Bisbee daily review., 1916-10-07
HUGHES DODGES ISSUE
 ON EIGHT HOUR LAW
Attacks Wilson's Plan, but Won't
 Say What He Would Have Done.
ONLY WAY TO AVERT STRIKE.
Republican Nominee Is Asked to De- clare if He Would Have Vetoed the Bill With the Certain Assurance of Industrial Disaster to the Country.

Bill With the Certain Assurance of
 Industrial Disaster to the Country.
 So busy has been Charles E. Hughes criticising the deeds of the Wilson ad- ministration that he has had little time to tell or has purposely evaded i telling the public what he would have done had he been president under sim liar circumstances.
 Lately MT. Hughes has turned his attacks upon President Wilson's sue cessful settlement of the crisis in the railroad world by causing to be passed by congress the Adamson eight hour bM. Mir. Hughes has characterized | tiis action as a surrender to force;" he is, opposed to being dictated to by any power on earth before the facts are known" and he would not act un- tM he had had flair investigation and candid treatment
 Taking issue with the Republican candidates attitude, the New York Times in an editorial asks: "What would Mir. Hughes have done?"
 Well, what way would MT. Hughes have taken?" continues the Times. What would he have done? Here was MT. Wilson's position: The broth erhoods refused arbitration; the rail- road presidents would not accept the settlement MT. Wilson proposed. grant ing the eight hour standard day, with provision for an impartial inquiry into | its working. There was no law on | the statute books to enforce arbitra- | ltion.
 [ ''The president knew, knew with cer- tainty and beyond question, that he could not get such law from the congress now in session. The sure and inevitable alternative to his &C., 1 ceptance of the eight hour standard day measure was a strike, the susPen- sion of railway service, freight and passenger, all over the country, begin ming on the morning of Sept. 4. Would Hughes Have Done It?
 "Mr Hughes would not surrender to anybody in the country. Then he | would have surrendered the country to the disturbance, immeasurable loss and peril of a strike. Would he, in fact have done that? Had he been presi- dent, confronted by that situation. would Mir. Hughes have brought on strike by refusing to sign the bill granting a wage increase? "There was the strike in plain sight. a few hours away. sure to come hn bill? On the contrary, would he not have done just what Mir Wilson did. sign it?
 "The Republican candidate stands for two things-'first. for the principle of fair. impartial. thorough. candid arbitration, and, second. for legislation on facts according to the necessities of the case Mir. Wilson stands for those two things and, much more, has plsdaed himself to use all his influence 10 secure them.
 "What more could Mir. Hughes do? | would i: be too much to ask the Re publican candidate to put little com mon fairness in.o bis speeches? Is he afraid to tell his audiences what the president actually did urge upon con gress?
 As a true champion of arbitration ! President Wilson recommended that arbitration judgments be made records of a court of law in order that their interpretation and enforcement may not lie with the parties to the dispute, but with an impartial and authorita- i tive tribunal It was his purpose to i provide against future emergencies to what he nearly succeeded in doing ln the White House conferences would put such a face upon the matter that prevent the recurrence of such dangers as then confronted him and the coun- try.
 "The people of the United States are not going to be put off with the mis- | information as to what the president did to avert a strike and to prevent the | threat of future strikes. We have req son to believe that the full revelation of what he did. what he tried to do and Republican efforts to make an issue of it would fall entirely flat Advice to Railroads.
 But the people do know, for it was before them in the presidents address to congress, that he proposed. not single emergency act, but a broad pro- gram of legislation to meet public I need and permanently remove public danger. It was a program which We are convinced the railroads would be very wise to accept in its entirety.
 Certainly it seems to us that they are i'll advised to pray for the election of MT. Hughes. who, if we take him at his word, would have brought on the strike. with all its irreparable injuries to the countrys business and peril for the country's peace"
 DEMOCRATIC PROMISES