The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-22
KIDS Mr.. HUGHES
Magician, Wise Man From
East, Sneers Atwood.
X. C. Man Delivers Kevnoter
Before Missouri Democrats.
RAISES G. 0. P. EPlDERMIS
Attacks Campaign Statements
of Gov. Hughes.
ExtoIs Woodrow as Party Idol
Predicts Reelection.

jefferson City, Mo-, Aug. 22.-John
H Atwood of Kansas City, who made
the keynote address as permanent
| chairman before the Missouri State
Democratic convention here today.
praised both the national and state
Democratic administrations ind closed
with the statement:
I'VE have promised and we have
performed"
Mr. Atwood replied to Justice
Hughes's criticisms of the national
Democratic administration ana
charged the Republican nominee Tor
president with having been the only
man in the country's history who sue
cessfully stalked political big game In
hunting shirt made from judicial
robe" His speech. in part, follows:
Should Thank Democracy.
Never has the world had such oc-
casion to thank God for Democracy
as in this year of grace. In two
| thirds OF the world, all religions that
teach mans brotherhood are palsied:
the shadow on the dial has moved
| back a million years: the cave man has
returned and. in all but garo and arms.
is the troglodyte that was the con-
temporary of the cave bear ana tne
s;tber-toothed tiger.
| The American people nave peen
/ sobered to the point of absolute san
| ity by the nightmare war across the
sea. Ard our people send dfurnai
| thanks to the throne of grace that our
nations leader has trodden the mid
die path of moderation when wisdom
| is. and kept from our lips the GRIM
| son chalice of bloody war
| "And who is set over against US in
! this great conflict? At the head of
the Republican hosts is Mr.. Hughes
whose progressiveism is SO colored by
his Republicanism as to produce
politically chromatic result that might
I well cause the earnest seeker for truth
to cry out, What is hep
Flock of Storls.
"a most heterogeneous flock Of
storks tapped wings at the polit1caI
Matching of this Republican nominee;
| Roosevelt was there. and close beside
him Taft; the Roosevelt who SO lam
basted the ex-president that his fair
land rotund person still shows many
7 aims suggesting cicatrices scar tissue
that will not disappear; roosevelt
| the defender of his faith, whatever It
fnay chance to be at the tfme-nlm
1.tf Armageddon-he, 1 say, was there,
4 and snuggled close beside was Pen
| rose, and Murray Crane and Mr..
Barnes Of New York; and the Inter-
! rational Harvester Trust was there
and the Steel Trust too, so that the
corporate cormorant and the big busl-
ness buzzard struggled for a place on
the rim of the Republican nest, each
| admitting his paternal responsibility
| for the natal event. In the light or
this paternal uncertainty and the halt
ing of this candidate between prog
ress and reaction, might not student
| of Who's Who IT. America arise and
with propriety inquire Whose Hughes
| is this nominee anyway?
land how deals this magician--thls
wise man from the east, with the ma
! tion's situation. He reads the rural
| credit law and the child labor law, and
says, Democracy is ever opposed to
| progress, he passes up the reserve
| bank act in silence, but takes time to
| prove that a clerk in the New York
customs house was reduced in rank.
| He ignores with judicial calm the
| trades commission act and demon
| strates that in the agricultural depart
/ ment at Washington someone's assist
! ant secretarys clerk was asked to re-
| sign. He points to diplomacy that
/ sweIled out exports to the billions and
| says that We should be firmer. His
| attention being directed to the strong
| pulse of business, freight trains too
huge for even mighty locomotives, the
chorus in the metal mills, the burst
ing barns the upward bounding
prices productions activity, consump-
| TONS widening NAV, no failures. pros
| perity everywhere-and says we must
change all this by beating Wilson.
/
HE says: Wilson is wrong
! Wherein wrong? Would you, Mr..
| Hughes, have gone to war with Ger
many over the Lusitania? Would you
| have gone to war with Mexico over a
ranch raid or a banditti killing or for
an oil concession? Would you repeal
the reserve bank law and place the
| finances of the country in thralldom
| to Wall street again?
! will you, if elected president. OPP
pose the child labor act and make
| those babies little legs bear their at
! tenuated bodies from schoolroom and
playground to spindle and loom? Will
| you diminish the chances of the
farmers loan and increase his rate of
| interest by repeating the rural credits
| bill? Will you give big business a
! rowing commission and issue to 1t let
tiers of marque by repeating the trades
commission law?
will you duplicate the trenches of
Flanders and Poland on the Mexican
border, either north or south of the
Rio Grande? Will you, il president,
fill American hospitals with the blind
and, armless and legless and with gas
torn lungs, that in the European hos
pitfalls tell of the devils deeds IN the
Marine and on the Somme?
Judicial Robe Into Hunting Coat.
"But whatever Mr.. Hughes may say
in response to those questions, he can
truthfully boast of being the only man
IL, c0untry'S history who