The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-02
HUCHES' DISLIKE FOR 'FIlIbUSTER'
 IS HYPOTHETICAL
Chairman Vance Mccormick Points Out How Candi-
 date Sanctioned One.

Vance c. Mccormick, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee yesterday gave out the following, state ment:
 'Mr. Hughes attempt to explain his silence, when a word from him would have been welcomed concerning means for averting the threatened railroad strike, stamps him with an tutor lack Of frankness. He did not ,iuggest to his Republican advisors in tue Sem ate that they fight to the last ditch the law that he now assaiIs bhcarse, as he says, he does not believe in f1li- bustering. He protests, also, that the Administration, through the legisla- tive channels of Congress met the cri- sis with such business-like dispatch that he, thousand miles re- moved, could not have been expected to offer any suggestions.
 "The pretext of the Republican can- didate that if Congress, through it's majority determined to pass the bill there was no reason whatever that it's action should be merely delayed by filibustering' is illuminating, as devel- oping another of MT. Hughes incon-
  Senate was confronted with the strike crisis, the Democrats, in obedience to the mandates of their party platform were trying to pass through the Senate the Corrupt Practices Act which seeks to cure an evil that is disgrace to the Nation. ..
 By a vote of more than two to one, the Senate voted to proceed with the consideration of this bill which al- ready has been passed by the House, and favorably reported by Senate Committee. The passage of this mer- itorious legislation by the Senate was obstructed and defeated, or, as MT. Hughes would say, merely delayed by a Republican threat of filibuster. The mere delay in this instance, was highly important, in view of the pend ing Presidential election, and it is sig nificant that the Republicans were responsible for the mere delay
 MT. Hughes knew that Congress, through it's majority had determined to pass the bill (The Corrupt Practices Act) and he knew, moreover, that the manifest desire of the majority of the Senate was being obstructed by the Republican threat of filibuster-a leg islative device in which he, the leader of the Republican party, does not be- leve.'
 "A word from MT. Hughes during the pendency of this bill would have sufficed to have stopped the filibus- ter and enabled the majority to pass the Corrupt Practices Act. But no word came from MT. Hughes. He was as silent about the threatened fili- buster against the Corrupt Practices Act as he, is now blatant in offering his objection to flibustering as his excuse for not defeating the eight-hour law.
 "If he remains silent on the eight hour law because he does not believe in filibustering,' why didn't he speak out and condemn the threatened fili- buster by which the Corrupt Practices Act was defeated?
 "Mr. Hughes protest that he could not have been expected to offer any suggestions for averting the threat ened strike, because he was one thou sand miles away. is too humorous to merit serious consideration. Does he not know that the telegraph wires and the Morse Cord offered a means of almost instantaneous communication, that placed him relatively as near to Washington as to New York, and is it not a fact that on this tour he was in frequent communication with his cam paign managers in New York?
 "The one excuse offered by the Re- publican candidate in attenuation of his failure to advise with his Repub- lican friends in the Senate about the eight hour law is palpably inconsist- ent and the other is humorously ri- diculous''