The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-11-03
GUARDSMEN ARE
sore AT WILSON
tsEf
Border Troops Have Had All the
Watchiul Waiting They
Can Stand

| The chief reason the national guards
men OF the various States have been
kept so long on the Mexican border
while their private business suffered
and the families of many of them were
in actual poverty and want is that
President Wilson knows that if they
should be permitted to reach their
homes in time to cast their ballots on
November 2, they would, almost to a
man, vote for Hughes and against the
man who allowed the Mexican sore to
become infected and then sent them
down to cure it, "
Such is the opinion expressed by
John Hughes, kamaaina and former
member Of the legislature, who return.
ed this week from two months visit
TO the maitland -
skirted the Border Z.
Mr.. Hughes on his trip travelled
along the entire Mexican border, from
San Diego east almost as far as New
Orleans He stopped at many Of the
border towns where troops are station
ed, including FL Paso, Columbus, Dem
ing, San Antonio and many other places,
and lost no opportunity Of talking to
the regulars and the national guards
men on duty there. ,. ...T &
The members of the national guard,
Mr.. Hughes stated last night, are ex.
tremely bitter toward Wilson. Those
from some Of the States will be able
to vote in the national election, this
being permitted by their State laws.
And they are all going to vote for
Charles Evans Hughes. Those from
States the laws Of which do not allow
the absent guardsmen to vote were,
when John Hughes was on the border,
doing all in their power to get permits
sion to return home before election so
as TO cast their ballots against Wilson
in protest Of the way they say he has
treated them.
Contest Is Close u
Mr., Hughes did not get into the
Eastern States, but he said in the
course Of the interview that, from what
he had heard and read, he was con
WINGED that the fight between Wilson
and Hughes is an extremely close one
and the result will not be known until
the ballots are counted. ~ ...
Wilson, Hughes thinks, will get the
votes of two widely divergent classes
the munition manufacturers who are
making vast fortunes under existing
conditions and therefore do not wish
tnose conditions changed, and the un-
thinking masses of organized labor
who cannot understand that the Adam.
son law, damned through congress by
the President under the threats of the
railway labor leaders is not in reality
an eight.hour law but is liable in the
end to react upon the head of organ.
lied labor.
Farmers Also Pleased
In addition to these two classes,
there Ii another element which the Ho.
nolulu man believes will line up pretty
solidly for Wilson. This consists of a
certain brand of farmer, chiefly of the
Middle West, who is enjoying prosper
ity caused by bumper crops and who
credits the Wilson administration with
being the god of the machine. ..>''.,
"Those fellows" said Hughes, "act-
ually think that the Democratic admin
istration brought about their big crops.
no difference to them that American
citizens have been robbed and murder.
ed in Mexico and on our side Of the
line along the border. They don 4 care
anything about the operations Of sub.
marines or how many Americans are
drowned by them. They have good
crops, so they're going to vote for
Woodrow Wilson, a.. r,45E
4 Mr., Hughes expressed the belief,
however, that, although the fight 10
a close one and the result impossible
TO foretell with certainty, his. name.
sake will win out. The majority Of
the people of the United States, he con.
tends, are too intelligent to continue
in power an administration that has
proved itself so inefficient, st. "Ah|