New Britain herald., 1916-06-26

not all having a common interfest re-
 unite in common effort to save our
 common country? May we ask those
 who have not differed with us to join
 in this same spirit toward those who
 have?' AS far as my own soul is
 known to me it is in this same spirit
 that at this time I make my appeal to
 the republicans and progressives as-
 sembled at Chicago"
 In addition to these public state
 ments I had also stated my own at
 titude verbally, and in letters, during
 the weeks immediately preceding the
 convention, to scores of leading pro-
 gressives from all parts of the coun-
 try including many of the leaders at
 the convention. To these men I ex-
 pressed my earnest hope that the re-
 publicans would so act as to make it
 possible for the progressives to join
 with them. I stated to them, however,
 that in view of the attitude of some
 of the republican leaders it was at
 least conceivable that we should be
 put in a position where our highest
 duty, our fealty to the country, our sense of what patriotism demanded in a great crisis would make it imper- at1ve upon us to run a separate ticket; and that whether in such event it would be necessary for me to head that ticket could not be determined in advance. I stated in these interviews and in these letters, with the utmost emphasis, that the decision of this point, like the whole matter of run ming a separate ticket, would have to be determined by what the interests of the country demanded in view of the action finally taken by the con- vention at Chicago.
 At the time many of the republican leaders asserted that my statements were not made in good faith; that I really intended to insist upon my own nomination by the republican conven- tiOn; and that if I was not so nom mated, I intended to accept the pro- gressive nomination and run on third ticket. Of course my fellow progressives were under no such er- TOT They knew that I spoke in good faith and meant exactly what I said. They knew that my utterances were to be accepted at their exact face val ue as meaning that if the republicans nominated a man whom we could conscientiously support we would sup port him. The progressive conven- lIOIl CdIlIc IOStllleI lIlS lily pup lie statements and therefore knowing exactly what my attitude was.
 Hughes Up to the Mark.
 Tn my judgment, the nomination of MT. Hughes meets the conditions set forth in the statement of the progress sive national committee, issued last January, and in my own statements. Under existing conditions, the nom ination of a third ticket would, in my judgment be merely a move in the interest of the election of MT. Wilson. I regard MT. Hughes as a man whose public record is a guar antee that ''he will not merely stand for a program of clean-cut straight out Americanism before election, but will resolutely and in good faith put it through if elected" He is beyond all comparison better fitted to be president than Mr. Wilson. It would be a grave detriment to the country to re-elect MT. Wilson. I shall. there fore, strongly support MT. Hughes. Such being the case, it is unnecessary to say that I cannot accept the nom-
  believe that there should be a third ticket I believe that when my fel- low progressives coolly consider the question they will for the most part take this position. They and I have but one purpose-the purpose to serve our common country. It is my deep conviction that at this moment we can serve it only by supporting MT. Hughes.
 It is urged against MT. Hughes that he was supported by the various so- called erman-Ame erican Alliances. I believe that the attitude of these pro- fessional German-Americans was due. not in the least to any liking for MT. but solely to their antagon- ism to me. They were bound to de- feat me for the nomination. The only way by which they could achieve this object was by supporting MT. Hughes and they supported him ac- without any regard to other I need hardly repeat what I have already said in stern rep roba ton of this professional German American element-the element tyDi- fled by the German-American Ali ances and the similar bodies, which have. in the pre-nomination campaign. played not merely an un-American but a. thoroughly anti American part. These men have nothing in common with the great body of Americans who are in whole or in partiof German blood; and who are precisely as good Americans as those of any other an- cestry There are not, and never have been in all our land, better citi- zens than the great mass of the men and women of German birth or de- scent who have been or are being com nletely merged in our common Amer jean nationality; a nationality iia- tinct from any in Europe for Amer jeans Mhn are good Am mericanS are ID