The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-02
HUGHES SERVANT
 OF ''PR|V|LECE" ASSERTS MARSH
Prominent Progressive Tells How Candidate Opposed
 Workers Good.
(By Benjamin c. Marsh

Raymond Robins has recently giver his reasons for supporting MT
 Hughes. As MT. Robins and I hold about the same views on economic
 questions, I ask you to consider the following reasons why all fundamen. tai Progressives should support Presi.
 dent Wilson:
 The Republicans have not changed their spots. The party is just as
 much controlled by Privilege as ever It is pledged to make the poor poorer
 and the privileged more prosperous,
 at the expense of the victims of Privi- lege. The -Rephblicans opposed the income tax for the Federal Govern
 ment and frankly admit their purpose to raise more revenue by taxing the
 workers on what they eat and wear by tariffs or internal revenue. They claim they want Protection" foI American industries. We'll, the high
 protective tariffs which they want dc
 not yield revenue to the government; they yield velvet to the manufacturers
 and other protected interests. MT. Hughes is personally honest
 but has always favored Privilege against the rights of the workers. MT Hughes, as Governor of New York State, appointed Public Service com-
 mission, three of whose members were subservient to the public utility cor
 porations. The chairman of that commission, whom MT. Hughes ap- pointed, now represents the Edison Light Trust, operating illegally in New York city. MT. Hughes made him his campaign manager. The Public Ser vice commission law contained no pro- vision to safeguard the rights of em- pIoyes of public utility corporations. Labor can see what MT. Hughes thinks of workingmen.
 MT. Hughes found an excuse TOT opposing the income tax.
 MT. Hughes vetoed the full crew bill, and the two-cent mileage Dill, though doing nothing to squeeze the water out of the railroads.
 MT. Hughes ran away from his job because he wasn't man enough to fight Privilege, and I told him so at the time.
 As Justice of the Supreme Court, MT Hughes. in the Minnesota Rate Case. repudiated the practice of Mas sachusetts and primary justice; and, writing the opinion. neid that rail- roads are entitled to capitalize in creases in land values. even when the land has been given them. He thereby fastened exorbitant passenger and freight rates upon the people Of the country. How can we hear what MT. Hughes says when what he IS thunders so loud in our ears?
 As candidate for the Presidency, MT. Hughes avows his intention to nse our army and navy to enable the greedy capitalists Of the country to exploit the Mexicans, and his purpose to tax the workers for military and naval preparedness.
 As President, MT. Hughes would doubtless be the same honest, but pliant agent of Privilege that he was as Governor.
 As President, MT. Wilson has kept this country out of the maelstrom of war. and out of the crime of interna- tional exploitation by keeping us. ou. of the Six Power Loan to China. He has reduced tariffs on consumption; started governmental control of credit through the Federal Reserve Bank law; begun to tax Privilege, instead of Poverty, by the income tax; and fcstered the conservation of child h. ood to mention only a few of his achievements.
 Because I am not willing to throw away what gains we have secured. and wish to make more, I intend to vote for President Wilson and urge all true Progressives to do so. For the same reason, I shall vote for Justice seabury for Governor of New York States as I'm sure most Progressives of the state will.