Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23
POLITICAL
What Would Hughes Have Done?

What Would Hughes Have Done?
 A correspondent of the New York Sun submitted the following inter esting letter:
 Inasnuch as the question What would Hughes have done?" seems to be the only thing the Democrats have left to hang their hats on, let's see if it can't be answered in the usual Yankee fashion by asking other Ques- tions.
 Heve:
 l. That he would have appointed a Bryan, a Daniels, a Redfeld, a Will son or a Baker to his Cabinet?
 2. That ne would have given the premier place in his official family as a reward for political treachery to a rival Presidential candidate to man who a few years previous he wanted knocked into a cooked hat? .
 8. That even if in a fit of mental alteration he should have done such an inconceivable thing, he would have stood for said appointee touring the country in the company of vaudeville performers and yodlers for the pur pose of increasing his private income because he couldn't live on the sal ary of a Cabinet officer and lay by anything for old age?
 4. That he would have unwarrant- edly attempted to interfere with the l internal affairs of California when i she passed an alien land law, pre- | judging it as unconstitutional? 5. That he would have approved | and signed such vicious and reaction ary legislation as the sundry civil | bill as sop to labor unions and | farmers organizations?
 | 6. That he would have refused to i recognize as provisional President of l Mexico the only man who, it is con- I ceded by all unbiased authorities, was capable of establishing and main- | taining any form of lawful govern l ment in that country?
 l '. That instead of accepting the 1 word of Henry Lane Wilson, this | countrys accredited Ambassador in Mexico, regarding conditions there, he l would have publicly disgraced him by recalling and reprimanding him for having done his duty and sent his personal agent to Mexico to confer 1 with Huerta, whom he refused to | recognize?
 s. That he would have attempted to dictate the manner and form of
 the Mexican election, as well as assuming to say who should not be 8 | candidate for President?
 g. That he would have sent the United States fleet to Vera Cruz os- l tenSibly to obtain a salute for the l flag, but really to depose Huerta, for l whom he had conceived a personal l dilike, and subsequently in a full
 
 ines who were killed while this coun-
 try was being kept out of war;
 should tell us they died in the service of humanity?
 10. That he would have fatuously
 and namely juggIed with the embargo
 on arms and munitions to Mexico, al | ternately lifting and clamping it down as the favor of one or the other Mex
 ican highbinders swayed him, thus making it possible for our country
 men to be murdered by Mexican ban dits supplied with arms through his
 own shortsightedness?
 II. That instead of protecting the
 lives and property Of American citi- zens in Mexico he would suddenly
 have contracted "cold feet and issued leave that country because of his un-
 willingness to protect them? 12. That he would later have sent
 a punitive (so-called) expedition into
 Mexico to 'get'' Villa, and after win
 ming numerous ''bloodless victories
 by not capturing the bandit have
 withdrawn the troops?
 !: 13. That after sending an ultima
 tum to a foreign government ne would have permitted his secretary of state
 to assure it's ambassador that it was
 only a bluff meant for home con-
 sumption?
 IA. That he would have insisted or 1 'strict accountability from Germany and then, after more than a hundred ; American citizens were murdered by the torpedoing of the Lusitania, have | proclaimed to the world that we were 1 "too proud to fight"
 15. That he would have approved , and signed such a vicious and anar chistic act as the Clayton bill, per hitting organized labor to commit al
 the depNdations and conspiracies i
 pleases against capital and the pub
 lie and remain immune from punish
 ment therefor, thus fostering and en couraging the disturbing conditions il , the industrial world from and fo | which the public always suffers anC pays, as it is doing now? 16. That he would have insisted , upon the stultifcation and degrada ] tion of his party in Congress by ask < ing that it repudiate a solemn plat
 form pledge to the American people namely, the Panama canal toll ! plank?
 , IT, That he would have taken in finite pains to destroy American ship
 ping at the behest of denagogues an, labor agitafors by signing. the L.
 Toilette -F'uruseth seamens bill in sickening attempt to curry favor witt labor?
 1S That he would have blindly an,
 arrogantIy in the face of expert opin ion in opposition thereto, insisted up on the passage of the emasculatet
 MoAdoo shipping bill, saddling upol
 the citizens $50, 100000 to enable tn government to become corporation promoter and stockholder in pro , position which is conceded to be of n ! practical use?
 : 19. That after having been electe , lon a platform p1edging an economica = and efficient administration he woul T have approved and signed pork
 bill (mis) appropriating millions c