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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Casey, Paul F. |
| Title, Analytic | Oscar Illing and "Die Neue Zeit": The Role of a German-American Newspaper in the American Election of 1924 |
| Journal Title | Amerikastudien |
| Date of Publication | 1979 |
| Volume ID | 24 |
| Issue ID | 1 |
| Location in Work | 72-80 |
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| Abstract | Oscar Tiling, in 1924 the new editor of the Chicago German-language weekly Die Neue Zeit, proffered in the pages of his newspaper unprecedented support for Robert Marion LaFollette, the candidate of the newly-formed Progressive Party in the American national election of 1924. In his forceful and courageous editorial campaign for LaFollette, IIling attacked American banking interests, traditional Republicans, the German-language press in America for failure to support a man of LaFollette’s caliber, and his own bête noire: the Versailles Treaty. With increasing intensity as the November election approached, Tiling upbraided German-Americans for lack of pride in their German heritage and their fear of a too direct political involvement, based on their insecure position during and immediately following World War I. Tiling had no sympathy with those who, as the price of assimilation, had totally abandoned their native land. Even after LaFollette’s defeat, Ming expressed only scorn for those factors which led to his downfall. Oscar Tiling risked the financial security of his paper for a pregressive idea which was ahead of its time, but in the process, and most immportantly, he made his readers aware, during an awkward period for German-Americans, that support of German interests was not of itself reprehensible. |
| Call Number | Digital file (PDF) |
| MKI Terms | German Americans -- Illinois/ Chicago (Ill.)/ World War, 1914-1918 -- German Americans/ Politics/ Newspapers, German American |