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mixed with the crowd-acted ike redi
candidate.
Consider the events of the day: he rode
at the head OF big street procession
smiling out at the crowd-5o,ooo at least
which lined the street, waving his hat at
them, occasionally rising to Acknowledge
the plaudits. He had detonating rockets
rockets exploded over his head. He was
showered with confetti. He heard him
self addressed as Charley" thousand
/, times. He shook hands with 1000 people
at the Hotel Pontchartrain. He attended
a luncheon with newspaper men.
He dropped in at the ball game, shook
hands with the ployers while standing on
the roof of their dugout was photo
graped with Ty Cobb and Hughey Jen-
nings; inspected the swimming pool OF
the Detroit Athletic Club, and received a
demonstration from a score of bathers in
the swimming pool.
He talked to delegations of welfare
workers, to representatives of the suf-
frage party, and took a wild motor ride
in the afternoon in which the chauffeurs
of various makes of cars raced through
the city to the plants of the Dodge and
Cadillac machines, where brief speeches
were made.
And then tonight he crowned the day
by the speech at ARCADIA, which he
repeated later at a bigger meeting in
memory t1al.
This speech was prefaced by remarks
on efficiency in government. but 1t was
not until he suddenly veered to Mexico
that his audience swung into the real
enthusiasm OF the night
He approached Mexico by way of a
general discussion and criticism of the
administrations foreign policy.
What is your policy?' l am asked -
he said. "'Well.'" he cried, answering
the question. what is the Presidents
policy2 Does anyone know"
mol" yelled the audience, which rose
instantly to the spirit of the candidate 5
address.
Has No Firm Policy.
HAS he ever had any policy for that
six months in Mexico?" Hughes de-
manded again. Who knows what it is
today. or what the Presidents policy will
be three months from today? No matter
what he says" cried Hughes. his voice
ringing through the hall. you can't tell
whether he will stick to it.
| Kept US out of war" he shouted scorn-
fully. referring to the chief plank in the
| Democratic platform. Then he recited
the Vera Cruz incident.
| Kept US out OF war" he cried. why,
that was war and very ignoble war.
Now, used to think that il there was
lOhC tillIib NiliCH Nils american puDllC
was less interested in than anything
else. 1t was the actual administration OF
| their government But l am beginning
| to believe that with the object lessons
we have had abroad and with the very
definite appreciation OF the crisis we are
in, there is a different notion in this
country about these things. l hold it IL
the most unworthy thing an administra-
! tor can do, to take public business and
pay political debts with It.
Would Protect Citizens.
Now, If we are going to get the motive
| power to accomplish these things, il
we are going to get strength and the
| spirit which will enable us to carry then
through we have got to have a real deep
seated pride in the United States. Wher
l say I am an American citizen l ough
to say the proudest thing that any mar
can say in this world.
| You cannot have that pride you can
not have that love. il American Citi
zenship Is a cheap thing, IL it is - dis
honored thing, If it is something whiof
is not worthy OF protection this wide
world over There is no one who coulC
| successfully present to an American com
munity the platform that an American
citizens rights stopped with the coas
| line and that the moment he left hii
that saw fit to murder or destroy him.
IF a man is an American citizen HI
| goes with his rights and the right o.
the proper protection of his country un
der international law, wherever he jour
! neys throughout the world. Now tha
is what the Democratic platform TOLD
us in SO many words in 1912. They die
not stop with Americans. They did no
stop with American citizens. They sait
| ri pl hat
Fills Him with shame.
I'VE have had an exhibition in the
last three years which I confess fills ms
with { deep sense of shame"
Now you are getting to It," cried g
voice.
Il "ruld not counsel any action tha
was cu~trary to the dictates of thcs:
usa@C" 1"d customs and recognized
i ria' ,bigations which we com.
#T ~ name of "internationa
business to stand for all
Ii. American citizens under
/ ia. - law to vindiCate interna.
tional law
| Now you take. for example. the case
of Mexico. We had certain things that
We had right to demand of Mexico and
there was a proper way of demanding
lHein we SnOulQ nave Sdld that we IN.
sisted upon the protection Of the lives
and property of American citizens, of Just
protection, such protection as we are en-.
titled to from a government that per.
forms the function of government. We
should have said we would not recog
nize Huerta if his government could moi
discharge those functions. We had nc
business to recognize him unless the ex
ecutive was satisfied he could discharge
those functions
But it was another thing to take ar
attitude quite apart from the protection
of American rights and wage war upor
an individual and try to take control Of
Mexican affairs in the interest of what
We think they should be.
"Dtd a Wrong Thing"
Now that was precisely what wa!
done. We did not content ourselves Will
not recognizing Huerta. There is n,
| question about recognizing or not recog
| Milling Huerta. That was a matter to be
| determined according to proper princi
pies, according to the understanding o
the Executive as to the capacity Of tina
government, If It was a government +
| furnish adequate protection and discharg,
international obligations But our ad
ministration said to Huerta, You ge
| out! You can't even be a candidate. w,
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