The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-26

tic policies. But if they were dis tasteful to us, as they are not, we should nevertheless vote for MT. Will son, because of the record on foreign affairs. It is not so much that we are for MT. Wilson as that MT. Wilson is for us.
 Neighbor Bill and are trying hard, in our inexperienced way, not to make any statements we do not believe to be true. So we are not telling any one that if MT. Hughes should be elected the country would be ruined or would be in danger. Neighbor Bill and I believe MT. Hughes is not hap py in his management of words. We believe MT. Hughes will be better than his words, just as we believe Col. Roosevelt will Always be worse than his words >~.-N
 We believe-Neighbor Bill and l. that if MT. Hughes is elected he will strive for what MT. Wilson has striv- en for; that those who want the United States to suhjugate Mexico will be, disappointed; that those who would wrelt the policy of the United States to aid Germany by laying an embargo on the shipment of Q war munitions will be disappointed; that those who say that would have us make war upon Germany will say they are disappointed.
 And, while Neighbor Bill and I are going to vote against MT. Hughes, if he Is elected President he is going to be our President; and if we can throw any rocks out of his road-or tacks; if he needs our shoulders to push out of slough or up a hill we're going to do those little things. You bet!
 Labor Day: Neighbor Bill and I did not get seasick going to Lewiston. Col. Roosevelt was never more entertain ing. He was in a heroic mood.
 MT. Wilson. it seems, has not a brave heart and a steady hand. If MT. Wilson's heart had been brave and his hand steady-better still. had we chosen for this task, notoriously not difficult or dangerous, the brave heart and steady hand of Another who shall be nameless here every thing would have been different.
 Here ds what the colonel says:
 If this spirit had animated our Administration there would probably have been no invasion of Belgium, no fears of a like fate to terrorize other small nations, no torpedoing of mer- chant vessels, no bon1barding of churches and hospitals no massacre- ing of women and children, no murder of Miss Cavell, no attempted exter- nination of the Armenians and Syrian Christians"
 Plainly, MT. Wilson should have vI-or ,so.d k1 J. TO-: by not doing so, he shares that blood-gutlt 8 with Huerta. Colonel Roosevelt did not say this, however except ''by influence" as the newspa- pers say in explaining Hughes speech.
 Colonel Roosevelt denounced MT Wilson for not plunging at once into the European war in defense of Bell glum. That is the specific, definite and only meaning of the various att tacks labeled Humidity and selfish ness,': safety first neglect of plain duty" 'the independence of small and weak states" and others too humor- ots to mention.
 On several occasions I had to re- strain Nedghbor Bill from being quite rude and horrid. He wanted to hurl questions at Jour entertainer about duty first and the gobbIing of Bos- mia and Herzegovina by Austria in .1908-ab.out "duty first'' and the high ly successful Armenian massacre of the same year-in which year the 'dQteous Colonel Roosevelt was Pred- deht of the United States Neighbor Btn Is a, good soul, but plainly literal He doesn't understand poetry.
 Colonel Roosevelt felt it necessary to make explicit declarations-onc before his speech and once after it. that he was advocating the election of MT. Hughes. It was a wise precau- Eon- Without 1t, the speech must have been understood as impartial ad- vice that we would be making a mis- take to elect either MT. Wilson or MT. Hughes. Even so, one senSed that the speaker could have selected for us a better man than either: even yet, those closing remarks about rugged and uncompromiAng straightforward ness." of "the man who thinks and speaks directly" will be received as bitter but well-merited irony by any one taking the trouble. to compare the speeches of MT. Hughes with those of T. R.
 The colonel says we do not fight the Mexicans because we are afraid. Those malicious detractors who have denied to the colonel the power of or tgdna1 thought will have to draw in their horns after that. It has been thought that we were too wise or too foolish to make war upon Mexico. That we were afraid of Mexico is q new conception. But I want to be fair. I fancy two Americans-the colonel being one of them-can be- heve half of that statement, Neigh lbor Bill and I will believe the other half.
 Colonel Roosevelt has an awful down on MT. Wilson. Nevertheless, the little things he said about Mr. Wilson and his adherents were jovia1 pleas antries, compared with the impassion- ed bitterness of dhis denunctation for the semi-American fbackers of MT. Hughes
 Neighbor Bill says the colonel re- minded him of the Sympathetic little boy who cut the angleworm in two because he looked so lonesome
 For myself, had a fading memory of the Rev. pr. Burchard, who sup ported Blaine; and of John Ander- son, who stole second with the bases full.
 Here is the coloneps estimate of certain members of the party to which he occasionally belongs:
 ''The citizen who endeav- ors to shape Americas policy in the irfoyort of tho cn,,pfrx, fro,,, ,,,l; ,l