Arizona republican., 1916-06-27
HUGHES WELCOMES
 PROGRESSIVE SUPPORT
Republican A. ?. Leased WIrel

NEW YORK; June 26,-Charles E. Hughes, republican nominee for pres ident, sent a telegram to O. K Davis. secretary of the progressive national committee, tonight. welcoming the support of the progressive party and arraigning the present administration for it's weakness and incertitude.
 In making public the contents of the telegram Mr. Hughes also gave out a letter he had written to Colonel Roose welt in which he declared that the nom-' inee was indebted to the colonel for the quickening of the national spirit and for the demand for an out and out 100 per cent Americanism."
 The candidate told Colonel Roose- welt that he had sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat, and l want you to feel that l wish to l have all the aid you are able and wilf- ' ing to give" The letter closed with an expression of wish by Mir. Hughes to see the colonel soon.
 The telegram to Secretary Davis was , in response to a telegram from the sec retary notifying MT Hughes that the
 
 i T welcome the support of progress ives" Mir. Hughes message read We make common cause in the interest of national honor, of national security. of national efficiency. We unite in the l demand for an undivided and unwaver- | ing loyalty to our country, for whole hearted patriotic devotion overriding all racial differences. We want a re- viVal of the American spirit-a nation restored. We insist upon prompt and adequate preparation for the common defense: upon the steadfast mainten- ance of all the rights of our citizens and upon the integrity of the interna- tional law.
 Ire most serious difficulties the present administration has encountered have been due to irs own weakness and incertitude. l am profoundly con- vinced that by prompt and decisive ac- tion which existing conditions mani festly called for, the Lusitania tragedy would have been prevented. Wt strongly denounce the use of our soi as a base for alien intrigues, for con- spiracies and the fomenting of disor ders in the interest of any foreign ma. tion, but the responsibility lies at tn, door of the administration. The mo. meft notice is admitted, responsibilit, is affected For that sort of thins could not continue if the administra tion took proper measures to stop it That is a responsibility the admins tration cannot evade.
 Tt was officially stated by the secre tary of state in the Mexican note O June 20 that for three years the Mexi can republic had been torn with ciyi strife; the lives of Americans an other aliens have been sacrificed: vas properties developed by American cap , ital have been destroyed or rendere productive; bandits have bee f permitted to roam at will through ter I ritory contiguous to the United State and to seize, without punishment 0 without effective attempt at punish ment, the property of Americans. whil the lives of citizens of the United State who ventured to remain in Mexica
 territory or to return there to protec their interests, have been taken. i some cases barbarOusly taken. and tn murderers have neither been appre hended nor brought to justice" Wha an indictment by the administration C its Mexican policy!
 !, And still We are unprepared. Ina . unpreparedness in the midst of peril and after the experience of three year Is demonstration of an unpardonabl
 neglect for which the administratio Is responsible.
 The government now has and mu.
 have most emphatically the unstinte