The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-12
Vice President Popular With
Topeka Audience.
All Issues in Speech Here
Greeted by Loud Applause.
TOUCHES UP HUGHES and 7. R.
This Duet Means War, Mr.. Mar
shall Tells Topekans.
He Offers No Apologies Con-
corning Mexican Situation.

Vice President Thomas r. Marshall
discussed big problems in logical.
captivating manner at the city audi
forum Wednesday night. 1t was an
appreciative. laughing audience which
filled the entire lower floor and a part
of the balcony.
The vice president touched upon
nearly every issue raised in the cam
paign, from the present perplexing
U-boat controversy to the threadbare
tariff issue. All stands taken by the
vice president on the issues of the day
drew shouts of applause excepting the
tariff proposition. That, he declared,
was a dead issue now and from the
small amount of enthusiasm aroused
over it's discussion the audience was
in the same state of mind regarding
the ancient campaign issue.
The audience went wild with en-
thusiasm when the speaker brought
up the eight-hour day and declared
the Democrat party had raised aloft
the eight-hour standard turnout
America. Then he discussed arbitra-
ton.
Opinions of Mankind.
The opinions of mankind" he said,
''are to be crystallized into law, not
by arbitration; nor by judicial discrim-
nation, but by legislative enactmenT
of the men who represent the people.
Now, the judgment of every man who
| knows how strong and dangerous the
work is, the judgment of humankind
is that no man ought to be compelled
to work with dangerous machinery
more than eight hours day. And so
we have set up this eight-hour day
standard, and it is going to stay there
until the Republican party gets into
power.
But they say, and the Republican
candidate says, theoretically, he is in
favor of the eight-hour day, but he
doesn't like the way they got it. He
l doesn't know how they got it. know
they got it, not by anything that they
| have ever asked for themselves, for
they asked nothing, but they got it
| because the president of the country
faced crisis in America and they had
to determine whether they would set
/ tie it peaceably and leave men friends
| or go to war and make men enemies"
U-Boat Matter.
The vice president put Candidate
Hughes in a hole when he touched on
the U-boat trouble now confronting
Il President Wilson.
1 1--WE are confronted this night with
/ new international complications, said
/ Vice President Marshall Candidate
Hughes has criticized everything that
! the president of the United States has
| said or done. In the interest of the
peace and honor of this people why
doesn't he tell the president row what
he ought to do. I tell you he is still
! 100 per cent candidate. He still re-
fuses to open his mouth, and smiles
| and smiles in hope that Wilson will
make mistake that will lead him to
the White House."
Touches on T. r.
Easily one could discern the vice
| presidents dislike of Theodore Roose-
incident, he said:
| But there is a man who knows
| what should be done, no trouble about
him. He is the gentleman who was
rescued at San Juan hill by the colored
regiment. Why worry for the destiny
of America? Theodore is at the
bridge. He will keep this country
safe.
Mr. Hughes says that it is false
logic for US to charge that the alter
native of diplomatic correspondence is
war. l say that it is not false logic
1t is either diplomatic correspondence
with peaceablc adjustment, or it is
war. Now Theodore wants war. and
I can get nothing out of his Battle
Creek speech except this-that if Mr.
Hughes is elected president he will
start on March 5, for Berlin by way
of Mexico. And if he will just go alone
would be almost willing to have
Hughes elected"
And as for Mexico. He slipped
around this by raising the Monroe
doctrine scare
No Apology for Mexico.
well, 1 have no apology to offer
for the wrongs and indignities in Mex
ico, said the speaker, but have this
to say: Mexico is not Mexico alone.
Mexico is all Central and South Amer
lea because until this administration
began they believed it was the pur-
pose of the United States to go TO the
| Panama
gress said SO. They don't believe it
now They think we are a friendly
people, and so we are trying to Guilt
Vate their friendship. not of Mexico
alone, but the friendship of all the
republics of the western hemisphere.
GO into Mexico If you want to- but
When you go, my friends let me tell
you two things the moment you enter.
You will either abrogate and set aside
and hold for naught the Monroe doc
trine and you will tell equally the ma
: tons of the whole world that thew
can come over and buy or take by
conquest as much or as little of the
western hemisphere as they please or
you can build the biggest navy on
earth and have two million men un-
der arms to defend the Monroe doc
| trine.'
Vice President Marshall touched
lightly on the tariff. stating that a
commission could control that phase
of the nations business and put a
quietus on dumping an undue amount
of foreign goods on American mar
kets after the war. He spoke glow
ingly of the federal reserve act and
roasted the Vreeland-Aldrich bill of
Republican origin.
The vice president was late in ar
irving at the auditorium. Cheering
was led from the platform by c. A.
Moore. The lateness of the hour
made introductions of other candi-
i11an
, F. E. Whitney and Hubert Lardner
were short. Mrs. Marshall occupied
a seat by the side of her husband.
A lone press agent is their only es-
cort. The couple remained in To-
peka over night and left this morn
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