The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1916-06-29
Hughes Appreciates Endorse
ment of Roosevelt and Party
In a Common Cause.
FOR RHONOR OF NATION
Indicts Administrations Lax
Policies and Urges Prompt
Measures for Efficiency.

New York, June g. Charles II.
Hughes, republican nominee for pres.
ident, sent telegram to o. X. Davis
secretary of the progressive national
committee, tonight welcoming the
support Of the progressive party and
arraigning the present administration
for its weakness and incertitude."
In making public the contents Of
the telegram Mr.. Hughes also gave
out a letter he had written to Colonel
Roosevelt, in which he declared that
the nation was indebted to the colo
mel 'for the quickening of the ma
tional spirit and for the demand for
an out-and-out one hundred per cent
Americanism.'
The candidate told Colonel Roose-
velt that he had sounded forth the
trumphet that shall never call retreat
and / want you to feel that. wish to
have all the aid that you are able and
willing to give"
The letter closed with an express
sion of wish by Mr.. Hughes to see
the colonel soon.
The telegram to Secretary Davis
was In response to a telegram from
the secretary notifying Mr. Hughes
that the progressives had endorsed
him.
WelColue Inc support OF the pro-
gressives," Mr.. Hughes message
read. I'VE make common cause in
the interest of national honor, of ma
tional security, of national efficiency.
We unite i'm the demand for an un-
divided and unwavering loyalty to
our country, for a hole-hearted pa
triotic devotion overriding all racial
d1ffereDces. We want revival of
the American spirit - q nation re-
stored We insist upon prompt and
adequate provision for the common
defense; upon the steadfast mainte-
nance of all the rights of our citizens
and upon the integrity of interna-
tional law.
THE most serious difficulties the
present administration has encoun-
tered have been due to its own weak
ness and incertitude. l am profound
ly convinced that by prompt and de-
ctsive action, which existing condi-
tions manifestly called fer, the Lusi-
tania tragedy would have been pre-
vented. We strongly denounce the
use OF our soil at base for alien in
trigues, for conspiracies and the To-
menting Of disorders in the interest
or any foreign nation, but the respon-
sibility lies at the door of the admin
AShAabiOhs 1nC HiOIucHt HOIlce Is Hu-
mitted, responsibility is fixed For
that sort of thing could not happen
If the administration took proper
measure to stop it. That response
bility the administration cannot
eyade by condemning others. 1t was
officially stated by the secretary of
state in the Mexican note of June 20,
1916, that for three years the Mexi-
can republic has been torn with civil
strife; the lives of Americans and
other aliens have been sacrificed ::
vast properties developed by Ameri-
can capital and enterprise have been
! destroyed or rendered non-product-
i've; bandits have been permitted to
roam at will through territory con-
tiguous to the United States and to
seize without punishment or without
effective attempt at punishment, the
property OF Americans, while the
ilves or citizens of the United States
I VINO ventured to remain in Mexican
territory or return there to protect
their interest, have been taken. i'm
: some cases barbarously taken. and
the murderers have neither been an.
pretended nor brought to Justice
! What an indictment by the admins
tration of its Mexican policy! And
still we are unprepared
( Ihat unpreparedness, in the midst
{ OF perils and after the experience OF
t three years is a demonstration of an
e objectionable neglect for which thu
| administration is responsible. The
r government now has and must have
{ most emphatically the unstinted anG
! patriotic support of the citizens In the
2 existing exigency. But unouestion
Ing, loyal and patriotic support of the
!, government is one thing; approval OF
r the fatuous course which the admin
' istration has followed is quite an
other cannot in this message ade
d quately review that course; that
: shall do later.
D NO intelligent man is deceived b,
the temporary prosperity due to alb
normal conditions and no one car
9 fail to appreciate the gravity of thu
!. problems with which we shall bt
|. faced when the war ends. We ar,
: alive to the imperative necessity O
a assuring the basis of honest business
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