Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27
HUGHES TO PICK
ABLE CABINET
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to class prejudices and expediency to
gain popularity and votes and cited
Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the
Navy, and William Jennings Bryan,
one time Secretary of State, as ex-
amples of American Cabinet Ministers
who characterized the inefficiency of
the Wilson Cabinet.
Wild Cheering
Time and again after the five min
ute demonstration which greeted his
entrance had subsided Mr.. Hughes
was interrupted by the widest cheer
ing of his whole campaign. He was
| "heckled" by persistent questioner
and his replies, in which he became
SO wrought that he stamped back and
forth on his narrow platform, brought
more yells of encouragement, which
he finally tried to subdue by begging
his auditors not to make him strain
his voice.
Amid tumult in which the entire
audience of 10000 persons rose to
their feet and waved garments and
hands, Mr.. Hughes denied first the
fundamental position which he will
take as the Executive of the Nation
If he is elected, and, as he said last
night, he repeated that "I expect to
be-
Mr.. Hughes said:
Il propose, first of all to start
right. The President is primarily the
Executive. 1t is his supreme duty to
attend to the business of the Nation,
TO safeguard its interests, to anticipate
and understand it's needs. to enforce
It's laws. The first act of President
who takes this view of his duties is
to call about him the ablest Cabinet
the country can furnish, the most
competent administrative heads of the
vast departments of the Nations
affairs; men who can deal with the
tremendous international and domes
tic problems which will confront us
| in the next four years.
Its Business Manager
My conception of the Presidency
is radically different from that which
seems to have governed the action of
! the present administration. / look
upon the President as the Executive
head of the government; he is its
business manager, and considerations
or mere politics and partisan exped-
! lency must yield. At the very outset
or the present administration, in the
tMo departments OF government most
closely touching our foreign relations
the department of State and the
| Department of the Navy-there were
CHOSEN men who, whatever their ami
able qualities, were absolutely un-
equal to the high duties of the posi-
| tions.
! 1T is manifest that the great inter
ests of the Nation and the most i'm
portant executive obligations were
subordinated to a conception Of parti
san eXlgency. ] can see far enough
into the future to assure the country
that II l am vested with executive
| responsibility it will be discharged
upon sound administrative prin.
ciples, through the ablest Cabinet the
country can supply.
Firm and Courteous InsisteDcc
"A nrm and courteous insistence on
the rights of our citizens. at home
and abroad, on land and on sea, is the
only course which will give us lasting
peace. An American in Mexico is
subject to Mexican law, but he has
the rights of an American citizen. and
is entitled TO the protection of his
government, both as to life and to
| property. ~
There confronts labor in the next
tour years danger beyond any that
American laboring men have baen
called to face. When this war began
over one million American worlinG-
men were vainly seeking employment
When the war ends, and the develon-
ed energies of new Europe are
thrown INTO commercial production.
our Nation will face competition
such as it never knew 1t is vain
oeiuslon To base hopes on a prosDeritv
created IN this country by the Eu
ropean war.
THAT prosperity is due to an ah-
normal demand for our products and
70 the stimulated activity of enter
prlses, through the unprecedented de-
mand for labor. caused by the with
drawal of millions of men abroad
from their normal activities of pro-
duction
When the War Ends
When the war ends, the demands
Tor our products, created by the war
q
on that demand will end also. One of
TWO things must happen either
inlllons OF men will be seeking work
IN vain, or else there must be sought
out the problems of protection to Am
erlcan industry and of commercial or
sahlZatlon. France and England and
Germany are already at work unon
their problems of this character. The
nations abroad are preparing 10 do
Iehd their markets and to organiza
Ior the keenest commercial rivalry in
tlme OF peace. If we are to save orr
Morkingmen from catastrophe we
must plan a tariff protection along
SOUND economic lines. To this en-.
deavor the Republican Party has
pledged itself
Recently the head of the opposinp
party, through the most extraordinary
leslsiation ever enacted by Congress.
sought to increase the wages of a
group of railroad employees constitutN
ing less than twenty per cent. of those
employed by railroad companies.
Delleve that this legislation will he
found by labor-even by thos who
are ostensibly the beneficiaries of the
act-to be delusive.
Glass Legislation
III the law is effective, a great body
of workers must pay the bill. as the
burden must fall upon the public.
thus constituting class legislation of
most Objectionable character. The
interests of the workingmen of the
country cannot be furthered by ac-
ton of this sort. Such action in
response to pressure and in advance
of inquiry, without knowledge of its
justice. is a betrayal of the funda