Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1916 — Reasons Why Hughes Should Be Elected [ARTICLE]

Reasons Why Hughes Should Be Elected

BECAUSE he stands for Protection, Prosperity, Preparedness and Patriotism. BECAUSE he will not permit partisanship to triumph over Patriotism. BECAUSE his speech of acceptance expresses his desire to co-operate with labor for its advantage, not to exploit it for his own. BECAUSE he will command the respect of Europe and Asia and win the friendship of Latin-America. * BECAUSE he will never by proclamation deny the right of Americans to pursue their business in other lands under the protection of the American flag. BECAUSE he will not repudiate the American flag in any land. BECAUSE he will not put action into words, but words into action. BECAUSE, as Theodore Roosevelt well says, he has high sentiments of justice and dignity, is upright and straightforward, is an incontestable master of judicial matters, and always translates his words into deeds. BECAUSE he is a strong, sure, courageous man, with a clear-cut pro- , gram before him and with the courage, intelligence and determination' to carry it out and bring to our country self-respecting peace and world-wide respect. BECAUSE as Governor of New York he has. already proved that he dared to do the right thing, tfnd is prepared to further do and dare when called into a wider field. BECAUSE he is not a dreamer and not a quitter. BECAUSE he is a firm friend of prepareduess for the United States and not for preparedness through political expediency. BECAUSE he will not burden us with war taxes in time of peace. BECAUSE we need a tariff not founded upon free trade, nor for “revenue only/’ but to protect American labor and American industry from the deadly competition of the foreigner. BECAUSE he is a red-blooded American. Eis policy will be “America first, America efficient.” BECAUSE he can be depended upon to keep platform pledges. BECAUSE he will protect this country against being flooded with the cheap manufactures of Europe after the war. BECAUSE he is the chosen head of a party which has long fathered all great constructive legislation which experience has proved to be wise and which has invariably been opposed by the Democratic party. BECAUSE a business man is going to be especially needed in the next few years. In consequence of the European war a tremendous readjustment of the world’s business is ahead. The United States must • be economically ’prepared. It must not, as now, be~Xelt It must not have a President with an untrained business changing. Mr. Hughes made a remarkable reeortl as a business Governor of New York. He has extraordinary ability to see all sides of a question. Not from him, as from Wilson, will be heard any declaration that he business men ‘ffiigh as Haman” if they do not agree with him. BECAUSE he is a man of forward vision, of practicability and firmness, not a mere rhetorician and theorist. BECAUSE he stands for the protection of American lives'and property abroad as well as at home. BECAUSE through him the whole'nation will be in the Government, v It will not be ruled by one section, nor by one man. BECAUSE he is for an not an unsound and sham system of , r jvrora! ereditp to help the farmer and for a wise conservation of natural resources. BECAUSE he is for a Federal workingmen’s compensation law suitable for the employees of the Government and those employees engaged . in interstate commerce and subject to the hazard of injury. BECAUSE he favors investigating before legislating.