The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-21
PRESIDENT WILL
 MAKE REPLY TO HUGHES ATTACK
Wilson Expected to Make State
 ment on Eight-HOur Law at Shadow Lawn.

Asbury Park, N. J., Sept. 21.-Pres- ident Wilson is scheduled to talk on Saturday to a delegation of business men at Shadow Lawn. No one knows exactly what he will say. It is report ed, however, that in addition to other subjects he will treat, the President will answer criticisms of the eight hour made by Candidate Hughes. MT. Wilson has so far proceeded on the theory that his eight-hour law needs neither defense nor explanation. But if MT. Hughes insists on making it an issue MT. Wilson intends to an- Swer him.
 He will contend that the eight-hour law is designed to shorten hours of the railroad men and not primarily to raise wages.
 These assertions President Wilson will make some time during the cam rpaign, but whether he will do so Sat been announced.
 Democratic leaders, however, are urging him to launch into this subject at the earliest possible moment.
 President Wilson adheres to his pur- -e to conduct himself during the campaign as Woodrow Wilson, Pres
 
 Woodror~ Wilson, candidate for re- election to the Presidency on the Dem ocratic ticket
 This does not mean that MT. Will sons campaign is going to lag. There is to be scattered throughout the tountry, particularly in doubtful states, an array of Democratic spell binders who will present to the voters hn off icry, in ner designed to prove that the Democ- racy, purely upon it's achievements in office. should be returned to power.
 Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, Postmaster-General Brrleson, Secre- tary of War Baker and Secretary of the Navy Daniels are to be sent into states where the Republicans have been most active, to counteract any trend in favor of MT. Hughes. All re- ports to the contrary notwithstand- ing, Williams Jennings Bryan, former secretary of state, will speak any where and everywhere that the Dem ocratic managers desire him to, in favor of the return to office of the present administration.
 President Wilson received yesterday scoreS of telegrams from prominent Democrats throughout the country importuning him to take the stump. This the President will not do under any circumstances. He believes that the achievements of his administra- ton speak for themselves, and upon them he is willing to rest his case before the country.
 It is MT. Wilson's present deter imitation to spend the remainder of September and practically all of Oc- tober. at Shadow Lawn, the summer White House. Occasionally he will l)deliver addresses from the porch of PShadow Lawn to delegations that call upon him. Now and then he will make short trip to this or that city to discuss, as he expresses it, ''polit- ical questions before non-partisan or ganizations."
 Postmaster-General Burleson and several politicians of lesser import ance talked today with Democratic campaign managers who were at the summer executive offices in Asbury Park. Vance Mccormick, the Demo- cratic National chairman, who came Tuesday to talk with MT. Wilson about campaign plans, left for New York early yesterday morning after he had obtained from MT. Wilson tentative promises to deliver occasional ad- dresses in the Middle West upon pub lie questions of importance.