Mohave County miner., 1916-10-14
CHARGE IF HUGHES |S
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Republican cnarge that the Democratic party is a sectional party, with the statement that "any man who revives the issue of sectionalism in this coun- try is unworthy of the confidence of the nation"
 The president came to Indianapolis to address meetings of good roads ad- vocates and farmers, review an auto mobile parade celebrating Good Roads day of the Indiana centennial, and at tended a non-partisan luncheon of leading Indianans. In his first speech he spoke of the good done by high ways in preventing sectionalism.
 "My fellow citizens" he said, q need not tell you that I did not come here to talk politics, but there is one thing that is pertinent Tn tnis connec- tion which I cannot deny myself the privilege of saying. Any man who re- wives the issue of sectionalism in this country is unworthy of the confidence of the nation. He shows himself a provincial, he shows that he himself does not know the various sections of his own country; he shows that he has shut his own heart up in little pro- vince ,and that those who do not seek the special interests of that province are to him sectional, while he alone is national. That is the depth of anti patriotic feeling"
 At both meetings the presidents ad- dresses were interrupted frequently by applause and handclapping marked his progress through the streets.
 The coliseum at the fair grounds, where he delivered his first address, had many vacant seats in the rear, but the hall in which he spoke later was filled. He also spoke briefly at a luncheon given him by Governor and Mrs. Samuel M. Ralston of Indiana.
 The second speech was devoted to a discussion of the works of the ad- ministration for the farmers of the nation.
 The president devoted most of his address to a discussion on the standardization of America. He de- clared for the standardization, mobili- zation and cooperation of the coun- try's resources. He said that after the European war it will be necessary for the United States to join all its forces together. He repeated his for mer declarations in favor of lea que of nations to maintain peace.
 Bordering on the political, the president declared that talking through the hat" ought to be a dead industry, and that every man who speaks in public should have the motto "put up or shut up." He added that he was willing to take "my own medi- cine", said that Eff I don't put up, am ready to shut up." In his brief luncheon speech the president said, smiling, that the Republicans were just as good Americans as he was, and that he would not tread them out of school" unless they were bad Americans.
 "For after all" he added, five have a common object. The quarrel for the next three or four weeks is bound to realize what we all wish"
 Governor Ralston and Senator Thomas Taggart remained with the president all during his stay in Indianapolis.
 The president left here at 5:45 o'clock this afternoon for Long Branch, N. J., where he will arrive tomorrow afternoon.
 President Wilson, in his Good Roads speech, in part, said:
 q am here because of my interest in the cause of good roads and because of my interest in the state of Indiana. I was very much interested that this day, devoted to the cause of good roads, should fall on your centennial year. It made me think of many of the processes of our national history. This country was built without any roads.
 "But after all the highway is not intended first of all and chief of all for the pleasure vehicle. It is not in- tended for the mere traveller. It is not intended for the mere tourist, It is not made in order that some com pany of leisure people may travel from coast to coast of this great continent. It is made because we need it in all the material uses of our life.
 'It is perfectly obvious that you have got to have an intricate and per feet network of roads throughout the length and breadth of this great con tinent before you will have realized the energies of America. Good roads are necessary for every part of our lives to create community of feeling, to ere ate those arteTieS which may he com