Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-10-25
Hughes Compiled win Demands.

hughes Complied with Demands.
The democratic national committe,
points to tho letter Of WIN r. Melon
aid. dated october II, 1916, for illum
mating demand made upon the candi
date. and Mr. Hughes fun compliance
with such demands I'm the estimation
Of the propagandists, as well as de.
tails Of the conference with Mr.
Hughes campaign managers. The
letter states In part
1T is possible for me 70 notify you
that our delegation was accorded the
same consideration as has been given
to Mr.. George Perkins and his follow
ers and Mr. Hughes gladly listened to
our request that he state just how he
stood upon American issues.
Mr.. Hughes was told that the bulk
OF the people did not consider Mr.. VIII
sons foreign policy TO be the hest
thing for American interests. He was
asked to outline his ideas Of what he
would do as president.
Willing To State Position.
In answering those questions, Mr..
! Hughes declared that he was per-
| fcctly willing to state his position on
any specific instance that might be
brought up.
ole declared that he had no reason
to conceal whore he stood on the ques-
ton of. mail seizure, etc, and then to
show the people just exactly how he
felt ne made his speech in Philadol-
phia and touched on these questions.
This speech by Mr.. Hughes was
perfectly satisfactory to all our lead
crs In the east, north west and south.
His speech should satisfy everyone
that In this election we will secure the
services Of a real American president.
And from this time on it is TO be un
dcrstoOd that organization leaders will
instruct all Of our section leaders and
others to do all that is possible to
bring about the election Of Mr.
Hughes"
Concerning the secret negotiations
between the representatives Of the
American Independence conference
and Mr.. Hughes campaign managers,
the Macdonald letters say;
WILCOX Conferred with Macdonald.
what follows is n report Of the re-
suits accomplished by the delegation
that left our Chicago conference to
confer with certain republican lead
ers. II now appears that in addition
to the consultations held IN Chicago
by Daniel f, Cohalan, as spokesman
for the O'Lcary organization, Chair
man Willcox Of the republican nation
al committee personally conferred
in New york with Macdonald and
Frank Seiberlch, of Boston, another
member of the special committee
headed by O'Lcmy when presented
the demands OF the organization to
Mr. Hughes
Chairman Wilcox has made this
public admission concerning these
conferences
II think that Mr.. Macdonald and
Mr. Soiborlich did can at republican
national headquarters"
Chairman Mccormick of the demo
cratic national committee summed up
the facts today as follows,
WILCOX Making Effort To BcCioud Issue
chairman Wilcox is making a
strenuous effort TO bccloud the issue,
but the American public has too much
horse sense 10 be easily deceived in a
matter OF this kind The cold facts
are that Candidate Hughes received
a committee from the American In
dependence conference, headed 10y
Jeremiah OLeary. that what he said
to them caused them to go away sat
tsfied and that their report was so
gratifying to at least one member of /
the conference that he moved that /
the O'Lcary aggregation begin work |
at once for the republicans without |
going any further That committee |
headed by Daniel +. Cohalan who /
evidently had found experience a bit |
ter teacher, called upon members of !
the republican national committee at /
Chicago ON September 30. and brought |