The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-09-01
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Jacket of Robe

Hon. John II. Atwood of Kansas
City, who delivered the keynote speech
at the State Democratic Convention
at jefferson City last week, denounced
esquire" Hughes for playing politics
from the bench of the United States
Supreme Court.
His speech, in part, follows:
1.-THE American people have been
sohered to the point of absolute sapi-
ty by the nightmare war across the
sea. And our people send diurnal
thanks to the throne Of grace that our
nations leader has trodden the mid
die path of moderation, where wisdom
is, and kept from our lips the crimson
chalice of bloody war.
"And who is set over against us in
this great conflict? At the head of
the Republican hosts is Mr.. Hughes,
whose pfogressiveism is so colored by
his Republicanism as to produce po-
litically chromatic result that might
well cause the earnest seeker for
truth to cry out What is he?
"a most heterogeneous flock of
storks tapped wings at the political
Matching of this Republican nominee;
Roosevelt was there, and close beside
him Taft; the Roosevelt who so lam
basted the ex-President that his fair
and rotund person still shows many
pains suggesting cicartIices-scar It's
sue that will not disappear; Roosevelt,
the defender of his faith, whatever it
may chance to be at the time-him Of
Armageddon-he, say, was there,
and snuggled close beside was Penrose
and Murray Crane and Mr.. Barnes OF
New York; and the International Har,
vester Trust was there; and the Steel
Trust, too, so that the corporate cor
morant and the big business buzzard
for place on the rim of
the Republican nest, each admitting
his paternal responsibility for the ma
tai event. In the light Of his paternal
uncertainty ard the hating Of this
between progress and reac-
ton, might not student Of Who's
Who in America arise and with pro-
priety inquire Whose Hughes in this
nominee anyway
"And how deals This magician
this wise man from the East, with |
the nations situation? He reads the |
rural credits law and the child-labor |
law and says: Democracy is ever OPP
posed to progress; he passes up the
reserve bank in silence, but takes time
to prove that clerk in Now York |
Customs House was reduced in rank.
He ignores with judicial calm the
trades commission act and demon
strates that in the Agricultural De-
Dartment at Washington someone's
assistant secretary's clerk was asked
% resign.
"He points to diplomacy that
;welled our exports to the billions
and says that we should be firmer.
His attention being directed to the
strong pulse of business, freight |
rains too huge for even mighty loco
the chorus in the metal mills, 1
he bursting barns, the upward bound
ng prices, productions activity, con-
widening nav, no failures,
everywhere-and says we
must change all this by beating Will
ion.
He says: Wilson is wrong Where
II wrong? Would you, Mr.. Hughes.
AVE gone to war with Germany over
he Lusitania? Would you have gone
0 war with Mexico over ranch raid
II q bandit killing or for an Gil con-
ession? Would you repeal the re-
erve bank law and place the finances
+ the country in thralldom to Wall
'treet again?
will you, If elected President, OPP
,ose the child-labor act and make
hose babies little legs bear their at