South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-10-26
OCTOBER %, 1910.
MEssRs HUGHES AND OLEARY.

MESSRS HUGHES AND O'LEARf.
That Candidate Hughes has finally shown the man
illness to submit to the force Of circumstances and at
least appropriatng the idea if spirit Ian
guage of Prest Wilson. told Jeremiah A. oLeary
where to get with his un-Amereanism is about the
sanest thing he has done since he entered the race
Office.
We call it sane in spite OF the insanity that must
have driven him OF it is not even to be
insinuated that the republican nominee should have
given president any credit approval for his re-
sentiment of the infamous OTeary telegram. Can any
good thing come out Of NAZARETH? Certainly not
and neither any good thing possibly come out OF
the white house or Shadow Lawn, under Mr.. Hughes
treatment present occupant Silent at the time
or the OTeary Geographic insult the nations execu-
tive why should ne recognize it now, though forced
as he has been by proven coaut!orship, into
discIairnfng not the telegram. similar purport
we have used the term almost proven co-author-
ship" perhaps inadvisedy though purposely, for the
reasor that explains advance, what it seems has
been proven namely: that Hughes has been dan
gerousy near TO an acceoship both before and after
the fact. Exposure OF secret meetings between Mr.
Hughes and Mr. O'Leary at first denied by both in
toto and later only as secrecy after the pro-
ceedng- had been out-with even more to follow
naturally called something than denials from
the republican nominee II called for repudiaton-an-
seeming right about face-to avoid another pop
ular disa pproval O'Learyism, seemingly, to be
paign up to the moment where it began TO burn his
fingers in consequence which his dsavowal Of il.
can stand only painful scream.
The silence Hughes with reference to the pur-
port of the OIeary telegram, whether it had gone to
the president of the United States the humblest
citizen i'm the continuing this silence the
point where ne began to the weight of that pur-
port failing upon him. is all the evidence of his ac-
cessoryship after the fact that one needs.
And the light that throws the possibility if
not probability the face Of other evidence of an
understaudins with OTeary sufficient TO inspire and
emuolden him into sending that nefarous message is
quite sIaring.
II the reader has not been following the exposure
Of this political weH-night seditious conspiracy
called the American Independence conference.-the
days OF The NewsTmes carries it. and re-
view Of il is well worth while. Here the oLeary
German propagand.sts and republican nationa com
m.tteemen get tosether discuss the dissatisfaction
of the OIearytes with Mr. Hughes for his too-much
approval Roosevelt says" his consequent
apparent and otherwise silent lack pro-German-
ism. Even Mr.. Hughes himself to have been
called in to pass on bill particulars and left
which days later resulted, perhaps with
counsel but also without his subsequent dis
approval that awful attempt political threat to
intmidate the head of the nation.
must be getting pretty warm for Mr.. Hughes. and
he must be boiling account Of the warmth
why. after the silence of a month does he rush
AtpAN"AN-oA
OLeary ideaIe Even this. he lacks the American
manliness. and unadulterated sand designate who
driving at speaks his customary gittering
observation-disclosures the old double game. You have
to guess that ne the OLearyites but ne hasn't
said and OF course. that leaves it that when
OLeary complains isn't understood already to be
the political gun expediency, the nominee. his
managers. can give that and ward off the
friction that might where harmony ruled
Neither will the institution Of bluff libel suits by
OLeoU against Democratic National Chairman Nc
Cormick. or the making Of bluff counter-charges
against Pres't wilson Former Gov Glynn Of New
York los Republican National Chairman Wilcox that
they had been interviewed 10y OLeary, serve nuddIe
the waters very materially. II will not, and cannot
but have been noticed, that whatever O'Learys
Inducements may have been 20 them-and il is
denied that there any.-they were not accept
ed. acted upon either words or silence. by Prest
Wilson, anyone actins for him. The president haA
been outspoken in h.s Amero2nism and against dis
loyal Americans. not generaties specihca
tions along every step of the road. lie has not had
Doe driven and then only generalities as
the OF Mr. Hughes thinking Americans can see
Alas. afraid that Mr. Hughes "watchful wait
ing with reference To- OLearyism. bids spoil mis-
eeventh-hour confession guarded denuncation ever
beiaS taken seriously. bids pat him about