Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-20
CAN THE KAISER DEFAr THE PRESIDENT
From the New York World, June IA

counsellor and friend. Whether Mr.. Wickersham and Mr.. Hughes like
to consider it or not, the hyphenated vote is a definite fat that cannot
be disregarded.
No other issue of the campaign is so vital as the issue that this vote
presents The followers of the kaiser in the United States hye set
out to destroy President Wilson politically for the crime OF beng al
American president instead OF a German president. They have adopted
Mr.. Hughes IS their candidate and made his cause their cause. They
have deereed that President Wilson us be defeated because the for
egn policies of his administration arr not satisfactory to the German M
Officials OF the German-Amercan Alliance in Chicago had ndorsed
the Hughes nomination almost before the convention had finished its
work. The officers OF the German societies in Milwaukee who sent their
ulimatum Ito the Republican party last week ire all cordial in expressing
their approval OF the Hughes nomination:
George Sylvester Viereck, editor OF the Father1and. which is the most
frankly dsloyai and sedhious OF all the German newspapers N the Unit
ed States, declares that
The nomination OF Justice Hughes lean the salvation of the Re
publican party. 1t is a triumph OF genuine Americanism owe natv1sm."
George Won Skal, n OF the most active agents OF the German
propaganda in New York, is as enthusiastic as Mr.. vereek:
the ressonw We ar going % vote against him Justice Hughes, therefore,
will have the support OF the German American Democrats and Re1uh-
deans. and think he will be elected"
Alphonse Koelble of the German American Alliance, who helped
to manage the congressional campaign in behalf OF the Gore and Nc
Lemore resolutions, is n less exultant than Mr. ereck IN MI o
skal:
81 am certain that Justice Hughes will grow as the campaign ad-
vances, and that the chances Of Mr. Wilson being elected are exceedingly
Gustav Mayer, publisher OF the German Daily Gazette, said in a
speech at Philadelphia Sunday:
1--WE suggested som weeks ago that Hughes a the most logical
man, and with his selection and that Of Fairbanks the entire country
will rally to the support of the Republican ticket"
The editor of the Cincinnati Voksbatt say the nomination is a
splendid one" and the Cleveland Wachter umd Anzeiger comments Mr.
Hughes while attacking President wilson and Colonel Roosevelt:
1--WE consider it a great boon OF the Chicago convention that the peo-
pie of the United States will not be compelled to choose between t1e
present leader in unneutral subservience to England n tn advocate OF
In the opinion of the Cincinnati Freie Pressc:
Justice Hughes has expressed ntmen Wh1cna are in accord WITH
the German-American idea of neutrality. We ire in thorough sympathy
with him and his ideals"
According to the St. Louis WestGche Post:
"The Republican party faced a gigantic problem and found a glorious
In 2 long editorial printed Yesterday morning the New-Yorker
Ierod cautions the Germans mot to overdo III business" and not to
make the mistake of working too openly 10 Hughes. After declaring
that "the overwhelming mass of the German Americans in the country
will fall into line for the election of Charles f. Hughes" it gives this
advice to the German voters:
1--WE Germans will beware of ali mistakes in the campaign. Also not
to overdo o~ business. As far as W re Ear see there is n necessity for
German-Americans to work openly in the campaign We also believe
that neither for the campaign or 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 one in which the
German-Americans a participate as Republicans or Democrats, Dt
that does not include their forming a political cal p n1a., Such H ~q"'a a ,h%e
from other severe thoughts become rather an lement OF eaNne ina"
OF power for German-Amercansm
we have n o cause to be silent about the reasons that make him 10 us
ar acceptable candidate, which reasons re to be found in the anti
neutrality and injustice of President Wilson. An agitation that would
enhghten Americans as to these points would be all right, but to go be
Practically all the German newspapers of the country arr for Mr.
Hughes. All the pro,German newspapers, like Hearsts New York Amer'
fessional German asitators are for him. The German propaganda Is for
is the German candidate for president of the United States. He may not
welcome this professional German support, but withont it he couid OF
fortunate for him that he should be placed in such a position, but that
is the fault OF circumstances " which he has nc control
If Mr. Hughes should be elected president his success would newt
ably be regarded Throughout. the world as a tremendous victory for Ger
many in the United States. 1t would be a notice TO all civilization that
the German vote,a and through the German votet the German government
the nations that no president of the United States could hereafter hope
for reelection unless his foreign policy vas satisfactory to Berlin and
the kaiser. 1t 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 a for
ion government in order to be reelected? Can a president OF the
United States be defeated by the kaiser? Willingly or unwiMingy every
American voter, be he Democrat or Republican, must vot on that Issue
when he goes to the polls in November.
With Ann Martin controlling 100000 votesa and the German Alliance
3OONUO it should be no trouble for them to form a combination and
elect a president and the whole shooting match. If they "a connect and
hold together they should have everything their W way. And what a
price it world bring?
No one knows what the Prosressives will dc, but if one.fourtA OF
them should 70 to Wilson and the other threefourths to Hughes, other
divisions remaining as they were, the president would have, o the basis