The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-09
Col. Harvey, First Wilson Man,
Bolts the Democratic Party
And Comes Out for Hughes

who he says have always been OPP
posed to adequate preparation for de-
fense declaring the secretary could
not build an adequate navey II he
would "He has neither skill nor will.
Colonel Harvey adds. Ito spend effect
ually the great sums OF money" APP
propriated by Congress.
He attacks the provision in the ma
val bill which changes promotion by
seniority to promotion by selection as
a menace to the service.
Analyses the Army Bill.
Colonel Harvey then turns to the
army bill, endorsing Garrlsons con-
tinental army plan, and condemning
the Hay militia plan.
THE plain fact" he continues, is
that the amorphous scheme of FEEDER
alizing the militia has already proved
abortive. 1t is hardly conceivable that
even the huge sums of money allotted
to the state organizations, only to he
squandered in protligate fashion. as in
dictated by the records of previous ex-
penditures under the Dick bill, sub
mttted with telling force by Senator
Borah, could have produced so much
as a semblance of success.
But il anything were needed to af-
fix the tinality OF failure at the very
outset, it quickly appeared in the blum
dering of the war departments call
to arms, which convinced every guards
man sent TO the border that he had
been tricked into an enlistment which
he had never intended to make. The
immediate effect is already seen in
the impossibility Of filling militia COM
panies, and the ultimate outcome, in
all probability. will be the doom of the
very national guard which the ILL
fated measure was designed 10 exalt
and perpetuate."
Ills View of Secretary Baker.
Colonel Harvey then declares it is
impossible for any Democratic Con-
gross or president to prepare the
country for defense. OF Secretary
Of War Baker he says:
1--WE have high opinion OF Mr.. Ba-
ker's intellectual and administrative
qualifications and are convinced Of his
openness Of mind. Already. we are in
formed. he frankly avows his error
in depicting. prior to his appointment,
the officers of the army as a bunch
of snobs' and now acknowledges with
pride his admiration of the most loyal
and most faithful Of men passionate
ly devoted to their country. But Mr..
Baker is pronounced pacifist, and, as
such, so far as is known, is no less
strongly opposed to the agitation for
preparedness than when he refused
TO cooperate with the National Secur-
ity League. So, too, at bottom, is the
Democratic party, whose only enthus-
iastic cheers in St. Louis, were for
sentiments to that effect expressed by
Mr.. Glynn and Mr.. Bryan. Where the
president himself will stand when
these lines appear we cannot say"
Demands a Protective Tariff.
Declaring that tariff to protect the
industries Of the country after the war
is absolutely essential, Colonel Harvey
declares the Democrats will provide
none, and quotes President Wilson's
speeches as the basis Of his belief.
Hughes. on the other hand, is insisting
| he points out, that the only way to
meet protection is with protection. He
attacks the eight-hour law and the
appointment Of Mr.. Brandeis to the
supreme court bench, and asserts that
national honor has been sullied by
the withdrawal of protection to Amer.
leans" in Mexico and elsewhere.
Colonel Harvey quotes at length
from Mr.. Hughes's speeches and other
statements and then concludes:
Compares the Candidates.
'Nof the personal attributes and
characteristics Of tho respective can.
didates It is not necessary now and
may not become necessary at all tc
speak, further than to say plainly that
the utter absence of self-Beeking on
the part of Mr.. Hughes throughout his
entire career confirms the belief that
he does in fact, from the very nature
of his being. stand for America FIRST