The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-18
WESTERN NEW YORK
STRONG REPUBLICAN
Foreign Voters of That Sec
ton Are Much Opposed
to Cox
STOPPING TEACHING
GERMAN HURTS HIM
eated in 1919 That Teaching German
In Public Schools Is Part of German
~ nsp,racy - High Cost of Living
Hce Nest Effect On Foreigners.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Hes Nest Effect On Foreigners.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
pecial Despatch to The Reformer
Copyright 1920
BUFFALO, n Y, Oct IS.-Western
ew \ ork has so much to do always
With the cutting down of the Democratic
naJol1tles mainly in the Tammany dis
rcts, tfat one need not search further
han Erie county for the reasons why
New York state will go heavily Republi-
an this year Germans, Italians, Poles,
iovaks, Hungarians and Russians make
ID a foreign-born population that ex-
ecds the native born. 1t is easier to as
June that some of these groups will be
-hected by foreign issues, in which the
y llson administration has become in
Tolved for or against the home countries,
ut investigation among the leaders of
hcught in those foreign-born units brings
he conclusion that domestic questions.
specially the high cost of living, have
lad and Will have as much to do with the
9XeIclse OF the ballot on election day, as
ne grievances growing out of the Euro
}ean war.
The campaign among the foreign born
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I has not been as intense as it was III
ZIG. On the other hand, the Democrats
ave inherited much more trouble than
lie Republicans have acquired, and it is
.ardIy an eXaggeratIOn to say that the
)ulk of the German vote, the Italian
vote and even the Polish vote will go to
Harding
Ii Wilson Were a candidate, leader of
the Poles told the writer, ne believed the
Polish vote would be Democratic this
ear, as there is a feeling of appreciation
or the part the President played in es.
ablshing the Polish republic But the
nigh cost of sugar and the well-cultivated
belief that the Republican administration
viii somehow bring relief from economic
Ills OF today will turn the Polish vote
20 the Republicans.
Somewhat the same idea was expressed
0 me by the German-American spOkes-
men here, who have predicted conf
lently that the pendulum would swing
swO years ago and four years hence to
the Democrats if the Republican party
Jailed to bring relief On the other hand,
tration and Governor Cox himself on
purely German issues has deprived the
Democrats Of any chance they might have
had this year, even if the idea of Demo
cratic prosperity could have been cOnvInc-
ngly presented.
ItI INSTANCE DlR ulSpldN duNRFItSt+
nent appeared in the Buffalo Nolksfre-
md two days ago signed by the Cleveland
Nachter and Anzeiger and the Cincin-
lati Free Press, in which Governor Cox
; denounced for the part he played in
torbldding the teaching of German in
Ohio schools. The advertisement is first
an appeal for German patriotism and
.hen declares that four months after the
lrmistice-April l, l9l9-Governor Cox
n statement or message said: Il as
sert without reservation that the teach.
ng of German to our children, no mat
-er where they are being educated. dur
ng their impressiOnable years, is not
only a distinct menace 70 Americanism
but It part OF a conspiracy formed long
go by the German government in Der
I'm
Then the advertisement signed by the
two Ohio daily newspapers goes on 70
tell the Germans of other states that
when an attempt was made to exempt
the parochial schools rom the prohibi
ton of the teaching of German the same
Governor Cox denounced those schools
IS breeders of sedition.
1T is the sacred duty" says the adj
7erhsement, of every American of Ger
nan origin who has left in him a single
park of pride, of every woman who
Knows how to treasure mother love, to
liter a protest against this when the oc
aston is offered on November , Every
vote for Warren G.. Harding is a protest
against the persecution of which the
americans of German origin, have been
the victims in the last few years, a pro
est against the unjust SANDERS that have
been leveled at them, protest against
he lntOlerable nativism (superpatriotism
II which Governor Cox stands before the
nation as the champion, a decided
strengthening of the Harding campaign
motto of America first "
In talking with one of the Germans
1ere, | was reminded that while the
Democrats at San Francisco may have
thought they were doing a clever thing
" nutting a Roosevelt on their ma
ional ticket. they evidently forgot what
he name Roosevelt stands for among
Germans Indeed, Communications
he said, are convinced Franklin Roosevelt
must entertain toward German-Ameri
ans the same hostile feelings as the
other members of the Roosevelt family
have expressed. incidentally it win be
noted that Col. Theodore Roosevelt, ir.
who is campaigning for Harding. has
nePn discreetly kept from this section.
Among the Italians there has been nc
'ctive campaign on foreign questions, but
m overwhelming majority of italian
Americans have for the last two years
been antagonized by editorials and other
IMPRESSIONS from italian leaders denounc
;ng President Wilson for having pre-
vented Italy from obtaining possession
# the city of Fiume. That question has
been agitated as Italian nationalism here
bouts. and the Democrats will beal
from it at the polls. On the other hand
he writer was assured that the high cost
If living was probably the controlling
issue, and that the decline in price o.
7ngar was regarded as an evidence that
there always had been a plentiful sup
My, but the public was gouged, by prof
L
"estrained by the government at Wash
inoton.
Sugar seems to he more of an Issue than
snpears on the surface The combination
# domestic ills and grievances on ques
tions affecting their native lands is al
r'oet unbreakable The western New
York majority for Harding viii be
svvelIed TO incredibly large totals by the
foreign born.