The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-08-04
Declares That Uncle Should
Deal Firmly With Mexico
RAPS THE NOTE WRITING
Denounces Plots That Were
Conceded On American Soil;
His Hot TamaIes

New York, Aug. LIN his address
In Carnegie hall accepting the Repub-
lioan nomination for president,
Charles Evans Hughes said:
Senator Harding, members of the
notification committee and fellow
citizens: This occasion is more
than mere ceremony of no.
tification. We are not here to
indulge in formal expressions.
We come to state in a plain and d.
rect manner our faith, our purpose
and our pledge. This representative
gathering is happy augury. 1t
means the strength of reunion. 1t
means that the party of Lincoln is re-
stored, alert, effective. 1t means the
unity of common perception of para
mount national deeds. 1t means that
we are neither deceived or benumbed
by abnormal conditions.
''We know that we are at a critical
period, perhaps more critical than
any period since the Civil war. We
need a dominant sense of national
unity, the exercise of our best con-
structive powers, the vigor and re.
sourcefulness of quickened America.
We desire that the Republican party
as a great liberal party shall be the
agency of national achievement, the
organ of the effective expression of
dominant Amorica piom
Explains Dominant Amerlcanism.
What do l mean by that? l mean
America conscious of power, awake
to obligation, erect in self respect,
prepared for every emergency, devot-
ed to the ideals of peace, instinct with
the spirit of human brotherhood, safe
guarding both individual opportunity
and the public interest, maintaining a
well ordered constitutional system
adopted to local self government with
out the sacrifice of essential national
authority, approaching the necessity
of stability, expert knowledge and
thorough organization as the indis-
pensable conditions Of security and
progress; a country loved by its citi-
zens with a patriotic fervor permit
ting no division in their allegiance
and no rivals in their Affection
mean America first and America eff
Client 1t is in this spirit that l re-
spond to your summons"
In discussing foreign relations and
appointments Mr.. Hughes declared
that the executive had not command
ed the respect of the world by his
conduct of the state department.
Competent diplomats, notably Ambas-
sador Herrick of France, have been
retired for no other reason than to
meet partisan demands.
Has Not Helped Mexico.
"The dealings of the administra-
tion," Mr.. Hughes declared, "consti-
tute a confused chapter of blunders.
We have not helped Mexico. She lies
PROSTATE, impoverished, famine strick-
en-, overwhelmed with the woes and
outrages Of internecine strife, the
helpless victim of condition of an
archy which the course of the admin
istration only served to promote.
For ourselves, we have witnessed
the murder of our citizens and de-
struction of their property. We have
made enemies, not friends. Instead
Of commanding respect and deserving
good will by sincerity, firmness and
consistency, we provoked misappre-
hension and deep resentment. In the
light of the conduct of the admins
tration no one could understand its
profession in decrying interference;
we interfered most exasperatingly.
We have not even kept out of actual
conflict and the soil of Mexico is
stained with the blood of our soldiers.
We have resorted to physical inva-
sion, only to retire without gaining
the professed object. 1t is a record
which cannot be examined without
profound sense of humiliation"
Interference With Huerta.
Reviewing the interference with
Huerta, Mr.. Hughes characterized it
as "a vacillating and ineffective inter-
vention." and as "the height of folly"
$50 far as the character of Huerta
IL concerned, the hollowness of the
pretension on this score is revealed
by the administration subsequent
patronage of Villa-whose qualifica-
lions as an assassin are indisputable
whom apparently the administration
was ready to recognize had he achiev-
ed his end and fulfilled what then
seemed to be its hope"
After describing the seizure Of Vera
Cruz. Mr.. Hughes says:
I'VE are now informed that we did
not go to Vera Sruz to force Huerta
TO salute the flag; we are told that
we went there to show Mexico that
we were in earnest in our demands
that Huerta must CO. That is, we
seized Vera Cruz to depose Huerta.
The question OF the salute was mere
pretext."
Destroying the government of HUI
erta we left Mexico to the ravages of
revolution. l shall not attempt to
uarrate the sicksning story of bar
barities committed, of the carnival of
murder and lust We were then told
that Mayicn Waa anftfla1 ccsvl