The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-09-24
HYPHEN FLIRTS
WITH HARDING
Press Indignant at Attempt Of
German Americans to De-
feat Gov. Cox.


allies" Thus the Louisville Courier
Journal QDcm). along with many other
American newspapers. refers TO recent
organized movements among German
American societies TO support Senator
Harding and defeat Gov. Cox be
cause he Is OF the party Of Woodrow
Wilson" Indignation against the
arrogance" and the new war at the
bollot box" is freely expressed by edi-
toral writer's. especially the democrats.
such republican papers as do COM
ment on the question are largely UNI
friendly Some Of the latter express
regret over the 'outspoken support of
the German Americans for Harding"
but explain that their candidate, while
not bidding for these votes, can NOT
well refuse them.
Tho Courier-Jou apparently
speaks for n number OF other publica-
lions when II denounces plans fol-. yot-
ing the German Americans In block
In these words:
Such activity by pseudo Americans
whose minds and hearts are In a for
eign land with which the United
H anfS Before ne WOUNDS Of %mer
can boys have healed the nation Is con-
fronted with gigantic political mach
nations In bcnalf OF Germany. The
new issue win give the people OF the
United states the opportunity to decide
whether this country Is to be run by
Americans or by q treasonous group
Of 'borers within.
"Hoch" Is Heard.
THE, The hosts are are l moving and nd one can
ers,' declares the indianapolis News,
Und). which has expressed unusually
strong Indignation against the German
American propaganda. This paper
the newly organized German American
Citizens league, which warmly IN
dorsed Harding's candidacy. and OF
the committee q ninety Six said to
be dominated by George Sylvester
quoted by the News as follows:
ITO arouse all Americans, especially
those of German descent. to a realization
Of their civic rights; TO solidify the
Americans Of German descent; to create
voting units irrespective OF party afil-
liations In opposition to invisible gov
eminent; to elect city. state and ma
tional officers In sympathy with the pur-
pose of the committee; to restore free
speech; to combat race intolerance; to
devise ways and means of cooperating
with the Irish Americans; to save the
honor of the United States by revising
the peace treaty of Versailles; to estub-
lsh cordial relations between the United
States and all other nations; especially
Germany. and to rebuke those who
would make the United States a colony
OF Great Britain"
The News quotes statements of Ger
man. American leaders that they sup
port Harding because he is opposed to
the league OF nations, and In favor Of a
separate peace with Germany, and adds:
ut is simply the old campaign for
Germanlzing which had made marvellous
progress, but which happily was arrested
by the war. The challenge Is to Ameri-
canism and is directed to every man
whose love OF country In centered in
America--not divided between America
and Germany"
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Und. Dem. }
calls attention to the widespread at
tempt being made to secure a solid
German vote for Senator Harding. and
comments:
IF that spirit Ia TO he carried into
this campaign, Il is time that Americans
who believe In the league of nations
should know It, II the war is to he
fought over again at the ballot box,
common prudence demands that the
strength Of the enemy he not underesti-
mated"
Quoting George Sylvester viereck's
magazine an assertion that "the men
who supported Woodrow Wilson or any
OF his acts must be driven from public
Ire, whether they be democrats. repub-
leans or socialists" the Kansas City
Post Und) denounces Viereck for "as-
Stunning to dictate TO the American peo-
pie how they should vote to preserve
their traditions" The New York
Times Gnd. dem.) chuckles over the
situation, saying:
These American friends OF Mr. Hard
Ing and Germany are rather fanaticaiI
than numerous or important but their
public adhesion to Mr.. Harding must be
embarrassing. They should have re-
manned silent and obscure. Instead they
nave made painfully plain the corol-
laries. the implications and the conse.
quences OF his international programs"
The Times, like number OF other
papers, thinks Mr.. Harding has done all
expected OF him In warning tho Ger
man American voters that they must
not think of him as favoring any class
OF race among our citizens"
Don't Like VIereck.
VIII be long time before the
people OF this country accept. Mr.
Viereck and the like of him as n guide
for their political course" said the At
lanta Constitution CDcml, and another
southern paper the Birmingham Are
Herald CDem.) calls the German vote
In America IAN unpatriotic. un-Ameri-
can vote, not because Il will be cast
Tor Harding, since II has no love for
the republican candidate or his party,
but because II Is powerful weapon OF
pro-German propaganda" Nothing
should SO enhance the democratic
chances OF success as for the alien in
tuences to line up for Senator Hard
Ing" thinks the Houston Post (Dem0
and the Dayton Daily News (Deml
Gov, Cox's paper. believes thousands OF
loyal Americans OF German birth" will
vote for Gov. Cox lust to keep them
selves clear OF even the suspicion OF
sympathy with Viereck and anti-Amer-
icanism which Niereck represents"
republican paper, the Des Moines
Register, believes German Americans
ARE allowing their immediate feelings
TO get the better Of their mature judg-
ment" In opposing the league of ma
lions explaining:
'rheN. Il anybody, ought 10 see that
the fortunes of their relatives and
friends in the old world are more In
the balance than those OF any other
people. They have less to lose and
more to gain by world organization
than any other people. For the Ger
mans. above all others there Is nothing
ahead II tho old order Is to remain"
From the Indianapolis star und,
Rep) comes the opinion that anti-Ger-
man sentiment In the United states
will gradually disappear. and that:
''Therc is no good reason why the
people OF the United states may not
ia the future elect 10 the presidency
man of German ancestry II win all
depend on whether such an one comes
to the front by force Of ability and
leadership and imprcsscs himself on
the country"