The sun., 1916-10-26
The Ideal Of Mr.. Hughes Is q
United Nation.

Throughout his campaign Mr..
HUGHES has had fixed and un-'
swerving purpose. the purpose that
animated ABRAHAM LINCOLN. to pre-
serve united country.
Mr.. HUGHES has not permitted and
will not permit any division Of Ameri-
cans against each other. He has not
permitted and will not permit any
questioning Of the loyalty to their
country of any body " American citi.
zens. He has striven. as LINCOLN
strove, to preserve the solidarity of II
free people.
With other thoughtful men. Mr..
HUGHES observed ~ the outset Of the
campaign certain differences of opin.
Ion which could be seized upon and
emphasized for political purposes
These riffs would have made possible
deep and lasting cleavages In Ameri-
can life. Nothing would have been
easier than to widen Them 4 few
strokes here. an explosive charge
there. a blast in this quarter. II wedge
driven elsewhere. would have torn
asunder The great rock Of national
confidence with such shattering force
as had not rended il since the civil
war. There would have been no such
clean fracture as occurred in the GOs
we should not have had number
of sovereign States Withdrawing from
the Union. No! we should have been
riven In thousand places. scanned
and Scared by the breaking Of social.
political and business ties in every
village Of the country. shaken and
split by feuds Of blood and race
renewed from the past. until the
rock ~ national confidence. the base
Of national security. crumbled into
fragments sort Of loose rubble
on which the HAPsBu RIGS build Il tot.
tering empire.
That is the possible destruction Mr..
HUGHES foresaw. With the rpsolutp
patriotism of LINCOLN he set his face
; against any appeal to his countrymen
not founded and erected on the sure
rock Of united people. But what
have his opponents done?
They have raised repeatedly ques-
tons Of the race, of the antecedents.
Of the loyalty and good faith of whole
bodies Of the American people.
While Mr.. WILSON tells the country
that he neither fears the enmity nor
courts the favor Of any element In
America. one of his two chief conf
dAnts in foreign affairs spends hours
trying to get the votes of citizens Of
German birth or parentage; to do this
Senator STONE appeals directly to
racial prejudices by pointing out that
Mr.. HuaHEs's father was Welsh born.
While Mr.. WILSON Is courting the
votes Of those misguided persons who
put the hatfed Of Germany before
their love Of America. Senator STONE
10 asking others to let their hatred Of
Britods dictate American votes.
The rema rkable NORMAN HApeoop
tAaSs " way Uy dUcK-
Ing that Mr.. HUaHEs has an under.
standing with German Americans.
When he Il shown up he announces
that State Senator will come to New
York to appeal "to the Germans as
Germans" TO give their votes to Mr..
WILSON. This after Mr.. WILSON has
notified an Irish American that he does
not want his vote or the votes of dis.
loyal" Americans! And In the morn.
Ing paper, as another evidence Of the
inSidious appeal Of the Democratic
campnlgners TO racial feeling, we read
protest signed by some Of the most
distinguished Americans Of Jewish
blood. They denounce with vigOr and
.hhorrence the attempt to appeal ia
Jewish citizens to vote for Mr.. VIII.
son for racial reasons.
Now 1t would have been easy for