Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-29
QUESTIONS
WILSON'S V[RAC|!Y
HOLDS RAILROAD CRISIS WAS
NOT THRUST UPON PREsl-
DENT uNExPEcTEDLy.>
PRESENTS EVIDENCE
TO UPHOLD CLAIM
Urged BY Chamber Of Commerce Week
Before Strike Threat Was Made, to
Start lnquiry-Firm in Belief In
dustriaI Disputes Should BE Settled
by Arbitration.

Saratoga, n. Y, Sept. 29.-Referring
to President Wilson not by name. but
as the executive" Mr.. Hughes in eff
feet charged last night that the presi-
dent had told a willful untruth in as
sorting that the country had been
faced unawares by a railroad crisis
which demanded the passage of the
legislation.
He read documentary evidence to
prove that the administration and
President Wilson personally had been
urged by the Chamber of Commerce OF
the United States of America week
before the actual threat to strike was
made by the railroad brotherhoods to
start an inquiry that would avoid just
such crisis as finally did confront the
country.
Mr.. Hughes was given demonstra-
ton lasting eleven minutes when he
appeared with Mrs. Hughes on the
platform of the convention hall where
he was nominated for governor of the
state in 1906 and 1905. On the plat
form were Governor Whitman. who
presided at the meeting. and most of
d
the so called progressive faction.
Defends His Candidacy.
MIR. Hughes opened his attack upon
the Adamson legislation with a refer
ence 10 a statement supporting the
president made in New York news
papers. Mr.. Hughes included this as
sertion, which caused the most enthu-
siastic cheering:
Now, Mr.. Olney says that l doffed
the judicial ermine to wear the mot
ley garb of seeker for office. l say
TO him / did doff the judicial ermine
and submit that you know and every
American knows that it fell from my
shoulders unsullied.
NO American need apologize for be-
ing candidate for office. least of all
l. / desired to remain on the bench:
had no desire to return to politics,
but there came summons which no
honorable man could refuse. | did as
sumo the garb, call it motley or what
you will. Of a seeker for Office. and
am now before the American people
seeking the highest Office in its gift.
For what purpose? Not that l covet
power. but do covet the opportunity,
II it is afforded, to maintain American
rights and American honor"
AS Mr.. Hughes made this assertion
he waved his arms in vigorous gesture
and paced up and down on the plat
form His words were cheered.
BY many the declaration by Mr.
Hughes was taken as an answer to
dragging the supreme court Of the
Opposed Fiiibuster.
Mr. Hughes explained why he had
not urged republican senators 10 fill
buster ito the last ditch" against the
passage OF the Adamson eight hour
law.
The nominee declared he did not be-
lieve in filibustering, for one thing. and
that ii the majority in congress had
determined to pass the bin there was
no reason whatever why its passage
should have been delayed by filibus-
tering tactics.
'It (the administrator acted with
swiftness." Mr.. Hughes said, and it
cannot now cry that a republican can
didate thousand miles away should
have saved it from carrying out its
fixed determination
Mr.. Hughes also quoted an extract
from the presidents address to con-
gress on the subject to support his
claim that the bill should not have
been passed.
Views on Arbitration.
Mr.. Hughes citation from President
Wilson's address to congress was a
brief one. The part quoted followed
tho nrasidoptsa docIa "a fion that 1I
yield to no man in firm adherence alike
Of conviction and Of purpose to the
principle OF arbitration in industrial
disputes" and was part Of the same
sentence, which was as follows: But
matters have come to sudden crisis
in this particular dispute and the coun-
try has been caught unprovided with
any practicable means OF enforcing
that conviction in practice, by whose
fault we will not stop to inquire"