New Britain herald., 1916-10-28
ATTACK ON HUGHES
 BY EX-G0V. HANLY
Former Indiana G. 0.P. Executive Talks on Invisible Government"
 FAIRBANKS AND TAFT, TOO
All Was Not Rose Petals for the People When Republican Candidate for President Was in Chair at AL bany, Prohibitionist Declares.

bany, PrOn1D1tlOnlSt Declares.
 J. Frank Hanly, former governor of Indiana and now candidate for presi- cent on the prohibition party ticket, roundly assailed Charles Evans Hughes and Charles Warren Fair ttnks, republican candidates for pres ident and vice president respectively, at short stop in this city this af- ternoon. Mr. Hanly is making flying trip through New England in the interests of the prohibition party He spoke from the platform of his pri- vate car at the railroad station be- fore a fair-sized audience.
 In part, MT. HanIey spoke as fol- lows:
 ''AbdicatiOn' of Taft
 Parties and men are to be judged tv their acts, their deeds of commits sion and omission. By their fruits ye shall know them is still a just rule c1' adneasurement. Parties are com Tosed of men-made up of individ- uels-and must be held to intend what those in control of them and responsible for their actions do and intend
 ''The last republican president of the United States. the late unlamented William Howard Taft for whom I voted twice-God forgive me-is still high in the councils of the republican l arty, and when he made the shamed confession I am about to quote he had authority to speak for it. Hear him in the city of Boston, before the assembled bar of the State of Mas sachusetts: Tt would be an idle and futile thing to amend the federal constitution prohibiting the liquor taff1c, because the nation could not
 enforce the amendment if 1t made it.
 Do you know what that means? It means abdication. It means sur
 render. Think you for moment that | the man who uttered that confession | and made that abject surrender of 1 the basic right of our free citizenship
 would, if given power, give you na- t1onal prohibition of the liquor traffic?
 Challenge to Fairbanks. 'I have always been a republican; 1 l have never voted any other ticket
 There were those, of whom I was one,
 who when they heard MT. Taft's con- 1 fession did not believe the republican l party would accept it or make it it's
 own. We believed, on the contrary, | that it would repudiate such a con- 1 fession and accept the challenge the
 liquor traffic flung at the feet of this
 nation, as sixty years before Lincoln l had accepted it.
 We went to the republican na-
 tional convention at Chicago and l legged it to accept the challenge; 1 begged it to make some affirmative 1 declaration on the great issue in
 volved. But it would not. On the l 1 1atform and nominated a candidate
 for president. who in all his life, 1 whether as a public official or as a ] private citizen, has uttered no word
 cf enc uoragement or support of the i struggling hosts who are fighting l there to win an initial victory over 1 this trafhc or to retain the victory
 over it they have already won. He
 recently travelled over 4,0OO miles i through the great Northwest, passing l through a half dozen states where the prohibition issue is most acute, yet in l all this long Journey his lips were
 sealed on this question. If he will 1 not speak in behalf of State-Wid pro- ! hibition at an hour like this, who in
 states where the issue hangs in the 1 balance, what right have we to eX-
 poet national prohibition at his hands ] if we clothe him with power?
 | The republican convention in Chi i CagO refused to accept the caller ot 1 tEe liquor traffic, or to commit tself in
 any may to national prohibition, be- i cause men like Charles Warren Fair 1 hanks, the republican candidate for vice president had packed the conven- ! ton With liquor representatives make the charge fatly and fearlessly,