Arizona republican., 1916-08-09
HUGHES SHOWS
 SHORTCOMINGS
 OF DEMO $. RULE
Republican A. F. Leased WIrel

CHICAGO, Aug. 8. - Charles E. Hughes tonight told an audience that crowded Chicago's great Coliseum the hall where he was nominated for the presidency-what he would do if elected president of the United States.
 MT. Hughes charged the present ad ministration with waste, extravaganza and vacillation. lie declared that it had not kept the country out of war, but that it had fought an ignominous war in Mexico, and had withdrawn from that war ignominously. He charged the administration with hav- ing brought the country much nearer to participation in the European war than the country would have been had the administration stood for American rights
 He declared that it was no more possible to expect tariff protection to American industries from a demo- cratic congress than it would be to get "a revival sermon out of a dis orderly house."
 The nominee assailed the admins tratiOn also for its appointments to office, and declared that if elected, he would appoint to office only men who were well qualified
 Democratic expenditures for harbor and rivers were also attacked.
 T propose that we shall stop this pork business" he said T propose that we shall have government in business like way. We won't have any more if 1 can stop it. of these kiss me and I'll kiss you appropria tions in congress- The nominee said he stood for business like, respon- Ia T do not want any hot air in mine" he added.
 | The democratic party. MT. Hughes said, was approaching the idea of protective tariff. like a skittish horse | to a brass band" In 1912, he added. rthe democratic platform had said. in effect. that protective tariff was un- constitutional
 They say now that the European war has changed the constitution of the United States" he continued.
 But do you think they are con- verted? They haven't got it in their i bones"
 MT. Hughes reiterated much of his Detroit speech, regarding the admin ] istration Mexican policy.
 Tt had no right" he said, ito com init this country to a course of con- duct which landed Mexico in anarchy left our citizens a ,prey to the ray ages of revolution and made our name a word of contempt in a sister re- public"
 We have gone forward. he said, ] in speaking of the administration Mexican policy with a determination C be destructive. not constructive. to destroy all they had"
 As to the administrators foreign policy, Mr. Hughes said
 We have allowed olr words to be eaten up by hesitation. by delay. We have somehow or other convinced the world that our talk is cheap
 'I propose that we have a new ' birth of American purpose and cour- age We have no occasion to fear war lir the assertion of those rights, which al recognize and only respect us for
 maintaining. But if we are glib in , speech. if we indicate that we are not ready to meet the full responsibility that our words imply we are pushed } q little further and little further l until some fine day events occur which } al ouse an implacable resentment from one end of the country to the other That is the danger of war. P This administration has come nearer to landing us in war by its l weakness than it would ever have ) Cpitlt Hlu II SlOOu ld1tnluliN lOl $ American rights and had let it be
 known that they would he defended
 T believe that with our peaceful
 purposes. our just purposes, we have
 no occasion to be drawn into strife, il
 we are prepared, if we are dignified
 if We show that we mean what W,
 say, And 1 desire that as we look tC
 the future. we shall have American citizenship, the proudest title in tn,
 world; American administration tn,
 best in the world and American
 honor the cherished~thought of every
 American citizen.
 Mir. Hughes spoke for nearly al
 hour to a packed hall. The audienc,
 cheered him for five minutes befor
 he spoke. A brass band perched in :, loft at the far end of the hall playe, e three stanZas of the Star Spangle, a Banner" during the demonstration bu l. (Continued on Page Two)