Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-26
speut? Under whose leadership
they to be spent?

spent? Under whose leadership arr
they to be spent?"
"Yeurs!"
The answer came from the audience
in q roar
Yours"
1T Is perfectly idle" the nominee
continued after the applause had died.
latter a long period of delay. under
conditions which showed the necessity
for a proper activity. to attempt to
cover past delinquencies by vast ap-
propriations. Those appropriations
themselves direct attention to the ne
cessity of business like management in
our navy department. We want, If
these moneys are to be spent wisely.
the ablest and most efficient leader
ship in these great arms of the SER
vice, which can be commanded.
I'VE need today. and l shall not go
into details. but it is perfectly obvious
that we need aeroplanes. fast scout
cruisers. that we need submarines and
torpedoboat destroyers. If we are to
protect our coasts from blockade we
must have proper consideration in the
navy Of organization and of personnel.
I'VE must have less attention to
punctuation and more to target prac-
tice."
Declaring that young America
wants to be busy, wants work and
abundance Of it," the nominee spoke at
length of his protective. tariff views.
"Our friends on the other side," he
said. told us that they were going to
hit that old enemy. the high cost of
living. The high cost of living was said
to be the ill-gotten offspring of the
Republican party. Now that same off,
spring, a little higher, is in its own
fathers home.
I'VE have today to deal with the
higher cost of living. We haven't to
deal-well. l should not say that, for
it is true that they did give American
enterprise a new size and new speed,
only 1t has a reduced size and a slow
er speed.
After our friends put their principle
into process. we had, throughout the
country an extraordinary condition Of
employment Why, there was not a
city in the land where the great prob
lem of municipal administrative was
not the problem of taking care of hun
dreds of alert and ablebodied American
citizens who couldn't get work. In
Gary. Ind, the most remarkable place
in the United States. where they de-
veloped in a very few years a great
industrial community with wonderful
plants, there were soup houses 20
months ago.
They had their plants and they had
their men, but they didn't have the
work. The work was buried in the
Underwood bill.
Tariff Erected by War
I'VE know what that policy means.
have the equivalent today, to a very
large degree, of a prohibitive tariff
erected by the European war. A great
high wall. almost a Chinese wall, be-
cause Of the condition on the other side.
But you cannot. as have said, forget
that when that wall falls down you
have the men on the other side re-
turning to production"
Mr.. Hughes reiterated his declaration
that he wanted to see a Republican ma
jority in the next Congress and urged
the support Of William M. Calder the
Republican senatorial nominee.
The speech Mr.. Hughes delivered to-
night was, perhaps. the longest of his
He spoke more than an
hour and 20 minutes. Tomorrow he
will start on the last trip of his cam
paign, day being passed in New Eng
land and the remainder of the time in
New York State, Ohio and Indiana.
He will return to New York Nov. 3
and make the last speech Of his cam
paign here the following night.