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Show HUGHES CLOSES 1 HIS CAMPAIGN i; HBffl Makes Four Addresses in Larger Towns During Day and Delivers Speech ' in Omaha at Night. CROWDS CHEER THE G- O. P. CANDIDATE s Vigorous Reply Is Made to President's Assertions Regarding Re-garding "Invisible Government" Gov-ernment" Programme. OMAHA Neb., Oct. 16. Charles E-Hughes, E-Hughes, replying to tho charge that8 election niight mean that "inviiibe government" would bo installed in tbe United States, tonight told an audience that crowded the auditorium hero to the doors thai as there had been no in"'3-iblc in"'3-iblc government in New York while he was governor, there would be no in"s' ( ible government in the United States it he were president. "I think indeed it might be said," Mr. Hugbis asserted, "that the present administration has been in largo measure mea-sure an administration of unofficial spokesmen, of mysterious influences. 'I can say, in entire good humor, thr,.t I desire government through two houses and not throe." Mr. Hughes assailed the administra-tion administra-tion more vigorously than he has done T before for the enactment of the Adam-Bon Adam-Bon law, declaring that it was "un-lk "un-lk American and absolutely without justi-L justi-L tjc'no'? ever surrender titherlegis- 1 ijtivefor executive power to the neniand ki force, either by capital or labor,"' jZui declared that the "plain people of I, Jus country should rebuke tho admiu-H admiu-H ? traticn fo'r its surrender to force." i f Unshackled Business." ' ) President Wilson's reference to "un- I 2 : hackled business," made in the same ' ,all on the president's recent visit hero, i 9 ,Tas answered with the declaration that f "therehadbeen"noclar,f.catlon of the anti-trust act" andby the nominee's as- i insertion that he was "ed at any i such claim as there has been put for- - h WThe"administration's Mexican policy I ' was cited as answer to the declaration as citea a been k o administrations ' I- ,:... attacked- P mid me today," Mr. "Someonf ,'1 its, at times to . . Hughes said, (hc of tfae b0 the U 'a problem eer of Welcome tema Tbe Bmlninto cl.e of welcome, him a th"c:"l'ken anu'all the stand-, I l-Jvery seat - ar o: ,hf haU was I ing room iu I: tie galleries I crowded, m''",0( the hi there were. I ... i,k lar eai UL.. ,,,,. at times, ioF t00k. 3. instance, which the no." " um him on to mean an a .There has e , in the eal'Lrth;,ik. whota to know someone, 1 ' iAtm I don't my view" hOTe t: hini. propose to j reitoraf bittack on . The "cti for -.lttment of f the adm.u 'his!f(: it. The I the laW'f'v'avcdtts -cheered. I .-. crowd s.t0ro(. for tteount of I lot ,,bl HushW-When we M attempt in Tarious s , fonfoss Br0. I'm not onl'.sim at amused character o ::ese pleas. y Ke -Hn sb- 1 ,?Y install '"vernment. n'-'h . u- that I Vnt of in-Me, in-Me, eovernn"10,', :le to pub- was " oppo nl000 c govern-; govern-; u.cnt that. nt a. T hklngi :. !. !;Jtei for t"e P" be United -V St?.iknow that weU(lllt dan oer of subverf0". lld ,es oi i lUiy that a, , There was n -jiirrifnt 111 the state of , had the '?,hc oSn- -biH'X there , tates rrnment n tl"" Vn,'' nitie." ' ""nor t0 i"e.:- trough 1 fi'""-? "V flu CO"'"-' to ,,,e . . intent otJ'J , t,0 st:1t- HUGHES GLDSES HIS (Continued trom Page One.) ii les. I think indeed it might be said that tho present administration has been in lare measure au administration ol unofficial spokesmen, of mysterious influences, in-fluences, and I can say, in entire good humor, that I desire government through two houses and not three. ''I muet with the suggestion that the present administration has 'done a great deal for business. Tt is said T believe it was said in this city that it had unshackled un-shackled business. Well, when I inquire how this has been accomplished I am referred to the anti-trust act. "It was said that business was heavy with uncertainty because of the lack of clear definition of the wrongs de c.pihn.1 ;! tho. onti.tmcr Ufit a lid that this administration had come to the relief re-lief of business, and had. secured adequate ade-quate definition of evil. "l.know something of the statutes, and I think I know what they declare and what they mean, or at least what it can be said they do not accomplish, and I am free to say that I am amazed at nny such claim as there has been pit forward. There has been no clarification of tho anti-trust act. There has been no definition of the offenses described by the anti-trust act. " What has been done is the addition of a phrase to the law, the content of which no lawyer knows. 1 refer to the idirase 'unfair competition' or 'unfair methods of competition,' which has been introduced into the law through the federal trade commission bill, a term of unknown purport. Trade Commission. "It is said that tho matter is referred re-ferred to the federal trade commission, and here is another extraordinary fallacy. fal-lacy. The federal trade commission cannot can-not define its own powers or the leoal meaning of the terms which confer those powers. What has been accomplished accom-plished by the introduction of this fake phrase, is the invitation to years of litigation, liti-gation, in order that in some way we may find out what it means. "Then, it is said, that business has been aided by the government shipping bill. Now, that is the kind of aid to business which it does not seem to me business can afford to have. I do not believe in introducing the government into competition with, private industry in this country. ' ' I f we desire to ascertain what is the real attitude of the administration to business, we have little difficulty in ascertaining the fact. We saw at' the very outset of the administration a great opportunity for this nation to par- t h i pate 1 mean tor certain bankers who had taken up the" work, really, I believe, at the suggestion of former administrations in the great loans whi.h were to be made for the development develop-ment of China. i Six-Power Loan. 11 Here was a legitimate basis for the extension of American enterprise. If the administration really desired that we should have American enterprise expanded ex-panded throughout the world, and that we vhnuld have our just influence in the i far cat. there was an opportunity for a : proper basis for it. Instead of that, it was discouraged, and the result was that the participation was not taken advantage ad-vantage of. 'One of the most distinguished supporters sup-porters of the administration. Dr. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard, examined exam-ined the record of the administration, to the conclusion that its record with re-snoet re-snoet to Mexico, meant this: That hereafter we did not propose- to afford full protection by force of arms to those who represented American enterprise enter-prise in foreign parts; and yet it "was only four years ai'o that our opponents wrote largo in their platform that the constitutional rights of American citi- l zens should go with them throughout the world, and that they should have full protection wherever they were, lawfully, law-fully, for their lives and thcir property. prop-erty. "The result is that, according to the analysts made of the record of the administration, ad-ministration, notice has been served that full proteclion will not be accorded to those who go abroad carrying American Ameri-can enterprise in foreign parts; and yet, it is said we should encourage foreign trade; yet it is said we should serve humanity. ' ' Mr. Hughes left here at 1 a. m. for points in South Dakota. |