The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-28
HUGHES PITILESS ON
MEXICAN DISGRACE
In His Mind and on His Tongue
More Than Any Other Single
Problem With Which Mr..
Wilson Has PaItered.
CRAZY CHAPTER OF BLUNDERS

No One Can Hear Him Speak Without
Seeing the Reality of His lndigna-
tion Over the Heartless Policy of
the Democratic Administration To-
ward American Men, Womer and
Children, American Citizens, SOL
diers and Sailors Along and Across
the Rio Grande.
Soon after Mr.. Hughes was nominal
ed friend said to him. Governor, if
the American people forget the Mexi-
can disgrace they do not deserve to
have you for president" Quick as a
flash he replied. ''The candidate who
lodges the Mexican disgrace does not
deserve to be president" He did not
pass around his address of acceptance
for compliment or criticism in ad-
vance Of its delivery, but the amount
of space he devoted to me Mexican
disgrace-"that confused chapter of
blunders" s"-surprised no one who had
talked with him since his nomination.
1t has been in his mind and on his
mind more than any other single prob
lem with which Mr.. Wilson has pal
tered. To talk with him is to see at
once the reality of his Indignation over
the heartless manner in which Ameri-
can men. women and children, Ameri-
can citizens, soldiers and sailors have
been abandoned by the administration
along and across the Rio Grande, the
victims of Mexican armed forces. out
fitted with American ammunition and
American rifles, Mexicans whom Mr..
Wilson has coddled one day as patriots
only to chase the next as bandits.
It is apparently the belief of Mr..
Wilson that the people of the United
States are not interested in Mexico.
His defenders have declared that it
was an "old story and out of date"
Mr.. Hughes has better opinion of his
fellow countrymen. He has proved
himself a better judge of their feelings.
He has made 1.-The Mexican disgrace"
a foremost issue of his campaign. He
has asSailed the record of the admin
istration in that respect In almost
every speech he has made. He has new
er failed to strike a responsive chord
in the hearts of his audience whether
speaking IN Carnegie hall, New York,
from the platform of his train at
Grand Forks, n. D., to a vast audience
at Portland. at the exposition at San
Diego or in the prairie states of the
middle west He has refuted the Sian
der, sometimes heard in the effete
east, that the people of the great west
do not care what happens to their fell
low citizens in Mexico or to the flag
beyond the border No man born in
the west has a trmer faith in the
fundamental patriotism and dominant
mericanism" OF the people of that
section than Mr. Hughes. He holds
them responsible in large measure for
til encouragement AM Support he re-
ceived while governor u' NcW York in
his war upon political graft and O.
litical boSsiSm. He thinks they had
much to do with cOnscripting him as
the champion of nationalism in the
current campaign. He showed his con-
idence in ,heir practical idealism
when he made 1.-The Mexican disgrace"
an urperm Jst issue of his campaign.
He has been indicated by the re-
sponse his arraignment of the admin
istration "a this score has everywhere
evoked. From Maine to California
''the Mexican disgrace" is a sore sub
|, ject with red blooded Americans to-
day. But nowhere between the oceans
are the outrages inflicted in Mexico
upon American honor, life and prop
erty more keenly resented than around
the fresides of the great west. Mr..
l'ugheS is no stranger to the west.
His straightforward talk on Mexico
proves it.