The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-25
HUGHES OR !. R. WILL MEAN WAR,
 M'ADOO'S VIEW
Secretary of Treasury Says Their Speeches Indicate.
 Dire Action.

Mansfield. O.. Oct. 25-Secretary McAdoo, speaking in this city, the home of John Sherman, former Sec retary of the Treasury, Tuesday, made the following reply to candidate Hughes regarding the Lusitania mat ter:
 MT. Hughes answer to my ques- ton about the Lusitania and MT. RooseveH's declaration on the same subject at Battle Creek leaves the Americans people in doubt no longer as to what MT. Hughes and MT. Roosevelt will do with our foreign relations if they are put in possession of the government.
 Under the pressure of insistent questioning each has at last admitted that had either been President at the time the Lusitania was sunk, each would have taken a course which in- evitably would have brought on war between the United States and Ger many.
 "Col. Roosevelt said at Battle Creek on Oct. |. discussing the Lusitania: You ask me what I would have done. I would- have seized every interned
 German ship On March g, 1916, the following message was flashed by wireless from Berlin to Sayville, l.. L.: Germany declared war on Portugal at 3:30 p. m. yesterday. The German declaration, says the Overseas News Agency, emphasizes the fact that this
 step was made necessary by the re- cent illegal seizures of German ships in Portuguese ports, which is the gravest sort of breach of neutrality | and of>specia1 treaties
 T. R. Would Have Had War. Such rash and reckless action by | MT. Roosevelt would have precipitat- led an unnecessary and bloody war | between the United States and Ger | many. The United States has treaties with Germany which would have been l outraged if MT. Roosevelt, as Presi- l dent, had seized the ships which hap pened to be in our harbors belonging not to the German government but to | German citizens. MT. Roosevelt would have disregarded all interna- l tional law, would have appropriated 1 private property in defiance of express treaty obligations and would have violated the Constitution of the Unit | ed States, which. confers upon Con-
 gress alone the war making power.
 "Mr Hughes admits he is in accord with Mr., Roosevelt. At Louisville, Ky, Oct 12 he was asked the point blank question: What would you have done when the Lusitania was sunk?' MT. Hughes replied, in sub stance, that he would have threatened the Kaiser so effectively that the Lu- sitania would never have been sunk
 This seemed merely evasive be- cause MT. Hughes was not asked what he would have done to prevent the sinking of the Lusitania, but what he would have done after the Lusitania had been sunk. So I challenged him to answer that specific question. MT. Hughes in a speech at Youngstown, O.. Oct. 19, replied to that challenge as follows:
 How Hughes Regards It.
 ' The Secretary of the Treasury | finds fault with my answer to the question put to me the other night at Louisville about the sinking of the Lusitania. He says I did not say what I would have done after the sinking. You may recall that I stated specifically the position I would have taken in advance and the notice I would have given of the action I should take, and I added that, with this position unequivocally stated in advance and backed by a convincing administration record, the ship would not have been sunk
 At last MT. Hughes is definite in