Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-15
HUGHEs'S H|NDs|CHT
DER|DED BY MALONE
New York Collector Answers Louis
vile Declaration OF RepubIi.
can Candidate.
REGARDING THE LusiTANIA
Recalls Nominees Praise of Presi.
dent Wilson While He Was Mem.
Der OF Supreme Court AS "DOing
MagnificentIy."

ROCHESTER,. y. Y. October IA
Dudley Field Malone. collector of tho
port of New York, made the following
statement last night In reference to the
Louisville speech of Charles Il. Hughes:
Mr.. Hughes says he would have had
the State Department equipped SO as to
command the respect Of the world at
the outset of the present administra-
ton From the beginning and
throughout the administration The
State Department Ut Washington has
been better equipped than IL was ~
any time during Mr.. Tafts Republican
administration. IL WAS n..(ri"us that
Mr. Knox was seldom at III" stat"
Department. and tina the State Depart
nent was not only run. but com
pletely disorganized by Huntington
Wilson. who was left to run the af
fairs OF state. a man who in tempcra-
mcnt nid ability was utterly incoin-
pctcnt - huucl. our foreign relations.
'At tic beginning OF the present adj
minis,rut .ln AI Bryan was not merely
Sccrotnr. OF state but our foreign r.
lations were handled by President
Wilson !msclf. with SIR. Bryan nd
vice and counsel of John haSs"t'
Moore, one of the greatest auth"r.'.s
on international law !n this country.
who was then counselor TO tho S,st"
department.
mir. Hughes. the candidate. has n.o-
,criaiiy changed his opuior Of ata.rs
the first four months o! Tho present All
Immigration met Mr. Jus,lrc Hughes
on Fifteenth Street in Washington,
when was Assistant Secretary %:
state We were friendly. for had vot-
I'd for him for Governor OF New York
state, although ] was IL Democrat Jus
ticc Hughes, in Discussing the new adj
,ninistration and it's difficulties. said:
The President is doing magnif-
emily
Il told the President at the time
II that generous compliment of Judge
hughes. Recently reminded the Pres
ident Of the remark. and he said he
remembered the circumstance very dis
tinctly.
Hughes says he would have adopt-
Ell Mexican policy which would have
Impressed Germany with the viEor OF
his determination. Judge Hughes for
gets that at the time Of the sinking
OF the Lusitania. Germany was SO en-
crossed In the European war and SO
loaded with victorious achievements
that she wouldn't have been in the
least impressed by our policy in Mex
leo or elsewhere.
Finally, he says that when the no
tice was published threatening the
sinking ~ n" i.us!tania he would have
threatened Germany with severance OF
diplomatic relations. The notice was
published anonymously in certain New
York: papers and merely signed with
the WOrQS herman Elm pussy. II was
published on the Friday morning be-
fore tho Saturday the J.usitania sailed
No passengers booked for tho Lusitan!a
not even personal friends of the Ger
man mbassador-placed an: credence
in this anonymous communication. and
Mr.. Hughes. unfortunately, gives IN
exhibition OF the crosses, Incompetence"
by saying that he, as President. would
have protested TO Germany against an
unforeseen event merely on the basis OF
an anonymous advertisement in a rcwE-
paper
"Bu, the graves, par, Of his stale
fneat Is Mr.. Hughes's d!s!ngenuous ny.
pocrisy. For we all kno" tina, a man
OF his ordinary sound Judgment would
mover. RS the responsible head OF this
nation. have based a diplomatic protest
upon any such fiimsy preteXt. The men
of my neutrality squad in the port
of New York. the officers OF the Sc
cret Service OF the government, all
engaged day and night in running
down rumors and plots and counter
plots against our neutrality. and
myself who spent an hour and n half
In inspecting the Lusitania before she
sailed, had no reason seriously TO sus-
pect that the anonymous notice in the
newspaper was OF any significance.
IF Mr.. HughcsS hindSight portra"s
no better Judgment than this. what
Kind OF prccariouS action could We ex-
pect OF him as President. when no
might be called upon to exercise hts
foresight?
'lncidentally IL should be remarked
that the question asked OF MIR. Hughes
was. what ne would have done when
the LuSitania was sunk. and he an
swered by telling what he><rnuld have
done before the LuSitania was sunk
Of course. II would have been very en-,
barrassinG for Mr.. Hughes 10 answer
the questions honestly. because after
the Lusitania was sunk he would either
have had to argue with Germany
through diplomatic correspondence,
as President Wilson did. or else MIR.
Hughes would have had to sever diplo-
matte relations with Germany or as
sumo warltke attitude toward Cor
many. But If Mr.. Hughes were frank
ly to say that he would have done
the latter. he would 1T once ALLEVIATE
the hyphenatc vote, on which he re-
lies"