The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-06-23
CAN THE KAISER DEFEAT THE
PRESIDENT7

PRESlDENT7
Can the Kaiser defeat the Presi-
dent? The question is put by the New
York World in this, the most trench
ant editorial contribution to the new
ly opened National campaign:
az do not like to consider the pos.
sibility of a hyphenated vote says
George w. Wickersham, who is Mr..
Hughes most prominent guide, coun-
sellor and friend. Whether Mr.. Wick.
ersham and Mr.. Hughes like to consid.
er it or not, the hyphenated vote is q
definite fact that can not be disregard
ed.
No other issue of the campaign is
so vital as the issue that this vote
presents. The followers of the Kaiser
in the United States have set out to
destroy President Wilson politically
for the crime of being an American
President instead of German Presi-
dent. They have adopted Mr.. Hughes
as their candidate and made his cause
their cause. They have decreed that
President Wilson must be defeated be.
cause the foreign policies of his ad-
ministration are not satisfactory to the
German Empire.
"Officials of the German-American
Alliance in Chicago had endorsed the
Hughes nomination almost before the
convention had finished its work The
officers Of the German societies in Mil
waukee who sent their ultimatum to
the Republican party last week are all
cordial in expressing their approval
cof the Hughes nomination.
George Sylvester Viereck, editor of
the Fatherland, which is the most
frankly disloyal and seditious OF all
the German newspapers in the United
States, declares that
1.-The nomination OF Justice Hughes
means the salvation of the Republican
party. 1t is a triumph of genuine
Americanism over nativsm.'
George Won Skal. one of the most
active agents of the German propagan-
Mr.. Viereck
1--WE are convinced that President
Wilson is pro-British, and that is the
reason We are going to vote against
him. Justice. Hughes therefore, will
have the support of the German -Ameri-
can Democrats and Republicans, and
think he will be elected
"Alphonse KoelbIe, of the German
American Alliance, who helped to man
age the Congressional campaign in be-
half of the Gore and McLemore reso-
lutions, is no less exultant than Mr..
Viereck and Mr.. Won Skal:
81 am certain that Justice Hughes
will grow as the campaign advances,
and that the chances of MIR. Wilson be.
ing elected are exceedingly slim
Gustav Mayer, publisher of the Ger
man Daily Gazette. said In speech
at Philadelphia Sunday:
We suggested some weeks ago
that Hughes was the most logical man
and with his selection and that OF
Fairbanks and the entire country will
rally to the support of the Republican
ticket.
THE editor of the Cincinnati Volks
i0latt says the nomination is "A splen
did one and the Cleveland Wachtel
und Anzeiger commends Mr.. Hughes
while attacking President Wilson ant
Col. Roosevelt:
We consider Il great boon oI
the Chicago convention that the peo
pie OF the United States viii not be
compelled 70 choose between the pres
ent leader In mneutral subservience
to England and the advocate of still
greater unneuuality.'
In the opinion Of the Cincinnati
Freie Presse--
Justice Hughes has expressed
sentiments which are in accord with
the German-American idea OF neutrali
~ We are In thorough sympathy with
him and his ideals.
According TO the st. Louis West
liche Post
The Republican party faced gi
eantic problem and found a glorious
solution.
In long editorial printed yester
day morning the New Yorker Herold
fcauIions the Germans not to overdc
our business and not to make the
mistake of working too openly for
Hughes After declaring that the ov
erwhelming mass of the German
Americans in the country viii fall into
line for the election of Charles e
Hughes. Il gives this advice to In,