New Britain herald., 1916-08-11
HUGHES SUMS UP
 AGAINST WILSON
C. 9. P. Candidate Continues At-
 tack on Administration at Fargo

at the Auditorium here. With scorn-
 full words he charged that the presi-
 dent and his advisers had bartered
 i'm portant posts to pay private debts
 and had been absolutely prof1igate" in the expenditure of moneys.
 T think I rsly say without rash ress,'' he exclaimed, that today the { government of the United Stafes is 1 recklessly wasteful sham efully in- competent, and extravagant, re- 1 proach to the intelligence of free people because of it's inefficiency." l As the applause subsided he shout 1 ed:
 'I'd like to have the authority to investigate this administration for about siv months"
 1 MT. Hughes went into more detail l concerning his charges than in any l previous address and he was careful | in the selection of words that bit. He endeavored to hold MT: Wilson l and his cabinet up to the scorn of the people, and said that it was incom- potency which he saw before him | which moved him to accept the nom | ination in an effort to serve his | country.
 1T am here because I had a vision," he said, and he went on to picture the policies which he thought were needed to win again for the United States the respect of other nations. The office of president, he said with seeming emotion, was not one that he coveted, for he recognized fully the terrible load and crushing responsi- bilities which it imposed upon the man chosen.
 Mr. Hughes again asserted his in dependence of any political intrigue in words which must have provided food for thought for the old line leaders.
 "I have no apologies for republican extravagances," he said. "I am just as quick to condemn that which is wrong in my own party as I am any where else. I don't stand for what I don't believe to be right, simply be- cause it is under the banner of a particular party.
 T stand for a businesslike adminis- tration of the United States. Not for politics. not to reward friends not to build up a personal machine, not to put myself in any particular position of favor, but to honestly administer the affairs of the United States"
 The Wilson administration, MT. Hughes charged, had replaced many 1 importan diplomatic officers with 1 men who were '1nfitted for the posts, 1 and who held the nation up to rid iulle. It was an unenviable pos1tion which the United States alone held, he added.
 Referring again to the alleged | waste of money by the administra- ] ton, MT. Hughes said that the United l States stood alone among the great l governments of the world in the in
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 CT desire to see throughout the ad- ministration of the government he said. "the tonic of a fine ambition to conserve We do not want to main | tain political almshouse; we do not want to maintain a tlace of refuge. Almshouses are all right; asylums are all right They need public support, but not support by putting incompe- tency in places of public trust.'
 Continuing his attack upon the ad- ministration's alleged extravaganza, he said:
 Pork Bill Attack.
 we must conserve these instru- mentalities by proper means to secure economy. Take, for example, our an- nual appropriation under the name of the river and harbor bill a bill known to the good people of the country as the Pork bill. We do not have, as we should, an examination-an ex- rert examination-of the needs of river and harbor improvements, so that we can have a, view of the whole demands and make a sensible, we'll ordered disposition of such moneys as We are ready to expend to meet them On the contrary, it very largely de- nends on who are the influential men
 ri st appropriations are obtained in this district or that district by this man or that man, and if, in the language of the street, they are able to put them Cver' the people of the United States pay the blu
 "'It is a matter of les; rolling; it is q matter which, as I say, brings the blush of shame to the cheek of every American who understands the actual practice. It ought to be stopped. If I am elected president, to the extent of my ability I propose to stop it.
 1T desire that through the length and breadth of the land every one shall feel that another working in a different sort of activity is a brother workman We are not simply fellow citizens but we are fellow-workmen An idle American must feel rather uncomfortable. We are a nation of workers, We are prosperous because we are a nation of workers.
 ., we are to insist in this country upon a greater degree of efficiency in our work. We have a splendid system of government on paper, but we want that splendid system of governm ent vitalized by i'm mpartial efficient admin istration, so that government shall not be simply on paper for the people. but shall be in fact for the people in both state and nation.
 MT. Hughes spoke of the efficiency which would prevail in Europe after the war and what America must do l