Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09
SEES REVIVAL OF
AMERICAN SPIRIT
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wherever 1 have gone and to me 1t is
very hopeful sign. 1t means that
we want in this country q revival or
the true American spirit. It means
that as we look to the future We want
to safeguard all the interests of this
country by wise upbuilding and poll
cies.
Il represent here a reunited Repub-
ncan party ready to meet these ex-
igenctes as they arise.
DedicateS Himself to United States
look forward to an America
before, when she has to stand in the
competitive strain that will come
when new Europe issues from this
war: And I desire that North and
South, East and West, every part of
this country, shall be benefited by an
administration that knows no mere
partisan policies for the purpose of
paying political debts but an admins
tration that is devoted solely to the
upbuilding of this country and the
conservation of it's vast interests.
Mr.. Hughes declined to-day to
comment on the telegram sent him
Yesterday by Acting Secretary Sweet
OF the Department of Commerce de-
nytng charges made in the nominees
Detroit speech with reference to the
retirement of e. Dana Durand, of the
census Bureau, and IAN eminent
Survey, who, Mr.. Hughes asserted, had
been displayed by IAN excellent stock
| breeder and veterinary surgeon"
Members of the nominees official
party said he probably would reply
TO the telegram in speech.
Brought Country Near War
Charles E. Hughes last night told an
audience that crowded Chicago's great
Coliseum-the hall where he was
n nj n "a Nf- ha Il 1,
he would do If elected President of
the United States.
Mr.. Hughes charged the present ad-
mln1stration with waste, extravaganza
and vacillation. He declared that it
had not kept the country out of war,
but that it had fought an ignominous
war in Mexico and had withdrawn
from that war ANONYMOUSLY. He
charged the administration with hav-
ing brought the country much nearer
to participation in the European war
than the country would have been had
the administration stood for American
rights"
He declared that it was no more
possible to expect tariff protection to
American industries from a Demo-
cratic Cosress than it would be to get
a revival sermon out of a disorderly
house"
Will Stop ''Pork" Business
The nominee assailed the adminis-
tration also for its appointments to
office and declared that if elected he
would appoint to office only men who
were well qualified.
Democratic expenditures for rivers
and harbors were attacked by the
nominee.
Il propose that we shall stop this
pork business" he said. Il propose
that we shall have government in a
businesslike way. We won't have any
more, if I can stop it, of these kiss me
and III kiss YOU appropriations in
Congress" The nominee said he stood
for businesslike, responsible budget,
based on facts.
II don't want any hot air in NINE"
he added.
The Democratic party, Mr.. Hughes
said, was approaching the idea of q
protective tariff like a skittish horse
to brass band" In 1912, he added,
effect that protective tariff was un-
constitutional
They say in effect now that the
European war has changed the Con-
stitution of the United States" he con-
tinued. But do you think they are
converted? Don't you trust them a
little minute with protecting American
industry. They haven't got it in their
bones"
Mr. Hughes reiterated much of his
Detroit speech regarding the admins
tration's Mexican policy.
Il had no right" he said, ito COM
init this country to a course of conduct
| which. landed Mexico in anarchy. left
our citizens a prey to the ravages of
revolution and made our name a word
of contempt in sister republic.
I'VE have gone forward" the nomi-
nee said in speaking of the adminis-
tration's Mexican policy, with a de-
n a n
structive, to destroy all they had"
AS to the administrations foreign
policy Mr. Hughes said:
I'VE have allowed our words to be
eaten up by hesitation. by delay. We
have somehow or other convinced the
world that our talk is cheap.
II propose that we have a new birth
| of American purpose and courage. We
| have no occasion to fear war in the as
sertion of those rights, which all rec
ognize and only respect us for MAIN
tanning. But if we are glib in speech.
If we indicate that we are now ready
to meet the full responsibility that our
words imply, we are pushed a little
( further and a little further until some
fine day events occur which arouse an
! implacable resentment from one end
of the country to the other. That is
the danger of war.
This administration has come
nearer to landing us in war by its
weakness than it would ever have
come had it stood faithfully for Ameri-
can rights and had let it be known
that they would be defended.
II believe that with our peaceful
! purposes, our just purposes, we have
no occasion to be drawn into strife, If
we are prepared, If we are dignifed, if
we show that we mean what we say.
"One of the very serious charges
which must be laid against the present
administration is the charge of putting
incompetent men into important po-
sitions. That is not for the benefit of
Democracy And l now. in this place
where I was nominated. without any
regard to political future, say this:
That If I am elected President of the
United States I propose that every
man that 1 put in charge of an i'm
portant department shall be a man
eminently fit 10 discharge the duties of
that department
II propose that in diplomatic service
training shall count something. l pro-
| pose that when a man goes from this
country to represent the great Ameri-
can people in another nation-and I
do not care whether it is a small ma
! tion or a big nation, for we want our
| influence in small and great-I pro-
pose that that man shall be a worthy
representative to whom the people
whom he is accredited to will look with
respect and esteem, seeing in him the
| efficiency of the great United States"
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