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innation Tor 'Americanisrn. 8.
His statement to Senator Harding in accepting tn
nomination reads much ike Roosevelt speech And
in fact the Hughes platform will be much like Z
Roosevelt platform. The TACT is that Roosevelt has
been preaching Americansm for months-and tht
sort Of Americanism that Americans in the main rec
ognize as vitally necessary
The Republicans who gathered in the COLISEUM were
ready to meet and did meet most of the issues which
the Progressives demanded, But at Roosevelt they
baked Still, in many respects, these two conven-
lions constitute Roosevelt victory. His writings
and speeches during the past year. no less tanls bolt
IN 1912, have made the Roots and Weekses and Bur-
tons impossible as presidential candidates They are
too closely akin to the Taft type Of Republican for the
tense, throhbing Americanism of today They repre-
sent too ncar,y the type of statesman who gets hrs
inspiration from the countinghouse rather than the
market-place from the library rather than the farm
from patrician rather than from from the
classes rather than the masses They may be leaders
in intellect or in finance but not hold upon the people
Hughes is a man of keen intellect and poise and vet
ne has always had tremendous appeal to- the COM
mon people He is good campaigner, too And he
will have TO be good campaisaer to take up this
crunbling political situation and get under way a
movement sufficiently strong TO defeat Woodrow VIII
son.
The readiness with which Hughes responded to the
nomination with strong, progressive statement; the
references he made to preparedness and his criti-
cism of sthe present administration, accomplish a
double result He answers those insistent Bull Moose
leaders who have been demanding, Where does
Hughes stand on the vital issues of the day. and be
creates nissue with the Democratic party.
Provided Mr. Hughes follows this first statement
Immediately and consistently with Others charging
and celebrating upon his ideas Of better prepared
ness provided he sets forth some clear and vigorous
IDEAS upon Mexican and European policies, the Amer
ican people may jusfhably expect Colonel Roosevelt
10 withdraw There is no question that Roosevelt
gave ont the impression few weeks ago that he would
not stand for Hughes But there Is also question
that many Of his Progressves viii stand for Hughes
though in the heat of the Auditorium convention;
Hughes was turned down by the Bull Moose confer
ence committee The Auditorium was in mood
for reaiscomproniise. Its only idea of compromise
was surrender by the Republicans and nomination
Of Roosevelt When the echoes of the frerzied hours
n Chcagodie away there will be plenty of delegates
wiling to accept hughes and unity rather than risk
a repetition OF the defeat of 1912
Roosevelt has but to say the word, to ask that his
conditional refusal. be accepted and hundreds of
thousands OF votes viii be ready for Hughes in Nov
eInber
And as to the issue this first Hughes statement
creates:
Ii has been favorte theory of Democratic leaders
and Democratic newspapers that vital issue could
be created between Hughes and Wilson. Col Henry
Watterson with sarcastic and pointed huInor few
weeks ago dubbed Hughes the whiskered Wilson.
In this characterization lay something deeper than
Wattersons fumor-it the belief, carefully cher
ished and spread by the Democrats that Wilson and
Hughes represented nearly the same type of thought
and action that great national issue could be created
out of campaign between Them The advantage of
such belief in the minds of the American voters is
obvious = they would see no particular reason to
change presidents.
But with his first speech Hughes raises virtually the
same issues Roosevelt has raised and for which the
country quite prepared His assault upon the course
OF the administration reyerberaes with all the more
force because Hughes has been so long silent. His
attack upon the disorganization of American dplo-
macy and the coupling of this dsorganization with the
uncertainty OF our treatment of foreign relations is
incidentally clever.
But neither Saturday nor yesterday did Mr.. Hughes
touch upon the subject which Roosevelt has been per-
sistently hanmering on--that of "hyphenated Amer
icanism. --dyided allegiance which, as Roosevelt
uses the term means first loyalty to some foreign
power. This omission Mr.. Hughes may make up for
later and moe extended statements as to what con-
stitutes his doctrine of AniercaniSm-
Justice Hughes begins his campaign we'll That
very marked sentiment in Hawaii which has hoped
Hughes might b. secured candidate but believed
that he could not be. is Nv turned to rejoicing that
he has been secured. AndifIn the next iew DAYS his
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