Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-10-26
SHARP COMMENTS
ON HUGHES DEAL
WITH D LEARy

New York, oct. 25.-Tho exposures
of secret political relations between
! Candidate Hughes and his campaign
managers and Jeremiah A. OLeary
and his associate anti-AmcriCan prop
iagandists continue 10 form the sub
iect Of editorial comment
! The New York Evening Post says
! tonight of Mr. Hughes bclatcd at
/ tempt t. rcpudiatc his hitherto ac-
copied supporters.
| "Ileld back all these months, Mr.
! Hughes bclatcd statement has now
! the air Of having been forced from
| him by the revelations about the
| OLcary Teuto-Cclt plottings, instead
of being the voluntary expression Of
| his Indication at an un-Amcrican con-
spiracy."
Extracts from other editorials fol-
low:
Brooklyn Eagle. Candidate Hughes
has made speech fierce in its en-
phasis. vague in its definition but
there isn't one word in the weasel
collection that will prevent O'Leary
ana the Irish hypheuates and the Ger
man hyphenates from voting for
Hughes They win vote for him, and
everybody who has ear drums knows
1t.
IhlbDNlN II 'tNltt.tlH ilN LUZ wv N'll-
tribution made to the story Of what
the German alliance, in connection
with the O'Leary attachment, ala for
Hughes removes any doubt If there
was any about tho relation in which
they stood and are standing 10 tho
managers of the republican party.
Albany Times Union Mr. Hughes
had admitted enough to damn him in
estimation Of any real American who
will acquaint himself with his
record as il stands
Baltimore sun; MT Hughes admits
that he received Mr.. OLeaY and the
other members OF the committee. lie
has been in certain sense under suS-
picion from the beginning. Ills speech
of acceptance was notable for its agil-
ity In avoiding offcnse both to hyph-
ems ana to political reactionartcs.
Rochester az. W Herald. Every
speech Of Mir Hughes given since the
date of the OLcary visit has been
carefully wordcd to avoid offense to
men who have assailed and insulted
the president for UNFOLDING American
rights in the controversy with CIR
many and the rch-disturber of Mr.,
Hughes hyphcnate following.
Scranton paD Times: A cllncher as
to the truth Of these allegations ~
shown by the fact that the speeches
of Mr. Hughes since the date OF the
alleged interview with O'Leary and
his colleagues. members Of the com
mittoe, are to some extent delivered
on the lines, if not couched in the
words Of the OLeary gang.
Bridgeport tConn) Farmer Every
American will gain from these expos |
ures new sense of the value of cam
dor and fair play as expressed IN the |
Just neutrality of President Wilson.
Richmond tNaD Dispatch. It
Is certain that MIR. Hughes received |
the representatives Of an organization !
which has placed the interests OF |
foreign power above the interests OF |
America, and that he gave them some |
assurances which they regarded as
The hour demands 4 |
man, and Hughes has been weighed In
he balance and found wanting
Tho New York Evening Telegram IN
rs news columns, tonight says;
charles Evans Hughes this after
loon refused to affirm or deny the
ruth of the assertion, that he assured
jeremiah A. OIcary that he had not
'ead Theodore Boosevelts Lewiston,
Me- speech when he telegraphed an
endorsement of it,