The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-11
q, II. AVIS, MOOSE COMMITTEEMAN, |TfllS WHY HE AND THOUSANDS OF. |0TnERS WILL SUPPORT PRESIDENT

n | letter to the Hartford Times, ivvinfam H. Avis. of Hamden. Conn, " member of the Progressive State ECentraI Cemuiittee. says that ne ana fhor]sar,ls Of other Progressives VIII svots for wilson. The reasons are thus
 To the Editor Of The Times:
 z N have read the acceptance speecn nf charles Evans Hughes carefully. vlord for word and sentence for sen- tsrce. and nowhere in it have been SbIe to discover one word of sound. convtncinE argument vituperaticn .rind abuse abound throughout the
 1 1o0o words of the speech. and pre1u- E 8ics and unconvincing argument oo1e nm every line and paragraph. IL is
 cnt \ speech which will appeal fo <5,arkin{ people, but in the eyes cf fT~ bretudiccd, blinded partisan, It .rsll no doubt shine forth as q brilliant
 unanswerable impeachment of the Milson administration.
 Esbecially will 5this be SO Tn the
 nsse of those Republicans. who vote f5a Republican ticket simply because
 their fsthers and grandfathers voted . lhat way. and because they them
 ~r1vne never voted any other way. But !. .&o aA marfcans, real Americans, wno i.2xn the weIfars Of their country 4tI f~srt and who arc not blinded by |rS rflea n. pretudice. the acceptance Sn..reh of Mr. Hughes will appear as | Snmmonpiace ana unconvincing aS sIe decIsration of the little boy who .1r to the other little boy. My 3~fher can, lick your father"
 7 7 Hr Hurhes makes assertions In re- \ s,,,6 to the Mexican situation which M know about, so far as they go., fya fails. however, to explain the req ~cn' vhv MT. Taft, the Republican nrede decessor of MT. Wilson, failed to malre. even as good a showtng in the ! 7Snrscsn filtration as MT. Wilson has 4 IVY Se' rIis speech indicates thatJ he l ,must think that the people of the !, I7nited States are dummies without < Senss. thought or inteIligence, when ..In deplores the unprepared condition {nf 66r military system, but falls so' I iSrplafn that decades of Republican ] are more responsible { for fI,ia condition than anything else. I r,rlv tbe uninformed, or the absolute Efrni. 1il claim that 1t has been possi- lble 'for the Wilson administration to ] ula X our country in the state of pre- I Ssradness during the short term q jek. Wiison administration which \ s-rr11d K necessary to enable us to |I ,s,~ .naedilv and successfully with \ From, foreign foe bent upon the ce- {<-,.,,,,red fnyasion of our territory.
 z Hfuuftion manufacturerss and gun A t4 ah00Int0IV " fho tremendous task required in the 9IbufIdinr up of system of prepara- II edness adeauate to our needs at the knresert lime. And the experience of N ifhe past two years has taught them IthAt II would be easier for men to lift ! ifhernselves by their bootstraps than 1t 4 would be to furnish arrns in sufficient lnumbera to equip an army of even ] !. GOO .oo0 men, should sudden neces- q citv demand that VIC raise an army
 |of that sdze, either for the purpose of
 !1nvadins some other country. or for |tthe purpose of resisting invasion.
 sThis being the case, 1t can readily
 he understood that in the trying or Ideals through which MT. Wilson has
 isuccessfully steered our country dur V 3ing the past two years. by way of the
 fchaunels of diplomacy, his methods
 have rse1iy yielded most wonderful .E Eresults.
 According to the figures most 4 available. there are not in the United Il States today more than 100000 4 stand Of up-to-date military rifles. ] which means that there are not
 T Tenough rifles in the country to ade- " 0uately arm more than 250.o00 mon, Tn time Of war. For it should be un- derstood that five rifles to man
 lars not too many in these modern
 ktimes Of warfare, so great Is the des- N ltructton and waste of small arms in
 jmodern warfare. Despite the large 4 number of arms factories which have jsprung up in the United States dur
 !1ng tho past two years, 1t is safe to
 assert that not 100000 military
 it1fIos have been manufactured in our
 Icountry sincs the great European war
 broke into flame. Yet Mir. Hughes
 ifalks of, the wonderful things which
 l 1fr. Wilson should have accomplished
 Through force of arms in compsllina
 f1Gsxico and other countries to walk
 Ithe chalkline of propriety in regard
 lto what he is pleased to style Amer.
 lScan rights"
 There is no man living who knows laud underestimate tho absolute necessity lof keeping out of Q big foreign war