The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-08-16
Is Essence Of Speeches Of
Mr.. Hughes.
A COMPARISON OF TWO MEN
Shows Difference Between Man
Who Does Things and the
Man Who Talks.
MIR. HUGHES SIMPLY "AT SEA-

Every speech that Mr.. Hughes
makes is a new argument for the
reelection of President Wilson.
In Chicago Mr.. Hughes declared
that ''if anything in this campaign
is real, it is that We are now facing
the question whether we want words
or whether We want deeds" While
Mr.. Hughes was giving voice to this
sentiment, the telegraph wires were
carrying the news that through the
leadership of President Wilson the
Senate had passed the Child Labor
Bill and that the House conferees
would accept the Senate Navy Bill
If Mr.. Hughes is concerned about
deeds, We refer him to the record of
the Wilson administration, a record
of achievements in progressive legis-
lation for which there is no parallel.
We refer him to the Federal Re-
serve Banking Law. We refer him to
the Rural Credits Law. We refer
him to the Trade Commission Law.
We refer him to the Panama Canal
| Tolls Act that had repudiated tho
solemn obligations of a treaty. We
refer him to the Clayton law, de-
claring that labor shall no longer be
treated as a commodity. We refer
him to the income tax. We refer
him to the Parcel-Post Law. We re-
fer him to a host of other measures
which invoke the power of Cover
eminent for the protection of human
rights. We refer him to the great
measures of national defense which
Congress is carrying through under
Mr.. Wilson's leadership. And, not
least, we refer him to the fact that
the American people again have an
Administration that is not under the
domination of Wall Street and high
finance.
Mr.. Hughes was Governor of New
York longer than Mr.. Wilson has
been President of the United States. !
What was done under his Admins |
tration that compares in point OF
craftsmanship and public service
with even the least of these
achievements under the Wilson Ad-
ministration?
Mr.. Hughes's sheer about words .
and deeds may have been directed |
at the foreign policies of President
Wilson rather that at the domestic !
policies. Very WELL President Will
sons words have kept the United
States out of war without the sur
render of single American right.
Where would Mr.. Hughes's deeds"
have placed US? Diplomacy has only
two weapons, words and deeds.
Words mean negotiation. Deeds mean
war. II Mr.. Hughes's reproach of
the President has any significance
except campaign nagsing, it is that
President Wilson refuses to plunge
the country into war before exhaust
ing all the resources of diplomacy,
and that consequently We are in the
miserable and unfortunate condi-
ton of being at peace when Ameri-
can boys might be dying by the
thousands every day in the trenches.
Is that what Mr.. Hughes wants?
Every time Mr.. Hughes speaks he
emphasizes the painful fact that he
has no legitimate issue and no con-
structive policies of his own. His |
whole campaign is directed not to /
building himself up but to tearing
the President down. $500.
Before Mr.. Hughes was nomi-
mated The World looked forward to
his candidacy in the belief that it
would mean an appeal to the reason
and the intelligence of the American '
people. In all Kindness toward Mr..
We must confess our disap-
pointment. There is no appeal to
public reason or public intelligence
in Mr.. Hughes's campaign addresses.
No citizen is wiser or better inform
ed or more sanely advised in his
public duties because of anything
that Mr.. Hughes has said since his
The Hughes speeches are only an
invocation to blind. bigoted parti-
They are the common :
place product of commonplace Re- =,
publican mind. and as such they are ,
quite unworthy of the Charles 4. f.,
Hughes that New York used 10
fnow.-[ New York World.