Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-11-18
THE VERDICT.


candidate for President in the cleo
tion on November Z is not yet ready
TO concede his defeat But the
majority of the American people arc
satisfied that President Wilson has
been reelected, and that on March
4, 1917, he will change from being
q minority President to 4 ma jority
President. having received ut least
100000 more votes than his Rep0b-
lican opponent In its next weeks
issue the Fatherland will say regard
ing the outcome Of the presidential
election:
President Wilson owes his triumph
to the pacific West His opponent,
paradoXical as this may seem, rec
ruited his heaviest vote among the
same element in the East Those
Americans of Irish and German des-
cent who swung the states OF New
York and New Jersey into the
Hughes column voted against Wilson
because they believed that Wilson
stood for war. They repudiated at
the same timc in no uncertain man
ner the militaristic faction Of tho
Republican Party Edge and Frel-
inghuysen in New Jersey, Whitman
the wing Of the, Republican Party
fiercely antagonistic to the belicose
doctrines of IT, r. Significant in this
connection Is the fact that Calder
who won the nomination from the
candidate OF the munitions ring IN
Now York ran far ahead Of his ticket.
Wisconsin, Illinois Minnesota tell
similar tale. These states were car
ried for Hughes by q combination OF
German Americans, irish ana
Swedes, opposed equally to Wilson,
to Roosevelt, and TO war. Half Of
the people OF tho United States voted
for Wilson because "hc hGs kept us
out OF war" But the mandate OF
those who expressed preference for
Hughes spells no less Enthusiastically
peace. SO long as President Wilson
stands for peace, he represents not
a divided country, but the entire ma
tion. II President Wilson, in ac-
cordance with his speech al Char
lotto, should attempt to bring peace
10 Europe, he VIII find united pco-
pie behind him, always excepting the
orphan makers OF Wall Street.
Between Roosevelt and Hughes,
we were fer Hughes. But we found
ourselves unable to evinco enthus-
iasm for Mr. Hughes when Mr.
Hughes failed to cast OFF Mr.. Roose-
velt The Fatherland repeatedly
warned Mr.. Hughes that in the last
four years every candidate bearing
the fatal endorsement of Mr.. Roosc-
welt had gone down to defeat. The
catastrophe of Charles Evans Hughes
verifles our prediction Mr.. Hughes
gave certain assurances to Mr.. Carl
Schmidt and three other gentlemen,
but he did not publicly repudiate his
notorious telegram of congratulation
60 Theodore Roosevelt. We were
also aware oft he fact that Mr..
Hughes received not merely the
emissares OF the American Indcpen-
dence Conference, but that he was
equally hospitable TO delegation OF
the so-called american" Rights
Committee. headed by George Haven
Putnam of London Both delegations
seem to have left Mr.. Hughes salts
fed Perhaps the satisfaction was
mutual. 1t was not shared by us.
Mr.. Hughes. it is true, manfully an
swcrcd the question addressed to him
by us, but he disposed Of the entire
subject of American Rights In three
sentences He talked for hours on
every conceivable subject Under the
sun. lie talked himself out Of the
Presidency But he never uttered
more than glittering generalities on
tho vital Issues Of the campaign.
Soon silence ceased to be golden.
Shortly before the close OF the
campaign, Mr.. Hughes frankly de-
clared himself against an embargo
on arms and asserted the right Of
American passengers to travel on
munition carriers without insisting
IN the same breath upon the right
to ship food. BY a piquant coinci-
dencc, Senator La Toilette on the
same day quoted George Washington
! as saying that an American citizen
J travelling on a vessel bearing arms
! did so at his own peril. Thus Charles
Evans Hughes denied the doctrine OF
| the Father of the Republic. Mean
while Mr.. Roosevelt continued his
war-mongcrlng speeches insulting
I American citizens OF German descent
unrebuked by Mr.. Hughes. The Re-
| publican campaign committee in its
! literature and its posters made much
| OF the British munition ship Lusi-
| tania. The wrongs OF Belgium
| were cited in eloquent terms. VIII
! son was attacked for not declaring
war simultaneously on the Kaiser
and on Carranza. Through all this,
Mr. Hughes kept his silence on the
paramount issue The silent cam
| didatc was defeated by the silent
| vote
We urged our readers to concen-
trate their attention on the two
1 houses Of Congress. Almost without
exception tho men who stood for fair
4 play were returned, irrespective Of
party. We welcome the fact that the
House is almost evenly divided, be-
cause this division adds to It's power.
| Congress is intended as check on
! the Executive; II was not intended to
be his tool We hail the reelection
Of such men as jeff. McIemore.. Jim
Mann Walter M. Chandler, Champ
! Clark, Claude Kltchin. ana Horny II.
Cooper We arc pleased to see La
Toilette. Hitchcock ana Senator
! Phelan again in the Senate. We are
! Dleased most of all to SEQ Senator