The Washington times., 1924-10-23
Pol IT N;AL
DEMANDS
VARY
Hard, IN Survey, Finds Silent
Workers Encounter Many
Unexpected SnarIs
By WILLIAM HARD

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In the last article we saw that
our British immigrant naturalized
voters are almost as numerous as
our German immigrant naturalized
voters. We saw that thus, If a.
candidate or manager gets out
to tell the German immigrant
naturalized voters that the war
against Germany was a bad war,
he stands a chance of losing just
about one ex-British vote for
every one ex-German vote that
he captures. This is naturally a
painful thought to any manager.
His pains increase as he goes on.
Foreign Language SectlOlls.
In the foreign language bureau Of
the. main national campaign head.
quarters Of the Republican party in
Chicago there is an 1droit Yankee
from New Hampshire, of the name
of Messer, who presides over all tae
sections of the bureau. Chece is a
Norwegian section. There Is
Swedish section. There is Ter.
man section. There is a Czecho-
slovak section. There is a Polish
section. There is a Jewish section.
There is an Italian section. There
e a Finnish section. There is an
Hungarian section. There is Il
Jugoslav section. There Ia Greek
section. There may he, other sec
nons which this writer was nor
quick enough to notice. Anyway,
there might seem to be quite
enough Of them.
The question now Is:
Putting the Germans and the
British aside for a moment. what
are the next important groups
among our foreign-born 1oters?
That question has to be answered
as follows:
Next after the Germans and the
British come numerically the Scan
dinavians and then the Irish and
then the Russians (who, principally,
are Jews).
The immigrant naturaltzed Scanli,
navians number some 500, 900. The
Immigrant naturalized irish number
some 100000. The immigrant natu.
rallied Russian Jews number sonleS
500 900.
Then come the Italians With GONE
A5O,OOO, and then The Poles among
them are many Jews) with some
100000
Difficult to Please.
: Immediately below them come
some 100000 ex-Austrians. who
mostly think that the treaty of
Versailles was a harsh and oppres-
sive treaty, and then some 10000
Czech lovaks, who mostly think
that the Treaty of Versailles was q
splendid and beautiful treaty, and
then some 100000 ex-Hungarians,
who in large numbers get red in the
eye whenever they even think of
the Treaty of Versailles.
Now it happens that Mr.. la Fol
lctte proceeded to get out and an.
nounce that he Is in favor of Wig
prous~ action by the United States
In Europe to revise the Treaty of
Versailles.
This may please a lot Of the
Hungarians and lot of the Aus
TRANS but 1t makes a lot of the
Czecho- Slovaks mad as hops. One
Of their leaders, Charles Pergler,
Immediately writes letter to Mr..
La Toilette and In effect says:
what do you mean, revising the
Treaty of Versailles?. The Treaty
Of Versailles established Czecho-
Slovaks. 1t established Jugo-Slavia,
from which there are some 10000
naturalized voters In this country.
IT. increased the territory Of Rou.
mania, from which again there are
some 10000 naturalized voters In
this country. 1t helped Poland. 1t
helped italy. Are you going to
turn against, all these peoples In
order to help the Germans and the
Austrians and the Hungarians?"
Thus Mr.. Pergler to Mr., La Fol-
iette; and thus from almost every
foreign racial group among us
there comes a boomerang for all
most any statesman who says or
does anything that any other for
eign racial group among us may
Especially like.
> This is the antidote which in a
considerable degree our foreign ra-
cial situation In the United States,
carries within itself. Special APP
peals to special groups are offset
by the resentments and reactions
from other special groups.
:. Yet the political manager has to
get out and do some sort of special
appealing II he can.
Consider the situation in certain
be our crucial States.
In the East, take Rhode Island
and New York and New Jersey.
In the Northwest, take the 'radi.
cal belt" Of Wisconsin, Minnesota,
and North Dakota.
Mixed Votes.
In each Of these States compare
the, native white vote of native
parentage with the white vote Of
Foreign parentage plus the foreign