Evening star., 1924-11-02
HUGHES ASSA|tS
COOLIDGE RIVALS
Charges Attempt to SIAM
pede Voters With Personal
Attacks on President.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, November 1-Secre-
tary Hughes wound up his campaign
ing here tonight with the declara-
tion that the opponents of President
Coolidge had started out with an at
|. tempt to stampede" the country with
ili-measured attacks upon reputa-
tion.' but had found their efforts
vain.
Long after his deuactors have been
forgotten" he continued, "the men,
ory Of Calvin Coolidge will be cher
ished by the American people
Let violators of the law be punish
eo, whoever they may be, but 1t
would be extraordinary to assert that
thefr misconduct. for which they are
being duly prosecuted, affords any
reason why we should adopt free
trade instead of protection, or alter
our fiscal administration, or change
our foreign policy, or have govern
mental ownership, or denature the
supreme Court"
MI. Hughes declared statements
pioyment during the Harding Cool
I idse administration showed "a lack
Oh knowledge of the true state of the
record"
me Republican administration, he
SAID, had inherited a crisis from its
Democratic predecessor, and with IL
4'ooo,o0O unemployed" due to the
1aliure or the Democratic administra-
lioh 10 prevent postwar imitation.
Deals With Arms Pafley.
fhe Secretary again dealt at some
length with aspects Of the Washing
ton arms Limitation conference touch
eo upon by Me- Davis in recent
speeches.
Il confess that I am mystified." he
SAID In one breath he (Mr. Davis !
is all for disarmament and peace. he
wants conferences and many Of them.
III another he disparages the only
conference of late years that has
oeel reasonably successful.
What partisan exigency is there
n this campaign which requires the
democratic candidate to disparaee
TINS work? He appears to be willing
pick up
Mr.. Davis had asked. Mr.. Hughes
saio' whether the naval treaty bound
US to definite inferiority as com
pared to England" when he knew
tnat the contrary was the case and
Nreat Britain for the first time had
agreed to naval equality
so far as l know" Mr.. Hughes
continued, nothing whatever was
SAID about gun elevation during the
conference. Mr.. Davis does not refer
70 the fact that the proposal as TO
this originally was due to the erron-
eous report that Great Britain had
altered the elevation of the guns on
her retained capital ships. When il
appeared that this report was in
accurate, the statement to that effect
had to be retracted
Ships to he Rsplaeed.
The question. as far as it is I'M
portant, really relates to certain OF
our ships and these will be replaced
within 10 or l2 years. So far as
shlps quilt in replacement are con-
cerned there is no question what
ever as to elevation of guns. Is il
not manifest that the question Is not
one for discussion in a partisan cam
paign for the purpose Of depreciat-
ing the work of the Washington con-
ference out Is an important practical
one 10 ne considered on its merits
! and doubtless will be so considered
by Congress?"
The Secretary declared Mr.. Davis
did not seem to understand the
difference between the treaty and
keeping the Navy up to the treaty
ratio"
Whatever failure there may be In
! this respect in keeping the Navy ur
to the treaty ratio is not chargeable
TO the treaty, but to Congress- Mr.
Hughes added. "and as to this the
democratic members of Congress
, must bear their full measure of re-
sponsibflity. We are for keeping the
Navy up as contemplated by the
treaty. The treaty protects us from
| a wasteful expenditure and it GER
tainly does not prevent building UT
to the ratio which the treaty itself
| contemplates."