The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-01
Would Mean War For
This Country.
THEIR UTTEaANCEs ARE CITED
On Sinking Of Lusitania To Prove
Their Methods Would
Bring a Break.
ADVICE MEANS NOTHING ELSE

Mansfield, o., Oct. 2S.-Secretary
McAdoo, speaking in this city, the
home of John Sherman, former Sec
rotary CT the Treasury, made the
following reply to Candidate Hughes
regarding the Lusitania matter:
Mr.. Hughes answer to my ques-
ton about the Lusitania and Mr..
Roosevelt's declaration on the same
subject at Battle Creek leaves the
American people in doubt no longer
as to what Mr.. Hughes and Mr..
Roosevelt will do with our foreign
relations if they are put in posses
sion of the Government.
Col. Roosevelt said at Battle
Creek on Oct. 1, discussing the Lusi-
tania You ask me what | would
have done. | would have seized ev-
cry informed German ship" On
March 9, 1916, the following mes
sage was flashed by wireless from
Berlin to Sayville, Long Island:
Germany declared war on PORTUGAL
at $3.50 p. IN. yesterday. The Ger
man declaration, says the Overseas
News Agency, emphasizes the fact
that this step was made necessary by
the recent illegal seizures of Ger
man ships in Portuguese ports,
which is the gravest sort of breach
of neutrality and of special treaties"
such rash and reckless action by
Mr.. Roosevelt would have precipi-
tated an unnecessary and bloody war
between the United States and Ger
many. The United States has treat
les with Germany which would have
been outraged if Mr.. Roosevelt, as
President, had seized the ships
which happened to be in our har-
bors, belonging not to the German
but to German citizens.
"Mr. Hughes admits he is in ac-
cord with Mr.. Roosevelt. At Louis
Vile, KY, Oct. 70, he was asked the
point-blank question: what would
you have done when the Lusitania |
was sunk?' Mr.. Hughes replied, in |
that he would have |
threatened the Kaiser so effectively |
that the Lusitania would never have
been sunk
This seemed merely evasive, be-
cause Mr.. Hughes was not asked |
what he would have done to prevent |
The sinking of the Lusitania, but
what he would have done after the
Lusitania had been sunk. So | chal-
enged him to answer that specific |
question. Mr.. Hughes in a speech
at Youngstown, o., Oct. 10, replied
10 that challenge as follows:
The Secretary of the Treasury |
finds fault with my answer to the |
question put to me the other night |
at Louisville about the sinking of |
the Lusitania. He says did not say |
what l would have done after the
You may recall that stat
ed specifically the position | would !
have taken in advance and the no.
Lice would have given of the action
should take, and added that, with
this position unequivocally stated in
advance and backed by a convincing |
Administration record, the ship |
would not have been sunk
"At last Mr.. Hughes is definite in |
spite of his characteristic indirect
ness and circumlocution. He means |
what he could have said in sixteen |
viz: Il would have broken
off diplomatic relations with Ger
many Immediately after the sinking
of the Lusitania.'
"Such rash and reckless action by
Mr.. Hughes would have precipitated
an unnecessary and |
bloody war with Germany"