The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-08-04
ATTACKS POLICY
OF DEMOCRATS
Charles E. Hughes Formally
Accepts Nomination.

in Carnegie hall accepting the Repub.
lican nomination for president.
Charles Evans Hughes said:
Senator Harding, members of the
notification committee and fellow
citizens: This occasion is more
than a mere ceremony of no.
tification. We are not here to
indulge in formal expressions.
We come to state in plain and di-
rect manner our faith, our purpose
and our pledge. This representative
gathering is a happy augury. 1t
means the strength of reunion. 1t
means that the party Of Lincoln is re
stored, alert, effective. 1t means the
unity of a common perception Of para
mount national deeds. 1t means that
we are neither deceived Or benumbed
by abnormal conditions.
I'VE know that we are at critical
PERIOD perhaps more critical than
any period since the Civil war We
need a dominant sense of national
unity, the exercise of our best con-
structive powers, the vigor and re-
sourcefulness of a quickened America.
We desire that the Republican party
as a great liberal party shall be the
agency of national achievement, the
organ of the effective expression of
dominant Americanism.
Explains Dominant Americanism2
What do / mean by that? | mean
America conscious of power, awake
to obligation, erect in self respect,
prepared for every emergency, devot-
ed to the ideals Of peace, instinct with
the spirit Of human brotherhood, safe
guarding both individual opportunity
and the public interest. maintaining
we'll ordered constitutional system
adopted to local self government with
out the sacrifice of essential national
authority, appreciating the necessity
of stability, expert knowledge and
thorough organization as the indis-
pensable conditions of security and
progress; a country loved by it's citi
zens with a patriotic fervor permit
tins, no division in their allegiance
ana no rivals in their affectiOn---l
mean America first and America eff
ciert 1t is in this spirit that | re-
spond to your summons"
IN discussing foreign relations and
appointments Mr.. Hughes declared
that the executive had not command
ed the respect of the world by his
conduct of the state department..
Competent diplomats, notably Ambas-
sador Herrick of France, have been
retired for no other reason than to
meet partisan demands.
Has Not Helped Mexico.
The DEALINGS of the administra-
tion," Mr., Hughes declared, "consti-
tute a confused chapter of blunders.
We have not helped Mexico She lies
PROSTATE, impoverished, famine stricl-
Ell. overwhelmed with the wees and
Outrages OF internecine strife, the
helpless victim of condition of an
archy which the course of the admin
ist1ation only served to promote.
For ourselves, we have witnessed
the murder of our citizens and de-
struction of their property. We have
made enemies, not friends. Instead
of commanding respect and deserving
good will by sincerity, frmness and
consistency. we provoked mlsappre-
hension and deep resentment. In the
light of the conduct of the admins
tration no one could understand it's
profession in decrying interference
we interfered most eyasperatingly.
We have not even kept out of actual
conflict and the soil of Mexico is
stained with the blood of our soldiers
We have resorted to physical inva-
sion, only to retire without gaining
the professed object 1t is a record
which cannot be examined without a
profound sense of humiliation"
Interference With Huerta.
Reviewing the interference with
Huerta, Mr.. Hughes characterized it
AS "a vacillating and ineffective inter-
vention." and as "the height Of folly"
$50 far as the character of Huerta
is concerned, the hollowness Of the
pretension" on this score Is revealed
by the administration subsequent
patronage of Villa-whose qualiica.
tions ~ an assassin are indisputable
whom apparently the administration
was ready to recognize had he achiev.
ed his end and fulfilled what then
seemed to be its hope"
After describing the seizure of Vera
Cruz, Mr.. Hughes says:
I'VE are now informed that we did :,
not 70 to Vera Sruz to force Huerta
to salute the nag; we are told that
we won't there to show Mexico that
we were in earnest in our demands
that Huerta must CO. That is, wa