Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-16
ISSUES
HAVING EFFECT ON
AL|EN-B0RN>VOTES
Foreign Influence Said TO In
dicate Republican Victory
in New York State.
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

BUFFALO, N. z. October 16.--West-
ern New York has so much to do al
ways with the cutting down of the
democratic majorities gained in the
Tammany districts that one need not
search further than Erie county for
the reasons why New York state will
go heavily republican this year.
Germans, Italians. Poles, Slovaks,
Hungarians and Russians make up a
foreign-born population that exceeds
the native-born. 1t is easy to assume
that some Of these groups will be at
fected by foreign issues in which the
Wilson administration has become in
volved for or against the home coun-
tries, but investigation among the
leaders Of thought in those foreign
born units brings the conclusion that
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 growing out OF the Euro
pean war.
Campaign Not Unusual.
The campaign among the foreign
born has not been extraordinary. Ger
tain1y it has not been as intense as
it was in 1916. On the other hand,
more trouble than the republicans
have acquired, and it is hardly an ex-
aggeration to say that the bulk of
the German vote, the Italian vote and
even the Polish vote will go to Hard
ing.
If Wilson were candidate, lead
er 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
IIs< H. s~,~
| the Polish republic. But the high
| cost of sugar and the well cultivated
! belief that the republican administra-
| ton will somehow bring relief from
economic ills of today will turn the
Polish vote to the republicans.
| Same idea Expressed.
| Somewhat the same idea was ex.
pressed to me by the German-Ameri-
can spokesmen here, who predicted
swing two years and four years hence
| to the democrats if the republican
party failed to bring relief. On the
other hand, the feeling against the
| Wilson administration and Gov. Cox
himself on purely German issues bas
deprived the democrats of any chance
| they might have had this year, ever
| If the idea of democratic prosperity
could have been convincingly present
ed. For instance, big display ad'
NcTIiSeInenI appeared III LILO OUTLAY
Volksfreund twa days ago signed by
the Cleveland Wachter and Anzeigel
and the Cincinnati Free Press, II
which Gov. Cox is denounced for the
part he played in forbidding the
teaching of German in Ohio schools
The advertisement is first an appea
for German nationalism, and then de
clares that four months after the ar
mistice-April 1, 1s19-Gov. Cox. in {
| statement or message, said:
Il assert without reservation that
the teaching of German to our chill
dren, no matter where they are being
educated during their impressionable
years. is not only distinct menace
to Americanism, but it is part of a
conspiracy formed long ago by the
German government in Berlin" Then
the advertisement, signed by 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 prohibi.
tion of the teaching of German the
same Gov. Cox denounced those
schools as breeders of sedition.
Called "Sacred Duty"
1T is the sacred duty" says the ad
vertisement, "of every American Of
German origin. who has left in him
a single spark of pride, Of ever,
woman who knows how to treasure
mother love, to utter a protest againsI
this when the occasion is offered or
November 2. Every vote for Warner
G. Harding is a protest against tht
persecution of which the American:
of German origin have been the vic
Tins in the last few years. a protes
against the unjust ISLANDERS that have
been leveled at them. protest agains
the intolerable nativism (superpa
triotism) of which Gov. Cox stand!
before the nation as the champion, {
decided strengthening of the Hard
ing campaign motto of "Americ;
first"
In talking with one of the German
here I was reminded that while tn
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