The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1916-10-31
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MAN Il. " Le2ry and other members
of committee of the pro-German
American independence conference,
which is the political partner of the
German-American alliance.
!. This meeting was held to obtain
from Mr.. Hughes assurances as to his
attitude toward the issues raised by
the German party against President
Wilson. Mr.. Hughes says that 81 saw
the persons mentioned, at their re-
quest" and that Il have said nothing
in private that l have not said in pub
| lic."
Be that as it may, what Mr.. Hughes
said at this secret meeting was highly
satisfactory to Mr.. O'Leary and his
German committee. The German agi-
tation in behalf of Mr.. Hughes was
prosecuted with renewed vigor. O'Lea-
ry sent to the president the telegram
which brought this response from Mr.
Wilson:
Il would feel deeply mortified to
have you or anybody like you vote for
me. Since you have access to many
disloyal Americans and I have not,
will ask you to convey this message
to them"
Many Of the German newspapers
had had misgivings after Mr.. Hughes
congratulated Mr.. Roosevelt on the
Lewiston speech. An examination of
the editorial pages of the German
newspapers shows that these misgiv-
lngs ceased after the conference be-
tween the O'Leary committee and MI.
Hughes. The German campaign for
Mr.. Hughes became more vigorous.
AS the Cincinnati Volksblatt described
the situation:
1T is the holy duty of every Ger
man-American, with all the influence
at his disposal, to secure the defeat Of
Wilson"
| New evidence of Mr.. Hughes's Ger
man sympathies was sought and
found. The Illinois Staats-Zeitung
published the full text of an address
that Mr.. Hughes made, while governor
of New York, at the Wartburg Or
phans' Farm School of the Lutheran
church at Mount Vernon.
In this address Mr. Hughes said:
MANY and many happy day have
spent in the Fatherland which yo1
left. In my vacation period, free Ct
care and light of heart, I have wheel
ed and walked and passed in your
beautiful Germany some of the hap
piest days l have ever lived.
eff any one were to point to any
place in the world to which. above all,
we may trace our free institutions, he
would point, above all, to the forests
of Germany.
"There is no finer exhibition of
American patriotism than that which
has been given by our German cftj-
zens."
This speech is circulated as repre-
senting Mr.. Hughes's present sent;-
ments toward the German propaganda
in the United States, and therefore 4
new incentive to carry out the task
proclaimed by the Newly orker Stats
Zeitung as the chief work of Germans
in this country:
Every citizen with a drop of warm
blood in his veins must consider it his
first duty to prevent the reelection
of President Wilson. And this can be
done only by voting on Nov 7 fer
Charles E. Hughes"
; Whatever Mr.. Hughes said at this
secret conference to jeremiah OTeary
and the other members of the German
committee, it was something that they
/ wanted to hear from him and it gave
them a renewed confidence in Their
) candidate and in the foreign policy OF
) a Hughes administration. They hav:
r proved that confidence in the most eff
fective way possible by striving more
zealously than ever to bring about the
e election of Mr.. Hughes as the cham
e pion of Germany in the United States
= Mr.. Hughes more than anybody else
t is responsible for the hyphen issue ii
: the presidential campaign. He ha:
< encouraged and coddled hyphenisn
y from the day of his nomination. H,
r encouraged and coddled it even befor,
y his nomination. He has assailed in thu
E most denunciatory manner American
= railway employees guilty of the crime
of struggling for an eight-hour day
: but Mr.. Hughes has never uttered on
c word of disapproval of the efforts o
e the German propaganda to make tn,
5 United States a German colony ant
|, the president of the United States
:, German viceroy. He has not ventures
i to champion this German cause open
C ly. That would ALLEVIATE the pro-Brit
\ ish elements that Mr.. Roosevelt s.
i strenuously represents. But he ha