The Coconino sun., 1916-10-06
A,pcHES P|T|LESS ON MEII,,'',1A DISGRACE
In His Mind and on h. einuIa More Than Any Other ;
 Problem With Which MT.
 Wilson Has PaItered.
CRAZY CHAPTER OF BLUNDERs

NO Ouo Nau S'ohF T't" oP0aN "''Sss
 sssiny the Reality of His lndispa.
 ton Over the Hsartlsss Policy of
 the Democratic Administration To.
 ward American Men. Women and
 Children, American Citizens. Sol
 disrs and Sailors Along and Aeross
 the Rio orands.
 Soon after Mir. Hughes was nominat cd friend said to him, Governor, If the American people forget the Mexi. can disgrace they do not deserve to have you for president" Quick as a flash he replied. "The candidate who dodges the Mexican disgrace does not deserve to be president" He did not pass around his address of acceptance for compliment or criticism In ad. vance of It's delivery. but the amount of space he devoted to the Mexican disgrace-"that confused chapter of blunders" no ons who had talked with him since his nomination It has been in his mind and on his mind more than any other single prob. lem with which Mir. Wilson has pal. tered. To talk with him is to see at once the reality of his indignation over the heartless manner in which Ameri. can men, women and children, Ameri- can citizens. soldiers and sailors have been abandoned by the administration along and across the Rio Grande. the victims of Mexican armed forces, out fitted with American ammunition and American rifles, Mexicans whom MT Wilson has coddled one day as patriots only to chase the next as bandits
 It is apparently the belief Of MT l Wilson that the people of the United States are not interested in Mexico His defenders have declared that It was an ''old story and out of date" MT. Hughes has better opinion of his fellow countrymen. He has proved himself better judge of their feelings. He has made "the Mexican disgrace foremost issue of his campaign. He has assailed the record of the admin istration in that respect in almost every speech he has made. He has nev. CT failed to strike a responsive chord fin the hearts of his audience, whether speaking .n Carnegie hall, New York, from the platform of his train at Grand Forks. N. D.. to vast audience at Portland. at the exposition at San Diego or in the prairie states of the middle west. He has refuted the slan- der, sometimes heard in the effete east, that the people of the great west do not care what happens to their fel. low citizens in Mexico or to the flag beyond the border. No man born in the west has a frmer faith in the fundamental patriotism and dominant Americanism" of the people of that section than Mir. Hughes. He holds them responsible in large measure for tn encouragement and support he re ceived while governor of New York in his war upon political graft and O. litical bossism. He thinks they had much to do with conscripting him as the champion of nationalism in the current campaign He showed his con
 hdence in their practical idealism
 when he made ''the Mexican disgrace an uppermost issue of his campaign
 He has been vindicated by the re
 sponse bis arraignment of the admin
 istration on this score has everywhere evoked. From Maine to California
 ''the Mexican disgrace" is sore sub
 ject with red blooded Americans to day. But nowhere between the oceans . are the outrages inflicted in Mexico
 upon American honor, life and prop erty more keenly resented than around the firesides of the great west. MT Hughes is no stranger to the west His straightforward talk on Mexico proves it.