The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1916-10-07
WHAT WOULD
HUGHES HAVE DONE
From the New York Sum


Inasmuch as the question, What
would Hughes have done?" seems to
be the only thing the Democrats have
left to hang their hats on, let's see if
il can't be answered in the usual
Yankee fashion by asking other ques-
tions. Does any sane man or woman
believe:
That he would have appointed a
Bryan. Daniels, Redfield Wilson
or a Baker to mis- Cabinet?
That he would have given the pre-
mier place in his official family as a
reward for political treachery to a
rival Presidential candidate, to man
who a few years previous he wanted
knocked into cooked hat?
That even if in fit of mental aber-
ration he should have done such an
inconceivable thing he would have
stood for said appointee touring the
country in the company of vaudeville
performers and yodelers for the pur-
pose of increasing his private income
because he couldn't live on the salary
of Cabinet officer and lay by any
thing for old age?
That he would have sent the United
States fleet to Vera Cruz ostensibly
to obtain a salute for the flag, but
really to depose Huerta, for whom he
had conceived personal dislike. and
subsequently in fulsome euIogy over
the 10 marines who We're killed while
this country was being "kept out of
war" should tell Us they died in the
service of humanity?
That he would have fatuously and
namely juggled with the embargo on
arms and munitions to Mexico, alter
rately lifting and clamping it down,
as the favor Of one or the other MeXi-
can highbinders swayed him, thus
making it possible for our country
men to be murdered by Mexican ban
dts supplied with arms through his
own shortsightedness?
That he would later have sent a
punitive $50 called expedition into
Mexico to get" Villa, and after WIN
ming numerous "bloodless victories
ly not capturing the bandit have with
drawn the troops?
That after sending an ultimatum
to a foreign Government he would
have permitted his Secretary of State
to assure its Ambassador that it was
only d bluff meant for home consump-
tion?
That he would have taken infinite
pains to destroy American shipping at
the beheSt of demagogues and labor
agitators by signing the LaFollette-
Furuseth seamen's bill in a sickening
attempt to curry favor with labor?
That he would have blindly and an
rogantly. in the face of expert opinion
in opposition thereto, insisted upon
the passage of the emasculated Nc
Adoo shipping bill, saddling upon the
citizens $50, 900 to enable the Gov
ernment to become corporation pro-
moter and stockholder in a PROPOSE
ton which is conceded to be of no
practical use?
That had he been elected on a plat
form pledging its candidates to but
one term he wouldn't have had man
hood and decency enough to fulfill his
contract with the American people by
refusing a denomination
And as the crowning act of infamy
does any intelligent being believe for
a moment that for a possible-but by
no means probable-400,0 900 votes he
would have been participant in,
much less the instigator of, the Judas
role so sweetly played by Wilson in
his recent cowardly betrayal of the
people by his un-American surrender
to the bluff of the railroad brother
hoods and then have paraded his
shameful and disgraceful act before
the world by presenting the "four
pens as souvenirs to the railroad
gunner who held him up?
What would Hughes have done?
Read the answer in the votes Novem-
Der 7. next.
GEORGE S. ALDRICH.
Newark, n. j., September 16.