The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-08-03
Accuses the Administration of
Bringing Confusion.
MEXICAN SITUATION MUDDLEO
President Is Also Criticised In LUSH
tanla case-Repubican Nominee De-
cIares If u. S. Had Backed Its Pc.
sition With Deeds, There Would
Have Been No Subsea Attack.

New York, Aug. Charles E.
Hughes came here from his summer
home in Bridgehampton and was
formally notified by committe from
the Republican national convention,
headed by Senator Warren G. Harding,
Of his nomination for the presidency.
The nominee spent the day in COZ.
sultation with Senator Harding, Ma.
tional Chairman Wilcox, members of
the campaign committee and party
leaders from all parts of the country.
More than 1000 persons had applied
for tickets to the notification cere-
mony, although Carnegie Hall seats
only 5000 persons.
Colonel Roosevelt was among those
who attended the ceremonies.
Crlticises Mexican Policy.
Mr.. Hughes devoted large part OF
his speech to criticism of the adj
ministration's Mexican policy.
Has Not Helped Mexico.
Mr.. Hughes said:
"The dealings Of the administration
with Mexico constitute a confused
chapter of plumbers. We have not
helped Mexico. She lies PROSTATE, i'm
poverished, famine-stricken, over
whelmed with the woes and outrages
of internecine strife, of anarchy which
the course of the administration
served only to promote.
For ourselves, we have witnessed
the murder of our citizens and the de-
struction of their property. We have
made enemies, not friends. Instead Of
commanding respect and deserving
good will by sincerity, frmness and
consistency, we provoked misappre-
hension and deep resentment.
No One Can Understand.
''In the light of conduct of the ad.
ministration no one could understand
it's professions. Decrying interference,
we interfered most exasperatingly. We
have not even kept out of actual con.
f1ict, and the soil of Mexico is stained
with the blood of our soldiers.
1--WE have resorted to physical in
vasion, only to retire without gaining
the profesesd object. It is a record
which cannot be examined without a
profound sense of humiliation"
Attacks Lusitania Case.
On the subject of submarine attacks
Mr.. Hughes said:
"The chief function of diplomacy is
prevention; but in this our diplom-
acy failed, doubtless because of its i'm
p4,.red credit and the manifest lack
of disposition to back words With &C
tions.
Had this government by the use of
both informal and formal diplomatic
opportunities left no doubt that when
we said strict accountability we
meant precisely what we said, and
that we should unhesitatingly vindi-
cate that position, am confident that
there would have been no destruction
of American lives by the sinking of
the Lusitania.
There we had ample notice; in
fact, published notice. Instead of whit
Ting away our formal statements by
equivocal conversations, we needed
the straight, direct and decisive repre-
sensations which would be understood
| believe that in this way we should
have been spared the repeated as
saults on American lives. Moreover,
firm American policy would have
bee strongly supported by our
people and the opportunities for the
development of bitter feeling would
have been vastly reduced"