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murderer Huerta should have recognized and says
eff crimes committed do not palliate
them. We make defense of Huerta. But the ad
minstration has nothing to do with the moral charac
ter OF Huerta informally he represented the
i ment of Mexico We shall never worthily prosecute
our unselfisf aim humanity by wrong headed
ness.''
and passing to vague generalities he asserts that
i ''The question is not to the non-recognition of
i Huerta The administration did not content itself
with refusing to recognize Huerta who recognized
! by Great Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Spain and
Japan. The administration undertook to destroy
Huerta to control Mexican policy, to deny Huerta
the right to be candidate the office of president at
the election the administration demanded
and in his words cczes the administration for refusing
recognize the murdered Maero instead facilitating the
of murderous drunkard Therefore the reader is
to suppose that Hughes would have recognized perpetra
tor OF atrocities ruler Mexico atrocities of
the Mexican people, How appealing.
Hughes then reviews outrages occurring in Mexico, neg
Letting ourages perpetraed during Rooseve and Tas adj
and asserting that the of the amnstra
ton has been weak leaving unannouncd what he would do
AS the United States has refused intervene in Mexico the
only left unpursued intervention the efforts
to reach happier solution Mr. Hughes might least have
announced whether he favored intervention.
| American Rights
In his discussion of conditions which arose as result
OF European and concerning the maintenance of Amer
rights, he again lodged definite statement of conduct
and purpose vaguely asserting that mness should have been
used giving illustration of his mness by the
and lodging of his statements.
Speaking of the complications growing of the usitania
affair, he states that
Had his government by the Of both informal
and formal diplomatic opportunities left doubt
that when said strict accountability we meant
precisely what said and that should unhesitat-
ngy vindicate that position, am confident that there
would have been no destruction of American lives by
the sinking of the Lusitana. There we had ample
notice; in fact, published notice.
but leaves unanswered the question of whether would
taken the Wilson took whether he have chosen
the only other coursethat of break of relations with
many and
Hughes speaks of weakness indecson in dealing with
international troubles He knows that the American people
cognzant that Wilson took the only to avoid He
knows that the majority favor the path of peace He himself
weak and md that he refuses course he would
have taken had protests been dsregarded knows that
England protested against the violation of Begums neutr
ty and In vain, and entered the sacrifice
the best OF its mahood with the outcome still and
Indefinite Roosevelt has asserted that course of the United
States should have been that of England Hughes endorsed
by Roosevelt who stands for the principles beliefs
advocated by Theodore Roosevelt Why does Hughes
state whether the United States should have the lists
with the Allies?
Of Unpreparedness
Of unpreparedness he cit apparent that we are
shockngy unprepared which rather frank
republican following 20 of uninterrupted republican
mnistraton and including the rule of of mill
arlsm as Theodore Roosevelt Another admittedly left
unpeoed by republicans and being performed by demo
crazy Seeing this issue slip from him. Hughes make
case out OF taking out of factories family men when
the guard was called to the border from which might de-
dueed that he would advocate instead the drafting service
solely OF boys from the farm AS advocate of
Hughes fails to touch the fact that his nterven
ton in Mexico followed that had the war
IN Europe that farmer boys factory laborers of all
common classes would have been called slaughter as thew
were IN France In England and her possessions Germany
and all the other warning countries The great fault finder
again IN this matter lodges formal declaration of principles
ana oeefs and especially whether he favos
compulsory military SERVICE does Roosevelt and
directly dsavowed by President Wilson
Thus throughout the entire speech acceptance he stands
as cang critic and not does he definitely take stand
for an avowed principle except protection having been
relegated as relic by the republican platform advocating