The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-08-04
HUGHES IS TOLD
\ OF NOMINATION
Republican Leader Scores VIII.
son Administration.
MEXICO TARGET OF ATTACK

The Nominee Intlmates That He
Would Have Backed Up Americans
on Lusitania by Deeds, Not Words.
Charges Administration With vaeiI.
lation-Favors Woman Suffrage and
Protection.
New York-In his address in Car.
negie Hall, New York, accepting the
Republican nomination for president,
Charles Evans Hughes said:
Senator Harding. members of the
notification committee and fellow citi-
zens-This occasion is more than a
mere ceremony of notification. We are
not here to indulge in formal expires.
sions. We come to state in plain
and direct manner our faith, our pur.
pose and our pledge. This representa-.
tive gathering is in happy augury. 1t
means the strength of reunion. 1t
means that the party of Lincoln is re.
stored, alert, effective. 1t means the
unity Of common perception of par.
amount NATIONAL deeds. 1t means that
we are neither deceived nor benumbed
by abnormal conditions. We know that
we are in critical period, perhaps
more critical than any period since
the civil war. We need a dominant
sense of national unity, the exercise
of our best constructive powers, the
vigor and resourcefulness of a quick.
ened America. We desire that the Re.
publican party as great liberal par
ty shall be the agency of national
achievement, the organ of the effec-
tive expression Of dominant Ameri.
canism. What do l mean by that? |
mean America, conscious of power,
awake to obligation, erect in self re-
spect, prepared for every emergcl cy
devoted to the ideals of peace, in
stinct with the spirit of human broth.
erhood, safeguarding both individual
opportunity and the public interest,
maintaining a we'll ordered constitu-
government without the sacrifice of
essential national authority, appreciat.
ing the necessity of stability, expert
knowledge and thorough organization
as the indispensable conditions Of Sc.
curity and progress; a country loved
by its citizens with a patriotic fervor
permitting no division in their allie.
gance and no rivals in their affection
i mean America first and America
efficient. 1t is in this spirit that l re.
spohd to your summons
Criticiscs Diplomatic Appointments.
In discussing foreign relations and
appointments Mr.. Hughes declared
that the executive had not commanded
the respect of the world by his con.
duct of the state department. Compe-
tent diplomats, notably Ambassador
Herrick OF France, have been retired
for no other reason than to meet
partisan demands.
1.-THE dealings of the administra.
ton" Mr.. Hughes declared, "consti.
tute confused chapter of blunders.
We have not helped Mexico. She lies
PROSTATE, impoverished, famine strick'
en-. overwhelmed with the woes and
RACES of internecene strife, the helr-
less victim of a condition of anarchy
which the course of the administra'
ton only served to promote. For our
selves, we have witnessed the murder
of our citizens and the destruction OF
their property. We have made enc
mics, not friends. Instead of command
ing respect and deserving good will
by sincerely, firmness and consist
ency, we provoked misapprehension
and deep resentment. In the light OF
the conduct of the administration nc
one could understand its professions
In decrying interference, we interior
red most exasperatingly. We have
not even kept out of actual conflict
We have restored to physical inva
sion. only to retire without gaining
the professed object. 1t is a record
which cannot be examined without 9
profound sense of humiliation"
Huerta Treatment FoIlish Intervention
Reviewing the interference with
Huerta, Mr.. Hughes characterized II
as "a vacillating and ineffective IN
PREVENTION" and as "the height Of
folly"
so far as the character of Huerta
is concerned, the hollowness of the
pretensions on this score is revealed
by the administration subsequent
patronage of Villa (whose qualifica
lions as an assassin are indisputable)
whom apparently the administration
was ready to recognize had he achiev
ed his end and fulfilled what ther
seemed to be its hope.
1.-THE question is not as to the non
recognition of Huerta. The adminis,ra
ton did not contend itself with refus
ing to recognize Huerta, who was rec
ognized by Great Britain. Germany
France, Russia, Spain and japan. The
administration undertook to destro,
Huerta, to control Mexican policies
even to deny Huerta the right to be {
candidate for the Office OF presiden
a tthe election the administration de
manded. With what bewildermen
must the Americans have regarded
our assertion OF their right to manage