New Britain herald., 1916-10-27

bers that far back. Now he says the Democratic party started this issue, and that the man or party that raises such an issue is not patriotic.
 This question of dual allegiance should never have been made an issue in this campaign, and it would never have become such had it not been for the European war. Then some men, but not all, lined up with the various belllgerents, one way or another, lost sight of their pledges to the United States and became solely interested in the welfare of their old homes across the sea. When America was forced to uphold its rights as a neutral, to de- mand that it's citizens be allowed to traverse the high seas, and that ships be not sunk in violation of 1nterna- tional law, the storm arose. There was no political campaign on then, and no one even gave a. thought to the presidential elections about to take place now. But the President Of the
 
 vil1if1ed by many of the foreign language newspapers and periodicals, and wherever men gathered there were heated denunciat1ons of the man in the White House. Anyone with an eye could see that disloyalty was being bred and scattered broadcast throughout the land, until 1t has come down to this campaign and become part and parcel of 1t. The Democratic party did not breed this issue,-the good German-American citizens of the land did not foist it on their brothers' but the professional propagand1sts' with headquarters in Berlin did bring 1t forth, and eventually succeeded in lining their former countrymen In America up in opposition to President Wilson. Now the thing has become an issue, and both of the candidates for the Presidency recognize it as such. On the night before Mayor Quigley spoke in Hartford, Charles Evans Hughes addressed a group at
 
 made this declaration:
 "I don't want the support of any 1 one to whom the interest of this 1 nation is not supreme.
 "As to any person whose allegiance | to our flag is not single and complete, l who would not instantly champion l the rights and interests of our country 1 against any country on earth, who l wants fmpunity for foreign aggression, or who would have the power of this nation held captive to any foreign in- fluence or swerved by alien, machina- tons, let him not vote for me-"
 By those words MT. Hughes warned l of the danger that comes from catering l to disloya1 voters, to those who cast l their votes because of feeling on 1 foreign affairs Our domestic poli- ] tics have nothing to do with what l goes on in Europe, and Europe should have nothing to do with what goes on in our politics. MT. Hughes says he l wants the support of no voter to 1 whom "the interest of this nation Is not supreme" He was a long time
  but he eventually arrived, too late, however, to do him overmuch good in the campaign. President Wilson stated his position in no unmistakable feel deeply mortified to have you or anybody like you vote for me. Since 1 you have access to many disloyal 1 Americans and have not, I will ask l you to convey this message to them" No voter can doubt he man who shot l that bolt. There was no pussy-foot- | ing there And it was uttered in plenty of time to let the hyphen which they have. If they defeat Will son on November the capital city of Germany will celebrate the greatest victory of the year. That is the way they feel about it, and the feeling was first generated when the Presi- dent was forced to make Germany hold her submarine warfare within the limits of international law. Rres1- attention to disloyal Americans. Mir Hughes after his fling at the same thing, Is condoned by every foreign language paper in the country The subjoined is a sample from yester- days New York Staats-Zeitung:
 This declaration should be clear to every one; it includes everything that we Communications expect from a President of the United States. And as Herr Hughes has proved that his word can be trusted he deserves the