Williams news., 1916-10-19
PAST RECORD BAD|
HUGHES' ACTS AS GOVERNOR OF
 NEW YORK CONDEMN HIM.
vetoes of Important Legislation Show That He We'll Earned the Title of "The Great Evader"-Unwor-
 thy of Peoples Trust.

Delivers into the veto records of Charles Evans Hughes. the Republican nominee for president, while he was governor of the state of New York in 1907, 1908, 1909 and 1910, are demon strating that in addition to his recent ly earned pseudonym of ''The Great Fault-Finder" he also merits that of The Great Evader." In proof, they have brought to light his vetoes of numerous important bills which show that he reveled in a SmugneSs Of speech which to the superficial reader might sound erudite and highly judi cial, but which upon searching andy sis utterly failed to reveal Hughes attitude upon the fundamental princi- pleS involved.
 Many of Hughes most important ve- toes, they point out, indicate his readi- ness to dodge commitment by trans ferring responsibility to public serv- ice commission uncontrolled by the leg islature or by the people, thereby in- curing the danger of giving autocrat- ic legislative power to a bureaucracy which might become dangerous. Ol llle I1uSucS iSCold further emphasize that he denied the right of the legislature to define pub lie policy, made of the legislature rubber stamp" and assumed high ly equivocal attitude on giving woman schoolteachers in New York city equal pay with men for equal work, lodged the eight-hour labor princi- ple in his veto of bills providing for three-platoon system of police service, which is now largely in effect in the larger municipalities of the United States. Investigators also find that Hughes was astonishingly prone to an- ticipate the rulings of courts by as- suming what their decisions would be, and by his veto to deny courts the op- portunity to pass upon legislative measures.
 Of all of Hughes vetoes which his critics say would have richly justified the pseudonym of ''The Great Evader" by the lodging character of language employed, his veto of the bill 'Fixing the Salaries of Members of the Super vising and Teaching Staff of Public Schools of the. City of New York" (equal pay for equal work for wom- an teachers), May %. 1907, is now es- pecially conspicuous. Following is Hughes language:
 "The proposition as it is put-'equal pay for equal work'-is an attractive one, and set forth on behalf of the worthy public servants who are en- gagged in this important calling, it has elicited a large measure of support while at the same time it has pro- voked vigorous opposition from those who believe that the desired legisla- tion would be unfortunate both for the schools and the woman teachers. But 1t is manifest that the principle Is one of general application and it should not be adopted by the state un- less the state is prepared to apply it generally The question is necessar- fly one of state policy, and as such it should be presented and debated be- fore action is taken.
 "If sound, 1t should be applied in our state hospital service. in our chari- table and reformatory institutions, and generally throughout the civil service of the state. It is indefensible that a principle of grave importance to the
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