Arizona republican., 1916-11-05

treacherous killing of our soldiers by H the forces of CarranGa. 90 the lasting impairment of our prestige. II 'S. By his yacillating and aimless policy in Mexico he has seriously i'm | paired the leadership and initiative in ! the affairs of the Western Hemis- phere which this country has tra- iitionally exercised under the Monroe ! Doctrine and has run up an account | which will cause us serious trouble | with European nations arter the great | war
 "9. For partisan Advantage he has played fast and loose with the civil 1 service, showing a cynical disregardl of efficiency and merit in many of his J appointments. T
 RidicuIes Preparedness Need
 TO. When the European war brought3 this nation to consciousness of the5 need of military preparation he firstl met the movement with ridieule. 51 H. Later, when the movement was too strong to be safely secuted he espoused 1t insincerely. This was shown by his failure to support Sec Fl retary Garrison. who had the fault of wanting a real army of defense, and by his acquiescence in the absurd makeshift of the Hay law The slowa costly and ineffective concentration of the national guard on the border has alreardy demonstrated the folly of the legislation which the president ap- proved. He was apparently not inter- ested in the national defense. but con cerned with a purely political use of the preparedness movement An alter native theory is that he was grossly. i'll informed on the conditions of real defense. Either View shows him re- creant to the most important of trusts. 'l2. In all our European dealings he has failed to express the moral im- pulses of the nation. On the contrary. he has given to the Indifference of u | considerable portion of our citizens the | fair name of neutrality. He has vir- | tually counselled us to be selfish and | callous and has done so in the name 1 of marolity. Thus he has increased ] confusion of thought among us, given l place for dseord and disloyalty, ex- | alted the ostrich policy of pretending | that we have no interest in or right to | judge great situation which deeply concerns us
 lusitania's Slain Forgotten
 "l3. He has forgotten and bidden us for~et our murdered dead of the Lusi- | tania.
 l i4. While he has exercised a law yer-like activity in cerense of our rights, he has throughout indulged. the ntter folly of following hard words 1 with soft deeds or sheer surrender. | Thus. without vindicating or securing our rights he has given offense to 1 nearly all the European powers He has needlessly heckled the belligerents without really gaining anything by il. while he has utterly failed to give any support. moral or practical. to neutral powers. From the violation of Belgium on he has shut his eyes to the shatter- ing of the painfully built fabric oi public right
 'I5. Under the lash of the railroad unions, and looking toward his own re- election. he forced upon congress tn, infamous Adamson law. In so doinl he consented to the subterfuge h, which demand for higher wages wa f masked as demand for an eight hou day. He yielded to coercion a cas which required information and de liberation. and made our national leg stature share in the shame of his owi surrender.
 "l6. In all his actions he has show small inclination 10 consult persons o weight and knowledge, preferring tn advice of his interiors and flattereri The personal quality Of his cabins shows his incapacity or unwillingnes to enlist competence in the public ser vice
 Broke Second Term Ppledae
 TT. After accepting a pledge not seek q second nomination he is frfyc lously playing politics both with ou domestic and foreign interests. Il does nothing consistently or resolutel but at one time or another throws ot line phrases to catch votes.
 "lS. He has generally shown a nal row minded hostility to great bushes but has made exceptions. as in the ne tariff, when the great business W, southegn and democratic. His foolis championship of the unavoidable b
 which puts the government into Il shipping business shows the amteu ishness of-the man in all businei matters
 "l9. He has made no endeavor to IT
 strain extravagant public expendtur
 but has let it he an excuse for increa
 Ing the income tax with its unfair
 narrow incidence ande econfiscatory il
 tent
 20. He has verbalized our state
 manship covering alike his slackne
 and timidity as leader and his gui
 as politician under the bewilderii
 ooze of incessant rhetoric. By tn
 interposing mere phrases between
 and the realities of policy and acti,
 ne has humiliated the nation in it's ov
 eyes and before the world as a peor
 represented by n spokesman who
 word is not current ooin but glitterlr
 counterfeit
 'l shall vote for Hughes for [
 single reason that his whole care
 shows him to be the possessor of tho
 qualities of intellectual integrity a
 moral resolution which President w
 son so evidently lacks"