Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-17
CHARGES REPUBLICANS
ARE AL|EN|z|NG AMERICA
Encmy Germans, Sore Over U. s.
Victory Over Kaiser, Fighting
Democracy, Says Colby.
ORGANIZING MALCoNTENTs
Every Teuton Newspaper in This
Country Working for Harding's
( Election, Along With Other RAJ
cinl Groups of Sympatilizers.

CHICAGO. Oct. 16.-Germans and
German newspapers In the United
States under surveillance by the au-
thorities during the war are backing
Senator Harding for the presidency.
Secretary of State Colby declared to-
day in n speech ut a luncheon at the
IroQuois Club here.
There is only one reason for this
support" the secretary said: They
hate the President. who pulled the
mask aside from Prussian arrogance.
They hate the party under whose di-
recuon and leadership the victorious
war was fought. in which America
contributed the decisive blows that
crushed and humbled German hostil-
ity to free institutions.
"Mr. Harding should be embar-
raised. instead of exhilarated as he
seems 10 be. by this support. 1t is
abhorrent in the last degree to see
his party covertly and yet method
ically seeking TO organize this sup
port, and eager to profit by it, re-
sardieSs Of it's disgraceful implica-
lions.
II mention the Germans by way Of
Illustration. What / say OF them APP
plies to every other racial group in
our mids, who think more OF graft
flying their racial antipathies than
they do OF serving America. l some
times feel that the Republican party
Is engaged in an effort TO Balkanize
the electorate.
Flume Not American Question.
America is not interested primar-
lily in the rivalries between the AL
banians and the Jugo-Slavs, or in
their contentious over a boundary"
the speaker continued. The law
less occupation of Fiume by an ex-
c!tnble lyricist whom his govern
ment refuses 10 avow and will not
discipline is not in it's essence an
American question.
The Democratic party is not seek
ing the support OF any OF these racial
groups among our population on the
basis of their pretudices or suscepti-
biiities as aliens. 1t welcomes into
our body polite and into our social
family the well-meaning immigrants
OF all races and all chimes. but the
hand OF fellowship that it holds out
10 them lis the hand Of American fell
loTship and il will extend no other
greeting.
AllenlIinB America.
1T is horrible thing to contem-
Plate future in which Italian ma
,ionalism. combining with Bulgarian
jealousy OF Greece. and in turn link
ing up with the German smart under
deserved defeat, and backed by the
Irish distrust Of England, should
constitute voting block in our cleo
torate. 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, or to modify the bank
ing system in the interests OF the
eXplo!ter and the proiteer; and yet
that Is precisely the point to which
we are tending when a great party
like the Republican party seeks TO
annex and appropriate for it's own
political purposes all the racial fric-
lions, d!sappo!ntments. grievances
and Instincts that 1t can locate and
Identify amid our great population"