The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-16
HUGHES POLICY | OF WAR CAUSES
 WIDESPREAD FEAR
Endorsement of Roosevelt Utterances Threatens
 War at Home and Abroad.

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 Under the title, Roosevelt ana War,"/ the Sioux City Gowa) "Da-ly Tribuhe," an independent newspaper. calls attention to Roosevelt's war policy towards Germany, as declared in his Battle Creek, Michigan, speech of October ', and demands enlighten- | ment as to- whether Roosevelt Will dominate American foreign policy if l Hughes is elected.
 | This editorial is typical of many that have appeared recently in Independent and Republican newspapers Inas- | much as Hughes gave a blanket in dorsement to the Roosevelt speech at Portland, Maine, in September, and has not qualified the indorsemerlt to date, it is assumed widely that the Colonel's campaign tactics still have Hughes's approval. Roosevelt at Battle Creek, as ap- piled both to foreign affairs and the Adamson Eight-Hour Law, demanded "direct reversal of President Viii sons policies. Candidate Hughes has used terms ore vague but with the same apparent meaning. Everything no@ indicates an attempt to repeal the Eight-Hour Law if Hughes becomes President. Hence the election of Hughes would mean not only war abroad and with Mexico but an indus | trial war at home. ..- N Aching for Fight
 I "In the state of Henry Ford, Colo mel Roosevelt is at work to destroy pacifism and Wilson, says the Sioux City Tribune. 'Insa stirring speech lat Battle Creek he quickened the blood of his hearers and made it plain l that if he was candidate for the presidency men would not have to ask, What would you have done? He would fight,
 The editor of the Tribune then l quoted an Associated Press Dispatch I reporting Roosevelt's words at Battle I Creek: <t | 7" T have been asked what I would have done if I had been president when the Lusitania was torpedoed,' shouted the speaker.
 I" I would have instantly taken pos | session of every German ship interned ,| by this country and then I would have said: : Now we will discuss not what you will give, but what we will give I back!'
 The editorial continued: "Tkis ut terance. says the veracious Associated Press, was received by wild applause. I c"Of course it was. A warmed up crowd likes a fight, and the Colonel would have given them one right off the bat when the Lusitania went down, had he been president. There will never be an excuse again for doubt ing that"
 Recalls Lincoln and Seward
 'The editor of the Tribune was younger then, but that's the. way he felt when @ British man-of-war, took off an American ship Mason and Sli- dell, the rebel commissioners, who had libeen captured, on their way over to Europe to make trouble for this coun- try. That's the way Secretary Se- ward felt. too, and had he been pres ident the North would have taken on Great Britain for fight along with the we'll nigh unconquerable south erns. But President Lincoln overru1- ed his great secretary of state and proceeded with the business of saving the union,' the main thing.
 Wars are much a matter of tenn perament and governmental organi- zatio4, but some en have intellects that subordinate feelings and these may not be brushed aside. Lincoln was much wiser than Seward, or the men on the street, in their day. His yheart was set on a greatp urpose an6 he proceeded calmly toward it and SC came into imperishable renown. No. body now supports the Seward con: tention.
 'Tt was not our time to get into war although there was provocation anG feeling to warrant a cumulative lead. Ter to plunging in. There was feeling
 to justify what Colonel iRooseveE
 would have done had he been presi.
 dent when the Lusitania was assassi
 mated. But would it have extortet
 from Germany an admission of hel
 error? Would it have saved the pre- cedent in. international law? Would
 1t hayes topped the slaughter by. Ger manys ~underseas navy? There
 room to doubt 1t. >fit ~ Il Will He Control Hughes? ,l s.Any way, since that danger ha. passed by, it affords theme of in teresting conversation. There is quit,
 full agreement now that had Colone
 Roosevelt been president there woult
 have been things going on that would
 have shaken the foundations Tn plac,
 of a placid and persistent adminisrra
 ton we would have had one of thrill
 and terrors."
 The editorial concluded:
 However, what the Colonel woult have done is not so important ques
 ton as what he may effect now b,
 installing an administration which vii
 not follow such a course as Wilson followed.
 '"The Coloneps real complaint is tha
 he was not in a position to move VII sons hand. Will he be in a posi- tion to move the hand of Hughes af ter the ides of March ?'
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