The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-10-18
FOREIGN BORN TO
BEAT DEMOCRATS
IN WESTERN n. Y.
German, italian and Polish
Vote To Be Republican,
Says LawrenCe--DOmeStiC
Issues Are Considered.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
ESPECIAL Correspondent Of The News
Soimtar.)


Especial Correspondent Of The New
Seimitar.)
BUFFALO, n. Y, Oct 1S.--West'
ern New York has so much TO dc
always with the cutting down OF
the Democratic majority gained In
the Tammany districts that one need
not search further than Erie county
for the reasons New York state
will so heavily Republican this year
Germans, Italians, Poles, Slovaks
foreign born population that exceeds
the native born. II is easier to as
sumo that some OF these groups will
be affected by foreign issues in
which the Wilson administration mas
become involved for or against the
home countries, but investigation
among the leaders of thought in
these foreign born units brings the
conclusion that domestic questions,
especially the high cost of living,
have had and will have as much TO
do with the exercise of the ballot on
election day as the grievances grow
The campaign among the foreign
horn has not been extraordinary.
Certainly 1t has not been as intense
as II was in 1916. on the other
hand, the Democrats have inherited
much more trouble than the Repub-
licans have acquired and it Is hardly
an exaggeration to say that the bulk
Of the German vote, the Italian vote
and even the Polish vote, Will go to
Harding.
II Wilson were candidate, a
leader of the Poles told the writer,
he believed the Polish vote would
be Democratic this year as there is
a feeling of appreciation for the part
the president played In establishing
the Polish republic. But the high
cost of sugar and the well-cultiyated
belief that the Republican admins
tration will somehow bring relief
from economic ills of today. VIII
turn the Polish vote To the Repuo-
licans.
Somewhat the same idea was eX"
pressed to me by the German Ameri-
can spokesman here who predicted
that the pendulum would
swing two years and four years
hence to the Democrats II the Re
publican party failed to bring relief.
on the other hand. the feeling
against the Wilson administration
and Gov. Cox himself on purely Ger
man issues, has deprived the Demo-
Gratis of any chance they might have
had this year even II the idea or
Democratic prosperity could have
been convincingly presented, For in
stance, big display advertisement
appeared in. the Buffalo NolkNreund
two days ago signed by the Cleveland
Wachter and Anzeiger and the GIN
cinnati Free Press, in which Gov.
Cox As denounced for the part he
played in forbidding the teaching of
German In Ohio schools. The adver-
tisement is first an appeal for Ger
man nationalism and then declares
that four months after the armistlce
April !. 19l9--GOv, Cox in state
ment or message, said
II assert without reservation mat
the teaching of German to our chil-
dren, no matter where they are being
educated during their impressionable
years, is not only a distinct menace
to Americahism but II is part OF n
formed long ago by the
German government IN Berlin"
Then the advertisement signed by
the two Ohio daily newspapers goes
on TO tell the Germans OF other
states that when an attempt was
made TO exempt the paroChial
schools from this prohibition of tho
teaching of German, the same Gov
Cox denounced those schools as
breeders Of sedition.
cit Is the sacred duty says the
Il 4 "a
of German origin who has left In
him a single spark Of pride, of every
woman who knows how to treasure
mother love. to utter a protest
against this when the occasion Is
Warren q. Harding Is n protest
against the persecution Of which the
Americans of German origin have
been the victims in the last few
years, protest against the unjust
ISLANDERS that have pcen leyeled at
them. a protest against the intuler-
able nativism (supei Patriotism of
which Gov. Cox stands before the
nation "a the champion decided
Strengthening Of the Harding ram-
palgn motto Of America First
In talking with one of the Ger
mans mere NdS ItUllNu'u lndl
while the Democrats at san Francis
co may have thought they were do
ing a clever thing by putting M
Roosevelt" on their national ticket,
they evidently forgot what the
name Roosevelt stands for among
Germans Indeed. German-Amer-
leans. he said, are convinced Frank
lin u. Roosevelt must, entertain to-
ward German Americans the same
hostile feelings as the other mem
bers of the Roosevelt family have eX-
pressed. Incidentally it will he
noted that Col Theodore Roosevelt
Jr.. who is campaigning for Harding.
has been disCreetly kept from his
section. which shows that either the
managers aren't worry
ing about the situation i'm this end
of the state. or that they don't want
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