Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1916 — THOUSANDS GRIP HAND OF NOMINEE [ARTICLE]

THOUSANDS GRIP HAND OF NOMINEE

Meddling of Wilson In Administra fam is Flayed in Speech at South Bend.

South Bend, Ind., Sept. 22'— Chas. E. Hughes, speaking at the end of his most strenuous day of presidential campaigning, tonight told an audience that packed the high schoo auditorium here that the republican party and he, as its candidate, stood “four squared to the world” for the enforcement of the rights of Americans “without favor” throughout the world. “I will say on this question of American rights,” Mr. Hughes said, “that I stand for enforcement of American rights throughout the world with respect’to American lives, American property and American commerce. “The republican party and I, as its candidate, stand firmly and foursquared to the world for all American rights to be maintained without favor, in justice, according to the facts of each separate case. We have no Secret understanding, no intrigue, no unstated purposes.

“We cannot maintain our standing as a nation unless we arc correct. We cannot help Mexico or anybody else unless we are correct in our international policies. If we are to have the esteem of the world instead of the enmity of the world, if we are to have the friendship of Mexico, if we. Are to be of service, we must lay it down as an absolute principle, to be understood by all nations, thht we do not propose to meddle officiously in their affairs, but we do propose that the American fl.’.g shall be respected and that American citizens shall be protected everywhere. “That is not the path that leads to war, that is the path that leads to peace and security. You do not protect yourself by surrendering your known rights. It is the man of selfrespect, who firmly, but not truculently, represents himself as being able to maintain his just rights that is respected in the community. It is the nation that stands erect in its own self-respect, 4t is the nation that is firm and consistent in the maintenance of its known rights that wins the esteem of the world.” Mr. Hughes again assailed the administration for the enactment of the Adamson alw. . *