The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-10
M 'CORMICK TO
 KEEP TABS ON
 HUGHES' TALKS
Directs That Party Leaders Pay Attention to Candi-
 dates Speeches.


 campaign managers in New York
 have decided to pay more attention
 to the western campaign trip of Chas. E. Hughes the Republican candidate, 1t was learned yesterday at the na-
 tional committee headquarters. The
 Democratic managers here also have
 decided to select campaign com mittee and to get their campaign in full swing as soon as possible. The
 hitch in the selection of a commit tee has been due to the New York state situation. Some of the man. agers are opposed to putting a repre-
 sentative of the Tammany organiza- tion on the committee, while others
 have contended> that to ignore Tam many altogether would be playing very bad politics. The national Ad- ministration, it is said, is willing to have Tammany represented, but sev- eral influential leaders have been op- posing it.
 Vance c. Mccormick, national chair man, said yesterday that the situation had been smoothed out. He will go to Maine today to confer with William R. Pattangill, manager of the cam paign committee of that state, and he  bers before he started. Several Pro- gressives will be on the list. and they probably will include Bainbridge Col by of New York, Matthew Hale of | Massachusetts and Francis J. Heney of California. The other members will be Mr. Mccormick, representing Pennsylvania; Carter Glass of Vir- ginia; Daniel c. Roper of North Caro- l lima; Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana; Henry Morgenthau of New York; Robert woolley of Virginia; Frederick B. Lynch of Minnesota; f1o- mer s, Cummings of Connecticut; Robert s. Hudspeth of New Jersey, Dr. Coughlan of Massachusetts, and wilbur Marsh of Iowa, treasurer Of the campaign committee. If a Democratic organization man in New York. is se- lccted, Norman E. Mack, probably will be the man. Mccormick Hits at Hughes. Chairman Mccormick made this criticism of MT. Hughes speeches.:
 "What pitiable spectacle it is in a. campaign for the exalted office of President to see such things as MT. Hughes is putting before the voters as issues. I have carefully analysed all of his speeches to date and I fail to find a single, strong, constructive policy: MT. Hughes apparently IS touring the country telling the people small, petty things which amount to nothing. On the other hand, our can- didate, the President. is busy at Wash ington putting through the promises he made to the people. None can dney that he is, in the vernacular. de- livering the goods he promised"
 Representative George F. O'Shau- messy of Rhode Island told Chairman Mccormick yesterday that President Wilson's achievements had made a deep impression upon the Rhode Is- land electorate.
 Flight thousand more men have registered in Rhode Island than in 1912," said MT. O'Shaunessy. "On all sides business is booming. Labor is scarce. We'll employed men will turn a deaf ear to Republican orators this year. With pockets full of money and contented with their lot, they will vote for woodrow Wilson's reelection"
 Victory, Says Hefifiin.
 Representative Tom" Hefiin of Alabama was another caller at Demo- cratic headqurters yesterdy. He has been invited to spek in 20 different states and has promised to speak in Maine the, latter part of this month. He predicted President Wilson's re- election by an overwhelming majority.
 President Wilson's Alaskan policy may carry the state of Washington into the Democratic column in No vember, according to R. P. Oldham, president of the Woodrow Wilson League of the state of Washington. The suffrage question, he said, would not be brought into the foreground in Washington. Regarding the building of the government railroad in Alaska he wrote:
 "No one can gainsay that the Wilson policy in Alaska and the building of the railroad have been great help to this community. There is nothing in that regard that could be attacked by the Republicans. It was one of the most important things that ever hap pened for the prosperity of Seattle, and must be so admitted by all people,"
 Hapgood Calls It Slander
 Norman Hapgood, vice chairman of the Woodrow Wilson Independent league, commented yeSIcTOdy Ou MT. Hughes attack on the President.
 What MT. Hughes says about the record of the present administration regarding appointments is so inaccur- ate that it goes beyond the bounds of legitimate argument" said MT. Hap godo "The records will show that the changes in the state department, when this administration came in, all though it. followed a Republican ad-i ninistration, were not greater than those that have taken place when one Republican administration followed another.
 eff MT. Hughes cannot find anything better to do in his campaign than to indulge in what is to him g. new exper- fence, that of repeating ordinary parti- sanship islander, his reputation is not likely to improve. What he needs is a constructive program and a real is- sue."