News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-09-27
HUGHES P|T|LESS ON
MEXICAN DISGRACE
In His Mind and on His Tongue
More Than Any Other Single
Problem With Which Mr..
Wilson Has PaItered.
CRAZY CHAPTER OF BLUNDERS

No One Can Hear Him Speak Without
Seein., the Reality of His lndigna-
ton Over the HeartIess Policy OF
the Democratic Administration To-
ward American Men, Women and
Children, American Citizens, SOL
ders and Sailors Along and Across
the Rio Grande.
Soon after Mr.. Hughes was nominal
ed friend said to him, Governor, if
the American people forget the Next
can disgrace they do not deserve to
have you for president" Quick as
flash he replied, "The candidate who
lodges the Mexican disgrace does not
deserve to be president" He did not
pass around his address of acceptance
for compliment or criticism in adj
vance OF its delivery. but the amount
of space he devoted to the Mexican
disgrace-"that confused chapter of
blunders" no one who had
talked with him since his nomination.
1t has been in his mind and on his
mind more than any other single prob
lem with which Mr.. Wilson has pal
tered. To talk with him is to see at
once the reality of his indignation over
the heartless manner in which Ameri-
can men, women and children Ameri-
can citizens. soldiers and sailors have
been abandoned by the administration
along and across the Rio Grande, the
victims of Mexican armed forces. out
fitted with American ammunition and
American rifles, MeXicans whom Mr.
Wilson has coddled one day as patriots
only to chase the next as bandits.
1t is apparently the belief Of Mr..
Wilson that the people of the United
States are NOT interested in Mexico.
His defenders have declared that it
was an "old story and out of date"
Mr.. Hughes has better opinion of his
fellow c0untrymen. He has proved
himself better judge of their feelings.
He has made "the Mexican disgrace"
foremost issue of his campaign. He
has aSSailed the record of the admin
istration in that respect in almost
every speech he has made. He has new
err failed to strike a responsive chord
in the hearts Of his audience, whether
speaking IN Carnegie hall, New York,
from the platform of his train at
Grand Forks, N. D., to vast audience
at Portland, at the exposition at San
Diego or in the prairie states Of the
middle west. He has refuted the SIAN
der, sometimes heard in the effete
east, that the people of the great west
do not care what happens to their fell
low citizens in Mexico or to the flag
beyond the border. No man born in
the west has firmer faith in the |
patriotism and dominant |
Americanism" of the people of that |
section than Mr.. Hughes. He holds |
them responsible in large measure for |
tn encourag cement and support he re- |
ceived while governor of New York in |
his war upon political graft and o.
litical bossism. He thinks they had |
much to do with conscripting him as |
the champion of nationalism in the |
fidence in their practical idealism
when he made "the Mexican disgrace"
an upperm Jst issue of his campaign.
He has been indicated by the re-
sponse his arraignment of the admin
on this score has everywhere
evoked. From Maine to California
the Mexican disgrace" is a sore sub
ect with red blooded Americans to-
lay. But nowhere between the oceans
Ire the outrages inflicted in Mexico
'pon American honor, life and prop
,rty more keenly resented than around
he firesides of the great west. Mr..
'ughes is no stranger to the west.
His straightforward talk on Mexico
proves 1t.