Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-20

Hughes says: II stand for our civil service laws
Nobody has right to pay political debts with the
good name and honor Of the United States"
The threat OF 100000 railroad employees to tie
President Wilson to surrender the principle of
arbitration for industrial disputes and dictate
rapid-hre legislation by congress fixing wages
for special class of workers. He defends his
course by calling it eight-hour day legislation.
Mr.. Hughes says: II stand for the principle of
fair, thorough arbitration and for legislation on
facts. | am opposed to being dictated to by any
power on earth before the facts are known and
in the absence of the facts. The Adamson law
fixes wages. 1t does not fix hours Of labor"
Mr.. Wilson having been weighed in the bal
ance and found wanting, the independent voter
will say: IF Mr.. Hughes will fulfill his prom
Uses he should be elected. How do ! know he
will make good his word?" There is but one
answer: Turn to his record. In public life the
name Hughes connotes character. For more than
decade it has been synonymous with an en-
gressive action. Hughes brings right things to
pass. The nations pioneer progressive he re-
ceived and deserved the title long before it
possessed partisan political significance. The
most constructive set of laws put upon the
statute books of an American commonwealth
within generation are Hughes-made laws
stamped with the indeble imprint Of his orr
ginality, In those days Of strenuous discussion
when the country was awakening to a new civic
consciousness, to be labeled "a Hughes man" was
a brilliant badge of honor. Its bearers today are
equally proud, but the distinction is less ex-
elusive; there are so many of them PECULIARLY
of Mr.. Hughes platform rhetoric is his reitera-
ton OF the phrase II stand for" this or that prn
cple or policy. This is not accidental, but
springs logically from the mans mental makeup
II is sign OF his positive character. Does any
body known what Woodrow Wilson really stands
for?
Fearless investigator of evil in high places
vrile, independent governor OF great state
justice of the supreme court scrutinize every
slight, that ever in the OF his distinguished
career Charles Evans Hughes has departed one
hairs breadth from the path of sincerity and
honor Twice chosen chief executive of the state
OF New York, in neither campaign was there a
single questioning of his character, the trace of
reflection upon his unbending recttude. There
is every reason to believe that President Hughes
would be, as was Governor Hughes, the scru-
puous keeper of faith with the people, the eff
hcient performer OF his promises
Woodrow Wilson has given the country an
academic, anaemic, theoretic epstolary' and dan
gerousiy experimental administration He is a
demonstrably uncertain quantity, a perpetual con-
undrum and the country is ready to give him up
And so it turns to the great Administrator Of
proved capacity and judgment of splendid I'M
selfishness, OF devotion to purpose the judicial
mind harnessed to the driving energy OF the re-
former, true republican, true progressive and
above all. true and typical American, man of the
people and their logical choice for the highest
honor within their gift, Charles Evans Hughes.