The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-09

In the press, Dut'1t VIII Help' ho'
 ertheless.
 My efforts in this direction are addressed more particularly 10 the intellectual classes.
 The yon Skal Comments. MT. Won SkaPs comments on the presidential outlook are featured in the Madgeburg Zeitung of June 27. Tt is not necessary he wrote. to be endowed with much prophetic gift in order to perceive that 8 decided change is coming over American puo- lie opinion, The Irish rebellion has visibly produced a great effect on the masses, to which further impetus IS lent by the developments in home pol itics. It may be looked upon as cer- tain that the Republicans will select Charles E. Hughes as their candidate for the presidency, (editorial note that in the meantime this has been done), and we have thus escaped great danger. We are rid of the agitators
 and jingoes, and no Roosevelt nor Root can bring the country into dan ger The professional politicians have done their best to avoid taking any such step. but now one after the other Is declaring himself a supporter of Hughes"
 The rest of the dispatch is praise of MT. Hughes. of his independence of character, and other numerous vir- tues. The correspondent also alludes to sharp note'' being prepared to be sent to England and to the dissem- ination of the news that MT. Lansing alone is opposed to this and anxious to postpone a settlement with Eng land until after the conclusion of peace. From this it Is inferred that MT. Lansing will soon resign and be made the scapegoat for President Wilson's misdemeanors.
 '-This would be- says the core spondent, Tan immense advantage. and would prove that President Will son has come to the conclusion that without the German Americans and Irish-Americans he cannot be elected, and IS attempting to be conciliatory."
 Tho American Press.
 The American press, we are assured, Is also turning round. The New York Tribune, which has openly sided with England and urged war with Ger many. admits in long mournful ar ttcle that the American nation does not want war and is by no means 1n- clined to give up It's rights in order to help England to win the war; on the contrary, it demands stern measures against Great Britain.''
 The Review of Reviews, which has always champ1oned the English stand point,' is also cited as proving in a long article that no misunderstanding with Germany would ever have come about had not the American govern ment been pleased to put up with ev-1 erything which England did. It points out that Berlin was prepared to make al! concession (sic) while Lon- don refused all requests. Thus tho truth Is at length making headway and other newspapers will not in tho long run be able to resist the trend of events."
 The Boersen-Zeitung of Berlin, lBerlin Stock Exchange Journa), in an article printed June 2s, entitled Wilson or Hughes,'' observes that the United States Presidential election Is a home concern of the American nation, in which the German nation has not the slightest inclination ito meddle.
 We are still today. just as we were before, mere on1ookers. Germany's fate does not depend on the victory or defeat of the Democrats or Repub1i- cans." but, owing to "various unfor- gotten occurrences connected with the relations between the German Empire and America" it Is not wholly indif-- ferent to the who next November becomes the first citizen of the American republic. President Wilson. says the Boersen-Zeitung. we know; MT. Roosevelt. whom mistak- enly we thought we knew, we have learned to know better during the war; MT. Hughes we do not yet know.'' An Austrian View. Die Zeit of Vienna, (June 29), in an unsigned article. says that the en- thusiasm for MT. Hughes has dis tinctly cooled down among the Ger man-Americans, Germans, and Aus trians since he made his statement as to his probable policy and since MT. Roosevelt has retired in his favor and is known to be one of his supporters. It is hinted that the Germans on the other side of the Atlantic were per- haps in too great hurry to reproach MT. Wilson with Germanophobia, and declare, that they would support Mr. Hughes.
 Evidently it is feared that, should MT. Hughes be elected. it may prove a case of Tout of the frying pan into the fire" Evidently, also, the Germans and Austrians did not like Mr. Hughes declaration in his nomination tcle- gram anything except unswerving loy-' atty; nor his uncomplimentary allu- sion to the activities of Germans in America.
 The Hamburger Fremdenblatt of June 29, in an alleged telegram from Berlin entitled Hughes or Wilson," is also obviously much disgusted by MT. Hughes allusion to the plots of foreigners" and hints that his policy of Impartial neutrality looks stis- piciously as if 1t might be partial to England. His "plots of foreigners" can be interpreted only as referring to the alleged machinations of the Ger man-Americans" and as meaning that "in the fight against hyphenated per- sons of German proclivities Hughes would like to exceed MT. Wilson in his nationarism.''
 The Allgemeine Zeitung fur Chem nitz und das Erzgebrige (for Chene- nitz and the Harz Mmountains) of June 30 contains a lengthy leading arr ticle entitled "Amerika und Wir," CAmerica and Ourselves.") The jour- nal remarks that We do not know America" and consequently we must be very much on our guard against expressing opinions about events in that country. When it was known that Mir. Hughes was to stand for the l -s