The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-27
Democratic Blunders Brought
to Light in Cleveland Speech.
ADAMSON BILL SHOCKING
Firing of French Ambassador
Blot on Wilson Regime.
Democrats Challenged to Deny
personal War on Huerta."
BY WILLIAM HosTER.

thousand people in the Armory here
cheered Charles E. Hughes charact-
erization of the Adamson bill as 1.-The
most shocking thing that has hap
pened in my memory of political life"
Returning to the Mexican attack.
Hughes challenged the administration
| to deny that it had sent the instruc-
lions to John Lind. uncovered the
other day at South Bend and quoted
by Hughes again, declaring that Huer-
| ia must get out of Mexico. He again
laid the responsibility for anarchy and
rapine in Mexico at the door of Pres
| ident Wilson.
| Bestowing high praise on Myron T.
| Herrick, ambassador to France when
| the Wilson administration took office
| and recalled in the midst of exciting
duties in connection with the great
war, Hughes said:
1T will ever remain blot upon the
present administration that it suffered
him to be superseded at that critical
time
Finally, he seized upon the occasion
! of another tariff talk to serve notice
upon Republican leaders generally
that he is to be the boss, if elected,
and that no special favors are to be
expected.
To Owe no Favors.
Il had no special wish to be can
didate,' he said, mo desire at all to
| be a candidate at this election because
L know what the burdens of office are
and l was very well content with the
distinguished office which 1 had the
privilege of holding. But 1 did not
take this nomination and 1 have no
desire to be elected, to pass out favors
to any set of men in this country
With regard to the John Lind in
structions, he read once more the
proposition Wilson is declared to have
cd 11-r
lister of foreign power as follows:
Huerta will be put out if he does
not get out-that it is the preference
OF the president that it be accom-
but II 1t cannot be done by domestic
means. other means adequate for the
purpose will be resorted to-
I'VE officiously intermeddled in
Mexico's affairs said Hughes Per
sonal war was waged on Huerta-''
He continued:
Challenges Administration.
Now, 1 referred to this the other
night and a leading organ in New
York City,, which is a very strong sup
inquired thru it's representatives
whether or not that statement would
be denied. According to the report
in this newspaper in New York, it was
said that the charge would be an
swered by the secretary of war, per-
haps, or by the secretary of the navy.
1t did not say that it would be denied
1t made the ambiguous statement that
it would be answered. l have read
that as a statement of what John Lind
was authorized to say to a foreign
minister and 1 now challenge the ad-
ministration to deny that the author
ization was given
Denouncing the removal of Ambas-
sador Herrick, Hughes said:
1T does not make any particular
difference that it was France, it is
not the point that it was Herrick, it
is not the point that it was this coun-
try that country; but 1 say that at
i the time of war to have this country
represented in any foreign capital of
a belligerent nation by a man so loved
and treated as he was, was of the
first Importance to this country and it
will ever remain blot upon the pres
ent administration that it suffered him
to be superseded at that critical time.
NiggardIy Policy.
THAT is not the way to advance
American interests. Nobody in Eu-
rope could understand that. I VEN
ture to say that no one great nation
except our own, would think of doing
anything of that sort"
The meeting was the biggest and
most enthusiastic Hughes has had ir
Ohio, which state is declared to be
lukewarm toward him and to favor
Wilson because he kept US out OF
war"
There was little demonstration fol
the candidate along the street but the
| cheering for him lasted several min.
utes when he entered the hail. the bis
demonstration as usual, coming in re
Spouse to his pledge to uphold the ma
tional honor.
Beginning the day at F'indlay h
spoke successfully at Bowling Green
Toledo, Port Clinton, Sandusky an,
Elyria. At all of these places he wa
cordially received, but the feature O
the day was the verbal combat Hughe
had with a group of workingmen a
the Willys-Overland plant at Toledo
He fought a drawn battle there a
noon with about 500 partisans of Nj
Wilson.
Hughes had been warned agains
discussing the Adamson bill in Toledo
which is hotbed of socialism, beside
being a big industrial center and on
of the biggest railroad centers in tn
middle west.
With his mind on the warninf
Hughes plunged in.
d Winding up in Ohio today, Hughe
n will reach Pittsburg at noon and re
main there until midnight, when
will move on east to Trenton. wher