Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-06-30

conduct of these men. Mr.. Hughes
made no effort to bring them before the
bar of justice and there deal with them
as poor and uninfiuential thieves are
dealt with. The investigation stopped
with the disclosure of the wrong and
the wrong-doers went unpublished. Mr..
Hughes gave no evidence by his course
that he believed in prison sentences for
rich offenders, but rather that he be.
lieved in letting them off free of pun
ishment.
1t is remarkable how many men one
meets-men of progressive thought, who
care more for national welfare than
party welfare, who say that far from
being progressive Mr.. Hughes is the
ideal public servant to represent the
vested and privileged interests of the
country. They say that to call him a
progressive is to abuse the word and
that he has rendered no service what
soever to the public cause. They point
to his veto of the 2-cent fare and to the
veto of the scent fare to Coney Island
in proof that his intellectual bent is not
in sympathy with the people. The cor
poration which hauls passengers to
Coney Island, which is New York S
playground, the spot where hard work.
ing men and women go for a breath of
fresh air and for diversion, was re-
quired to charge not more than scent
fare, but under new charter covering
the extension it added 1000 feet or
Whereabouts of new trackage, and then
asserted that the scent fare did not
cover transportation over this. The
people through their representative
commended otherwise and tie legisla-
ture passed bill establishing the sin
gle fare, but the bill was killed by the
governors veto, precisely as the 2-cent
fare was killed. The railroads of Iowa
where the population per square mile
1910 was forty, are making profit on
a 2-cent fare which the legislature had
the wisdom to establish and repub-
lican governor had the good sense not
to veto, but the people of New York,
where the population per square mile in
1910 was nearly five times what it was
in Iowa, or 1912 per square mile, were
denied the benefits of a 2-cent fare by
Mr.. Hughes These two outstanding
acts of the Hughes administration elo-
quently attest that he is not att ned to
the spirit of the times.
Hughes a progressive!' exclaimed
a progrs ssive republican whose name
would be instantly recognized as familiar i
by every reader of The Register. eff
he were on the bench when the bred
Scott decision was handed down he
would have concurred in it. He is as
as snail. People talk
about the bosses who dominated the
Chicago convention knowing nothing
about Hughes views. 1t is enough to
make horse laugh. They know from
his -four years in the governors chair
how he. regards the things in which
Wall Street is interested and they
picked him on this account and were
glad to get him. Wall Street Will
finance his campaign confident that, in
case Of his election, it will get value
for its money!"
New York democrats entertain no
doubt of their ability to carry the state
for the president. 1t was said at st.
Louis that Charles F. Murphy, the lead
err of Tammany, had set at rest all
doubts as to its attitude toward the |
president, that it regards him as a
great president and that it blames not
him, but Senator O'Gorman, for the
failure of Tammany to get the patron
age for New York state. 1t was
declared that the reason Senator o.
German is not candidate for re-elec-
ton is that his opposition to the presi-
dents measures did not meet the
of Leader Murphy. In Great
er New York are 300, 900 voters of
German birth or descent, 60 per cent.
of whom are republicans. Even if the
40 per cent. should vote for
Mr.. Hughes, the gain to the democratic
ticket in the Jewish vote, which the
Of Louis D. Brandeis to
the bench has solicited behind the presi-
dent, will far more than offset the loss
of the German vote. There are more |
than 100000 Jews resident in New |
York, and ever since the Roosevelt |
candidacy large percentage of them
have been voting the the republican
ticket, due in part to Mr.. Roosevelt's |
of one Of their number,
Mr.. Straus, to the cabinet.
Everybody is agreed that Mr.. Hughes
is a great campaign er, that his words
sound as distinctly as drum beat, that |