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Show r HUGHES I yp Willi i HOOSO STATE I I Makes Five Speeches Dur-i Dur-i ing Day and Outlines Pol- icies He Intends to Fol- ' low if Elected. I' ' TEREE HAUTE, Ind., Nov. 1. Charles E. Hughes, Bpeaking before ' an audience that crowded every available foot of the big Wigwam here tonight, declared, while he understood un-derstood that union labor had been i told officially to vote against him, r jf he knew that nobody could direct or V control the labor vote and that tt ' would be cast according to 11e sober I Judgment. .' TERBE HAUTE, Ind, Nov. 1. ! Charles E. Hughes wound up his cam- j paign in the middle west with a speech j here tonight and left shortly afterward i for points in New York, the last state in whieh he will appear before election. ' Mr. Hughes made five speeches today I in which he outlined policies he intends i, to follow if elected, assailed the adinin- l istration for the enactment of the Un derwood tariff aud Adamson law, and expressed the belief that he would win. He spoke tonight before an audience after reviewing a torchlight parade, jj Just before his departure the nominee f issued the following statement: I; "I am leaving Indiaua, after what is perhaps the most wonderful reception ever given a candidate for tbe ! presidency. This splendid tribute was not given to me personally, but as the ij representative of the great united Be- 3 publican party moving forward to vic- ! tory and servico for the nation. The men of Indiana have organized a people's peo-ple's victory and I want to thank the (leaders of the reunited Republican party for their effective work." ' Talked on Tariff. Mr. Hughes on his final day in the middle west devoted much of his speeches to the tariff. He addressed, f t wo audiences at Linton and Brazil com- posed largely or employees of the coal mining companies. ' "We had soup houses and bread lines twenty mouths ago," he told his audi-? audi-? ence at Linton, "and we will have them ( ' again if we do not protect American industry in-dustry and if we attempt to carry on the business of this country on the policy indicated in the Underwood bill. ' "When the war orders end," he said at Brazil, "under our present policy as embodied in tbe Underwood bill passed j by our opponents, you can just see your self going back to work for one or two ; or three days a week. That is what it means to you." In his speech here tonight Mr. Hughes discussed the Adamson bill at length. "I am informed that the general chairman has advised tbe local chair- i men of the Brotherhood of Locomotive I firemen and Engineers of the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania lines east that the Adamson bill in establishing a new basis for reckoning reckon-ing wages will eliminate the payment of all arbitrages which are based upon time made within the first eight hours' period of service. Uncertainty of Law. , "The uncertainty of the law is rec ognized in various particulars. What i it will be decided to mean no one can tell, as it is possible to construe it in several different ways. The chairman ; also adds, 'This law does not change the application of the hours of service law. i The company still has the right to work you sixteen hours within any twenty-four twenty-four consecutive hours if it so desire.' "T note that tho chief of one of the I locals of the brotherhood has asccr- : tained the effect of the law on those who complete -their run in loss than cirht hours. He says that if a man makes a. hundred-mile rnn in five hours instead of getting his full day's pay he will get only five-eighths of "a day's pay when paid on the eight-hour .basis. He also says that formerly the railroad rail-road men were entitled to pay for tweu-ty-tive miles whenever called out, whether they were used after reporting or not. But the Adamson bill enacts a flat basis of eight hours for tho purpose pur-pose of paying compensation, while on the other hand it does not establish an eight-hour work day. Adamson Bill Gold Brick. "I think it will be found that the Adamson bill is a gold brick for labor. That is not any eight-hour work day bill. There was not any eight-hour work day proposition involved in it There never was. Things that are right can walk in their own clothes; we can have things that are right if we go at them in the right wayr "We have won a great deal in this country in getting free institutions, and when you summarize it all. it merely means tho rule of public opinion, after discussion, according to what we think are the merits of tho case. It does not mean a rnlo of force at all. That will knouk everything out. You will not have any worK at all if that idea once gats abroad in this country. "I am for the merits of the case aud I am for proceeding according to the rule of reason. I will o to the last fact to find out what oupht to be done and I will do it according to what I believe ought to bo done, and I won't budge an inch for anybody in response to force. ' ' Appeals to Mine Workers. In discussing the tariff Mr. Hughes told the mine workers at Linton and Brazil that nothing was more important to them than the prosperity of the iron and steel industry. "We know that on account of the European war the exports of iron and steel jumped in a vear from $251,000,-000 $251,000,-000 to over $621,000,000," he said, "an increase of