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and is now engaged in a third. He
spent a part of that time in the state
of Wisconsin, and yet l defy you, or
any man in this state, to point out a
single expression, a single DEFINITE
concrete expression of Mr.. Hughes
on any subject on which you have
a deep and abiding interest at this
time. He has criticised the Wilson
administration in general terms, but
in no case has he pointed out specl-
fically what the administrator
should have done that it neglected to
do. or what it failed to do that 1t
should have done. We have tried on
the platfrom, in the press, and IN the
magazines of the country, and III
every other way known, to obtain an
expression from Mr.. Hughes as TO
what he would have done had he
been president at the various tlmes
when a crisis confronted us. we nave
asked him, for instance, what ne
would have done had he been presl-
dent when Germany threatened to In
wade Belgium; whether he would
have pursued the policy laid down by
those men who made his nomination
possibility, and who are now the
only factors to elect him, if he can be
elected: that is to say, the policy ex-
pressed by his leading champion,
Theodore Roosevelt, and also laid
down by Senators Root, Lodge,
Weeks, Penrose, Representative
Gardener, and others, that President
Wilson was guilty of perfidious con-
duct when he did not join England
in protest the very moment that the
first Prussian soldier set foot on Bel
GUM soil, or whether he would have
followed the view held by the presi-
dent, namely, the traditional policy
handed down to us by the Father OF
our Country, George Washington,
that this country should MAINTAIN
friendly relations with all nations
and have entangling alliance with
none.
Roosevelt Voices Hughes Views.
sMr. Hughes knows the English
language sufficiently to answer this
question and set the people at rest
concerning it. Unless he does, ana
until he does, he is not entitled to
our confidence. Let us go step tur-
ther Colonel Roosevelt received the
nomination for president from the
progressive party at Chicago on the
same day that Mr.. Hughes was nom
mated. Mr.. Roosevelt wired his con-
yention that he would neither accept
nor decline that nomination until he
could ascertain the views Of the Re-
publican nominee. He obtained those
views and then declined the nomina-
ton. It is reasonable to deduce that
Mr.. Hughes satisfied Mr.. Roosevelt
and that Roosevelt now expresses the
Hughes views. Whatever may be
said about Roosevelt, one thing must
be conceded, and that is that he does
not pussy-foot, but openly expresses
his opinions. We all know what
his views are, but let me call your at
tention to what he said in substance
| in his speech in opening the Hughes
campaign in the state of Michigan at
Battle Creek. He stated that If he
had been president of the United
States when the Lusitania was sunk,
he would have grabbed every Ger
man merchant vessel interned in an
| American harbor. My friends, l ask
you what would have happened? You
| know that on the day when the Euro
pean war broke out, every German
merchant vessel on the high seas
sought refuge in neutral harbors to
avoid destruction by English war
ships. They interned not only in
the neutral ports of America, but
| sought refuge in the nearest neutral
harbors available. Among others, the
| vessels in the Mediterranean, and
that vicinity, went, into harbors of
Portugal. Portugal did not have a
Woodrow Wilson at the head of its
nation. It had a little king who did