The broad ax., 1916-08-05
HUGHES IS TOLD
OF NOMINATION
Republican Leader Scores VIII
son Administration.
MEXICO TARGET OF ATTACK

The Nominee Intimates That He
Would Have Backed Up Americans
on Lusitania by Deeds, Not Words.
Charges Administration With vaciL
Iation-Favors Woman Suffrage and
Protection.
New York-In his address in Car
negie Hall, New York, accepting the
Republican nomination for president,
Charles Evans Hughes said:
Senator Harding. members Of the
notification committee and fellow citi-
zens-This occasion is more than q
mere ceremony of notification. We are
not here to indulge in formal express
sions. We come to state in q plain
and direct manner our faith, our pur-
pose and our pledge. This representa-
I tive gathering is in a 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 a common perception Of par
amount NATIONAL deeds. 1t means that
we are neither deceived nor benumbed
by abnormal conditions. We know that
we are in 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 constructive powers, the
vigor and resourcefulness of a quick
ened America We desire that the Re-
publican party as great liberal par
ty shall be the agency Of national
achievement, the organ Of the effec-
tive expression of dominant Ameri-
canism. What do 1 mean by that?
mean America, conscious of power,
awake to obligation, erect in self re-
spect, prepared for every emergency
devoted to the ideals Of peace, in
stinct with the spirit of human broth
erhood, safeguarding both individual
opportunity and the public interest,
maintaining a we'll ordered constitu-
tional system adapted to local self
government without the sacrifice Of
essential national authority, appreciat-
ing the necessity Of stability, expert
knowledge and thorough organization
as the indispensable conditions Of Sc
curity and progress; country loved
by its citizens with patriotic fervor
permitting no division In their allie
gance and no rivals In their affection
Il mean America first and America
efficient. 1t is in this spirit that I re-
spond to your summons"
criticises Diplomatic Appointments.
In discussing foreign relations and
appointments Mr.. Hughes declared
that the executive had not commanded
the respect of the world by his corr
duct of the state department. Compe-
tent diplomats, notably Ambassador
Herrick of France, have been retired
for no other reason than to meet
partisan demands.
"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
RACES of internecene strife, the help
less victim of a condition of anarchy
which the course of the administra-
ton only served to promote. For our
selves, we have witnessed the murder
Of our citizens and the destruction of
their property. We have made enc
mics, not friends. Instead Of command
ing respect and deserving good will
by sincereity, firmness and consist
ency, we provoked misapprehension
and deep resentment. In the light of
the conduct of the administration no
one could understand its professions.
In decrying interference, we interfer-
red most exasperatingly. We have
not even kept out OF actual conflict
We have restored to physical inva-
sion. only to retire without gaining
the professed object. It is n record
which cannot be examined without a
profound sense of humiliation"
Huerta Treatment FoIIish Intervention.
Reviewing the interference with
Huerta. Mr.. Hughes characterized it
as "a vacillating and ineffective in
tervention" and as "the height of
folly"
$50 far as the character of Huerta
is concerned. the hollowness OF the
pretensionS on this score is revealed
by the administration subsequent
patronage of Villa (whose qualifica.
tions as an assassin are indisputab!e)
whom apparently the administration
was ready to recognize had he achiev-
ed his end and fulfilled what then
seemed to be its hope.
THE question is not as to the non
recognition of Huerta. The adminis,ra-
tion did not contend itself with refus-
ing to recognize Huerta, who was rec
ognized by Great Britain. Germany,
France, Russia, Spain and Japan. The
administration undertook to destroy
Huerta, to control Mexican policies,
even to deny Huerta the right to be a.
candidate for the ONCE Of president
n THE election the administration de-