It is the common experience of those who have worked with the foreign-born voter that he usually is responsive to this kind of appeal. Is it not really a tribute to ourselves, as well as an index of his own idea of what “America” stands for, that he acts at the ballot box as if he would like to see these things incarnated in the life of his adopted country?
Mr. Bennet went on to say that “we learn, certainly, concerning our most recent citizens, from the Hearst vote”:
1. They are independent voters.
2. They are not constrained to remain in the party in power nationally.
3. Nor do they remain with a party simply because it is usually dominant locally.
4. They are not afraid to sacrifice immediate possible benefit by attaching themselves to a lesser party and temporary movement.
5. They are moved by appeals to good citizenship.
6. They are quite certain to range themselves on the right side of a question of morals.
7. A certain proportion of them are moved by direct appeals, based on alleged class distinctions.