South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-06-27

settled by Roosevelt In fact. else could pos
siby done much and accomplished so easily;
certainly Mr. Taft. and have very grave doubts
about Hughes Happily Prest Mckinley
confronted with a difficult problem in Cuba and the
Philippines-not happily because Of the difficult
problems-but just that we may have the assurance
that somebody confronted with difficult prob
lens Mr. Roosevelt who disposed Of them right
of the bat-just like that SO Prest Wilson is
concerned especially since compensang Columbia for
the steal. couldn't anything please
the Oyster Bay anyway the branless hyper
criticism OF the president above quoted plainly indi
Gates
Pres't Wilson is TO blame for everything-to let the
colonel tell it.-even the organization Of the German
American vote which brought about the nomination
Hughes order 10 defeat the colonel. In the
face Rooseves charges weakness vacilIa
ton against the president in his dealings with
many German outrages here home, will
surely a interesting sight witness the pro
fessional German-American element" swallowing
Messrs. Hughes and Roosevelt in the gulp. It
interesting to watch them continue their cham
pionship of Mr.. Hughes under the assurance of Mr..
Roosevelt that he is certain perhaps the
OF Mr.. Henry CABOT Lodge who has been serving
as go-between. that
the candidate is incapable of being Influenced
by the intrigues OF these hyphenates and
the fact that these men have for their own
way affect his public action before after
election; that he will not merely stand
for a program clean-cut straight
Americansm before election but will resolute
ly good faith put through after cleo
tom
which brings up the point Of what Mr.. Roosevelt
means by "clean-cut straight Americanism'
maybe what Hughes by "unduted Amer
icansm" he defines it, 10 the German American
hurt odd ar ag 1Orp
hill. We quote. approving the sentiment. speaks
in:
reprobation of this professional
man-American element-the element typihed
by the German American alliances and the
similar bodies which have in the Fremont
nation campaign played merely
American but a thoroughly anti-Amercan
part. No good American, whatever his
ancestry creed. have any feeling except
detestation those professional
German Americans who seek make the
American president in effect a viceroy of the
German emperor The professional German
Americans OF this type acting purely the
sinister interest of Germany They have shown
their readiness sacrifice the
of the United States whenever its interest
conficted with that of Germany. They rep
resent that adherence to the potcoracial
hyphen which is the badge and moral
treason to the republic"
Mr.. Roosevelts opinion of the compelling
that wrote strict and honest neutrality"
plank into the republican platform, Mr.
Hughes the party nominee supposng it would be do
ing better for those sinister interests Germany.
than it would have done by nominating the colonel
Evidently Mr.. Hughes. perhaps through Lodge has
Roosevelt believe that the Hughes opin-
ion Of them also. but be that may. colonel
seems willing climb into the same bed with these
'un-Americans." and the rest is easy. Either Mr..
Roosevelt is to be depended upon molycoddle the
genuine Americans with assurances Mr. Hughes
clean straight out Amercanism" and Mr. Hughes
lis mollycoddling the German Americans with
his silence. secret assurances--the plan being to
double-cross the othcr-or else the old say
ing goes politics makes strange bed-fellows" indeed.
Anyhow. Mr. Roosevelt seems to have lost much of
his old antipathy the mot merely un-American
but thoroughly ntAmerican part" capable OF being
played REORGANIZATION campaign" if we may
revert history. Does ne say that can
support Hughes face of this after that sush
of asserted righteous indignation" pealed forth in
1912. the nomination Mr.. Taft-because of
the republican conventions "antagorism" to him
Did Barnes. Root Lodge. Penrose. Crane James Eli
Watson. Harry New. and Archibald G. Graham.
play more "un-American but thoroughly nti-Amer-
lean art" in the REORGANIZATION campaign and
publican convention Of 1912 than these same men.
or most of them did in engineering convention in
cooperation with and NIessrs Professional
German Americans in 1915? He wouldn't support
Taft. Did the hackers of Taft do worse than seek
to make American president in effect viceroy of
the German emperor"
Or has Pres't Wilson merely gotten into the same
class with his immediate predecessor with colonel
enjoying so much Of his hatred that with George W.
Perkins refusing finance another "Arma geddon'
campaign prize presidents-save him
self Lincoln-has decided to anything that ne
can merely beat Wilson?