The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-08-04
Hughes Acceptance Speech.

Tie fPeseh Ct Judge Hughes &C.
csYting tie Republican noniustion
fer DTeEidezt must &c very disap'
pointing u th-t ol-n en-. IN the Re,
publican party which uad hoped that
he would gay something that carried
E.z ard ccH5i-ticn vila it, says Tic
Talscs.a TINES. Tie sree,h was a
Negative enc. excers where # eTrigo-
Gates. dcdges and stradtJes. Instead
CT being a bufIe ell. 1t WIS a rather
c-uEsy elfc,t AMI eehcing the uo.eg
that had teea E2ln6ed By two fcrmsE
p7c-iaeats, TAFT ana Roosevelt, who
are as different as 1t is possible for
contending forces to be.
Not only was Hughes weak in say
ing what he tried to say, hut he was
undignified, If not demagogical, in
his reference to the acts of Presi.
dent Wilson. Assuming the role Of
critic, he takes up the easiest task
that could be assumed. The veriest
simDleton can spend days in CRITICS
ipg the actions of other people. It
is easy enogh 10 see mistake af-
ter It is made, or TO make any act
appear to be wrong if there is no way
to prove otherwise. Schoolboys are
writing essays every day about tile
mistakes which Napoleon mae in
his campaign. but the world recog-
niaes Napoleon as one Of the great
est or military chieftains. If adverse
criticism woule have put an end to
the fame Of Martin Luther and other
men who heye proven themselves
great sticklcrs for a principle, our
country might now be cropping in the
ta-lloss aad superstition CT the Mid,
ITO Ages. q
T-3ppily, I. takes r.oEc than rae7e
criticism to brild UP great IDEAS or
sway people these days. Judge
Hughes seems to have forgotten that,
his address confides itself almost en-.
tirely 20 criticism Of the great
things that President Wilson has &C
complished. Hughes does not dare,
to tell what he would have done in
Tho trying times that Wilson has had
10 face, but he satisfies himself by
Iidiculing what was done and in the
effort to make it appear that the
hand at the helm is weak one 1t
ii an indication oil weakness that the
Republican candidate does not give a
positive remedy for evils which he
says exists, rather than deal in gen.
era'itics, lie Is not satisfied with the
pcl.cy which has Kept US cut OF war
with beth Mexico and Germany, yet
lie rreteHas 10 be an advocate Of the
peop,e lie has much to say about
America" and American Honor"
but he does not point to q single in
stance in which either America or
America, honor have lost anything
through the Administrations actions.
It Is true that President Wilson had
some rather knctty problems turned
over to him rs result Of Republican
weakness and sordity during former
administrations. but our Presient wa
strong enough to handle the new con.
dhiops that came 10 him without mis-
take or bad results.
Another indication CT weakness IN
he Hughes address is in the studied
tGor, to rlease both CT the Republi-
can factions, He gets icd.headed AL
red in the face when be talks about
the border situations, Vera Cruz and
,ho McXican bandits, He evidently
ec. sis dope from Roos vets Metro
politau articles and he uses ii like
weak voice who wants to pose as a
veteran warrior with blood in his eye.
Then. when he discusses worldwide
peace. international courts and other
peace propagandas, he is as tame and
.pti cid as the unrunlod surface OF a
saucer of milk. President Taft is q
bul dog compsrod With the meekness
which he assamcd. The new candidate
's evidently trying to save the Re-
r. hlican party, and not the country
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