The Rice belt journal., 1916-09-01
Mr.. HUGHES ICE BLOCK.

ner the IepuDhSoh "N-r
awaited with much interest. The re-
suit was distinct disappointment
to the country because
il fell ike 'fblock Of ice" and act
ually caused a drop in the tempera-
ture; disappointing to the Democrats
because it gives them nothing to ans
wer; disappointing to the Republicans
because 1t brings them neither JOY
nor hope, yEHITH {yfI
The substance of the speech may be
summoned up in few words. IL
nisnt have been delivered without
words;" If he had simply brought
statue of Mr.. Wilson with him TO
the notification meeting and basket
of rotten eggs and tossed them at the
statue one at a time, that would nave
been Hughes speech in all its elo-
ouenee, a speech without words. The
whole speech from beginning to end
was devoted to rotten-egging the
President, as the New York World
puts il, and Mr.. Hughes does not Of
fer the slightest word Of constructive
policv as to show he would have done"
if he had been in Mr.. Wilson's shoes
during the last three years, during
which time he has borne the heaviest
burdens of any of our presidents ex-
cept Washington and Lincoln.
To quote again from the New York
World, which tears the speech to
tatters and tosses it to the four winds
Of heaven as so much rubbish we
read:
"If Mr.. Hughes speech of accept
ance means anything, it means that
for partisans and personal ends, he is
in sympathy with every foreign coun-
try and with every foreign element
that has been in controversy with
President Wilson during the last
three years. He is for Huerta and
against the President. He is for Car
ranza and against the President. He
is for Villa and the Mexican bandits
against the President. He is fol
Great Britain against the President
He is for the German conspiracy
against the President"
That Mr.. Hughes is doing all thai
he can to win the votes of the hyphen
ated American has been repeatedly
charged, not only by the Democrats
but even the organs of his party hav'
criticized him for making a bid TO
the un-American vote,
The New York Tribune is admit
tedly the foremost Republican orgal
of the United States and is tryinl
hard to be a staunch American pape
and to support Mr.. Hughes at tn
same time, but find it a difficult pur
pose to accomplish, In speaking o
Mr.. Hughes speech Of acceptance,
comments in part as follows:
eft would be idle to pretend ths
the portion of Mr.. Hughes addres
which deals with the Lusitania ma:
= sacre and our relations with German
is satisfactory to The Tribune. Nc
shall we undertake to make any sue
pretense."
The Tribune is with very larg
company in being dissatisfied wit
the speech of Mr.. Hughes, and th
Tribune and the country will also r,
alize that the ccanery is noe on
dissatisfied with the speech but di
satisfied within Mr.. Hughes also.
Senator John S. Williams of Mis-
issippi was asked for an opinion {
the speech of Mr.. Hughes and
says it reminded him of an appoin
ment Of a man some years ago
Attorney General of the Unit,
States, who had never been able
make living at home; so after
had been in office awhile he went ba
home and walked through the count
dressed like farmer, and asked VIII
had become Of so and so, (namil
himself?) The first old farmer I
piled that he had been appointed A
torney General of the United Stat,
Well, says the disguised Attorn
General, what do the people arou
here think Of the appointment? T
old farmer says, "They less laupl