The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-11-03
HUGHES ANSWERS
WILSON IN DASH
OVER N. Y. STATE.
Saws Presidents Record Is
Open for Criticism, if He
Has Made Mistakes.
GREAT CROWDS GREET
CANDIDATE ON TOUR
Declares He Will Garry New York
and Ohio at Next Tues
days Election.
Special Dispatch to The Tribune.

SpeclaI DlSpatcn 10 Inc tribune.
Albany. n. Y, Nov. 2-Charles
Evans Hughes dashed through the
State on his final appeal to the New
York voters today and was greeted
with immense crowds in every city and
hamlet Every village through which
his train passed had been deliberately
decorated with flags and bunting, and
the candidate was given an enormous
reception.
Thousands were at every station that
the candidates train passed. He an
severed President Wilson's criticism of
bringing the Governments foreign re-
lations into politics. Hughes declared
that as this country chooses a new
President every four years, the peo-
pie had a right to discuss and even
agitate the measures passed by the
outgoing administration as well as the
country's diplomatic relations.
'Tf the President has bungled his
work. he is open to criticism" declared
the Republican nominee. A Presidents
record must stand on its own legs
K cannot hide behind the theory that
what is done by the executive and his
advisers is nObody's business but their
own"
81 have returned from a trip through
Ohio and Indiana" he said, with
profound sense of qualification and en-
tire confidence with respect to the re-
salt in both states. | am not uneasy
as to what New York will do.
an both Ohio and Indiana, it is not
eXaggerating to say, | had receptions
which perhaps exceeded those accord
ed to any other presidential candidate
That was, of course, as | said last
night, not a tribute to me personally,
but it was indication of the deep in
terest the people are taking in the
essential conditions of their prosperity
and their satisfaction that there is
great reunited Republican party ready
for service at this critical time.
$50 far as promises go, no one can
exceed the promises of our opponents,
but we measure what they say by
what they have done"
Hughes assailed the Democratic par
ty for failure to reduce the high cost
of living, "as promised four years
ago" and for extravaganza.
They tell us now" he continued,
''that they are going to deal with eco
nomic problems that confront US at
this time in satisfactory manner, but
if we endeavor to ascertain by what
principle they are to be guided, we
look in vain. | propose to tell you by
what principles we shall be guided"
Hughes then reiterated the policies
which he intends to follow if elected.
Hughes made five speeches in In
diana yesterday in winding up his cam
paign in the Middle West. The last
was to crowd which filled the Wig
wan at Terre Haute, and followed a
long parade which the candidate re-
viewed. Hughes devoted much of his
speeches yesterday to the tariff is
sue, declaring that the Underwood bill,
if allowed to remain in effect after the
war, would produce souphouses and
bread lines. He discussed the Adam
son bill at length in his night address,
declaring that while he understood
union labor had been told officially to
vote for Wilson, he knew nobody could
direct or control the labor vote. and
that it would be cast according to its
sober Judgment.