The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-26


are precisely as good Americans as
those of any other ancestry
There are not, and never have been.
in all our land, better citizens than
the great mass of the men and women
of German birth or descent who have
been OF ere being completely merged
in our common American national
ity; a nationality distinct from any in
Europe, for Americans who are good
Americans are no more German
Americans than they are English
Americans, or Irish-Americans, or
northumberland They are
Americans and nothing else No good
American, whatever his ancestry or
creed, can have any feeling except
scorn or detestation for those profess
sional German-Americans who seek to
make the American president in eff
feet viceroy of the German en-
peror- The professional German
Americans of this type are acting
purely in the sinister interest of Ger
many They have shown their eager
readiness to sacrifice the interest of
the United States whenever its inter-
est confiicted with that of Germany
They represent that adherence to the
politico-racial hyphen which is the
badge and sign of moral treason to
the republic. I have singled these
men out for specific denunciation
and assuredly if 1 support a candi-
date it may be accepted as proof that
am certain that the candidate is in
capable of being influenced by the evil
intrigues of these hyphenated Ameri-
cans.
There are not, and never have been,
in all our land. better citizens than
the great mass of the men and women
of German birth or descent who have
been or are being completely merged
in our common American nationality;
nationality distinct from any in Eu-
rope, for Americans who are good
Americans are no more German
Americans than they are English
Americans, or Irish-Americans or
Scan NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
They are Americans and nothing
else. No good American, whatever
his ancestry or creed, can have any
feeling except scorn and detestation
cans who seek to make the American
president in effect a yiceroy of the
German emperor.
The professional COMMUNICATIONS
of this type are acting purely in the
sinister interest of Germany. They
have shown their eager readiness to
sacrifice the interest of the United
States whenever its interest conflicted
with that of Germany.
They represent that adherence to
the politico-radica1 hyphen which is
the badge and sign of moral treason to
the repu bile.
have singled these men out for
specific denunciation, and assuredly if
I support a candidate it may be ac-
cepted as proof that I am certain that
the candidate is incapable of being in
fluenced by the evil intrigues of these
hyphenated Americans
Mr. Hughes's character and his
whole course of conduct in public af-
| fairs justify US in the assured convic-
ton that the fact that these men have
| for their own purposes supported him
will. in no shape or way, affect his
public actions before or after election.
His entire public life is a guarantee
| of this.
| The events of the last three and a
| half years have shown that as much
cannot be said of Mr.. Wilson In Mr..
| Wilson's case we do not have to con-
| slider his words, but his deeds. His
| deeds absolutely contradict his words;
and for the matter of that his words
| absolutely contradict one another. II
| is folly to pay heed to any of the
promises in the platform on which he
| now stands in view of the fact that al
| most every important promise con-
tanned in the platform on which he
stood four years ago has since been
| broken. We owe all our present
| trouble with the professional German
American element in the United States
| to Mr.. Wilson's timid and vacillating
course during the last two years. The
defenders of Mr.. Wilson have alleged
in excuse for him that he confronted
| a difficult situation.
| Easy for Wilson.
| As regards Mexico, the situation
which Mr.. Wilson confronted was
nothing like as difficult as that which
President Mckinley confronted in
connection with Cuba and the Philip
pines at the time of the Spanish war.
Under the actual circumstances we
could with only minimum of risk
have protested on behalf of Belgium,
| a small, well behaved nation, when
she was exposed to the last extrem-
ity of outrage by the brutal violation
of her neutral rights; this violation be-
ing itself a violation of The Hague
conventions to which We were a sigma
tory power As regards the foreign
situation generally during the great
war, the fact of the existence of the
war made it far easier and safer for
| Mr.. Wilson to assert our rights than
If he had had to deal with some single
strong power which was at the time
Iunhampered by war. During the past
Twenty years questions have arisen
with powers of the first rank. such
as England, Japan and Germany, each
| of which has necssitated far greater
| courage resolution and judgment
on the part of the president
dealing with it than President
Wilson need have shown in order tc
put a complete stop to the continually
repeated murder OF American men
women and children on the high seas
by German subnarines-theLu mia
| being merely the worst of many such
cases The same feebleneSs that was
| shown by President Wilson in dealing
| with Germany abroad was also shown
by him in dealing with the organized
German outrages within our own land
| and, finally. in dealing with the organ
lied German-American vote. The
continued existence of the German
American menace at home is directly
due to Mr. Wilson's course of actor
| during the past two years.
People Accept Hughes
Certain of my friends who feel thai
the Progressives should run third
ticket base their feelings On objection
to the character or actions of the Re
j c.c,ra.-eratic,r, A