The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-24
WORLD REFUTES
 MEASUREMENTS BY MR. HUGHES
Substantiates Denials with Extracts from Official Records.

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 Saturday, a refutation, substantiated
 with extracts from official records, oi
 six misstatements made consistently by
 Charles E. Hughes in campaign | speeches.
 The first misstatement, made by MT
 Hughes in his speech of acceptance
 and repeated by him after he had been ! advised of it's discrepancy with off | cial facts, is:
 Take the withdrawal of Ambassa-
 dor Herrick from France. No diplo-
 mat ever won more completely the affections of a foreign people. Yet the Administration permitted itself to supersede him.......We invited the at- l tention of the world to the inexcusable yielding of national interest to parti- san expediency."
 Government records reveal that Am- | bassador Sharp was appointed success sor to Ambassador Herrick June 12. 1914, one month and eighteen days be- | fore the beginning of the European war. He did not leave for France until two months after his appoint ment At the urgent personal request of President Wilson, MT. Herrick was persuaded to continue as acting Ann bassador until December 1914. : The second misstatement as made by ! Mr. Hughes in his acceptance speech is: "In the midst of the greatest danger to the hundreds of Americans congre- gated at Tampico, our ships which were in the harbor were withdrawn and our citizens were saved only by the intervention of German officers and were taken away by British and German ships."
 Refuting this are the following ez- tracts from-an officially authorized tn- terview with Rear-Admiral H. T. Mayo by George Creel:
 Captain Doughty (of the British cruiser Hermione) pointed out that it was not only Americans who were con- cerned, but also English, Germans, French and Spanish. He suggested that I remain outside and permit him to collect all Americans quietly and slowly and send them out to me. He did not doubt my ability to handle the Tampico situation, but he did fear for the safety of all foreigners in the city and in the interior. For three days the work of rescue went on. We took out 5000 Americans, dividing up among the ships as best we could.
 Two misstatements concerning the head of the Coast and Geodetic Sur yey were made by MT. Hughes at De- troit, August z. He said in speech there:
 I've had in the Coast and Geodetr ic Survey an eminent scientist (Dr. Q. H. Tittman) :, a man who fhad won dis tinction in connection with his scien- tific work, a man of very eminent rank. He was displaced to make room for an excellent stock breeder and vet surgeon"
 \ Two days later, Dr. Tittman, at Lees buzz, Va., stated definitely:
 V resigned voluntarily. I was not forced out. Nor did I resign for po- 1itical reasons"
 One day later, Edwin F. Sweet, act ing Secretary of the Department or Commerce wrote to MT. Hughes: "Dr. Tittman was not displaced. In February or March, he came to my office and told me he had determined to resign on account of i'll health. Sec .retary Redfie1d expressed surprise and regret. Dr. Tittman's action was en- tirely voluntary and was not the re- suit of any request or suggestion of the Department, direct or indirect
 In same letter, MT. Sweet made nlain The falseness of MT. Hughes characterization of Dr. Tittman's suc- cessor. The letter, a copy of which is part of the official records of the Department of Commerce, says:
 .eYou refer to B. Lester Jones, his (Dr. Tittman's) successor, as stock breeder and a veterinary surgeon. At one time he had farm in Virginia. This was sold some time before he en- tered the Government service. He never was a veterinary surgeon. He displayed administrative talent of such high order that he was deemed both by the Secretary and myself worthy or appointment to fill the vacancy"
 At South Bend, Ind, Sept. 22, MT. Hughes said:
 "In New York City, 3oo,o0 were out of employment (February, 1914 and in every city of the land the question was how to relieve these conditions" ,A The report of the Municipal Free Employment Bureau of New York City, 1914, said:
 ..It is estimate that the number out of employment will not exceed 150,- OOo."
 In his Detroit speech of Aug. z, MT. said:
 "Take the Bureau of the Census. There was MT. Durand, an expert sta tistician, a very competent man, well understood to be such. We have him retired and in his place we have politician from South ern state"
 Secretary of Commerce Redfeld, at Cooperstown, N. Y., four days later, reciting official records, said:
 1.-TWO of the nine commissioners (of the Department of Commerce) resign ed and their resignations, were accept Conant, Commissioner of Cor porations, and MT. Durand, head of the Census Bureau"
 Three days earlier he telegraphed this message, borne out by official rec ords, to MT. Hughes:
 eDurand was not removed or re- ,,:1. ,1~