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pies strategically a more advantageous position: an ounce of
performance is worth more than a pound of promise. From
a Mr. Hughes we must perforce accept a draft on the future,
from the Administration we shall accept only the spot cash
, of action. Promissory notes will not be discounted.
THE PLOT AGAINST GREECE
EVERAL months ago the world was startled by the
S revelation that among the papers of a British attache’,
seized by an Austrian submarine in the Mediterranean, there
was a letter outlining a plot for compelling the abdication
of King Constantine, if he should refuse to bend to the will
of the Allies. The authenticity of this letter was denied by
the British foreign office, yet events have verified the state-
' merit.
Failing to induce the Greek people to rebel against their
beloved King by starvation, the Allies took more drastic
I means. They compelled the King to demobilize his army.
They forcibly seized Greek territory and assembled an army
on Greek soil.‘ British agents sowed the seed of treason in
A the diet and in the barracks. The Allies usurped the func-
A
tion of the police in Athens. They severed communications
between the Government and its outlying possessions. With
fake dispatches from various parts of Greece they prepared
the neutral world to accept Venizelos as the leader of a
. “liberated” Greece. .
Unable to conquer either the Bulgarians or the Turks,
they vent their vengeance upon undefended Greece. The
plot develops exactly as foretold. , The denouement may
be the abdication of Constantine. And no doubt the British
claqiw in the American press is ready to applaud while Great
Britain, hangman of the world, consigns another nation to
slaughter.
GERMAN AMERICAN CANDIDATES SWEEP
‘ ILLINOIS
EPTEMBER the thirteenth was an unlucky day for the
pro-Ally candidates of the Republican party in Chi-
cago. For on that date the citizens of Chicago rose in their
iiiight and smote the Deneen machine to “smithereens.”
However, it is well to note that three Deneen candidates
did win. These three men are citizens of German descent.
Only real Americans won in this memorable primary. This
is a gratifying result in the first test of political power made
by the much abused hyphenates. “The result,” remarks
the New Republic, “is too sweeping to be accidental. It
points toward the deliberate organization of German Amer-
icans as a political unit to control the Republican party.
‘ To make the delivery of this ‘hyphenate’ vote clear, the fol-
lowing tabulation has been made showing till the candi-
dates for Cook County offices ‘of the two leading Republi-
canifactions, with quotations from their campaign -litera-
ture or other official information to establish their national
affiliations. The winners are marked by asterisks”:
' THOMPSON Sun: DENEEN 53573
"l‘iag‘iy B. Miller
His parents are of German
. descent."
Slate‘: Altornev
lm E. Nortbru
‘Born in Iowa.”
Recorder
Leland S. Rapp "
"Born in Illinois."
oseph F. Haas ”
‘Wicker Park Mannerchlor :
"Verein Dmtrche Preme-
' C! I: C‘ ': C i
'5-nzusi w. Miller A" '""iviiii'a'ix'i F. tag s
I: of German parentage." “Born in Ohio.
Clerk Superior Court -
. ohn, SIBIBB‘ . "
‘Native of Chicago."
. “Ilolicmian. ancestry.
‘ ',T‘0hn,l(jellander .
Born in Swcdcn."‘
GA '
ATnEnLANDe”
f now and the seventh day of November. Mr. Wilsoiiioccu-lg
Draumvfor7'I‘riz Fnrnaxnann by Paul
T. R. IS "HELPING" HUGHES ‘
V
Coroner
Walter G. Dav's
‘Peter M. Hoffman i
“Old Anierican Stock."
“German descent."
Board
‘George K. Schmidt
“Student at IVorms,
Germany."
of ‘.-l.r.re:.rars-‘-long term
Felix A. Nordlen
“Born in Baltimore."
Board of Assessor:-shortjterm
‘Charles Ringer
"German descent."
Robert.’ Lev ‘
“Born in Louisiana."
Review
Edward R. Litzinger ' V
“First attended German school’
member German C I u of .
Chicago." -
County Surveyor .
. Harry Subr
1 "Native of Chicago.”
Presidinit-Sunilury Board '
“ liai-les ll. Sergel
“German father-a 48-er."
Board 0): ,
Charles A. ‘Villiarns
“Born in Illinois."
‘Harry Emerson .
“Born in VVisconsin."
James II. Lawley
“Born in Chicago."
Tru.ri‘ee-Sanitary Board
‘Charles H. Sergel
Edward T. Williams
“Norwegian parentage.”
Thomas VV. hGil5ioi'c
1
“Born in O '0.
I " ames II. Lawlcy
avid R. ones
' lilinriesota."
"Mattlii.-is A. Mueller
“Born in Germany."
Mr. Horace L. Brand, who did conspicuous work in this ; ’
epoch-making victory, regards the result as a .triumph for
Americanism and a disaster -to the Knownothings. ‘- I I
“The regular Republican‘ slate,” writes Mr. Brand to us, :
“put up by the ‘Thompson-Brundage combination, contained -a K ‘ ‘
candidates of whom 25 per cent. or more were Germanij .,
Americans. The entire list of candidates was nominated,’ :i
excepting three important positions; and these important A
positions were captured by citizens of German extraction. ‘W
“In these very same primaries the regular Democratic’ ,
Committee, controlled by Roger‘ Sullivan, put up a slate’ . . :
( C - i , ‘=1
which contained not one single candidate of German -‘ex-“
traction. Against this slate a number of independent candi-
dates ran, among them Governor Dunne, the present’ in-.
cumbcnt to succeed himself. In the county of Cook the
Sullivan slate won. But in the entire State of Illinois the
Sullivan machine was broken to pieces. Dunne received an
immense majority over Sullivan's candidate ‘for Governor,
Brinton. Henry W. Huttman, candidate for Lieutenant.-‘-, "
Governor and a German American, running independently
against both factions, won the nomination decisively, al-
though he was without any party support whatsoever ‘and;
depended solely for victory upon the voters.” I . I , ,
The German Americans’ victory in Illinoisis a triumph
for Americanism. It is also a warning lesson.to all the
parties... Norcandidate willbe elected in’Novembei:,'who
V not‘forAmeric'afirst. H,” ' . e m ' -, ‘ '