The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-13
IDA M. FARRELL '
 IN N. y.,SPEECH . . HITS AT HUGHES
Republican Party Has Lost Its Moral Integrity and \
 Principle.

New York, Oct. 13-Ida M. Tar bell, foremost woman writer on pub- lie affairs, made a ringing speech for President Wilson last night before business and professional women. Oth- CT speakers were Henry Morgenthau, former Ambassador to Turkey, Walter lLppmann, associate editor of '"The New Republic 7" Miss Annette Keller man, the actress, and Mrs. Amos Pin | chot.
 | Miss Tarbell said in part: \ "Mr. Wilson's record of four years is so packed with achievement that it seems to have left his opponent high and dry. So far he has thought of
 nothing to promise to do. In this di- Flemma he has confined himself to criticising not MT. Wilson's achieve ments-he could hardly do that since they are too obviously things that the country wants-butg grather. the meth ods MT. Wilson has followed in reach l ing his objects.
 / "I do not understand that MT. Hughes objects to the country's being at peace, but rather to the means by which it has been kept at peace. do not understand that MT. Hughes ob- jects to the Federal Reserve Law. but rather to the fact that the law was not left as MT. Aldrich made it. I do not understand that MT. Hughes ob- jects to an eight-hour day, but rather to conducting an experiment by which the question could be settledj from facts instead of by a strike. "Mr. Wilson believes in diplomacy. the usei of brains, argument, self-con- trol, in settling international dis putes, MT. Hughes seems to believe in settling them by force. MT. Will son believes that a measure like the federal reserve bill should be handled by the people. MT. Hughes would leave it where MT. Aldrich put it, in the hands of the few. MT. Wilson pre- fers that a dispute like that between the railroad management and railroad labor should be worked out by ex- pertinent rather by strike. MT. Hughes would let them strike.
 "It is a different way of looking at the worlds problems. One is the way of the future, the other, that of the past. One is the way of the people. the other. the way of the few. One is the Americanism of Lncoln-the other that of Mark Hanna. Take your choice"
 MT. LippmanH- said: "The paramount issue of the cam paign is whether in the midst of a world crisis the American people can afford to choose a President who can- not or 1are not explain his views on any great question.
 Either Mr.. Hughes does not know how he would alter the policy of the United States or he has something to conceal. Either there is' great va cuum where foreign policy should be or there is something sinister that dares not show itself in the light.
 This is the great peril confronting the American people, that on Nov. it will reject an administration which, whatever its faults, is at least known to all the world. and substitute six or eight months of doubt and disorgani- zation, of darkness and obscurity while MT. Hughes endeavors to recon cile the pro-Germans, the pro-Allies, the Mexican interventionists and the ultra pacificists-the jangle and dis cord of his following?
 Can we face the terrible difficult ties that lie ahead, covered by a party that is profoundly disorganized, that has no principle on Which it can agree, that has lost its moral integrity?
 Miss Kellerman said:
 "As the ideal exponent of democ- racy, standing as he does against spe- cial privilege, against financial tyr amy, against jingoism in our Mexi- can and European relations, Presi- dent Wilson should be the choice of the American people for their next
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