two and a half times because be-cause of the great demand created by the European war. That was a demand caused in very large part by the needn of munitions; it also was caused in very large part by the fact that men on the other side were taken away from their pursuits and productive activities and were put in the trenches to fight. "Now when that demand, for war materials ends, when tho war orders come to an end under our present policy, poli-cy, as embodied in the Underwood bill passed by our opponents, you ca n see yourself going back to work for one or two or three days per week. That is what it means to you. Practical Proposition. "This is a severely practical proposition. proposi-tion. Wo know what happened to us twenty months ago. There are some who say, why, America is ready. Look at great, strong America. Can't America Ameri-ca stand anything? Well, America was just as strong and juFt as great twenty months ago as it is today. They say, well, look at the men in America. Can't they do anything? I reply, well the men in America were just as great twenty twen-ty months ago as they are today. "You have got to have something besides this great, strong America thai we talk about in such eloquent phrases and you have got to have something more than these alert and splendid men. You have got to have .business policies that protect the industries of the j United States. j f,It is a perfectly absurd thing that any intelligent man should stand before, the American community and talk about: tariff for revenue only. You cannot run the United States 111 that way. The nations on the other side are learning the necessity of protecting their interests. inter-ests. Even Great Britain, who, on .account .ac-count of her special conditions favored the free trade policy so long, has come : to a protective policy. When War Is Over. ' ' And what will you see when this war is over? In the first place, you will find that nations over there have learned a great deal. They learned more in the years of this war than they have learned iu a long period before." They have learned about themselves. They have learned how to co-operate. We have got to have a lot more of that in this country a real, genuine, human interest in-terest in each other. "The government id each one of the countries is bock of it, doing all they can to stimulate their business. Now when tbe war is over we will find in I every country protection to its own in- dustries and an effort to build up its own industries through a protective tariff policy and a seeking of other markets with their surplus production at what prices they can get. I "And here in our great market, the greatest market in the world. Here is ; the gold that has accumulated during that time. Of course they will seek our market, and then what will happen? hap-pen? Either their products will sell here and our products won't Bell, or our men have got to take less money in wages. Now that is all there is to it. "I say less money in wages, and, what conies to the same thing, less time in work; and when industries go down, when plants are reduced in output, then if you have got money in the bank you propose to draw it out and spend It instead in-stead of adding to it. "It is a fine thing to talk about conditions con-ditions of labor to a man who cannot got work, or who is working on reduced re-duced time. Jt is a fine thing to talk about improvement in Bocial conditions and of the desirable reforms that are sought to be accomplished. It is a very pleasant thing to say that to a man whoso family is looking for bread and, cannot gpt it." j The long parade in which Mr. Kuches j paxticlpnifld and wlewe-i here tonight, took noarW en hour 1.0 pb through the LrttU. ii rcbitg duba in uoUcrm of I Hue and white, carrying red and yellow I torches, came from many sections of the state to take part. The nominee sat In , an elevated seat in an automobile with I a huge giloed flgrure of an eagle, wings outstretched, behind him. At the wigwam, a frail structure of slatted boards draped with the national j coiors, the crowd waited patiently for. two hours. Thousands were turned away and every foot of the big space inside was occupied. The parade passed through the down- : town section of the city, which was ; jammed with thronRB on the streets and i sidewalks. The line of march extended for more than a mile. FONT) DU LAC, Wis., Nov. 1. United States Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, who has been speaking for Hughes and Fairbanks in this state, is seriously ill here and has been compelled to cancel his speakim? dates for the remainder re-mainder of the campaign. He was suddenly sud-denly taken ill yesterday with a severe cold and is under the care of a physician physi-cian and. a trained nurse. This morning he had a temperature of 102 and his condition con-dition is regarded as serious. CHICAGO. Nov. 1. Women who arrived ar-rived here today on the Woman's Hughes transcontinental train met opposition at an afternoon meeting In a down-town thc3ter. Derisive jeers, which Interrupted t hp speakers, began the heckling, which culminated when eggs were tossed at them as they left the theater. None of the eggs struck the women or the automobiles auto-mobiles in which they rode. The Hughes women finished their speeches In spite of Interruptions. The special train left this afternoon for Baltimore. |