The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1916-09-15
WONDERS WHERE
HUGHES STANDS
HASN'T FOUND HIS BEARINGS.
SAYS MARSHALL.
Declares Campaign Speeches Are Ech-
Oes of Partisan 0ratiOns in Sem
ate-Vagueness an Especial
Stunt of G. o. P. Candidate.

can criticism of the Wilson admins
tration was reviewed by Vice-Presi-
dent Marshall in a speech here today,
with the conclusion that the main rea-
son offered the country for turning out
the democrats was the desire of the
republicans to get in, and that former
Justice Hughes campaign speeches
were but echoes of often heard parti,
san orations in the senate, Nc
Just now chief interest In the re,
publican eandtdste for president con.
sists IN sscertaining whether he be.
lonGs to the progressive face or the
standpat neck of his party" said Mr.,
Marshall. "The line Of demarkation
between the two wings Of the party is
clearly defined, but he has not found
mis- bearings.
4 Manifestly it is difficult task to
talk in tones sufficiently vague and
uncertain to please both Roosevelt and
Barnes, both Penrose and LaFoilette
For three years and more it has beer
my fortune, or misfortune to hear the
speeches in the senate. The repubI-
can candidate is now repeating these
speeches in abbreviated form from the
sarpp
When the candidate announced the
iftailhiistg 81 the pr0teetive tariff :
4 oea sea ~ axnrassed see Il
! Iarae-e, ! heard al M 9e
I q Reed Smoot When he talked about
EIexico, I could shut my eyes and see
before me the figure Of Senator FalI
When he condemned pork, in connec-
tion with rivers and harbors, bills,
sted in homeopathic doses the spec
ches, weary hours long, of former Sem
ator Burton, who was chairman of the
house committee on rivers and har-
bors for so many years that he we'll
knew about the pork in the bills he
had fathered. And when the candi-
date assaulted the civil service record
of the administration | realized he had
heard from the political puppet, Boise
Penrose.
"ln deciding how he shall vote this
year the voter must decide whether he
wants to turn all the important COM
mittees of the senate-the committees
which control an administration and
through which the administration
must legislate-over to men who were
brought up in the Aldrich school of
craftsmanship and are welded to its
policies.
up to this time, reasons why DEM
ocrats should be put out of power are
left to the imagination. The main
reason seems to be that the republi-
cans just want control again. The
country is satisfied with trade condi-
tions and with business, which is un-
precedentedly large; the people are
satisfied with the record of achieve
ments, which includes more remedial
legislation than ever was written by
any two administrations; our oppo-
nents fail in their speeches and in their
platform to promise anything in the
way of repeal or substitution.
"For purely partisan purposes, the
republican orators are claiming that
the president is an infrm American,
and that Americanism and republican
ism are synonymous, thereby continu-
ing the practice, abandoned by most
men, of setting up artificial standards
and criticising everyone who does not
adopt them.
But the people at large realize
now more than ever before that Amer
ican citizenship is made up of only
two grades of citizens. Citizens of the
first grade ask, What can l do for
my country?' while citizens of the
second grade ask, What can I get my
country to do for me?'
DAY by day our people are becom-
ing more and more convinced of the
genuine purpose of our president to
maintain strict neutrality, and more
and more confident are they becom-
ing of his ability to preserve an honor
able peace. The hyphenated citizens,
who thought they could gather into
one force those of every race and ev-
cry faith for combined assault against
the president of the United States for
keeping America at peace, have been
disillusioned."