New Britain herald., 1916-08-09
HUGHES CONTINUES
 ATTACK ON WILSON
Speaks in Hall Where He Was
 Nominated by G. 0.P.

Chicago, Aug. 9.-CharIes F.
 Hughes last night told an audience
 m Chicago that crowded Chicago's
 great collseum-the hall where he l was nominated for the presidency 1 what he would do if elected president l Of the United States. MT. Hughes l charged the present administration with waste, extravaganza and vacilla- 1 ton. He declared that it had not 1 Kept the country out of war but that l 1t had fought an ignominous war in Mexico and withdrawn from that war ignominously. He charged the ad- ministration with having brought the country much nearer to participation in the European war than the coun- try would have been had the admin istration stood for American rights" He declared that it was no more pos- s1ble to expect tariff protection to American industries from a demo- cratic congress than it would be to get "a revival sermon out of dis orderly house,
 Democratic expenditures for rivers and harbors were attacked by the nominee. 'I propose that we shall stop this pork business,' he said. q propose that we shall have govern ment In a businesslike way. We won't have any more if I can stop it of these kiss me and I'll kiss you ap- prOpriations in congress- The nom inee said he stood for a ''businessIike responsible Budget based on facts.
 T do not want any hot air in mine," he added. The democratic party, MT. Hughes said, was ap- preaching the idea of a protective tariff, Hike a skittish horse to a brass band.' In 1912, he added, "the dem ocratic platform had said in effect that a protective tariff was uncon- stitutiona1. They say in effect now that the European war has changed the constitution of the United States" he continued. "But do you think they are converted? Don't you trust 1 them a little minute with protecting l American industry. They haven't 1 got it in their bones."
 MT. Hughes repeated much of his | Detroit speech regarding the admin l istration's Mexican policy.
 As to the administrations foreign | policy MT. Hughes said: We have 1 allowed our words to be eaten up by l hesitation, by delay. We have some how or other convinced the world l that our talk is cheap"
  hour. He entered a hall that was so damned that even the steel cross 5irders were utilized for seats The audience cheered him for five min ties before he spoke. A brass band oerched in a loft at the far end of l he hall played three stanzas of the Star Spangled Banner" during the but the music was lost n the volume of other sound.
 The Speech.
 MT. Hughes spoke, in part, as fol- | OwS:-
 "I come to this hall with peculiar 1 emotions. Here, a little less than two 1 ago the republican national l nominated me for the of- l ice of president of the United States. l had not sought that nomination; I 1 did not desire that nomination.; I l was contented with my work and 1 looked forward to the fulfilling of 1 .he allotted period of life, in work 1 hat was congenial and of the high l est importance to the American l people. But when that call came it l lid not admit of an instant's hesita- l -ion It meant but one thing: A l summons to an obvious obligation; 1 and as I was, while on the bench, l 100 per cent. judge, I then became 1 LOO per cent. candidate.
 1T desired, if the American people l SO willed, to dedicate myself to the l cause of American government, not l 'or partisan expediency, not for 1 friends, not for political supporters, 1 put for the American people solely. 1 told the highest partisan expedien- 1 3y to be an administration of ca l oacity for service to the country"
 "If anything in this campaign is l real it is that we are now facing the 1 question whether we want words or