The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-11
DEMOCRATS PUT BIG QUESTIONS
 UP TO HUGHES
List of 21 Interrogations is Prepared For G. O. P.
 Answer.

| The challenge is in the form of 21
 questions addressed to Mr. Hughes and to the Republican party by the Democratic National Committee and | the Democratic Congressional Com-
 mittee.
 "An appeal for light for sixteen | millions of voters. Let MT. Hughes and the Republican. party answer" is the captioni under which the questions are grouped as follows:
 "1. Do you favor the repeal of the | Federal Reserve Act passed by a Democratic Congress, recommended l and approved by President Wilson,
 under which the danger of financial panics is forever banished from the United States?
 "2. Would you have protested | against the violation of Belgian neu- trality and have backed the protest by plung1ng America into the European carnival of slaughter?
 "3. Do you favor repeal of the Rural Credits Act, passed by a Dem ocratic Congress, recommended and approved by President Wilson, which gives long-term credit at interest rates that promise an annual saving of S15O,OOO, 900 to the farmers? A. Would you have recognized Victoriana Huerta as President of Mexico? "5. Do you favor repeal of the Clayton Antitrust Act passed by a Democratic Congress, recommended and approved by President Wilson. which overthrow the principle that the labor of human being is a mere commodity of commerce?
 "6.| Will you, MT. Hughes, recom- mend, and will the Republican party | in Congress support, a law establish ing universal compulsory military service in the United States?
 ''7. Do you advocate repeal of the Federal Trade Commission Act, pass ed by Democratic Congress. recom- mended and approv kd by President Wilson, which has given so much as- sstance to legitimate business enter prises and under which adequate pro- lection against unfair competition is provided?
 '8. MT. Hughes, would you have tried the policy of diplomatic negotia- ton as a means of summoning the moral force of law and neutral opin- ion to stop Germany's illegal use of submarines?
 "9. Do you favor repeal of the 'porkless' Good Roads Act, passed by a Democratic Congress and approved by President Wilson, for the develop ment of rural highways?
 "1O. Would you, MT. Hughes, have broken relations with Germany and sent our young men by the hundreds of thousands to nameless graves at the bottom of the Atlantic or in Elan ders before the policy of diplomatic negotiations had had thorough trial ? "11. Will you undertake to repeal the income tax. passed by Demo- cratic Congress, recommended and approved by President Wilson, which places a ust share of the burden of taxation upon those best able to bear it?
 "12. Do you favor violating neu- { trality and risking the future safety of your country by placing an embargo on munitions of war?
 "13. Do you favor repeal of the Ag- ricultural Extension Act, passed by a Democratic Congress, recommended and approved by President Wilson,
 which for the first time provides fa- cilities for carrying direct to the farmer scientific knowledge of how to increase the profits of his farm? /
 "14. Do you favor intervention in Mexico?
 / "15. Do you advocate repeal of the Grain Standards and Wareho holse Acts, passed by a Democratic Congress, rec
 commended and approved by Presi-
 dent Wilson, which aid commerce in
 the great staple cereals and enable
 owners of stored agricultural products to secure loans on wakehouse receipts
 on better terms? "16. What is your attitude toward
 the disloyalists of your party who
 have attempted to prevent the en- forcement by President Wilson, both
 on the part of the American govern
 ment and by all Amarican citizens, of an honest neutrality toward all the
 warning nations of Europe? "17. Inasmuch as the largest amount collected in any one year un- der the highest tariff ever enacted | ePayne-Aldrich act) was $333,OOO,- 900. what form of taxation would sub- stitute to pay a preparedness cost of | S630, 900?
 "18 Do you favor the reactionary Republican plan of granting huge
 subsidies to favored corporations,
 mone& collected from the people by
 taxation. as the best way of encour-
 aging the development of an Ameri-
 can merchant marine?
 ''19 Do you favor the repeal of the Child Labor Law, the Anti-Injunction Law, the Seaman's Act and related social justice measures of high inn portance. passed by Democratic Congress and recommended and ap-
 proved by President Wilson? "20. Do you favor re-enactment or the Payne-Aldrich act which betrayed your party's campaign pledge of 1903 and which has been repudiated by many Republicans and all Progressive leaders?
 "21. Do you stand with those Pro- gressives and progressive Republicans in Congress who voted for practically all the progressive Democratic meas ures mentioned above, or do you stand with the reactionary RepublicaIS who voted against them?"
 Following the questions, the two Democratic committees address this final word to the Republican party and to its presidential candidate: President Wilson and the Demo- V. N