Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-27
HUGHES PROMISES
TO START RIGHT IF
MADE PRESIDENT
Republican Nominee Says He
viii Choose Ablest Cabinet
That Can Be Secured
in Country.
NOT GUIDED BY POLITICS
Criticises Wilson's Choice for
Secretaries of State \
and the Navy.
DOESN'T MENTION NAMES

Boston, Oct. 26.-Speaking here to
night, Charles E. Hughes, republi
can nominee for president, asserted
that, if invested with executive re-
sonsibility, he would "start right
He said, first thing of all, he would
choose the ablest cabinet to be Sc.
cured in the scountry. He charged
that at that the outset OF the present
administration there were chosen men
to fill the posts of secretaries OF
state and the navy, who were ab-
solutely unequal to the high duties
of the positions"
Will Start Right.
In his speech here tonight. Mr..
Hughes said: mo man can tell in
advance what unexpected demands
the next four years may present, but
one whose conception of presidents
duty rests upon fundamental prin-
ciples can describe with entire sim
cerity how the problems OF admins
trations would be approached and in
what spirit they would be solved. The
man charged with the duty of reach
ing desired goal may not know
the exact spot in which it is to be
found, but he knows that he will be
able to reach it only by following
that path which sound judgment and
clear vision open up step by step.
Il propose, first of all, to start
right. The president is primarily the
executive. 1t is his supreme duty to
attend to the business of the nation,
to safeguard its interests, to antici-
pate and understand its needs, to en-
force its laws.
Must Have Ablest Cabinet.
THE first act Of a president, who
takes this ciew of his duties, is to
call about him the ablest cabinet the
country can furnish, the most compe-
tent administrative heads of the vast
departments of the nations affairs,
men who can deal with the tremend-
uous international and domestic
problems which will confront us in
the next four, years.
My conception of the presidency is
radically different from that which
seems to have governed the action of
the present administration. | lookl
upon the president as the executive
head of the government. He is its
business manager and considerations
of mere politics and partisan expedi-
ency must yield. At the very outset
of the present administration, in the |
two departments of government most
closely touching our foreign relations
the Department of State and the
Department Of the Navy-there were
chosen men, who, whatever their ami
able qualities, were absolutely unequal
to the high duties of the positions.
Subordinated to Politics.
1T is manifest that the great in
terests of the nation and the most i'm
portant obligations were subordinated |
to conception of partisan exigency.
/ can see far enough into the future
to assure the country that if l am
vested with executive responsibility,
it will be discharged upon sound and
principles, through the
ablest cabinet the country can supply. I
: Entrusted with the agencies of dip
lomatic intercourse, the president has
in his keeping our international inter-
ests and the nations honor. 1t is
through his action that we may de-
serve and maintain the friendship and
esteem of other nations. We assert
that the peac which the United States,
Spain, Sweden, Norway and the
American republics now enjoy shall
be maintained. But l should seek to
maintain our peace by firmness and
which would deserve and
secure the esteem of the world.
"a firm and courteous insistence on
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