Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
HUGHES IN MIDST
OF BUSIEST DAY
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UF bUSlESl DAI
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Goshen. Elkhart and South Bend.
The longest stop of the day was
scheduled at Marion, where Mr..
Hughes will remain forty-five minutes,
Mr.. Hughes will spend tomorrow
campaigning in Indiana and will re-
main over Sunday at Indianapolis as
the guest of Charles w. Fairbanks, the
vice. presidential nominee
Ohio.
Intrigue Against Huerta
AS a climax to charges that Presi-
cent Wilson meddled in the internal
aialrs or Mexico to overthrow Cen
eral Huerta and thereby plunged that
country into state of anarchy, which
resulted in the indescribabIe atrocities
and the loss of many American fives.
Mr. Hughes told large audiences yes
tcrday that he had obtained definite
proof TO back up what he said. Re-
Ierrlng to the early stages of the
s sroupIes In Mexico during the present
aomlnlstration, he exclaimed:
Il have only recently received this
authentlc information of the actual in
slructlons that were given with respect
10 the government of Mexico, such as
MEXICO then had. John Lind was au-
| iNSt w the ESecuIlVe TO state this
proposition to a minister of another
government, and this is the authorized
staten ent.
Huerta will be put out If he does
not get out. 1t is preferred that 1t
should be accomplished by domestic
| means III possible, but If 1t cannot be
| done by domestic means other means
adequate for the purpose will be re-
sorted to-"
Mr.. Lind at that time was the per-
sonal representative of President Will
son and was sent into Mexico on con
| hdent1al business. Mr.. Hughes did not
give the source of his information nor
did he identify the minister of an
other government"
After repeating that recognition or
nonrecognition of Huerta was not the
point at issue, he said:
But the one thing which was not
proper and which had no basis for it
In international law or in proper usages
between nations was to conduct a per-
sonal war on Huerta for his extermi-
nation from Mexican politics. Yet that
was what was done. The great duty of
protecting American lives and prop
erty was left unperformed while an
unofhcial spokesman was sent to
iuerta to inform him not simply that
| he would not be recognized, but that
he must eliminate himself from Mexi-
can politics. He was told by this un-
| off1cial spokesman that he could not
even be candidate at a Mexican
| election.
I'VE have been told in recent days
that small States should have the re-
spect that great States enjoy. We were
told by the administration only a few
days ago that our influence upon this
hemisphere really depended upon our
demonstrating to our roighbors that
we had no desire offici D sly to inter-
meddle with their affairs or to control
their internal administration. 1t was
SAID that we must have a demon
stration of our absolute good faith in
dealing with those neighboring nations
Yet the truth is that we did inter-
NEEDLE with these affairs in a way
which forfeited to us the esteem that
we should have enjoyed, and finally re-
suited in leaving Mexico to the raw
ages of revolution without protection
of our citizens or the citizens of any
other country. We left them to an
anarchy which was indescribable and
to atrocities which will not bear repe-
tftion in polite society,""
Departed from American Policy
Referring to the instructions he said
were given Lind by the President Mr..
Hughes said that there was no basis
for such instructions in the recognition
of small States. He continued:
There is no basis for that in the
recognition of the sovereignty of our
neighbor. There is no basis for that
in true and correct American policies.
We departed from American policy
and left our citizens to suffer from the
harbarity which resulted when all gov
ernment was destroyed and when an
archy was supreme in Mexico. 1t is a
deplorable recital"
Mr.. Hughes coupled this charge with
the added one that American inter-
national prestige had been dealt seri-
Gus blow by the Mexican policy and
that such proceedings resulted in en-
mites which it takes generations to
dispel. He said:
America -Four Square to the World'
Our flag has been subject to in
dignities because of the contempt that
we aroused. There is one way, and
one clear way, to secure the respect of
Mexico and of every other nation, and
to maintain our prestige and our in
ftuence, one way to be really helpful,
and that is for America. erect in her
self-respect, to recognize the just de-
mands of American citizenship and
protect American lives and property
throughout the world. And I stand
here to say that. so far as I am con-
cerned. If entrusted with executive re-
sponsibility. I shall. to the utmost of
my powers, maintain American rights
on land and sea throughout the world |
with respect to all nations as to Ameri. |
can lives, American property and
American commerce. We have no Sc
cret understandings, we have no in
trigues, we have no Interior purposes |
We are net for this side or that side. |
for this nation or that nation. stand |
here for the right of America four
square to the world
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