Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-08-18
Declares Campaign of Cdrping Criticism InauQ-
urated by Candidate Hughes Unworthy of
One Seeking high Place
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS
Compares Acts of Wilson With Words of tu0heS.
Fault Finding Critic Who Offers No
Valid Substitute

TACOMA, Aug. 16.-Declaring that
performance, construction and crea-
tion are divine attributes, while criti-
cism, destruction, iconoclasm are hu-
man frailties, George Fishbourne,
Democratic candidate for Congress in
the Third district, has issued a state
ment in which he compares the rec
ord of President Wilson with the cam
paign speeches of Charles E. Hughes,
the Republican presidential nominee,
and points out that Justice Hughes is
seeking to destroy faith in Wilson
but offers no valid substitute.
"Mr. Wilson," Fishbourne declares,
translates words into deeds. Mr..
Hughes is like a militant agnostic or
atheist, he would destroy our faith in
Wilson and offer US no valid substi-
tute."
The attitude of both Wilson and
Hughes on the Mexican problem is
analyzed by Fishbourne, who declares
that the policy advocated from the
stump by Mr.. Hughes would have
plunged Mexico into d still bloodier
revolution than that which has dis
rupted the nation since the refusal of
Wilson to recognize Huerta.
The statement of Mr.. Fishbourne
follows:
Mexican Policy.
"Mr. Hughes says, Now the correct
way was this. if the administration
had at the outset said to Huerta, I'VE
will recognize you if you can perform
your International duties" That was
the straight and correct policy He
concludes that if we had recognized
Huerta, all would have been we'll in
Mexico.
"The probabilities are greater that
there would have been a still bloodier
revolution, because Huerta's tenure OF
office was based on a double crime
murder and robbery, and not even
Justice Hughes can add two wrongs
and make them equal to one right
and no government can long endure
unless it is founded on the rock of
right, instead of being builded on the
sands Of assassination, robbery and
graft. We concede to Justice Hughes
only this one point-that there is no
limit to the power of the word "if," ex-
'cept the human imagination.
"Mr. Hughes says, We are now
whispering about tariff commission,
We are not whispering. 1t is very
audible in our 1916 platform, and
President Wilson is not satisfied, as
were the Republicans in 1908, with
using a platform merely as a bear
trap for catching the unwary voter,
but will rest contented only when this
plank, too, has been converted into
the solid structure of United States
progressive law, side by side with the
planks of the 1912 platform.
"He continues, Don't you trust them
a little minute with protecting Amer
lean industry. They haven't got 1t in
their bones, and they go up to it like
sktitish horse to brass band!
III he calls the Payne-Aldrich tariff
bill or its immediate predecessor pro-
tection,' he under-states in saying that
Democrats go up to it like a skittish
horse to brass band; 1t is more ac-
curate to say Democrats shun it as an
honest man does a thief
"He then throws to labor this pro-
lection bait, too much worn to con-
ceal the hook, 1t is in this way that
our laboring men will find the great.
est oportunity for increase in wages.
Justice Hughes oap say trite thing
with more solemnity than even the
proverbial Judge.
The "SpoiIs System"