Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-29
Hughes Excoriated
in Many Editorials
Conference With 'O'LcGry Or
eanization and Work OF Aiicn
Alliances Criticized.

NEW YORK, October 2S.-Ncwspa-
pcrs throughout the United States con-
tinuc /" cHcoriatc Republican Candi-
date Hughes for his secret conference
with O'l.eary'S american Indepen-
dence Conferences" and the machina-
tions- of alien alliances chat are seek
ing To defeat the all-Amcrica policies
Of President Wilson Trenchant ex-
tracts from some Of the editorials fol-
low:
New York Evening Tclc,:ram.-lt is
believed Mr.. jeremiah O'Lenry is now
meeting himself coming back.
Hnston Post.--Thc angler of This
campaign is Charles Evans hughes.
dominated by German influence. :ys
Theodore Roosevelt before the Chicago
convention openly said he would he.
and as all the pro-GernanS since have
asserted that nc was. he has lodged
and cNuded every attempt to get him
10 say just villa. he would have done
or would ito in amy international
crisis, He has raised puSsyfooting to
an exact science. fearing to offend amy
racials except Mex cans and the
Mexican vet" is negligible.
Cincinnati Po>t.-Is there amy intel
l!gcnt Germans american who can
force himself To- believe that iugies's
backing OF muni,ion makers would let
him destroy the very condition
through which they make their cmor-
nous profits" low can intelligent
German Americans. understanding the
feeling in Germany. fail to see that
iiugheS'S election. and the consequent
rupture with Germany. would I've the
most terrible calamity that could be-
fall Germans in America?
l ira obsfrvcr.-lt seems that these
un- American elements are seeking TO
c compass the defeat Of MIR. Wilson az
g t"iumph of foreign influence against
the government Of this country. 1t
can he regarded as little short or /,
foreign conspiracy ha;ched on Amcri-
can soil. aud il touches closely tie
American sense OF dcCcrc: and safety
Scranton 1im"s.-iis IHughcs'S
eleventh hour declaration followin :
those tOl.eary) exposures has been ~
uaipably forced that III" people Of this
country viii not take the stock in it
that they would have taken il he had
not PUSSY footed OH the issue thus far
Ia this campaign. At the last momcn;
A.cE i damaging exposure. he prefer :
to .rDudiatc tn. kuiscrbund rather
than 10 brave the righteous indiSn.t :
60" "t :hc people OF this country. II
they cln,: YOU. Nj. .i,Iyhes. they will
IL taking pig III Il poke.
H:.,imnrc Suu.-B,,i. iu suite uf dis
.v"Whls, the iavt r"HIaEs that the
aSill -AfncfltthS WHO compose the
American Independence Conference still
swear 10y Mr.. Hughes and not at him,
as they do at President Wilson: that
they went away from their Interview
eu,irci! pleased with him ANA Ii. ass
"uraaccS. and that his election vii! he
interpreted by them and other good
NmcrjcauS liz" the Kaiser and Won
TirDiiZ. as triumph cor their policies
anh condemnation "f the President
III" was not too PROUD I" Ugh, them.
liidacforh Nr.i Hcrnrd.-Mr. hughes
is icft Il sorry figure OF the situation.
FW" weeks before the voting, this IRON
/ T;tn of trmncSS ana dctcrm ma lion is
| revealed as the most weak kuccd can
| dldaic for the presidency this genera =
| ton AZ least has known. II is difficult
!" comprehend, in the light Of the cx :
| posture of his aruuicScencc in the work
ana propaganda OF the D1.earyitcs. how
- lar.c section al Tho American uubli,,
/ could ever have been so mistaken in
/ us estimate Of the character OF the
I ltcpuhii""H candidate.