New Britain herald., 1916-10-25

to turn the clock of progress back twenty-five years in this country They mean to undo the work of prog
 ress that has been carried forward
 under the leadership of our presi-
 dent.
 Ihe program that we have passed IS either good or it is bad. If it is pad, MT. Hughes should say so. If it is good, he ought to have the cour- age to commend it. Can you find out how he stands on any of these ques-
 tlons? Is it possible for any human
 being to seduce MT. Hughes into an
 expression of opinion upon any sub- Ject now before the people? I ven- ture to say that there is not a man or woman within the sound of my voice who can tell where MT. Hughes stands with reference to any one of the great public questions now before the people. You ask him about the Federal Reserve act, will he repeal it or won't he? You can- not find out. You ask him whether he will oppose the income tax as he did when he was governor Ot New York. You cannot find out. You ask him whether he favors the Rural Credits law or not. You cannot find
 
 repeal even the Adamson law and you will find him saying T don't like that law and yet I believe in an eight hour day in principle" but whether he will stand for the law or whether he will ask for it's repeal you don't know, yet. And he has not been willing to tell you. I say, you ask him whether he would have recogniz- ed Huerta in Mexico. Silence is the response. You ask him whether he favors intervention in Mexico. You can get no answer. The campaign has progressed since last June and you don't know yet where MT. Hughes stands on any of the questions which
 Speaking out in Louisville a little while ago somebody asked him what he would have done when the Lusi- tania was sunk. And it was report ed in the papers, and l saw 8 great big headline MT. Hughes Tells What He Would Have Done When The Lusitania Was Sunk, and I said, Now at last after all these months of waiting, we are going to get some in formation on that subject So l read on and it appeared that some inquisitive individual had arisen in the audience and had evinced a dispo ston to ask a queston and as soon as he raised his voice they said Put him out And MT. Hughes said, No, don't put him out. I want to answer that question. What is your ques ton sir?' And then the man said, MT. Hughes, with all due respect in the world, what would you have done if you had been president of the w TI1S sunk?' They had been doing that right along all the way across the con- tinent and every time anybody asked MT. Hughes a leading question, his friends said, Put him out That is the easiest way of getting rid of the question and the man at the same time MT. Hughes said, Let me an- swer that question, I want to answer that question: Now, of course, there wasn't anybody trying to prevent him from answering the question, and so he said, I will tell you what I would have done. Now, this is a long an- swer and it is a very complicated an- swer, and you have got to listen very carefully or you won't understand it. I would have had a state depart ment which commanded the respect of the world. Second I would have so conducted affairs in Mexico Qaughter) Mexico. get the point, Mexico and the Lusitania, I would have so conducted affairs in Mexico that the Germans would have under stood that when I said a thing, meant it, and they wouldn't have blown up the Lusitania at all'
 Now I call that pretty good. I call that pretty good for 100 per cent candidate The answer is al-