New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-25
The "Staats-Zeitung's" Candidate


The advice Of the "Staats-Zeitung' to
those who want q change in the city ad-
ministration" to vote for Hylan, not Hill
quit, should not escape notice. That pub
LEGATION, to paraphrase President Wilson's
famous reply to Jeremiah OLeary, has
access to disloyalists to whom the rest OF
the community has no access. The net
effect of its admonition, therefore, must
be to line up all the seditonists, all the
pro-Germans, all the disloyalists 1t can
influence behind Tammany's candidate
and Hearst's to defeat Mayor Mitchell,
pro-American candidate.
Heretofore the anti-Americans have
seemed to have two strings to their bow.
They could vote for Hillquit, the avowed
opponent Of the country's war, the ad-
vocate of any kind Of peace-which means
Germany's kind-the man who refuses to
buy Liberty bonds; or they could vote
for Hylan. Either vote would be one
against Mayor Mitchell and his stanch,
fearless brand Of patriotism.
Now, the developments Of the campaign
have made it apparent that there is only
one safe way of registering opposition to
Mayor Mitchell. The Hillquit bubble Is
bursting. "a vote for Hillquit is really
vote for the Fusion candidate. because
it will be taken from the Democratic can
didate. Hylan." The "Staats-Zeitung"
solemnly warns all friends Of the Kaiser
and enemies of America to conduct them
selves accordingly.
Mayor Mitchell has been bitterly crit-
cised for wrapping himself in the Amer
lean flag" 1t has meant nothing to such
critics that he didn't introduce the nag
issue into the campaign. 1t has meant
nothing that Hillquit, his Socialist OPP
ponent, was making brazen, anti-war,
anti-American canvass. 1t has meant
nothing that Judge Hylan, the Tammany
candidate was selected by Hearst, whose
newspapers awaken public praise In Ger
many. 1t has meant nothing that Tam
many's official designations for campaign
advertising included the Hearst papers,
the "Staats-Zeitung" and the "Warheit."
This open attempt Of the "Staats-Zei-
tung" to consolidate the seditionists behind
Hylan ought to mean something, even to
those who dislike to face facts. If the
Rider publication, kept out of bank
ruptcy by an indirect contribution from
the German slush fund, supports candi-
date, that support Is ample reason for
any good Americans refusing to be found
in such company.
America is in the warm 1t to the
end; and when German spies steal official
secrets, when they guide Uboats to Amer
lean transports, when they blow up NUM-
tons factories and disable American YES
sells. the war is not in Europe, but here.
This country's utmost effort must be given
to winning it. Mayor Mitchell, as indi-
vidual and as official, has done all he
could to aid and uphold the Federal gov
eminent in winning the war. He wears
the antagonism Of pro-Germans and dis
loyalists, won thereby, as one Of his
brightest honors. He wants no anti
American votes.
Those who want to flock with sedition-
lists and traitors, who want to follow
Hearst and the Riders, who want to
hearten Germany, should vote for Judge
Hylan. He has repudiated no disloyalists,
so they will find a welcome. Those who
want to uphold America by every pos
sible means, those who want, in addi-
ton, to retain In public service an able,
honest, intelligent, fearless official, will
vote for Mayor Mitchell. There is no
other choice.