Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1916 — Tribute to Hughes. [ARTICLE]

Tribute to Hughes.

Col. Roosevelt paid high tribute to Mr. Hughes in his speech at the Union League Club. He said, in part: “If Mr. Hughes is made president, we can count with the greatest certainty that not the group of the greatest capitalists in the land, nor yet the group of the greatest labor leaders in the land will be able to get one thing at Washington by threats, by duress, by misstatement, or in any other way, save by showing before a competent tribunal the justice of their demands. And I was glad to hear Mr. Hughes emphatically point out that the question was not an eight-hour question at all. It had nothing to do with the eight-hour question; it was simply a question of an advance of wages and that was all 4t was. I believe emphatically in the eight-hour law as an ideal toward which we must work, but I believe you must take into account, the* type of work to be done.