Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-10-26

ganizations. Read II over again and
see if its indirect and roundabout
Wilsonian phrases can have any
other meaning. Here it is:
I'VE therefore condemn as subver-
sive of this nations unity and in
tegrity, and as destructive of it's well
lare, the activities and designs of
every group or organization, political
or otherwise, that has for its object
the advancement of the interest OF a
foreign Power, whether such object
Is promoted by intimidating the Gov
ernment, political party, or repre-
sentatives OF the people, or which is
calculated and tends to divide our
people into antagonistic groups, and
thus destroy that complete agree
ment, and solidarity Of the people,
and that unity of sentiment and ma
tional purpose so essential to the per-
petuity of the nation and its free in
stitutions.
I'VE condemn all alliances and
combinations Of individuals in this
country of whatever nationality or
descent, who agree and conspire to-
gether for the purpose of embarrass-
ing or weakening our Government,
or of improperly influencing or coerc-
ing our public representatives in
dealing or negotiating with any for
eign Power. We charge that such
conspiracies among a limited number
exist and have been instigated for
the purpose of advancing the in
terests OF foreign countries to the
prejudice and detriment of our coun-
try. We condemn any political party
which, in view Of the activity of such
conspirators, surrenders its integrity
or modifies its policy.
eve said Of this plank at the time
and we repeat it now:
mo organizations, German, Irish,
or any other, have done any Of the
things charged 1t is only part Of
the false representation OF existing
conditions with which Mr.. Wilson
has filled the country to Offset legiti-
mate criticism of his gross neglect Of
American interests and his thinly dis
guised partisanship with England
What it really means is that all such
movements as the opposition to
President Wilson's shameful surren-
der OF American interests in the
Panama Canal question and the eff
forts to influence Senators and Con-
gressmen in favor of resolutions de-
manding that he perform the duty he
was neglecting, are against the in
terests OF the United States and
should be stopped by the suppression
OF the rights guaranteed to citizens
by the Constitution. 1t means that
this Democratic Convention wants
the Presidency turned into an irres-
ponsible Autocracy ana that Congress
and the people should do his bidding
"The Convention met only to re-
gister DEGREES issued from the White
House. 1t was a cut and dried affair
from beginning to end. Woodrow
Wilson was Boss: he ran everything,
even to the minutest detail, and any
attempt to butt in" by delegate
was promptly suppressed by Chair
man James, as quickly as the fore
man stopped the mutterings of
negro slave by a wallop of q club on
the head in the good old days when
the grandfathers of Wilson's chief
lieutenants were running plantations
down South and running the United
States from Washington.
"The treatment of Martin Lomas-
ney, a Boston delegate of great local
influence, who asked the Convention
to do for Ireland what the Republl-
can Convention had already done for
the Jews in Russia and what the
Democrats in that gathering had
done indirectly, proved that the lat
ter body was dominated by theKnow-
nothing spirit which animates Viii
son. It was most significant in
cident and will bear further com
ment. We shall return to the sub
ject again"