Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-10-13
REED ATTACKS HUGHES
SENATOR ANALYZEs STAND OF
REPUBLICAN NOMINEE.
Missoutan Replies Vigorously to
Criticism of Adamson Eioht-Hour
Law and All Democratic Con-
structIve Legislation.

A recent outstanding feature In the
Wilson campaign was a vigorous coun-
ter-attack by United States Senator
James A. Reed of Missouri upon
Charles e. Hughes, the Republican
nominee, In reply to the latters attack
upon the Adamson eight-hour law and
his declaration that all of the Demo
cratic legislation sh0uld be wiped from
the statute books. Senator Reeds
broadside was delivered before an i'm
mense audience at Springfield, ILL.,,
where he found leading Democrats who
had engaged In the customary jousts
of the state primary presenting solid
front on both the state and national
Democratic tickets
Public sentiment expressed itself by
repeated cheers, when he listed such
Democratic achievements as the eight
hour law, the child labor law, the
workmen's compensation law. the farm
loan law, and other progressive and
constructive legislation and asked
whether his hearers would like to see
Mr.. Hughes repeal them. He pictured
the Republican nominee walking In
dian fashion in the footsteps Of Pen
rose, Smoot, Gallinger and other con-
trolling factors in the old guard Bour-
bon Republicanism and declared that
Republican success would mean that
their wishes would be Hughes law.
He won applause from large and
representative delegations of women by
analyzing President Wilson's methods
of maintaining peace, and by pointedly
inquiring whether even by the most
terrible OF wars, the president could
have won a bit more from Germany
than he won by diplomacy without the
loss of life. This viewpoint led Ma
tional Committeeman Charles Boesch-
enstein to predict that out of the 60O,-
600 votes he expects women to cast In
Illinois, the greater number will be for
Wilson on account of his peace poll
oies.
In declaring that Hughes is twisting
the facts in his public addresses, Sena-
tor Reed said:
After having for ten days discussed
such trivial matters as the discharge
of one or two subordinate government
employees, Mr.. Hughes thinks he has
at last found an issue in the Adamson
bill. His criticisms might well justify
that he be- accused of plagiarism, for
the same speech in almost the identical
language delivered on the floor of
the United States senate by such cham
pions of the people as Reed Smoot of
Utah, Jacob Gallinger of New Hamp-
shire and Boies Penrose of Pennsyl-
vania.
Neither the railway presidents nor
the railway employees ever came to
congress or the president with any
kind OF demand whatsoever. We
averted the strike without the surren-
der of single principle, and have TAX
en- the preliminary step toward the
formation ,ofsa plan which will result
in the arbitrament of all controversies
involving the highways Of the people.
Had Hughes been president in this
crisis he might have called out the
army and navy of the United States; ;
he might have seized all these railroad
men and put them in Jail. and then
he would not have had anybody TO run
the trains. He might have strung SOL
diers along the tracks and said: When
the train goes by here, any man who
interferes shall be shot at sight But
what then? There would have been
nobody to run the trains.
But what's the use of asking what
Hughes would have done? It's like
trying to put one's thumb upon an
evasive flea ON d dark night