The Alaska daily empire., 1916-08-23
DEEDS AND WORDS
(New York World)

(New York Word)
 Every speech that Mir. Hughes makes IS new argument for the reelection of President Wilson
 In Chicago Mir. Hughes declared that h any thing in this campaign is real t IS tnae we ' h,, or we want deeds" While Mr. Hughes was giving voice to this sentiment the telegraph wires were carrying the news that through the leadership or President Wilson the Senate had passed the Chla Labor Bill and that the House conferees would accept the Senate Naval Bill
 fer him to the record of the Wilson administration
 record of achievement in progressive iegslauon lo We refer him to the Federal Reserve Banking Law We refer him Co the Rural Credits Law. we refer him to the Trade Commission Law, we reieI him to the repeal of the Panama Canal ToHs Act that had repudiaed the solemn obligations or treaty We refer him to the Clayton law declaring that labor shall longer be treated as commodity pdrne re.er him to the income We refer him to the Farcel' Post Law. We refer him to host or other measures of national defense which Congress is carrying nrous. under Mir. Wilson's leadership And not least, we fer him to the fact that the American people agalh have an administration that is not under the dom ination of Wall Street and high finance
 Mr. Hughes Governor of New 4orK longer tban Mir Wilson has been President of the United States What done under his adminstraIlUn ,S, that compares in point of satesmanship lnd puDlc service with even the least Of these achievements under the Wilson administration?
 Mir Hughes's sheer about words and deeds may have been directed at the foreign policies Of Pres dent Wilson rather than at the domestic policies Very well. President Wilson's words have Kept the United States out of war without the surTehuerlus of a single American right. Where would Mr. Hughes deeds" have placed us? Diplomacy has only two weapons words and deeds Words mean negotiation Deeds mean war If Mir. Hughess reproach of the President has any significance except campaign nag glng. it is that President Wilson refused to plunge the country into war before exhaustng all the re- sources of diplomacy, and that consequently we arc in the miserable and unfortunate condition or oelng at peace when American boys might be dying by the thousands every day in the trenches Is that what MT. Hughes wants?
 Every time Mir Hughes speaks he emphasizes ,he painful fact that he has no legitimate issue and no constructive policies of his His whole campaign is directed not building himself up but to tearing the President down.
 Before Mir. Hughes nominated the World looked forward to his candidacy in the belief that it would mean appeal to the reason and intelli gence of the American people In all kindness to ward Mr. Hughes, must confess our disappointment There is no appeal to public or public intelll gence in Mir. Hughess campaign addresses No citizen is wiser or better informed or more saney advised in his public duties because of anything that MT Hughes has said since his nomination.
 The Hughes speeches are only an invocation t1 blind. blgoted partsauship They are the common place product Of a commonplace Republican mind and as such they quite unworthy of the Charles F. Hughes that New York used to know.