New Britain herald., 1916-11-02

various claims which have been made
 and have been coming to their con- { clus1Ons. They know perfeCtly well ] that we are now in very u..- tis- factory condition.
 i l do not propose to talk to ycu- l 1t is not in my heart to talk to you- ] in narrow, partisan way. If I un- 1 derstand myself, I am here anxious
 to serve the whole people of the United States, and what I have to say is just as important to the interests of democrats as to the interests of the
 republicans
 New Eight-Hour Bill Attack. Taking up the issues one by one
 MT. Hughes developed a new angle in l his attack on the Adamson bill He ] was informed, he said-from what 1 source he did not explain-that the
 general chairman had advised the To- cal chairman of "the Brotherhood of i Locomotive Bremen and Engineers" l of the Pennsylvania lines east that the Adamson bill in establishing @ new
 basis for reckoning wages would elim- | mate the payment of all arbitraries 1 based upon time when made within
 the first eight-hour period of service. 1 This he cited as proof from high 1 representative of the brotherhoods that the legislation was, as the oan- didate had declared gold brick leg islation of a dangerous kind.
 i '"The uncertainty of the law he said, lis recognized in various par ticulars. It is said just what it will be decided to mean no one can now tell, as it is possible to construe it in several different ways. That is what the general chairman said.
 In other words, it is not an eight hour working day at all. I have got here a copy of an article sent out by the general chairman of the brother hood; of the Pennsylvania lines east, and here is what it says: This law does not change the application of the hours, of service law; the compan- ies still have the right to work six teen hours within any twenty-four consecutive hours, if they so desire.
 T note," he added, that the chief of one of the locals of the brother hood has ascertained the effect of the law on those who complete their runs in less than eight hours. He says that if a man makes a 100-mile run in five hours, instead of getting his full days pay when paid on the eight
  merly the railroad men were entitled to pay for twenty five miles whenever called out, whether they were used after reporting or not. But the Adamson bill enacts a fiat basis of eight hours for the purpose of paying compensation while on the other hand it does not establish an eight-hour work day.
 That is not any eight-hour work day bill. There was not any eight hour work day proposition involved at all Things that are right can walk in their own clothes; we can have things that are right if we go at them in the right way.
 There will be a great, many sur prfses about this bill that you are perhaps little interested in unless you work on railroads, but there are men who are going to find out that even those who were supposed to be bene- fited by it have got a very beautiful gold brick.
 His Principles.
 tT am opposed to all pork barrel business" MT. Hughes said in another place. "I am opposed to all logroll ing appropriations. I am interested in this campaign simply because l be- lieve there is @ greatt chance to serve the United States in providing busl- nesslike administrations; and if they want that kind of thing I am their servant for that purpose r. ..
 ''We are on the eve of great na- tional decision. We do not know what the future has in store for our coun- try, we cannot tell exactly what will happen in the next few years, but we can tell what the principles are which we propose to apply to the admln1s- tration of this government if we are intrusted with executive power.
 ''In the first place. 1t must not be forgotten that the president IS the ex- ecutive of the government. It IS his duty to administer the great business affairs of our country, and it IS his duty to see that they are administer ed in a businesslike and efficient man ner. We have had a notion, perhaps, that in 8 country under free lnstltu- tions public service did not have as high standards as had obtained under some other forms of government. These is no reason in the world why the business of the United States should not be as we'll administered as any great private business; and propose, If elected, to call about me the ablest men that I can find to es- tablish the business of this country on a basis which will make our civil service a place of honor and dignity and of benefit to all our people.
 "A vote for me is not a vote for war, but t is a vote for maintaing the rights of American citizens throughout the world. We cannot howe anv nrosneritv if we enter upon