Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-14
HUGHES TALKS TO
The KENTUCKY FOLK
IN
Candidate Tells Heckler What
He Would Have Done in
Lusitania Case.
HE WOULD HAVE WARNED

Il Louisville, KY, Oct l3.-Charles
Evans Hughes went through the
mountains Of Kentucky yesterday, a
new campaign field for presidential
\ nominees, outlining his views on the
maintenance of American rights, and
ended his days tour OF the state with
q meeting here tonight, in which he
declared that the new freedom" ad.
vocated by President Wilson four
years ago, had been transmitted in one
respect to "the new slavery"
Mr.. Hughes, answering question
here tonight as to what he would
\ have done when the LLsitania was
sunk. declared that when notice was
published with respect to the action
Is threatened. ! would have made i,
known in terms unequivocal and
unmistakable that we should NOT tol-
crate continuance OF friendly rela-
tions through the ordinary diplo.
matic channels If that action were
taken" t'
Asks Question Be Put. -
ii The crowd drowned the voice of
the questioner with noots and cat
IA calls, but Mr.. Hughes requested that
Il the interrupter be permitted to put
his question.
v When Mr.. Hughes finished his
statement Of what he would have
done, he added, "And the Lusitania.
sir. would not have been sunk" The
audience applauded long and loudly
Mr. Hughes said that a. the very
beginning he would have had the
State department SO equipped as to
command the respect of the world
Mr.. Hughes spoke in six towns to.
day to audiences that had come, for
the most part. for miles to hear them
They came down from the mountains
men and women. on foot. on horse.
back and on muleback Some of the
mounts had saddles, some had none
and many Of the women that came
to hear him came wearing their faded
sunbonnets andN smoked their clay
pipes as he talked. At Pikeville. first
stop Of the day. hundreds had jour.
neyed since sunup. A special train
from Marrowbone. crowded to ca.
pacity, swelled the crowd,
Speaks to Fields Of People.
AT several stops the nominees spe-
.cial train was backed down a spur
track and he spoke to audiences in
open fields. They sat on their horses
and mules and in their farm wagons
to listen Some brought their fam
lilies along and there were several
hundred children, including babies. in
their mothers arms. in each of these
crowds. ss -..a.
In his speech in Phoenix Hill hall
here tonight, Mr.. Hughes devoted
much OF his attention to the protective
tariff and to what he termed the new
slavery" So -e,}' ~
"We have heard much of the new
freedom" he said. 1T seems to have
a surprising and deplorable range /,
has meant freedom to sacrifice the
principles of the merit system, which
our opponents pledged themselves to
enforce.
Offices Are Created.
Thousands of offices have been
created with the provision that they
might be filled without reference to
the requirements of the civil service
act 1t has meant freedom to embark
the government in novel enterprises
in competition with private business
as in the case of the government ship
ping bili
1T has meant freedom to depart
from the principle of international law
to conduct personal diplomacy to
satisfy personal vindictiveness. 1t has
meant freedom TO wage war, not to
protect American rights. but to dis
lodge disliked ruler and to leave our
citizens and their property to anarchy
and revolution. 1t has meant freedom
\ to depart from our time-honored pol
icy Of protecting American citizens
who take American enterprise abroad
and to substitute new policy which
treats them as adyenturers, whose
flag is no longer symbol of protec-
tion OF their just rights.
Government by Holdup.
1T means freedom to subvert the
principles of government by yielding
authority to the demands of force.
In this last phase instead of the new
freedom we have the new slavery.
What are the characteristics of this
new slavery? 1t is the use of the
forms of free institutions to tyran-
ize over the public; to impose de-
mands without inquiry as to their
justice.
THE new slavery is government by
holdup. 1t is terrorized government
or the rule of politics assuming ter