Evening star., 1924-10-30
HUGHES HITS DAVIS
/. IDEAS ASSTER|LE
Third Party, However, Secre.
tary Warns, Has Peri|ous
Aims for America.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
BUFFALO, \. V, October 30.-Sec-
retary of State Charles L. Hughes. in
a political address here last night,
alluded to the national Democratic
program as STERILE" and declared the
La Toilette party to be running
away from the platform they SO de-
liberately prepared"
Mr. Hughes named the Washington
conference and the Dawes plan as the
greatest contributions in the inter-
est of peace in the recent difficult
years"
He digressed at the beginning of his
address to indorse the candidacy of
Col. Theodore Roosevelt for Governor
of New York State.
1T will be a good omen," he said,
ito have the victory of Roosevelt
crown the victory of Coolidge"
Prosperity An Issue.
Turning to the national campaign.
MIR. Hughes said the American people
were alive to the paramount issue,
naming that as whether we shall
have sound business conditions or uu-
certainty and confusion: whether we
snail have prosperity and progress,
or unrest. staGnant trade and unem-
ployment."
When the Republican administra- :
tlon came into power in March, 1921,
1T inherited the most serious difficult
ties at home and abroad" Secretary
Hughes asserted. There was busi-
ness depression and Unemployment.
The responsibility lay, so far as gov
ernmental action was concerned, with
the Democratic administration and
It's unwise Treasury policy"
Mt Hughes cited increased produc-
tion in mining and manufacturing
iv,r
In wholesale prices paid to farmers
penses by more than $4,000, 600, ,OOO
as accomplishments of the Republican
administration.
Praise For Gen. Dawes.
"President Harding" he added, COR
Eanlzed the Bureau of the Budget
and called to this supreme effort ar
honest, experienced and most Jealous
servant of the public welfare, Gen
Charles G. Dawes"
Credlt for tax reduction, he as
serted, belongs to the Republican
administration because it saved the
money and made the tax reduction
possible"
1T proposes to save still more,
he continued. president Coolidee's
pledge will be carried out and the
way iurtner 10 reIleVe the Op.
pressive tax burden is to give Presi.
oent Coolidge the opportunity tc
carry out his program.
In foreign affairs the Republicar
administration also inherited serious
complications. When it came into powe,
nearly two years and four months
a1ter the armistice, we were still in
q technical state Of war. 1 dislike
making a partisan issue of foreign
policy, although this is, of course
unavoidabl if there is a real issue
Secret Diplomacy Denied.
Senator La Toilette makes charge.
against our diplomacy. He charges
secrecy. But we have no secret com.
mftments of any sort with any coun.
try. Senator La Toilette SAYS that
when information is asked the repl,
Is made that it is incompatible with
the public interest to give it. This
is most misleading. Little attention
seems to be paid to the constant re-
eponses that are given to the con
gressional inQuirers"
turning to the Washington confer
ence and the Dawes plan. Secretary
Hughes said:
If you should ask we'll Informed
ana impartial persons in any part OF
the world what had been the greatest
contrloutlons In the interest of peace
In the recent difficult years, I think
they would answer, the Washingtor
conference and the Dawes plan
through the Washington conference
we d1ssfpated the clouds of suspicion
and mistrust which had darkened the
eastern sky and through the navaI