Der taÌˆgliche Demokrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 186?-1918, 1916-11-02
Yolitiidc. AH5eigc.
FORMER CONGRESSMAN AND
Ex-mAY0R OF DAVENPORT
GIVES |CNEDSTATEMEN7'

alliance, the American independence.
union, and the Embargo conference
what positive assurance they had, ii
any. that Mr.. Hughes. would be more
truly neutral, as we understand the
term, than Mr.. Wilson, has been. l
know Of all their attempts to secure
such declarations and / have waited
until these, the closing hours OF tho
campaign, for them to get something
more satisfying or the subject; but
up to date they have nothing, sail
either in public or in private, that is
nor than a generality, except yes
terday in his speech at Columbus.
Ohio, when he came out fatty agains,
the embargo and against warning
Americans to keep off OF armed bel
ligerent ships.
my suspicious were first raised in
regard to Mr.. Hughes when l per-
ceiNed the successful efforts of George
w. Perkins, late financial partner and
political representative of j. P. Nor
gsn, agent for munitions and war
loans in the United States for his
Britanic majesty, to deliver the Pro-
gressive party, bag and baggage, to
Mr.. Hughes.
What is meant by the general pro-
stronger foreign policy than that OF
Mr.. Wilson is made clear andNspeciiic
by the emphatic declarations Of TheO-
dore Roosevelt, (who insults with
equal insolence his Gernan-AmericafI
fellow citizens and the president OF
the United States); Elihu Root, (long-
time attorney for the British embassy
and the Interests of Wall street,,
and Henry Cabot Lodge, (the incar-
nation of our New England cod fish
aristocracy), men who certainly stand
closer to candidate iIugnes .aaa any
of the gentlemen of the aforesaid al.
lance, union or conference. One of
these three will in all probability be
M. Hughes secretary Of state. To
aid these men to get into power and
to put their emphatically stated doc
tfines into force would, on the part
of these German organizations, ap-
pear to. me to be vertically biting of
the nose to spite the face"
believe that the supreme. Interest
of America is to keep out of this
frightful war, which threatens to en-
gulf the civilization of the world.
Whether or not you believe that Mr..
Wilson at all times sincerely desired
to keep us out of the war, the fact re-
that during his administration
HAVE KEPT OUT OF IT; and,
while millions of men are being
and crippled, and millions
of widows and orphans are being
made, and the Accommodations of cen
turtles are being burned up to satisfy
the organized blood and destruction
lust of the belligerent nations in Eu-
rope, peace and plenty prevail in
America.
I have always been an ardent adj
vocate of the peaceful settlement OF
International differences and I notice
that most Of the men and women
in that work favor Mr.. VIII
sons reelection, while every CORY
eyed, swashbuckling lingo, is for Mr..
Hughes. The best that can be claim
ed for him is that he will carry on the
same foreign policies, as far as the
war Is concerned, as Mr..
Wilson, but that he will force them y
little harder against the Central Pow
ers, with ACTS instead of WORDS.
i cannot see how that prospect is so
.alluring as to tempt the suifrages OF
who for the past
two years have carried about with
them a burden Of sorrow and anxiety
at the thought OF the gigantic inter-
national conspiracy against Germany
and Austria and the injustice done
them over here in their heroic contest
for the defense Of their Fatherland,
which Injustice is based upon ignor-
ance, a { prejudice. and :he treniend-
Gus propaganda carried on by the
British government in this country,
aided by the American munition maxi
ers and wEr bankers.
Some of my. friends argue that this
is an election in which the German
vote, SO called, should be cast solid,
that We should show our power in this
country. and that it will rebound to-
our moral and material ADVANTAGE.