The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-06-24

According to the st. Louis West
liche Post
1.-The Republican party faced a
gigantic problem and found glor-
ious solution
I'm long editorial printed yester-
day morning the New-Yorker Herold
cautious the Germans not to overdo
our business and not to make the
mistake of working too openly for
Hughes. After declaring that the
overwhelming mass o. the German
Americans in the country will fall
into line for the election of Charles
E. Hughes it gives this advice to
the German voters:
1--WE Germans will beware Of all
mistakes in the campaign. Also not
to overdo our business. As far as we
can see, there is no necessity for
German-Am orleans to work openly in
the campaign. We also believe that
neither for the campaign nor for the
German-American alliance is it of
advantage If they and their branch
associations take any kind of position
in the campaign. The present election
is not on in which the German
Americans can participate as Repub-
licans or Democrats, but that does not
include their forming political
party. Such would, aside from other
severe thoughts, become rather an
element Of weakness than of power
for GermanAmericanism
Urges Pussyfoot Activity
1--WE have no reason to suppress
the fact that we are for Hughes, and
IL ~
the reasons that make him for us an
accepta BILE candidate, which reasons
are to be found in the anti-neurality
and injustice of President Wilson. An
agitation that would enlighten
Americans as to these points would
be all right, but to go beyond that
would be bad
practically all the German news
papers of the country are for Mr..
Hughes. All the pro-German news
papers, like Hearst's New York
American, the Evening Mail and the
Chicago Tribune, are for him. All the
professional German agitators are for
him. The German propaganda is for
him.
whatever. Mr.. Hughes may say,
whatever Mr.. Hughes may do, he is
the German candidate for President
of the United States. He may not
welcome this professional German
support, but without it he could not
have been nominated and without it
he can not be elected. It may be
unfortunate for him that he should
be placed in such position, but that
is the fault Of circumstances over
which he has no. control. :...
Potsdam as Capital of U. S.
IF Mr.. Hughes should be elected
President his success would in
evitably be: regarded s:througllout the
world as tremendous victory for
Germany in the United States 1t
would be notice to all civilization
that the German vote, and through
the German vote the German govern
ment holds the balance Of power in
American politics. 1t would proclaim
to the nations that no President of
the United States could hereafter
hope for reelection unles his foreign
policy was satisfactory to Berlin and
the Kaiser. It would make Potsdam
the political capital of the United
States, and in its moral effect upon
Germany it would be more potent
than a great victory of the German
armies in the field.
THAT is the situation that the
American people face. Must their
President, in the words Of Colonel
Roosevelt, be the viceroy of foreign
government in order to be re-
elected? Can a President of the
United States be defeated by the
Kaiser? Willingly or unwillingly,
every American voter, be he DEM
ocrat or Republican, must vote on
that issue when he goes to the polls
in November"