OF the
German Americans Mr.. Wilson might
obtain the forty-three votes still nee
essary, but with their. hostility-never.
Some of our contemporaries print
ed in the vernacular intimate that in
case the German Americans would
pronounce for one side the true blue
Americans would Immediately flop to
the other side. thereby defeating the
aims Of the Germans. We incline to
the opinion that the German Amerl-
cans will come out for neither side.
In fact, they will do no campaigning
whatever.
1.-THE only thing necessary Is to sub
init to all fair minded Americans a
statement showing exactly how the
president has violated the spirit and
the letter OF true neutrality. This
document will appear In due time and
It will give really neutral Americans
something to ponder over.
"They will find, the German Amer
leans have found. that Mr.. Wilson has
harmed not so much Germany as the
United States. because his partially
for one side in the great war has low
cred the standing of the country
throughout the world and has created
dissatisfaction In large body Of
American citizens"