Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-09-29
HUGHES O0DCES
Z EIGHT HOUR LAW
Attacks Wilson Plan, But
Won't Say What He Would
Have Done in the Case
ONLY Way TO AVERT STRIKE
HUGHES Is Asked If He Would
Have Vetoed the Bill and
Invited Disaster.

NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-(SpeciaD-
Republican Nominee 10 Asked to Do.
clare II Hs Would Have Vetoed the
Bill With the Certain Assurance OF
industrial Disaster to the Country.
So busy has been Charles Z. Hughes
criticising the deeds Of the Wilson ad
ministration that he has had little
time to tell or has purposely evaded
telling the pubic what he would have
done had he been president under sim
ilar circumstances.
Lately Mr.. Hughes has turned his
attacks upon President Wilson's sue
cessful settlement of the crisis In the
railroad world by causing to be passed
by congress the Adamson eight hour
bin. Mr.. Hughes has characterized
this action as surrender to force;'
he is opposed to being dictated to by
any power on earth before the facts
are Known" and he would not act un.
III he had had fair investigation and
candid treatment"
Taking issue with the Republican
candidates attitude. the New York
Times I'm an editorial asks: "What
would Mr.. Hughes have done7"
"Well, what way would Mr.. Hughes
have taken" continues the Times.
what would he have done? Here
was Mr.. Wilson's position: The broth
-erhOods refused arbitration: the rail.
road presidents would not accept the
settlement Mr.. Wilson proposed. grant
ing the eight hour standard day. with
provision for an impartial inquiry into
its working. There was no law on
the statute books to enforce arbitra-
ton.
''The president knew, knew with GER
tainty and beyond question, that he
could not get such law from the
congress now In session. The sure
and inevitable alternative to his &C.
esptanee Of the eight hour standard
day measure was . strike, the suspsn.
sion Of railway service, freight and
passenger, ali over the country, Begin
nina on the morning Of Sept. 4
Would Hughes Have Done It7
"Mr. Hughes would not surrender
to anybody in the country. Then he
would have surrendered the country to
the disturbance, immeasurable loss and
peril Of q strike. Would he, In fact.
have done that? Had he been presi-
dent, confronted by that situation,
would Mr.. Hughes have brought on
strike by refusing to sign the bill
granting a wage increase?
"There was the strike in plain sight.
a few hours away, sure to come.
Would Mr.. Hughes have vetoed the
bill? On the contrary, would he not
have done just what Mr.. Wilson did,
sign It?
"The Republican candidate stands
of fair. impartial. thorough, candid
arbitration. and. second, for legislation
on facts according to the necessities
Of the case Mr.. Wilson stands for
thoss two things and, much more, has
pledged himself to use all his influence
to secure them.
"What more could Mr.. Hughes do?
Would }be too much to ask the Re-
publican candidate to Dut little COM
mon fairness in.o his speeches? Is he
afraid to tell his audiences what the
president actually did urge upon con-
gress?
"As true champion Of arbitration
President Wilson recommended that
arbitration judgments be made records
of court Of law in order that their
Interpretation and enforcement may
liO Lo 60 ha IN
but with an impartial and authorita-
tive tribunal 1t was his purpose to
provide against future emergencies to
what he nearly succeeded in doing In
tie White House conferences would
put such face upon the matter that
prevent the recurrence of such dangers
as then confronted him and the cOun
try.
"The people of the United States are
not going to be put off with the mis-
information as to what the president
did to avert strike and to prevent the
threat of future strikes. We have rea
son to believe that the full revelation
OF what he did, what he tried to do and
Republican efforts to make an issue Of
" would fall entirely fiat.
Advice to Railroads.
nut the people do know. for it was
oeiore them in the presidents address
:. Ionsress, that he proposed. not
neie emergency act, but broad pro.
"a VI legislation to meet a public
eeu ana permanently remove public
uanser' 1t was program which we
vor,, mVlhced the railroads would be
"coe mSe to accept in it's entirety.
oro a, ay 1t seems to us that they
Of Mr ~ aruSsed to pray for the election
his voa-, ,usnes, who if we take him at
stri,,o . would have brought on the
to the o",' ".n aa its irreparabe injuries
~, ~ Tue country's business and ner,, for