East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-08-01


NEW YORK. July Sl-ln a.
lengthy speech at Carnegie hall last
evening Charles Evans Hughes ac-
eepted the republican nomination Tor
the presidency and told why the peo-
ple should return the republicans to-
power
Senator Warren q. Harding OF
ohio. who was chairman of the Chl-
cago convention made the formal
speech notifying the former supreme
colIrt Justice OF his nomination, and
the hall was filled with representative
republicans who came 20 hear the
campaign issues outlined By their
caud date
Mr. Hughes devoted most Of his
speech to an attack upon the wilson
administration, severely eritcising IL
Tor its foreign policy, The speaker
devoted much tine to the Mexican
question, and took occasion to define
his attitude on the issue of American
ism.
The Republican Candidates speech
Mr Hughes said.
This occasion is more than a mere
ceremony of notification. We are
not here to indulge IN formal express
sions. We come to state In pla n
and direct manner our faith, our pur-
pose and our pledge This represen-
tat.ve gathering is a happy augury'
IL means the strength Of reunion. II
means that the party OF Lincoln Is
restored alert, effective, 1t means
the unity OF a common perception oil
paramount national needs. 1t means
that we are neither deceived nor be-
numbered by abnormal conditions
we know that We are in a critical
period. perhaps more critical than
any period since the clvil war, we
need dominant sense Of national
unity the exercise or our best con-
Nructive powers, the yigor and re-
sourcefulness of qu.ckened 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 AmericAnism
inner "a First and America Efficient.
What do mean by that mean
America con.oious .. her power
awake to obligation, erect in self re-
spcct. prepared for every emergency
devoted to the ideals Of peace, instinct
with the spirit Of human brotherhood,
safeguarding both individual oppor-
tun.ty and the public interest, main
tanning well ordered constitutional
system adapted to local self govern
Incnt without the sacrifice Of essen
tiaI national authority, appreciaung
the necessity of stability expert
knowledge and thorough organization
as the indispensable conditions of Sc
curity and progress, a country leaV-
enod by It's citizens with a patriotic
fervor permitting no division in their
allegiance and rivals in their affec-
tiouahI mean America first and Amer
lea Efficient. 1t is in this spirit | re,
spond to your summons
Attacks Wilson Administration.
Mr. Hughes attacked the present
administration for Its record in for
cign relations
AT the very beginning of the pres
cnt administration, he said, where
In the direction of diplomatic inter-
course there SHOULD have been con-
sp!cuous strength and expertness we
had weakness and inexpertness. In
stead of assuring respect, we invited
distrust of our competence and spec
ulation as to our capacity for firm
ness and decision, thus entailing many
difficulties which otherwise easily
could have been escaped
He accused the president Of having
removed capable foreign representa-
tives in order to satisfy deserving
democrats" referring particularly to
the Santo Domingo affair and the re-
moval of Ambassador Herrick from
France.
International Repute Sacrificed.
The point is not that the man was
Ambassador Herrlck or that the ma
ton was France, but that we invited
the attention of the world to the mex
cusable yielding of national interest
to partisan expediency It was Ia