Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1916 — HUGHES PITILESS ON MEXICAN DISGRACE [ARTICLE]

HUGHES PITILESS ON MEXICAN DISGRACE

In His Mind and on His Tongue More Than Any Other Single Problem With Which Mr. Wilson Has Paltered.

CRAZY CHAPTER BLUNDERS No One Can Hear Him Speak Without Seain.j the Reality of Hia Jndignation Over the Heartless Policy of tha Democratic Administration Toward American Men, Women and Children, American Citizens, Soldiers and Sailors Along and Access the Rio Grande. Soon after Mr. Ilughes was uominated a friend said to him, “Governor, if the Amerlcau people forget the Mexican disgrace they dr> not deserve to have you for president ” Qui-k as a flash be replied, “The candidate who dodges the Mexican disgra o does not deserve to be president.’ lie did not pass around his address of acceptance for compliment or criticism in advance of its delivery, but the amount of space be devoted to the Mexican disgrace —“that confused chapter of blunders” —surprised uo one who had talked with him since his nomination. It has been in his mind and on bis mind more than any other single problem with which Mr. Wilson has paltered. To talk with him is to see at once the reality of his indignation over the heartless manner in wßifth American men, women and children, American citizens, soldiers and sailors have been abandoned by the administration along and across the Rio Grande, the victims of Mexican armed forbfes, outfitted'with American ammunition and American rifle», Mexicans whom Mr. Wilson has coddled one day as patriots

only to chase the next as bandits. It is apparently the belief of Mr. Wilson that the people of the United States are no' Interested In Mexico. His defenders have declared that it was an “old story and out of date.” Mr. Hughes has a better opinion of his fellow countrymen. He has proved himself a better judge of their feelings. He bas made “the Mexican disgrace” a foremost issue of bis campaign. He has assailed the record of the administration in that respect in almost every speech he has made. lie has never failed to strike a responsive chord in the hearts of his audience, whether speaking in Carnegie hall, New York, from the platform of bis train at Grand Forks, N. D., to a vast audience at Portland, at the exposition at San Diego or in the prairie states of the middle west. He has refuted the slander, sometimes heard in the effete east, that the people of the great west do not care what happens to their fellow citizens in Mexico or to the flag beyond the border. No man born in the west has a firmer faith in the fundamental patriotism and “dominant Americanism” of the people of that section than Mr. Hughes. He holds them responsible in large measure for th encouragement and gupport he received while governor of New, York in his war upon political graft and •olitical bossism. He thinks they bad much to do XR 11 conscripting him as the champion of nationalism in the current campaign. He showed his confldence in their practical idealism when he made “the Mexican disgrace” an uppermjst issue of his campaign. He has been vindicated by the re~sponse~Plsr arraignmen t of the administration on this score has everywhere evoked. From Maine to California “the Mexican disgrace” is a sore subject with red blooded Americans today. But nowhere between the oceans are the outrages inflicted in Mexico upon American honor, life and property more keenly resehted than around the firesides of the great west. Mr. Hughes is no stranger to the west. His straightforward talk on Mexico proves it.