Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-10-22
CONRAD SyME SEES
DEFEATFOR HUGHES
Tells Women's Wilson Union
That President Will Be
Reelected.
CITES PROSPERITY OF U. S.

Declaring that the American people
today are confronted by the most dan
serous situation of the last forty years
Of their history, Conrad Syme,; corpora
ton counsel Of the District, last night
urged the necessity of re-electing
President Wilson at meeting in the
women's Wilson Union, 18th and F
streets northwest.
II don't believe the republicans will
win" said Mr.. Syme. "but if by any
possibility they should, the country
will suffer a disaster from which 1t
would not recover for fifty years
Last night was West Virginia night at
the women's Wilson Union, and II. s.
Baker excise commissioner of the Dis
trict, was introduced as presiding Of
ficer Solicitor General Davis. native
of West Virginia waston the program
to speak, but he left Washington to-
day to get into the campaign In the
west from now until eIectlon Gay, IL
was announced. ti
Z Lawrence Becker solicitor for the
Treasury Department, denounced the
republican party and pictured the
achievements of the Wilson admins
tration In enthusiastic terms. i1s'
Warns Against Party Apathy.
Mr.. syme said that when the repub-
lican party had been in control Of the
government. it had been a government
"by a few people for the benefit of
few people" He spoke of the great
prosperity Of the country during the
Wilson administration. the fact that
this country had been kept out Of the
European war, and warned against
apathy on the part of the democrats
b;cty oiert 90 n
who has been at the head of the gov
eminent. -
MANY democrats say to- me that
neither Hughes nor any other member
st the republican party Swilligive US an
Issue Yet there never was such an
ISSUE The only issue in this campaign
is whether or not to turn the govern
ment over again to the bunch which
and robbers. The leopard could change
his spots as readily as the republican
leaders who supported Taft in 1912
and who are supporting Hughes today.
Mr.. Hughes has travelled $4,000 miles
in his campaign tours He has girdled
the globe and said nothing. He has
tried to say nothing that would lose
him a vote. There has been lack of
definite statement as to what would be
done should he be elected. AS matter
of fact, not one of the republicans
would dare to say what would be
done"
In pleading for the reelection Of
Wilson, Mr.. Syme said that the repub-
licans could no more understand the
high moral principles that have guided
the President in his conduct of affairs
than "a Tasmanian savage could write
play Of Shakespeare" r,.
Mr.. Douglas Speech Postponed.
Charles A Douglas was scheduled to
speak, but owing to the lateness of the
hour when Mr.. Becker concluded his adj
dress Mr.. Douglas address. it was an
nounced, would be delivered at another
meeting
Mrs James Boggs, president of the
Women's Wilson Union, was unable to
be present owing to illness. due to over
work in the campaign. She is expected to
return to headquarters to resume active
work tomorrow.
Mrs. Boggs is president of the board of
!! has been active in work in Washington
, during the last three years in the interest
| OF working girls and the laboring peo-
pie of the city.
Recently she learned that factory
in Erie, Pa, would close because the
foreigners had been called home to
war and our own men to serve in the
National Guard, unless fifty men were
ready for work in twenty-four hours.
She sent the fifty men and within two
days had sent 200 men and the factory
did not close one working hour