The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-09-29
HUGHES DODG Is ISSUE
ON EIGHT HOUR LAW
Attacks Wilson's Plan, but Won't
Say What He Would Have Done.
ONLY WAY TO AVERT STRIKE.
Republican Nominee Is Asked TO De-
clare If He Would Have Vetoed the
Bill With the Certain Assurance OF
Industrial Disaster to the Country.

Bill With the Certain Assurance OF
Industrial Disaster to the Country.
So busy has been Charles g. Hughes
,rfticising the deeds of the Wilson adj
ministration. that he has had little
time 10 tell or has purposely evaded
telling the pubic what he would have
done had he been president under sim
liar circumstances.
Lately Mr. Hughes has turned his
attacks upon President Wilson's sue
cessrul settlement of the crisis in the
railroad world by causing to be passed
by congress the Adamson eight hour
bill. Mr.. Hughes has characterized
this action asa surrender to force;"
he is opposed to being dictated to by
any power on earth before the facts
are known" and he Woul& not act I'M
? til he had had flair investigation and
candid treatment"
Taking issue with the Republican
candidates attitude, the New York
Times in an editorial asks: "What
would Mn Hughes have done7"
well, what way would Mr.. Hughes
Rrhave taken?' continues the Times.
what would he have done2 Here
was Mr. Wilson'S position: The broth
erhoods refused arbitration; the rail-
road presidents would not accept the
settlement Mr.. Wilson proposed, grant
ing the eight hour standard day, with
provision for an impartial inquiry into
its working. There was no law on
the statute books to enforce arbitra-
tion.
.'The president knew, knew with GER
tainty and beyond question, that he
could not get such a law from the
congress now in session. The sure
and inevitable alternative to his ao-
ceptance OF the eight hour standard
day measure was a strike, the suspen-
sion Of railway service, freight and
passenger, all over the country, Begin
ming on the morning of Sept. 4.
Would Hughes Have Done IL?
Mr.. Hughes would not surrender
to anybody in the country. Then he
would have surrendered the country to
the disturbance, immeasurable loss and
peril Of = strike. Would he, in fact,
have done that? Had he been presi
dent,v confronted by that situation
would Mr.. Hughes have brought on a
strike by refusing to sign the bill
granting a wage increase?
''There was the strike in plain sight
a few hours away. sure to come.
Would Mr.. Hughes have vetoed the
bill? On the contrary, would he not
have done just what Mr. Wilson did,
sign it?
.aThe Republican candidate stands
for two things first, for the principle
of fair. impart'ak thorough, candid
arbitration, and, second, for legislation
on facts according to the necessities
Of the case MIR. Wilson stands for
those two things and, much more, has
pledged himself TO use all his influence
to secure them.
"What more could Mr.. Hughes do?
Would i. be too much to ask the Re-
publican candidate to put little COM
mon fairness inso bis speeches? Is he
afraid to tell his audiences what the
president actually did urge upon con-
gress?
AS II True VI
President Wilson recommended that
Sfbitration judgments be made records
'7bf a court of law in order. that their
INTERPRETATION and enforcement may
not lie with the parties to the dispute,
but with an impartial and authorita-
tive tribunal 1t was his purpose to
provide against future emergencies to
what he nearly succeeded in doing In
the White House conferences would
put such face upon the matter that
prevent the recurrence of such dangers
as then confronted him and the coun
try.
= "The people of the United States are
not going to be put off with the mis-
information as to what the president
did to avert strike and to prevent the
threat of future strikes. We have rea-
son to believe that the full revelation
of what he did, what he tried to do and
Republican efforts 10 make an issue OF
1t would fall entirely fiat.
Advice to Railroads.
''But the people do know. for 1t wal
before them in the presidents address
to congress. that he proposed. not 9
single emergency act. but broad pro
gram of legislation to meet a public
need and permanently remove public
danger. 1t was program which W.
are convinced the railroads would bt
very wise to aecept in its entirety.
Certainly 1t seems to us that they
are i'll advised to pray for the election
of Mr. Hughes. who. If we take him a
his word. would have brought on thu
strike. with all its irreparable injuries
to the conntry's business and peril To-
the country's peace"
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