The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-13
''AMERICANISM"
 IS KEYNOTE OF WILSON POLICY
Platform of Party Doesn't Allow Interference of
 Hyphenates.

Hyphenates.
 Can the Kaiser defeat the Pres ident? The question Is put by the New York World in this, the mos' trenchant editorial contribution to the | newly opened National campaign: "'I do not like to consider the pos sibility of a hyphenated vote. says George w. wickershamJ who is MT Hughes most prominent guide, coun sellor and friend. Whether MT. Wick ersham and MT. Hughes like to con slider it or not, the hyphenated vote | is a definite fact that can not be dis regarded.
 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 have set out te destroy President Wilson politically for the crime of being an American President instead of a German Presi. dent. They have adopted MT. Hughes l as their candidate and made his cause their cause. They have decreed that President Wilson must be defeated because the foreign policies of his ad- ministration are not satisfactory to the German Empire.
 German-Americans Endorse Him
 "Officials of the German-American Alliance in Chicago had endorsed the Hughes nomination almost before the convention had finished it's work. The officers of the German societies in Milwaukee who sent their ultimatum to the Republican party last week are all cordial in<expressing their approv- al of the Hughes nomination.
 George Sylvester Viereck, editor of the Fatherland, which is the most frankly disloyal and seditious Of all the German newspapers in the United States, declares that
 "The nomination of JuStice Hughes means the salvation ofsthe Republican party. It is triumph of genuine Americanism over nativism.'
 George won Skal, one of the most active agents of the German propa- ganda in New York, is as enthusias- tic as MT. Viereck: IA
 We are convinced that President Wilson is pro- British. and that is the reason we are going to vote against him. Justice Hughes, therefore, will have the support of the German-Am- erican Democrats and. Republicans
 
 x Koelble is Exultant
 "Alphonse Koelble. of the German American Alliance, who helped to manage the Congressional campaign in behalf of the Gore and McLemore resolutions, is no less exultant than MT. viereck and MT. von skal:
 T am certain that Justice Hughes will grow as the campaign advances, and that the chances of MT. Wilson being elected are exceedingly slim . Gustav Mayer, publisher of the German Daily Gazette said in a speech at Philadelphia Sunday:
 We suggested some weeks ago that Hughes was the. most logical man, and with his selection and that of Fairbanks the entire country will rally to the support of the Republican ticket 1
 ''The editor of the Cincinnati volks- blatt says the nomination is a splen- did one,' and the Cleveland Wachter und Anzeiger comments MT. Hughes while attacking President Wilson and Col. Roosevelt:
 We consider it a great boon of the Chicago convention that the peo- pie of the United States will not be to choose between the pres- ent leader in unneutral subseyvience to England, and the advocate of still greater unneutrality.'
 Voices Hyphenated Neutrality !.
 ''In the opinion of the Cincinnati Fre1e Proese-
 Justice Hughes has expressed sentiments which are in accord with the German-American idea of neu- trality. We are in thorough sym pathy with him and his ideals
 According to the St. Louis Vest liche Post W
 The Republican party faced a problem and found a glorious solution aNi &
 ''In a long editorial the New-York- CT Herold cautions the Germans not to overdo our business and not to make the mistake of working too openly. for Hughes. After declaring that the overwhelming mass of the German-Americans in the country will fall into line for the election of Charles E.. Hughes it gives this ad- vice to the German voters:
 We Germans will beware of all mistakes in the campaign. Also not to overdo our business. s~ AS far as we can see, there Is no necessity for Ger man Americans to work openly in the We also believe that neith- CT for the campaign nor for the Ger Alliance is 1t of advan- tage if they and, their branch associa- tions take any kind of position in the The present election is not one in which the German-Americans can participate as Republicans or Democrats, but that does not include their forming political party. Such would aside from other severe thoughts, become rather an element of weakness than of power for Ger 
 Urges Pussyfoot Activity
 We have no reason to suppress the fact that we are for Hughes, and we have no cause to be silent about the reasons that make him for us an acceptable candidate, which reasons are to be found in the anti-neutrality and injustice of President Wilson. An agitation that would enlighten Ameri-l cans as to these points would be all right. but to go beyond that would be bad
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