The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-17
COLBY FEARS VOTE
OF RACIAL GROUPS
Secretary of State Accuses
Republicans of Using Alien
Issues in Campaign.

CHICAGO Oct 16.-Speaking at
luncheon at the Iroquois Club here to-
day Secretary of State Colby charged
the Republican party with 1.-THE methodi-
cal effort to play upon the suscep-
Utilities of every racial group in Amer
lea" and characterized 1t as ''one Of the
most sinister features OF the Republican
campaign He accused the Republicans
Of transporting to America and inject
y ine Unto purely domestic issues factional
strifes and prejudices of Europe and of
taking advantage of these susceptibilities
In immigrants before they have had time
to learn America and become American.
Mentioning the Germans by way of
illustra ton. Mr. Colby declared that any
general organized support from the Ger
man element in America is an expression
of either disappointment or resentment
at the course of the United States In the
war.
There is not a journal published Ia
German" the speaker charged. "or
newspaper that during the war enjoyed
prominence as pro-German in its lean
ings thet is not supporting Harding and
the Republican ticket to-day. There is
not German suspect or a German SYM
pathizer who was the subject OF prudent
attention on the part of the United
not supporting the Republican ticket,
and there is only one reason for this sup
port they hate the President who pulled
the mask aside from Prussian arrogance.
They hate the party under whose direc-
ton and leadership the victorious war
was fought in which America contributed
the decisive blows that crushed and
humbled German hostility to free insti-
tutions."
See Sowing of Dragon Teeth.
What he said Of the German element.
Secretary Colby explained. applied to
every other racial group In America
that thinks moro of gratifying its racial
antipathies than II does Of serving
America
America Is not interested primarily
in the rivalries between the Albanians
and the Jugo-Slavs, or in their conten-
tions over boundary" the speaker
continued. THE pretensions of Bulgaria
as against the Greeks have no place In
this campaign. The lawless occupation
of Fiume by an excitable lyricist whom
his Government refuses to avow and
will not discipline Is not in Its essence
an American question. The Republican
party realizes this when 1t seeks TO APP
propriate these irrelevant but politically
appetizlng racial grievances and turn
ing political power on domestic issues
which are utterly remote and discon-
nected from them.
ITO transfer 10 America and to inject
into our consideration of purely DOM
este Issues the factional strifes of the
Baltic nations and the ancient rivalries
OF the Balkan or eastern European peo-
pies Ia TO SOW dragon teeth In our
midst The Democratic party Is not
a.
racial groups among our population on
the basis OF their prejudices or susceptl-
billties as aliens. The Democratic party
IL an American party. II appeals TO
Americans on American issues. IL well
comes into our body polite and into our
social family the well meaning immi-
grants OF all races and all cllnes. but
the hand OF fellowship that 1t holds out
to them Is the hand OF American fell !
lowship and II Will extend no other !
greeting.
Government Gives Aid.
at Is horrible thing to contemplate |
future In which italian nationalIsm. !
combining with Bulgarian jealousy of |
Greece. and in turn linking up with the |
German smart under deserved defeat. |
and backed by the Irish distrust Of Eng |
land, should constitute a voting bloc |
IN our electorate by means of which |
the streams OF our American life can be /
DETECTED from their normal course and |
big business. for instance. enabled 10
reestablish its sinister alliance with the /
forces OF Government In the United /
states. or % modify the banking system
I'm the interest of the exploiter and the
profiteer and yet that Is precisely the
point TO which we are tending. and rap
IDLY tending. when a great party like the
Republican party seeks to annex and
appropriate for It's own political pur-
poses all the racial friction, dlsappoint-
ments. grievances and instincts that II
can locate and identify amid our great
population"