The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-08-09
|G. 0. P. NOMINEE
OPENS STUMPING
TOURoF NORTHWEST
Arrives at Winona Early This Morn
ing and Gives Station Talks
at Several Points.
GIVES OPEN AIR
ADDRESS IN MILL CITY
Republican Candidate Says That
Democrats Have Not Kept the
Country From War.
IGIVES OPEN AIR
! ADDRESS IN MILL CITY.
(By United Press)


ST.. Paul, Mimi, Aug. 9.-Charles
Evan Hughes opened his stumping
tour of the Northwest at Winona to-
day.
With his wife and party on spe-
cial Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
train, Hughes arrived at Winona at
1885 this morning. A brief talk was
made there and station talks were
made at Wabasha, Red Wing, Lake
City and Hastings, on the way to st.
Paul, which was reached at about II
o'clock this morning.
Met by Hughes Party.
Accompanying the Hughes party
from Winona to St. Paul were Ches-
ter A. Congdon, Minnesota member Of
the Republican national committee;
Eric l.. Thornton of the Republican
state central committee, and C. A.
Severence, prominent St. Paul Re-
publican. At the Union depot here,
200 Twin City Republicans met
Hughes party. Delegates to the Re-
publican league Of the Minnesota
state convention, in session here to-
day, also welcomed Hughes at the
depot. s.5. ~
Lunches Privately.
Automobiles escorted the Hughes
party to the Saint Paul hotel where
Mr.. and Mrs. Hughes lunched pri-
vately. Thence they were escorted
in automobiles to Minneapolis where
the candidate gave an open air adj
dress this afternoon. He and Mrs.
Hughes will dine privately this eve
ming. Then he; will talk at the mu-
nicipal armory with seating capac-
ity of 10000. Following the mass
meeting, cars for Hughes party will
be attached to regular Great North
ern train for the trip to the coast.
Grand Forks Tomorrow.
Hughes party will be at Grand
Forks and Fargo, in North Dakota.
tomorrow. On Friday his car will be
attached to a regular Northern Pa
cific train which will allow station
talks that day at Jamestown, Bis
marck, Mandan and Dickinson, in
North Dakota. That night will be
spent at Glendive, Mont. Helena,
Butte and Missoula, in Montana, will
be visited Saturday. Sunday will be
spent at Spokane.
Refuses Comment.
Hughes refused to comment on the
Washington dispatch saying that the
Democrats would demand retrac-
tion of his Detroit charge that the
Democrats had established q spoils
system. Democrats in Washington
characterized Hughes Detroit address
as ''false as to facts and of mislead-
ing substance.
Arraigns Democrats.
Chicago, Aug. 9.-Charles d.
Hughes last night told an audience
that crowded Chicago's great coli
scum, the hall where he was nomin-
ated for president, what he would do
if elected president of the United
States.
Mr.. Hughes charged the present
administration with waste, extrava-
gance and vacillation. He declared
that it had not kept the country out
of war, but that it had fought an in-
nominous war in Mexico and had
from the war ignomintous
ly. He charged the administration
with having brought the country
much nearer to participation in the
European war than the country
would have been had the administra-
ton .'stood for American rights.
The nominee assailed the admins
tration also for its appointments to
office, and declared that II elected he
would appoint to Office only men who
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