The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-03
HUGHES ATTACKS
WILSON'S WAY OF
AVERT|NC STRIKE
Never Surrender Principle to
Arbitrary Force, Says
G. o. P. Leader.
CBy the International News Service.

tby the international News Service.)
81 Louis, Mo-, Sept 2.-"Never sur
render principle to force" said Charles
f. Hughes in a speech here this after
noon, which is interpreted generally to-
night as being a criticism of the means
by which President Wilson averted the
threatened railroad strike.
Mr.. Hughes has declined repeatedly to
discuss the strike situation, and he re-
peated his declination today both before
and after his address was delivered.
There is particular significance, how
ever in the fact that in his speech this
afternoon the Republican candidate used
language almost Identical to that which
was used by friends of Mr.. Hughes who
nave discussed the strike situation with
him.
The speech was made before 500 busi-
ness men at the Missouri Athletic As
sociation. He had been talking of the
ificulties of the past-economic and in
dustriaL
I'VE have come to a time in this coun-
try" he declared, where we need not
surgery, but hygiene We have as say,
demonstrated our capacity to maintain
strate our capacity to meet the economic
difficulties which surely confront us.
"Never Surrender Principle"
How shall these difficulties be met?
In the first place they will not be met
unless in every relation we maintain
the supremacy of reason and justice and
never surrender principle to force
81 believe the American public is fair.
think that we desire always to take
counsel together with respect to what is
Just. The day has gone by when any
thing arbitrary should be m~sltalned in
this land. l like the expression which is
frequently used in the decision Of the
courts, that under our institutions there
Is no place upon the part OF any officer
or on the part of any board or on the
part OF the combination for the exercise
of arbitrary power.
Our community is organized with full
confidence that the Judgment expressed
through the machinery we have afforded
for the expression of public opinion is a
sound and good judgment in the main. on
which We may feel secure in relying.
II believe ALI we need in this country
In any difficulty is to focus the attention
of the American people on the facts. Let
US understand what the facts require.
Then let US do what these facts require,
and the American people from the Allan
tic to the Pacific are willing to accept the
decision
- 'Do Nothing Arbitrary"
bul ltl US 10 hOlnlllB dIUlJfdrN ana
never dethrone reason. which must rule
supreme in a democracy, or else democ-
raCy becomes failure"
When attention was called to the fact
that these expressions might be inter
preted as bearing up the settlement OF
the railroad strike, 1t was said Mr..
Hughes had no statement to make.
Mr.. Hughes tonight laid claim to prece-
dence over President Wilson in fathering
Lob VEp1a
recent Democratic measure as not going
far enough. He claimed that most Of the
liberal legislation recently enacted by
Congress he had advocated as governor
of New York
There is nothing I desire so much as
the betterment of human life." he de-
clared.