Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-26
HUGHES ALLIANCE
FILMS SHOWN TO
BIG AUDIENCES
Paul Davis Tells Of Trip
Made Through Southwest
ern Idaho-Senator Luck
Out for Hughes.

Paul Davis, secretary of the Hughes
Alliance as well as of the Progressive
state central committee. who has been
touring western and southern Idaho
with the Hughes Alliance films, show
ing them to thousands of people, is
meeting with success wherever he has
appeared.
I'VE showed the Hughes Alliance
films in Weiser to over 400 people"
said Nr. Davis. During the entire
time the films were on the screen they
received one continual round of APP
plause Some additional films have
arrived which were shown at Weiser
the first time. One was cartoon with
Uncle Sam turning the leaves of a
book on one page of which is clip
ping from the labor paper. Iegisla-
tive News, October, 1910. 1t said:
Governor Hughes has been the great
est friend of labor that ever occupied
the governors chair in this state On
another page is n clipping from the
same paper saying Since 17I7 there
have been passed 1872 labor laws and
one third of these passed in the three
years and IL months of Governor
Hughes administration
You can place Washington county
in the Hughes column. People are
very enthusiastic over Hughes record
as governor Of New York. They con-
denim the Democratic administration
for the pork barrel legislation, weak
foreign policy and the secret caucus
where 20 senators can absolutely pass
or reject any law which Is submitted
to them.
LUCK is FOR HUGHES.
Senator Luck, Progressive candi-
date for congress in 1914, has come out
for Hughes. He said to me: I am
for Hughes because of his remarkable
record while governor of the great
state of New York. The very fact that
he moved his desk out in the big Of
flee room in the capitol at Albany. in
stead of conducting the state business
in little private backroom office
shows he was a man OF big calibre
He said the office was II pubic trust
and all state business should be con-
Quoted in public instead of conducting
! the state business in a back room and
having some of those gentlemen COM
| ing up the back stairs to conduct state
! business. His record in The insurance
Investigation and the race track gamb-
ling attachments were some of the big
deeds which stamped him as n man of
unusual foresight and ability
Wilson's foreign policies are very
weak and vacllating. He said he
would hold Germany t. strict account
ability and all it amounted to was one
continual round of notes, month after
month. 1t weakened our nation among
all the great nations OF the world and
It will take years to recover the self
e1, he,
ONE 5LUNDER AFTER ANOTHER
81 had sincerely hoped he would
| solve that grave problem which con-
fronts US in Mexico but all he has
brought us is just one blunder after
another. When he told the Mexican
people that as n nation they must sa
lutte the flag or we would blockade
their coast he certainly should have
gone through with it instead Of bonn
harding one city and killing off our
lboys and then backing out the way we
did at Vera Cruz.
/ 81 am certainly against the secret
caucus which has prevailed under this
Democratic administration and which
has reached it's highest efficiency in
the last four years. If this practice
is continued no one can tell where we
VIII ldhu' IL ~ certainty menace To
the nation.
The Adamson bin may be great
bill. 1t may do great good for the coun-
try and the laborng people. About the
bill l know very little but : certainly
condemn the manner it was passed.
Congress had no facts or data on
which to base such a law. As I said
before. ! know nothing about the mer-
its of the bill. but the practice of al
lowing bill of such great Importance
to go through without due investiga-
ton was nothing more or less than
means to prevent a Democratic cal