AMERICAN POLITICAL SITUATION

Nelson Evening Mail, 26 May 1916, Page 3

AMERICAN POLITICAL SITUATION

WILSON'S GERMAN NOTE "PALSIED."

The American correspondent of the D'unedin Star writes under date April 26th :

! Apart from the all-absorbing subject. | of the European war. particular interest is now being invested in the forthcoming Presidential election among the electors of the United States, and the political situation is, indeed., a strangely confused one. At-Peoria, Illinois, Medill M'C'ormiok, cf Chicago, as temporary chairman of the Republican State Convention, in criticising President Wilson's foreign policy, declared that Americans might "almost hear across* the Rio Grande the snigger which greets our futile admonition's." At the same time lie said : "Great Britain and Germany, with unconcealed disdain, received in short succession the communications of the President" The President's Notes to Germany. the chairman declared, "were palsied by t'he"President's course in Mexico."' The speaker made- a plea for partM harmony and national military, preparedness. The Convention endorsed Senator L. Y. Sherman for President. •Senator Sherman, addressing the! Convention, charged President VViL?on with playing politics in the present submarine controversy, and said if diplomatic relations with Germany were to be broken off it should have' been done when the Liusitania was sunk. "No nlatter what the exigencies of the D'smocratio party mav be. I refuse to assist in furnishing, it- -with a battle-scarred hero as 1 a candi,date for President." Senator Sherman 'said. The Convention .adjourned until September 19, when the' delegates will reconvene and adopt a party platform In the Middle West, and especiahv m Chicago, the 'Germans, "who hold a strong voting power, have professed themselves thoroughly dissatisfied with both. Wilson and ' Roosevelt. Said the leading: German in Chicago: "We loved and idolised JRoosevelt, but he has allowed prejudice to F-way him..in his outlook upon international affairs. We, demand ■■fai^•ness•- ; has -been grossly unfair, unneutral in his:, favour .shown to England. \ Roosevelt has been equally so in his public, utter-, ances Should; t'hev be the opposing candidates, most of the •GermanAmenv'ans ■will vote Socialist." Viewing America as a whole, present appenvances .pea-tend- ; a -return of Roosevelt to the. White House, for he is undoubtedly the mo?t generallv popular among the: array of aspirants Henry Ford• being simply viewed as one dekring;advertisingpii.b- . licity to increase his 'motorcar business. Mr A.lleA Louis "Benson, the Socialist nominee, has long been one of the lead- f in<* members of: the Socialist organisation He. is a former newspaper editor. He w.is editor of the Detroit Thn'-.s and the Washington Times'. TSenson .ha* written several books be'tr.ing en -Socialism- Among them are 'Socialum Made/ Plain,' 'The Usurped Power of , Courts.' 'The Growing Grocery Ellis,. ■,-; and 'The Truth About Socialism. He, ' has also written many articles on. ec.3-/j noinic and political- subjects.": "' ■ ■- /|