Hughes Discusses the Issue
Youngstown, <>liio, Sept. ">
Governor Charles K. Hughes of
New York in his address today
said in part:
It is easy for those who are
free of its responsibilities to
criticise administration and crit
icism is wholesome and stimu
lating. Mr. iiryan is an clo
quent critic but the record of
the republican party is known
to all and the American people
will neither be confused nor
mislead by adroit tlirust or
pleader's skill. Their good
judgment may be trusted to
maintain a proper sense of pro.
portion and to make a just esti
mate ot the work which lias been
accomplished.
The business ol the great na
tional departments lias been in
worthy and competent hands.
The mention alone of the names
of Hay, Iioot and Taft suffice to
call attention to the honorable
conduct of affairs in which all
our citizens take just pride.
The dignity and honor of the
nation have been maintained
and troublesome difficulties
have been adjusted with an ac
cess of prestige. And every
American has been gratified by
the possession of world-wide in
fluence attained by the presi
dent by reason both of his per
sonal qualities and because of
the distinction in our inter
national relations of the admin
istration of which lie has been
the head.
In the management of internal
affairs honesty and efficiency
have been insisted upon. Loot
ers of the public domain, those
endeavoring to maintain com
binations in unlawful restraint
of trade and those attempting
to profit by unjustly discrimin
ating rates and illegal rebates
have been taught respect for the
law. Zeal .and energy have
been shown in the fields of gov
ernmental activity, and the wel
fare of the nation with regard
both to present needs and to the
requirements of future develop
ments have been the paramont
concern.
When we consider the inevit
| able confUct of many opinions
: and the importance of the ques
. tions involved the record of pro
gressive legislation is extra
ordinary. The creation of the
bureau ot corporations, the
railroad rate bill, the pure food
bill, the meat inspection bill,
the employers’ liability bill and
the laws passed for the better
protection of labor constitute a
record ot legislation which no
ju*t critic can afford to mini
mize and which attests in a
marked manner the response of
the republican party under its
forcelul leadership to the de
mands ol tiie people.
It all that Mr. Bryan has fav
ored during the last twelve
years had been enacted into law
we should have been overwhelm
ed with disaster and would re
gard it as our chief business in
the future to find a way of es
cape from the meshes of ill-con
sidered legislation in which we
would have been entangled. It
Is fortunate for him as well as
for us that he was defeated and
whatever may be his present
political potentiality may oe
ascribed to the fact that hither
to lie has not been permitted to
carry out his program. No
doubt much remains to be ac
complished in the way of nec
essary reform, but the record
already made by the republican
party is a noteworthy one and
we must make further advances
with care and needed reflection.
Our progress will be entrusted
to safe hands and we shall be
fortunate in haying a sailing
master who knows his chart
and who will take quite as much
account of reefs and shoals as i
the speed of the vessel. We
have got our direction, we have
a most precious cargo and we
must have a safe experienced
pilot
Mr. Bryan says that the clem
ocratic plapform “is binding as
to what it omits as well as to
what it contains.” We might
have added that it is as signiti
cant in the one case as in the
other. Lincoln said, “In the
absence of formal written plat
forms the antecedents of candi
dates become their platforms.”
It may also be said that in the
presence of formal written plat
forms the antecedents of candi
dates cannot be forgotton.
Silence is often eloquent. In
the election this fall we choose
men. not abstractions. Plat
forms must be read in the light
of history and they may be elo
quent of past mistakes and mis
guided agitations which their
sponsors would gladly ignore,
but which the nation will do
well to remember.
There are a thousand exigen
cies in tiie affairs of this great
nation which cannot be foreseen
or attempted to be controlled
by any platform. The sagacity
steadiness of character,firmness
and sound judgment of the chief
executive must be the security
of the nation in many a trying
emergency. And it is no in
justice to Mrjdryan’s aitractive
personal qualities, to his effect
iveness as an orator, his skill
as a party leader, nor is it any
disparagement of the purity of
his motives to say that the man
who espoused free silver in 1890
renewed its advocacy in 1900
and later declared his belief in
government ownership of rail
roads cannot be regarded as a
sate leader to whom may be con
fided the great powers ot the
president merely because those
doctrines are omitted from his
present platform. The country
needs a man rock based in sound
conviction and fundamental
principle in whose good judg
ment in any difficulty all may
feel secure, anti such a man pre
eminently is Win, H. Taft.
