Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-10
TTUGHES has a record as clean as
a hounds tooth. and as straight

|HUGHEs has a record as clean as
II a hounds TOOTH and as straight
as a sapling. That you must ad-
NIT whether you like him or not.
When he Investigated the insurance
scandals in New York he didn't sit
down and write notes to the perpe-
traitors thereof. He went to them
calmly, capably, firmly; and he put
them through the hoops like bare
back riders.
He never played politics. You never
caught any of Hughes appointees ask
ing for places for deserving Republi-
cans. If he had. inside of five minutes
looking for a similar situation him
self
You never found Hughes fostering a
Josepus Daniels or a self-confessed po
litical jobber like Hay. or Virginia, or
that other amiab BILE pork barrel expert
who announced that when anybody else
took home a ham. he wanted a whole
hog; which sounds very much as
though he meant to kidnap himself.
Look over Hughes life and you will
find that he has read broadly, travelled
broadly, thought broadly He has been
honest. He has been fearless. He has
never traded. never truckled.
When he has said thing he has
meant it. When he has said he'd do
a thing. he has done 1t. When he was
governor of New York he appointed
men not because they were deserving
Republicans, but because they were
the right men for the right places He
closed the family entrance to the Capt.
tol; he abolished the habit of whisper
ing so prevalent among politicians.
Anybody that had anything to say to
him had to Speak hight Out Loud.
1t wouldn't have taken Hughes two
years to find out what he thought about
preparedness; and to have done some
came, would he have vacillated be-
tween good plans and bad until men,
bers of his own cabinet became sick
and disgusted and resigned while he
selected the worst
Where Wilson has been weak. Hughes
has been strong. Where Wilson has
followed a policy of vacillating oppor-
tunism, Hughes has hewn to the line.
Where Wilson has dillied and dallied
and sidestepped, too proud to fight"
one minute, and feeling himself in a
fighting mood the next Hughes has
said what he has meant and meant
what he has said.
Wilson has spoken before he has
thought. Hughes has thought before
he has spoken. Hughes has led. Will
son has followed. Hughes has acted.
Wilson has talked.
a Pathetic World Figure
Before a lighting world. giving of
their hearts blood on sodden battle
fields in causes that they think are
right, we stand pathetic world figure.
rich, fat, selfish, clinking in our full
pockets dollars wrung from the suffer
ings of others.
They have outraged us; they have
insulted us; they have berated, and
abused, and heaped on us indignity af-
ter indignity. And Oar only answer has
! been fat and fatuous smile, like the
half-witted boy you used to know a.
school who, no matter how they kicked
him in the shins, or pushed in his nose
or picked on him generally, woult
only grin and hang around for NOR,
An American frienu of mine ATTENDED
a dinner given in Mexico by the erst
while revolutionist thereof, Pascua
Orozco. Pascual was puzzled. He ask
ed my friend to explain that which S,
mystified him.
1--WE have robbed your men, dis
honored your women. killed your chill
dren - Tell me-" pleaded Pas
cual. what does an American need t,
make him fght?"
Pascuai. you see. being only an ignor
ant Mexican. couldn't understand VIII,
or less mean nothing when you have
new automobile and fat bank account
But to those Of us who are still old