Arizona republican., 1916-09-29
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 SARATOGA SPRINGS. N. Y, Sept. 2S.-Charles E. Hughes tonight told the republican unofficial convention here that he had no. urged republican sena- tors to fillibuster ito the last ditch" against the passage of the Adamson eight-hour law, passed to avert the threatened railroad strike. The nom inee declared he did not believe in fill bustering, for one thing, and that if the majority in congress had deter mined to pass the bill there was no reason whatever why it's passage should have been delayed by filibustering tactics
 Tt (the administration acted with swiftness," MT. Hughes said, and if cannot POW cry that a republican can didate a thousand miles away should have saved it from carrying out it's fixed determination"
 The nominee read to the convention correspondence between Chairman Newlands of the senate interstate commerce committee, and Harry A. Wheeler, chairman of the committee on railroad situation of the chamber of conn cree of the United States, and President Wil5on-none of the letters was from the president, but he was ad- dressed in the correspondence-to up- hold his contention that 300, 900 firms and corporations in the country had asked the president to take action be- fore the threatened strike situation be- came acute. MT. Hughes also quoted an extract from the presidents address to congress on the subject to support his claim that the bill should not have been passed
 A question asked by Richard Olney, secretary of state under President Cleveland, as to whether MT. Hughes had not urged republican senators to filibuster against the bill was made the occasion for Mir. Hughes declaration. He said: He says, referring to the recent railroad situation, that I object not to the averted strike, but to the mode of it's accomplishment, to wit: Bv the threat of a strike within a time too short for due consideration of nec- eSsary legislation 1 am not prepared to admit the necessity of wage increase by law, but 1 do object in every fibre of my being to legislation under duress. object to the surrender of the exacu tive to force. That is :he path of dis aster. If the distinguished ex-secre- tary of state desires to take the nation along that path 1 will not accompany him.
 He asks why did not urge twer ty- eight republican senators 10 filibuster to the last ditch. Well, do not believe 1 in filibusterIng, for one thing. If con gress, through it's ma jCrity, vas deter mined to pass the bill, there was no l reaScn why its action should be merely i delayed by fiiibustering. Arguments along this line really come to this-that ] in some way the administration should have been saved from itself. "The truth is that the executive de- stroyed the moral strength of the sit uation when he threw up his hands. yielded the principle of arbitration and went to congress demanding the rail- way wage bill as the price of peace. | Congress, so far as the moral of the situation was concerned, ratified a sur render already made The administra- tion chose its ground; it selected it's ground carefully and with few par tisan followers
 1 MT. Hughes citation from President l Wilson's address to congress was a brief one. The part quoted followed the presidents declaration that T yield 1 to no man in firm adherence alike of conviction and of purpose to the prin- ciple of arbitration in industrial dis putes," and was part of the same sentence, which was as follows:
 But matters have come to a sudden | crisis in this particular dispute and the l country has been caught unprovided
  ing that conviction in practice, by whose fault we will not now stop to inquire"
 After declaring that Here was American business. month before the railroad crisis. asking for an inquiry" MT Hughes continued:
 4 sudden crisis, with no opportunity for Inquiry, if the administration had desired to know the facts before ac- tol .aIn The solicitation of the business of the United States
 ''N at is the administrations rec CrG, -.-'. Hughes said, after declaring that the administration could not cry out that republican candidate should have saved it from carrying out it's fixed determination"
 And 1 submit to the American people that 1t is record of humiliation.
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