Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-10-13 | Page 1 | Hughes and Wilson Assailed by hanly

HUGHES ID WILSON ASSAILEQJf M Discusses German-American Vote in Presidential Campaign. DECATUR, 111., Oct. 2. Efforts of national campaign managers of both big political parties to capture the German-American German-American vote were severely criticised and the attitudo of President Wilson toward ' ' German atrocities ' ' was pronounced pro-nounced "meek" today by J. Frank Hanly, the Prohibition presidential candidate, can-didate, in speeches through Illinois. Hanly s comments were prompted by the publication of a story, the truth of which he said he doubted, in relation to alleged conferences between Senator Stone and certain widely known German-Americans in jS'cw York over the political situation. "There are some outstanding facts in this German-American rmmncss which stand admitted and reflect no credit upon either the Democratic or the Re- , publican parties, their candidates or their managers. "Germany is engaged in a great war j for the bringing about of which the German emperor, more than any other i man, living or dead, is to blame. In I her conduct of that war" she has violated violat-ed almost every international Jaw aDd neutral right. She has murdered our people men, women and children on the high seas, destroyed them without warning and without offer of succor. "Her adherents have formed con-! sniracies on our soil, beneath our own flag, against American industries and destroyed workshops and factories bv incendiarism. "The president of the Tnitd States has met these German atrocities with such meekness and has treated these hyphenated offenders ngainst the neutrality neu-trality and the laws of the republic po ! leniently as to call down upon him se- : verest censure from tho very men whom thev are supporting. ,:The joy of the German pre.s ovrT Mr. Jluches's nomination ha been nnd is ecstatic, and country-wide. German organizations throughout tho cities of (Continued on Pago Seven.) HUGHES 10 WILSON ASSAILED BY BY (Continued from Page One.) the nation acclaim his ranrliilaey and are aidino in hi election. ' ' 1 f r. line lies if elected president his success may justly be regarded throughout the world a victory for ' Germany in the United States. It will be notice to ri'ili.ation that the German Ger-man vote, and through the. German vote the German government, holds the balance bal-ance of power in American policies. ' ' The spectacle, of the struggle, for this vote by the managers of Hughes and Wilson and the prospect that it may decide the election is disturbing and humiliating." r-rr7T r