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Show LAST WEEK OF BIG CAMPAIGN STRENUOUS ONE Both Sides Confident Of Ample Majorities Hughes Gaining Great Strength in Closing Days of the Great Struggle GREAT activity by both of the big political parties marks the closing days of the big campaign. While both sides are claiming the victory, it is undeniable that Mr. Hughes has been steadily gaining ground throughout the country, especially es-pecially during the past ten days, when the enlightening discussion of the Adamson bill by men qualified to handle the subject, has caused somewhat of a defection from Wilson Wil-son to Hughes, especially among laboring la-boring men not covered by the measure. meas-ure. Also, Mr. Hughes and Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt have been driving home some truths which are undermining the Democratic structure in many quarters. In a speech at Ogdensburg, N. Y., the other day, Mr. Hughes said, in part: "We shall accomplish nothing in this country unless we have the driving driv-ing power of patriotic sentiment. There is no future for a decadent people. We do not want war. I am amazed at the audacity of the assertion asser-tion that a vote for me is a vote for war. I am a man devoted to peace. As I look forward to the future, there is nothing that I more keenly desire than an International organization organi-zation which will tend to promote the peace of the world when this awful aw-ful conflict is at an end. "You cannot hope to maintain your peace if you present to the world the spectacle of a timid people peo-ple that has forgotten the courage and indomitable spirit of the founders found-ers and preservers of this nation; a people that backs and backs and talks and talks and never stands. There is no peace for the United States with such a policy." And in a ringing address delivered in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, on "Wilson Day," Col. Roosevelt thus scathingly arraigned the present pres-ent Administration for its weakness and laxity: "If today is what 'our Democratic friends' call 'Wilson Day' it should be appointed a day of fasting and humiliation.' "For during the past three years the people of the United States have eaten the bitter bread of shame anil trod the paths of dishonor under the leadership of Mr. Wilson. Taking up the President's appeal for support on the ground that he has kept us out of war'. Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt declared tht if it was just to keep out of the present war, then it would be just in the future to keep out of all similar wars, and if "the President, on the other hand, is right in saying that we never shall keep out of any such wars in the future, then he condemns himself for keeping out of-this war. "If you mean what you say, Mr. Wilson, as to the future, then you ' must mean precisely and exactly that j this is your duty in the present. Do it now. Mr. President. It is sheer hypocrisy to chatter ten days before election as to what ought to be done in the future, when throughout your t whole term of office, you have failed ' in the present to do what you now say is your duty." |