Bisbee daily review., 1916-08-24
Speaking in ReEo, Declares No One Can Hold Office Prop ,-ly Who Is Not Ready To Stand Defeat.
SHOWS DESIRE FOR
 COMPENSATION LAW
He Deplores Alleged Demo- cratic Method of Substitut- ing Make-Shifts for Merit in Diplomatic Corps.
(By Review Leased Wire)

| Hughes made two speeches here late today and tonight again attacked the administration for its policy. repeated ! his conviction that a protective tariff was essential to a continuance of prosperity, and reiterated his declara- , tion for a federal liability law to cover accidents to persons in indus tries engaged in interstate commerce.
 MT. Hughes also declared that if i he were elected he would endeavor to carry out his policies without favor | to any one.
 ! No one can hold executive office properly who is not ready to be de- feated," he added. Tt is a very necessary thing at all times to take your political life in your hands and to be willing to do as you think you ought to do. regardless of the political consequences"
 Speaking of improving conditions of labor, MT. Hughes said:
 q do not consider this a mere sentimental procedure. That is bound up with our prosperity. We cannot have a great United States unless, in the main, it is a eontented country filled with men working preaceably and sharing fairly in the fruits of their labor protected; safety ap- pliances, having sanitary conditions of labor. having reasonable hours and just compensation.
 "Contented America will be success full when discontented America will be unsuccessful.
 ''I am glad to observe that in these days there is a disposition on the part of many of our most important employers of labor to organize the human demands, the necessary de mands, of those engaged in produc- tive work. I never like to think of work that sort of thing as compla- cent recognition, as some things handed down from above. l like to think of manager and man, of those in charge and of those at work of varied relative activity. as sharers in a common undertaking realizing each the importance of the others work and all working together to produce that which is essential to the pro- sperity and happiness of all. We have got to have that sort of a spirit in America if we are to realize the greatness of this country in the com ing years"
 MT. Hughes referred to his record, with reference to labor legislation while he was governor Of New York and read again an editorial from the official organ of organized labor" printed in 1910, commenting his stand.
 We have in the federal field a very important sphere of action. under the constitution of the United States, the power to regulate interstate com merce. This power was given in broad terms, happily without attempt at definition. The power has been exercised very freely.
 q like to speak of the opportunities that still exist for improvement in these difficulties, for example: the federal employers liability act was an advance. but it still leaves to the hazard of trial by jury and to the proof of negligence. a great lost of cases where injuries have been su- stained in hazardous employment.
 "I like to think that in the future we shall have not simply what the present bill in congress provides. a provision for compensation in Ccnnec- tion with employment by the govern ment, but a fair and proper scheme of compensation for employees en- gagged in hazardous occupations in connection with interstate commerce and therefore subject to the regulat- ing power of congress.
 We need as much uniformity as possible We need to have in the use of our federal powers a wise oversight. to the end that we can gather up what would otherwise be local and perhaps clashing and incon- venient, to have it gathered up in a uniform system by the wise and con stitutional eyes of federal power I thoroughly believe in that: and de- sire to see that power prudently ex- ercised for the benefit of human liv-
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