Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-30
"Why I Am for Hughes'


The republican party-though often domi-
mated by the masters of special privilege and
made by them the instrument OF vast exploitation
has rank and file of men and women who
have proved their capacity to reject false or dis
honest leadership. Conceived in moral revolt
against human slavery it was born, baptized and
nurtured in the supreme national struggle to
maintain the national heritage and fulfill the
promise OF equal opportunity to every citizen
Is not its rank and file best calculated to sup.
port a leadership that will create a national
mind and conscience, and having preserved the
integrity OF the nation against the heresy of Sc
cession, will it not develop and maintain pro-
gressive national program Of social and economic
organization
hope so, think so, and this is one OF the
reasons why am for Charles E. Hughes.
We need industrial preparedness, with a pro-
gram of Standardization in our economic life.
For the workers, we need living wages, fair hours
of labor, workshop sanitation and fire protection,
with accident, sickness, old age and unemploy-
ment insurance. Trade agreements and arbitra-
tion should take the place of individual exploita-
ton and industrial civil war For capital, we need
the intelligent cooperation Of government, both
at home and abroad. When this war is owe: we
will face the most intense industrial competition
that the world OF commerce has ever known.
A comprehensive protection of the home market
and support for American foreign trade is in
dspensabe If we are to preserve industrial pros
develop a progressive policy in taxation that
will lift the fiscal burdens of government from
labor and enterprise and place them upon
monopoly and privilege.
These things and these conditions believe
will be sped on their way by the election OF
Charles E. Hughes
Can these imperative national needs be
worked out by states rights democratic party
that plans state dominated militia, with its
menace of shiftless incompetence, spoils politics
and organized snobbery jim national defense
force, at time of world perl More and more
it becomes plain that most of our pressing prob
lens OF large import are national in scope and
will yield only to national action. Yet we find
the democratic the modern and, let US hope, the
last, stronghold of the advocates of local SOW
ereignty. This doctrine of indvidualism, Sec
tionalism and disunion menaced and almost pre-
vented the freeing OF the colonies from foreign
domination. This doctrine we'll nigh defeated
the adoption OF unifying constitution, wherein
the American nation became fact. Wherever
the fight for more efficient and more humane
government has been waged this baneful doc
trine OF states rights has been invoked to rally
and shelter the anti-socia forces, to arouse sec
tional bias, local jealousy and all the mean, mar
ground, when great human needs call upon them
to look beyond the rough and dusty road to the
far country that is worth the toll and sacrifice
of the long, hard journey. %
| believe in the character and courage OF
the nominee of the republican party. He is the
most conspicuous example in our history of the
possibilities that American politics may hold
for success in able and unselfsh public service.
For myself gladly enlist with the great major
ity Of the progressives of the nation under the
leadership of Charles Evans Hughes