New Britain herald., 1916-08-01

banner, your unalterable and abid- ing Americanism, your high personal character and well known capacity all these have fixed you in the Amer ican mind as the best exponent Of re-
 publican principles and the w1sest leader to restore American prestige and efficient government.
 We bring you now the commission to that leadership. We bring 1t in full confidence that the people will gladly acclaim the republican resto- ration under your trusted leadership. We bring it in the highest aprecia- ton of that peace of right and jus tice which your unwavering Amer canism will hold secure, rather than endanger. We bring it in the strong belief that American material good fortune, under republican industrial preparedness, will be the glad reflex of our own peace and the worlds peace and be held permanent under republican protection.
 I've bring it in firm conviction that you, Sir, will hold that platform prom ises constitute a sacred party covenant and the expressed will of the people at the polls must find response in cap able and efficient administration
 Aye sir, we bring it believing you will add to our self-respect confidence
 and good fortune at home and to that respect and good opinion abroad which meets our higher American as- pirations"
 Cheers For Hughes.
 Mr. Hughes waS warmly applauded as he arose and took Senator Hard ing's place at the readers desk, pre- ! paratory to delivering his address of acceptance. The audience arose. Colonel Roosevelt in his box applaud ! ed warmly. The band played The
 Star Spangled Banner. Then there
 was some more applause and cheer l ing.
 The candidate got his first rise out | or the audience early in the speech
 when, dealing with Americanisn, he defined this as a love of country and
 a patriotic fervor which permits of
 no division of allegiance, no rivals in
 affection, and which strives for 1 America first and America efficient"
 In dealing with the foreign policy ! of the Wilson administration Mr.
 Hughes brought jeers from the au- 1 dience when he described what he l characterized as the weakness and | ineXperience of the state department 1 personnel. He emphasized the with l drawal of Myron T. Herrick as Am l bassador to France while the war was | in progress, and characterized it as 1 an inexcusable yielding of national in
 terest to partisan expediency.
 The Mexican policy MT. Hughes de- 1 clared faulty from beginning to end.
 He insisted that Huerta was the only
 factor in Mexican affairs who had
 any claim on recognition by the coun- l try, because he was in fact the head l of the Provisional government in
 Mexico when the Wilson administra-
 tion got into power. He assailed the i Wilson administration for vacillation | in it's dealing with Mexico. and de- clared this responsible for attacks on American life and property in Mexico during the present era of unrest. The Wilson administration, according to l MT. Hughes, was less concerned with protecting the life and property of Americans in Mexico at the time of the Vera Cruz incident than it was in depOsing Huerta from power.
 "The American fleet sailed out of Tampico and left it to German and British warships to bring away Amer jeans whose lives were in danger" said Mir Hughes.
 Plays Mostly on Mexico.
 The candidate devoted a larger DOT tion of his speech to Mexico than 10 any other single topic. He reverted to the diplomacy of the Wilson ad- ministration.
 "The chief function of diplomacy" he said, lis prevention, but in this our policy failed, doubtless because of it's impaired credit and the man fest lack of disposition to back words with action"
 Mr Hughes was applauded when he declared that if the diplomats of the Old World had believed when Presi- dent Wilson used the term strict ac- counta bility' in one of his earlier notes to Germany, he meant just what he said there would have been no 1 Tusitania episode MT. Hughes | secuted the idea that resolutions in protecting American rights abroad would have led to war, and declared | that the "weakness and indecision' Of the administration was the thing that at times had brought the country to the brink of hostilities.
 One incident that set the audience cheering occurred while MT Hughes was discussing preparedness lie oe- clared that the experiences of the United States Army on the Mexican border had brought a shocking oo- feet lesson of lack of preparedness. He laid the blame at the door or the Wilson administration.
 ''Only about a year and a half ago, said MT. Hughes, i've were told that the question of preparedness was not a nressing one; that the country had heen misinformed. Later, under the pressure of other leadership, this at titude was changed
 MT. Hughes as he uttered this, sent a side1ong glance in the direction Of the box occupied by Colonel Roose-