Our opponents seem to regard
the questions before us as simp
ly involving a program of leg- '
islation or of constitutional1
amendments. Hut first and
chiefly we are electing a presi.
dent, the executive of the
nation. Nor should we in con
sidering legislative proposals
forget this. Now there is no
man in the country better fitted
properly to preside over and
direct the varied business of the
executive department than Mr.
Taft. He already knows it
thoroughly. He has rare exe
cutive ability.
Governor Hughes discussed
the tariff, trusts and labor, on
election laws he said: Mr.
Hryan also has much to say
with regard to corrupt practices
and campaign expend.tures,
Hut he omits to give due credit
to the republican party for
what it has accomplished with
regard to these important re
forms, an accomplishment the
more noteworthy in the light of
Mr.Bryan’s reiterated criticisms
of contributions to republican
campaign funds. In the state
of New York a republican legis
lature in 1906 passed a statute
prohibiting corporations from
making any political contribu
tions, directly or indirectly and
providing that olficers.directors
or stock holders participating
in or consenting to the viola
tion ol the law should be guilty
of a criminal offense. And I
know of no more drastic statute
in this country with regard to
the publicity of campaign con
tributions and for the preven
tion of corrupt practices than
that passed in New York under
republican auspices. These
were not promises of an oppo
sition party seeking power, but
enactments by a party in power
securing genuine reforms. Prop
er recognition must, of course,
be given to the patriotic demo,
ocrats who supported the-,.* re.
forms, hut they were enacted by
a republican administration
Congress has also egislated
against political contributions
by corporations Purity of
elections and free opportunity
for the uncorrupted expression
of the popular will lie at the
foundation ot every reform and
cannot be too carefully safe
guarded. Ami there should be
federal legislation securing
proper publicity ot and account
ing tor campaign contributions
in connection with federal elec,
tions. Hut it must fairly be
recognized that the skirts of
neither party have been clean.
If we search Mr. Hryan's fol
lowing we shall find not a few
who have sinned, and also those
who, if we may judge from their
local activities, are still unre
pentant. The democratic party
cannot claim unsullied virtue
either with regard to the source
of its revenues or its readiness
i
to receive them. And when
criticism is melted out to the
republican party on this score
justice requires that it should
also receive credit tor the re
forms it has achieved.
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Old Wall Brought to Light.
During the recent demolition of
some old cottages at Norwich, Nor
folk, England, a long section of the old
city wall, comprising a score of Nor
man arches, was revealed. The wall
was built In the fourteenth century.
Could Not Extinguish Light.
A peasant from Ober Hessen, who
saw electric light for the first time at
a hotel in Mayence, Germany, where
he was spending the night, broke a
blood vessel in endeavoring to blow
out the light. His condition is hope
less.
ON PRENIDENTIAL FIRING LINE
Concerning the Democratic Appeal
to American Farmers
Uoesn’t this violent appeal
which the democrats in their ef
tort to raise campaign funds, are
making to the farmers of the
country, smack somewhat of bare
facod effrontery?
They are not only asking the
men who till the soil and are the
backbone of America for their
moral support, hut the democrats
in their frenzy would have the
agriculturalist believe that it is
incumbent upon them to support
llr van financially as well.
Why? What has the democratic
party ever done for the farmers
of the United States that they
should be appealed to and almost
told that it is their duty to swell
the funds of the bourbons?
Why the farmers should be
made to pay tribute to the demo
cratic party is not plain unless it
be on the principle of licking the
hand that smote them. There is
not a single instance in the his
tory of this country where agri
culture has been benefitted by
democratic rule, but there is plen
ty of evidence to show that the
farmers have often been ruined
by the maladministration of that
party.
The last time the farmers came
near going the demnition bow
bows was under democratic rule.
We need not go back far to show
that nearly every farm in the
United States was mortgaged and
every farmer on the verge of
bankruptcy. The facts can be
had tor the asking, if there is
anyone to dispute the statement.
This is not the specious plead
ing of a campaign orator, or of
some one trying to delude the un
wary- The assertion here made
can be backed bv the records
found in the archives of the agri
cultural department at Washing
ton.
The best friend the farmer in
this country ever had in power is
the republican party. There are
a thousand reasons why the agri
culturalists should support the
republican nominees, not one for
their lending either moral or
financial support to the demo
crats—Sacramento Union.
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