The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-11
DILATORY CENSOR LET MANY HARSH
 WORDS CREEP IN

1 mentS which, 1t points out, had had
 been better unsaid in the light of
 after events. It says:
 Now that Parisians have learned, | with somewhat mixed feelings. that l 'Lord Hughes,'' contrary to the first cabled reports, twas not appointed American Ambassador to Franco l Although those newspapers which
 proclaimed to the French people at the same time that "Sir Whitman was 1 appointed Governor of New York are not going to retract one word of 1 it-a general overhauling and recall ing and censortng- of certain election night outgivings seems to be in order This is done, not so much in deference l to MT. Hughes and MT. Wilson, both 1 of whom were singu1arly silent in the l midst of much noise, but out of re- gard for the feelings of several men
 of standing in the community, who, as matters now stand, have been placed in false light before the pub lie.
 This does not include; of course, the scores of innocent search1ight opera tors who received orders to flash the Hughes victory from every. tower in Manhattan at 9 o'clock last Tuesday night, or the countless thousands who thereupon remarked, '1 told you so' and "the people have spoken."t These persons will have to patch their dam aged regulations as best they can, unaided.
 Beginning-as with the tariff-at the top and revising downward, one of the first pronunciamentos that calls for surgical treatment is that flashed to a waiting world from Cys- ter Bay at 9:45 election night. Col Roosevelt positively refuses to be quoted to-day but there is a strong belief among some of the keenest political observers hereabout that the Colonel somehow wishes he hadn't sent out that statement assuring the American people that he would never make himself MT. Hughes boss never.
 <. Colonel Will Not Do It. CT will not make any recommenda- tions to MT. Hughes for appointments, nor any requests for legislation" de- clared the Colonel-and it is believed that he has no intention of swerving from this decision. However, that wasn't all the Colonel said. It was only the tail-end of his statement. The rest seems badly in need of amputa- | ton, for otherwise Theodore Roose- welt will go down in history as hay ing said:
 '"I wish to express my profound gratitude, as an American proud of his country, that the American peo- pie have repudiated the man who coined the phrase about his country, that is, Too proud to fight and whose, Administration has done so %> ~11~ LI.- can conscience and to dull the sense of honorable obligations in the Amer ican people. We are all of us sim cerely to be congratulated on the victory of Mr. Hughes
 Which, to say the least, is mis- leading. However. this mornings bulletins from Oyster Bay cite the Colonel as saying that he'll stick it out to the last,'' which, of course, introduces new difficulty into the job of the historian of the future
 The main trouble seems to be that the Censor took a night off at time when all the big guns were roaring. Thus, George w. Perkins, simulated by the thought that in a. few moments the coffee and ham sandwiches would soon be served, sat himself down in Republican Headquarters and actual ly declared that the yellow streak had been removed from the old flag, when, as the results from California now prove, nothing of the kind oc- cured. Yet MT. Perkins took his pen in hand and sent a telegram to darkest Pittsburgh, saying:
 "This is some night. Three cheers for the flag! Four years they tried to debase our party. This year they went much further and tried to de- base our citizenship and put a yell low streak in the flag. But thank heaven, they failed.''
 At an early hour this morning, the only man on view at Republican Headquarters was the janitor Asked what he thought MT. Perkins ought to do about that telegram, the jani- tor declined to be quoted, but express ed the belief that the telegram, like the coffee and sandwiches, was now beyond recall.
 And as long as the yellow streak scars the old flag, so too will the inn mortal words of Col. George Harvey and Frank A. Munsey, uttered like wise at the critical moment just be- fore the coffee and sandwiches were passed around, be remembered Flu C1IAoAio less learn the touching story as soon as they are able to climb up on their daddies' knees and say "Goo." And they will believe in it.
 And Harvey, Too. Said Col Harvey, he that supported Wilson four years ago and then was told not to do what Col Roosevelt promised not to do the other night. said the Colonel after taking in the situation at a glance and sensing the Hughes victory:
 TT am reconciled."
 And MT. Munsey, whose sources of information were just as good as Col Harvey's, added:
 1T am not only reconci1ed-I am re- warded."
 Cryptic as these utterances of great men sound to-day, they remain on record and uncorrected in every sec- tion of the country-and a great in- justice is being done. Of course, there is the possibility that none of these men was correctly quoted, that the statement from Oyster Bay was a deliberate and unqualified fa1sehood, and that the remarks attributed to Perkins and others were garbled and