Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1916 — HUGHES TAKES RAP AT MEX POLICY [ARTICLE]

HUGHES TAKES RAP AT MEX POLICY

In Speech at Coliseum in Chicago, Republican Nominee Declares the Mex Policy is Disgraceful. Charles E. Hughes h the coliseum at Chicago Tuesday night told the crowd in the hall where he was nominated for 'president, what he wduld do if elected. Mr. Hughes charged the administration with waste, extravagance and vacillation. He declared that it had not kept the country out of war, but that it had fought an ignominous war with Mexico and had withdrawn from that war ignominously. He charged the administration with having drawn the country much nearer to participation in the European war than the country would have been had the administration stood for American rights. He declared that it was no more possible to expect tariff protection to the American industries from a democratic congress than it would be to get “a revival sermon out of a disorderly house.” ----- ——

The nominee assailed the administration also for its appointments to office and declared that if elected he would appoint to office only men who were well qualified. Democratic expenditures for rivers and harbors was also attacked by the nominee. “I propose that we shall stop this pork business,” he said, “that we shall have government in a businesslike way. We won’t have any more if I can stop it, of these ‘kiss me and I’ll kiss you’' appropriations in congress.” The democratic party, Mr. Hughes said, was approaching the idea of a protective tariff, “like a skittish horse to a brass band.” “In 1912,” he added, “the democratic platform had said in effect that a protective taiiff was unconstitutional. They say in effect that the European war has changed the constitution of the United States. Do you think they are converted? Don’t you trust them a little minute with protecting American industry. They haven’t got it in their bones.” “The democratic party had no right to commit this country to a course of conduct which landed Mexico in anarchy a prey to the ravages of the revolution and made our name a word of contempt in a sister republic.” “We have gone forward,” the nominee said, in speaking of the Mexican policy, “with a destructive, not constructive, policy to destroy all they had.” - • ■» //TTT

In closing Mr. Hughes said, “We cannot let the American spirit fall so low that lapped in the luxury occasioned by a foreign war we shall see American life sacrificed without a determination to prevent it and make the American name honored and respected wherever the flag flies. The trouble with the administration is this: I don’t think it ever had a policy in Mexico worthy of the name.”