South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-18

For most OF this the grating sirplane makers
guilty. They have gone unpublished"
wouldn't it jar you Some effort indeed this: any
thing 20 eclipse the "embalmed" scandals OF the
republican spanish-American war days Of Col Harry
Stuart News ingenuity even if they must lie about
Fat his cohorts punished. No. The
republicans OF Indiana the contrary. send him
the United States play hypocrite
and reinyest his ingenuity in an effort discredit
everything democratic administration does in real
war Contractors guilty OF grating and sabotage and
FRO Germanism in aircraft production. they? Well
lost any coward; sneaking snarling political jack
SHIRE can make that kind Of general charge against
Lobody in particular but before Judge Hughes makes
he viii complete his investigation Here is the
Of our contemporaries "copperhead" accusations
it not time that punishment were given
as deserved. Can America any longer afford TO
permit such traitors to disguise themselves in
clothes OF patriotic citizens
when they should be pounding rock in a fed
eral prison filling six foot plot? What is
there in the Hughes report which causes it 10
be withheld the public? Do the
Of eminent democrats appear in it? Does it
reflect so on the democratic party that prose-
cutons are being held up until after election?
has the report now? Was the ordering
Of the investigation mere bluff to quiet
public demand for action? Is Mr. Hughes
being made the goat of policy Of the demo
cratic leaders, If does he not owe it to
himself and the nation to speak out?"
Can you imagine Judge Hughes. a lawyer and in
vestgator being made goat of by democrats? We
thought all the wisdom ingenuity and skill in the
world. the way republicans tell it. wound
up in the republicans. No. thank you; Judge Hughes
is being made goat He a free hand has
had a free hand, and doing his work with all the
thoroughness and skill employed by him
VII he enter he OF Finance
and busted up insurance conspiracy down in New
York As a lawyer and investigator, he isn't doing
his half either. rushing report prob
ably false just please the republican press and poll
ticans. The only time of record that Charles Evans
Hughes has permitted himself to be made goat Of
1916, when the republicans did it, appro
priating candidate of a conspir
acy-pro Germanism in bed fellowship progresso
republican "standpatism"-and tying his hands from
all directions that he couldn't extricate himself.
When Judge Hughes report S ready will be put in
readable form and presented to the woodland
contemporary viii never be able to read it. The
tons finished already stack OF typewriter
pages two feet high, and the top yet reached
That there has been no prosecutions Judge
Hughes has advised none All he needs do is to
push the button. hasn't any string him this
time, he had when the running him for
the Accordingly. if he is slow maybe it
is because the names Of eminent republicans
the list which our contemporary claims
well and unqualifedy, be guilty of grating sabot
age and pro-Germansm.'
But he isn't slow that account 1t is because OF
the thoroughness Of his work and disregard
lawyer and investigator for political affiliations the
anxiety of Washington political correspondents,
the partisan pukings of half-baked "copperhead"
editors.