The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-10-26
SEES PANACEA WITH HUGHES
Crowd Cheers Demand of Speaker for
Protective Tariff to Protect All
Glasses of People County Chair
man John H. Hegemen Speaker.

should receive the condemnation of the
voters this fall because the dignity and
honor of the nation have been sacrificed
under its regime, was asserted by
Claire B. Bird of Wausau in his first
campaign address in Kenosha county
at Bristol Wednesday night. Mr.. Bird
said that with Charles E. Hughes as
president the nations of the world would
again look with confidence upon this
country, because Hughes, with his rec
orr of adherence to absolute justice
would inspire respect in contrast to the
record OF weakness and incompetence
Of the Wilson administration. The
meeting was one Of the biggest political
meetings ever held in Bristol.
FIN passing upon an administration
we should not indulge in petty criti-
cisms, /" he said. eff we are to have
change it should be because of basic
fundamental departure from established
principles of government and the fol-
lowing of policies which we believe to
be disastrous to national welfare. | be-
ieve the present administration, tested
by these rules, should receive the con-
domination of the voters this fall. 5"
Speaking of Wilson'S handling of for
eign affairs, Mr.. Bird said: 'Most of
us sympathize with one or the other of
the belligerents. Few of US are neu-
trail. We are all, however, American
citizens, and will discard our sympathies
in dealing with American rights. If
American rights favor the country we
sympathize with, we are glad. IF not,
we are sorry. But glad or sorry as the
case may be we expect and demand that
the rights of American citizens shall be
enforced at home and abroad and
against every nation and that impair
TALLY.
e'Our administration has so woefulIy
failed to do SO that in three short years
he have fallen from the position where
we held the respect and honor of all the
nations of the world to that low estate
where none of the nations, belligerents
or neutrals; has for us any word of re-
spect or confidence"
Mr.. Bird reviewed the Mexican mud
die, recalling the ignominious result of
the Vera Cruz fiasco, the Mexican out
RACES against the American uniform,
numbering American soldiers and civil
ians and the humiliation of Capt.
Boyd's company.
eff, in community where there is
no police force, y he said, ''I should see
man upon the street shoot my sons
and assault my daughters, and I should
then run away around the corner to
safety, contentedly fold my arms and
say, L am a man of peace, / have
kept out Of trouble, [ am safe and
prosperous, most red blooded Ameri-
cans would run me out of town on a
rail- Harsh as the comparison is it is
difficult to see where we can take any
other view Of the present administra-
ton.
THE peace we have preserved with
Mexico has cost more lives than did the
I war we fought with Spain. There is
this difference! That war settled some
thing. This peace we have waged
leaves every question still unsettled and
| harder than ever to settle'
Mr.. Bird charged the Democratic ad-
ministration with absolute failure to
protect American rights and criticised
alike this country IS relations with Ger
many and with England.
How" he asked, with the present
record of absolute failure to protect
American rights, would it be possible to
expect American business to extend into
foreign fields? Until there is an ab5o-
lutte reversal of our present supine pol
icy this conception of the Anne Ican
business man stepping into new flslds
must remain only a dream. We have
so lowered our standard among the ma
tons of the world that it will take an
absolute reversal of policy and perhaps
generations of history to restore our
selves to our former standing.
| Any prospect there might have been
for the American government had it
stood firm for what all would have
recognized as right, to be useful in ths
making of lasting and just peace, has
gone. There is just once chance left
for US to be Of use.
If Charles E. Hughes, with his rec
ord of adherence to absolute justice
against all opposition either from the
strong and mighty or from public
clamor, should become our president,
there then would be man to whom, the
warning nations might in time look With
confidence to assist in the interests of
permanent peace and settlement based
on the fundamental rules of right and
. iustice.J