Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-16
REPUbL|CANSRLAY
/. ON RACIAL STRIFE,
CHARGE Of COLBY
Says German Element, Dis
appointed in War, Is Sup
porting Harding.
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED PreSS.
CHICAGO. October 16.-Spe aking at
la luncheon at the Iroquois Club here
today, Secretary of State Colby charg-
ed the republican party with 1.-The
|methodical effort to play upon the
|susceptibilities Of every racial group
in America" and characterized it as
zone of the most sinister features
of the republican campaign He &C
|cused the republicans Of transporting
to America and, injecting into 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 Amer
lean.
Mentioning the Germans. he said.
by way of illustration, Mr.. Colby de-
|clared that any general organized sup
port from the German element in
America is an expression Of either dis
appointment or resentment at the
course of the United States in the
war.
Charges Party Hate.
There is not a journal published in
German" the speaker charged, "or a
newspaper that during the war en-
ioyed prominence as pro-GermaA in
its leanings that is not supporting
Harding and the republican ticket to-
day. There is not German suspect
Tor German sympathizer who was the
subject of prudent attention on the
part of the United States authorities
in only one reason for this support:
ing the republican ticket, and there
Is only one reason for this support;
thew hate the President who pulled
the mask aside from Prussian arro-
gance They hate the party under
whose direction and leadership the
victorious wax was fought in which
America contributed the decisive
blows that crushed and humbled Ger
man hostility to free institutions"
Applfe. to Other Groups.
What he said of the German ele-
ment. Secretary Colby explained, ap-
plied to every other racial group in
America that thinks more of crafty
ing it's racial antipathies than 1t does
of serving America. America is not
interested primarily in the rivalries
between the Albanians and the Jugo-
slavs. or in their contentious over
boundary" the speaker continued.
The pretensions of Bulgaria as
against Greece 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 es-
sence an American question. The re-
publican party realizes this when 1t
seeks to appropriate these irrelevant
, but politically appetizing racial grlev-
| ances and turn them into use as
| makeweights in gaining political
! power on domestic issues which are
! utterly remote and disconnected from
| them.
| 'aro transfer to America and to in
| ject into our consideration of purely
| domestic issues the factionsl strifes
| Of the Baltic nations and the ancien,
| rivalries of the Balkan or eastern Eu-
| ropean peoples, Is to SOW dragon teeth
| in our midst. The democratic party is
| not seeking the support OF any OF
these racial groups among our popu-
lation on the basis of their prejudicss
| or susceptibilities as aliens. The
| democratic party is an American
party. 1t appeals to Americans or
American issues. 1t welcomes into
our body polite and into our social
| family the we'll meaning Immigrants
Of ali races and all climes. but the
hand Of fellowship that it holds out
| to them is the hand of American fel-
| lowship and 1t will extend no other
| greeting.
| ContempIates Gloomy Picture.
TT Is a horrible thing to contem-
plate future in which Italian ma
tionalism. combining with Bulgarian
! jealousy of Greece. and in turn link
deserved defeat, and backed by the
! Irish distrust of England. should con-
/ stitute a voting bloc In our electorate
by means of which the streams of our
| American life can be DETECTED from
their normal courses and big business
| for instance, enabled to re-establish
its sinister alliance with the forces
| Of government In the United States, OF
to modify the banking system in the
| interest of the exploiter and the
profiteer: ana yet that is precisely
the point to which we are tending
and rapidly tending, when a grea,
party like the republican party seeks
to annex and appropriate for it's own
political purposes all the racial fric.
tion. disappointments. grievances and
instincts that it can locate and iden.
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