The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-06-14
' TIE HUGHES ACCEPTANCE.

nomination Tor the pTeSIueHCy ny 'N'
republicans, the question has been
asked many a time whether his ut
terances would suit Roosevelt and
finally bring back the eX-president in
to the republican ranks Roosevelt
doubtless wants to see the republican
party back in power with himself at
the head, but what Hughes said, I'M
der ordinary circumstances, is not
what Roosevelt would have said.
Roosevelt comes as near being pos
tive force as any man in the public
eye in this country. He is so positive
that Americans are much afraid OF
him. With the reins of power in his
hands, the United states certainly
would not have pursued the peaceful
course it is now following. No one
need fret about national humiliation
with man like Roosevelt at the
head,-unless we are beaten into hui
initiation.
But Hughes is not that kind of
man! And what he said has nothing
of.tAe-eharacter of Roosevelt. A Geor-
gia candidate for governor would stand
for the enforcement of the law. This
Isl about as far out as any one of thG
four will venture. Hughes would
stand for the maintenance of all the
rights of American citizens on land
and seas" and there he stops. He
sees in our democratic administration,
with special reference to our foreign
policy, ''humiliating spectacle of in
eptitude. Ineptitude means unsuita-
bleness. That's a republican perspec-
tive.
Charles z. Hughes, as president of
the United States would ltaye been
every whit the "humiliating spectacle
of ineptitude" that Wilson has been,
or else he would have been the blunder
of the age, for the democratic presi
dent has stood for the rights of Amer
lean citizens every inch as far as we
could have gone without war.
Wilson knows that, with the eXcep-
ton of a few hot headed southern
ers, this country does not want war
Hughes knows it, too There is but
one difference. Wilson is in office try
ing to uphold the dignity of American
freedom on land and sea without blood
shed and Hughes is on the outside
trying to say things that will carry
him and his party back into power
Cenflic1 with other nations that are
now destroying themselves at war and
c4ring little what they do to peaceful
Americans in their death struggles
issnot the problem that Hughes mus
confront in leading his party to vic
tory. Wilson is at the front, on the
very battle lines directing issues tC
preserve American liberties with the
least bloodshed.
With the situation so different
Hughes could well afford to say wha
he has, but would he do quite so wei
with the responsibilities on his shoul
ders? The bag President Wilson il
holding is no little bag to hold. 1t is
not like doping out campaign matter
I'VE have long desired to see Amer
can rights in Mexicon protected Year
ago when the republicans held the
rqgns, of power many Of us at that ear
lysperiod wanted to see American in
tefests protected in Mexico, but they
we're dealt with then much in the sam,
way as. they are being handled now
we have yet to find out whether We
are right and the government al
wrong.
Many times since the European con
flIet bfokeEon the world, we have lei
that the injustice done America al
fofded ample excuse for our jumping
int with all possible haste. The wa
has ragged with such terror as to oh
literate diplomacy and the last vestigC
of diplomatic method in dealing with
a foreign warning power Relations
ha%e been too strained for diplomacy
int its generally accepted and highly
respected meaning No president OF
the United States has ever had to