Life — October 19, 1916 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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658 Lined Up With the Hyphens GENTLEMAN in Cincinnati who says he has been pleased with Lire for its opposition to Prussianism, has written to cancel his subscription be- cause Lire’s attitude towards Can- didate Hughes scems, to him, too cold. That's all right, of course, but what is too hard to understand is how an anti-Prussian such as he is, should insist upon herding us all in with the pro-Prussian Germans to beat Mr. Wilson. For our part we don’t like the com- pany this Ohio brother is keeping. Mr. Hughes’ leading general is Hindenberg, a doughty man, but not on the side of the United States. The Germans in New Jersey beat the administration candidate in the pri- maries and compassed the nomination of Martine, one of the most absurd men that ever sat in the Senate. In Texas there are counties that are almost solidly German and they went almost solidly for Iquitt the anti- Wilson man, In onc of these counties Culberson, the administration candidate, got three votes. In another he got sixty votes to cight hundred for Colquitt. SHE DIDN’T RAISE HER BOY TO BE A SAILOR! Culberson won easily because there were not Germans enough in Texas to beat him, but the German counties there told unmistakably the sentiments of the German voters Everywhere in the country the Ger- mans are out to beat Wilson and elect Hughes, and not for American reasons but for German reasons. If Mr. Hughes is elected it will be the German vote that will do the job. He will get it because Wilson has not satisfied the Germans. He has not stopped the export of munitions, he (From within WHO BE IT, “aT's A COUPLE OF YOUNG FELLOWS A-WANTING TO MARRY EACH OTHER.” has not broken yet with England, and he has not pussy-footed with the Hy- phens. He has been content to keep our government neutral. He has not in- sisted that it be pro-German. There- fore the Hyphens are all stacked up to run him out of office, and they may succeed. Certainly Mr. Hughes is not going to prevent them. Nothing is permitted to escape him, even in his most melted moods, that could detach a German vote. How do the pro-Ally and pro-Amer- ican Republicans feel about that? How does the Tribune feel? How docs Colonel Roosevelt feel? How does Mr. Bacon feel? Does he think he got many German votes in the Republican primaries? How docs Mr. Wickersham feel— Mr. Wickersham who was for send- ing home the German ambassador in short order after the Lusitania was sunk? How do several million other Repub- licans and Progressives feel about hitching up in this fashion with the Hyphens to elect a candidate whose hest bower in this campaign is the Ger- man vote and whose utmost care is to say nothing to scare it off? Some of the pro-Ally gentlemen in this preponderantly pro-Ally country sighed when Mr. Hughes was nomi- nated because they felt that such a nomination would not define the issue. They wanted something done to show the real attitude of the people of the