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Show 75100 PEOPLE HEIR HUGHES li INDIANAPOLIS Republican Candidate and His Running Mate, C. W. Fairbanks, Appear on Same Platform. MEXICAN POLICY AGAIN DISCUSSED! Adamson Eight-hour Law Denounced and Plea Is Made for Tariff and Americanism. By WILLIAM HOSTEE. By International News Service. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 23. Seventy-five thousand people welcomed here tonight the first appearance in the campaign of Charles E. Hughes, Republican Re-publican presidential candidate, and Charles W. Fairbanks, his running mate, on the same platform. By constant spraying and applications applica-tions of ice bags Hughes's throat was enabled to stand the strain to the end, and though husky of voice ho wound up the tour of Indiana in a whirl of devil tire, brass banditry and enthusiasm. Six thousand people heard the candidate candi-date speak in Tomlinson hall, where he was introduced by Mr. Fairbanks. Twice as many more attended the overflow over-flow meetings at which Hughes appeared ap-peared and; spoke briefly. At the big meeting Hughes returned to the Mexican attack, reading once more the alleged instructions of President Presi-dent Wilson to John Lind that Huerta must be driven out of Mexico. He renewed also his demand for the use of reason instead of force in the settlement set-tlement of industrial disputes, driving homo amid cheers f rorti his audience his denunciation of the, Adamson eight-hour eight-hour law. He got a flattering response to his plea for a protective tariff aud a genuine ovation followed his pledge, if elected to the presidency, to protect pro-tect American commerce and uphold the national honor it all parts of the world. Pleads, for Patriotism. "I want a sidcudid patriotic sentiment senti-ment in this country," he declared. "America cannot provide work, America Ameri-ca can never be successful and prosper if we do not have a splendid patriotic sentiment. We are all Americans, what1 ever race, whatever creed, wherever we come from. Whether foreign born or born here, we are all here as Americans. Ameri-cans. American means your attitude toward things, not where you were born or what is your race. K is a word of the spirit, not a word of tho flesh. And I stand here to say," he declared, "that if we are going to have America of the future realize these great ideals T have been talking about, we have got to enforce American rights throughout through-out the world and dignify ourselves. "1 stand for the honor of the American Ameri-can flag, for firm insistence on American Ameri-can rights; J stand for the enforcement of American rights on land and sea without fear and unflinchingly, with regard to all nations and in respect to American lives, American property and American commerce." Americanism Dominant. The dominant note throughout the day as in his speech tonight, was the demand for a stalwart Americanism. It occurred in every speech he made from Lapnrte to Indianapolis. "We havo got to have in this eoun-t eoun-t vy, " he said, "the driving power of patriotic sentiment. You cannot expect progress in a cmintry if the people are decadent, if they are disposed not to recognize and not to endorse their just rights. That means a loss uf self respect, re-spect, a loss of pat riotic energy ; that means decadence and disaster. Therefore. There-fore. I say to you. not in the interest merely of a campaign candidacy, but iti the interest of the American people, thai we must fen r!e--sly en force American rights throughout the world and st and unflinchingly for the dignity of American Ameri-can etizeiishi;t throughout the world. ' " We shall have no security in thf future if we dn not win the esteem of mtioT's by shov-incr a proper regard for . the rights we are known to possess." Climax at Indianapolis. I ud:annpdis provided the '-liniax to the eric of m'"etinL;s ;t which crowds nnd enTm'.s;n;ni cnerallv prevailed , throhowr rhe d'iv. Kroin La Porte. whc'-e hv b-;nii the da "s work, to In- . dianapob.-, where hp v. j 11 rot over SLjn- 1 I (Coijtlbucd uu Page Fourteen ) 1 75.000 PEOPLEIEAR HUSHES Ifl ilSIl (Continued from Page One.) dav, prior to entering Ohio, he addressed ad-dressed seven meetings. Arriving here at 7:30 o'clock tonight he was met by a reception committee headed by Mr. Fairbanks. Kscorted to their ear by Mr. Fairbanks and -his daughter, Mr. ! and Mrs. Hughes took their places at i the head of a big procession of marching clubs, which proceeded to Tomlinson hall. Fairbanks 'a daughter, who rode with him in Hughes's car, is Mrs. John W. Timmons of Washington, D. C Hughes and Fairbanks reviewed the parade from the Marion club. At midnight the parade was still passing through the streets, and in the red glare of Costou Lights the crowds were demanding Hughes and Fairbanks. An event of the day which has occasioned oc-casioned comment, was the failure of the United States Steel corporation at Gary to release its army of employees to see and hear Hughes when he stopped here at noon. A two-hour stay was made there, and Hughes spoke for fifteen minutes in the public square before a crowd of 4000 farmers and townsfolk. By way of contrast the Haskell-. Haskell-. Barker Car "Building company at Michigan Michi-gan City, where the candidate stopped at 3 0:40 o'clock, closed down its plant i and turned over one of its shops for use as a meeting place. It is a non union establishment,; by the way. Hughes 'a : speech here was. directed mainly to iworkingmen and largely concerned the tariff, with paragraphs devoted also to ! Americanism and the Adamson bill, i Cries of "Good, jrood, " greeted his j remarks on the tariff, and there was . sharp and hearty response to his demands de-mands for the upholding of the national honor. What he had to say on.,-the : Adamson bill here, however, got but scant applause, and it was noticed that several hundred of tho workingmen started out of the 'shop when he began discussing the topic. He said this on the subject: "The one principle that labor needs, after it has got plenty of work, is the principle of reason and fairness in dealing with every question that comes up. I stand for "this: Show me any grievance or any complaint that it becomes be-comes my duty in any way. to examine and T promise an immediate and prompt examination of the facts of that case in order ihat justice may be done according ac-cording to those facts. I believe in the principle of arbitration in . connection with industrial grievances. , "Great progress has been made in this country in the settlement of labor troubles, in the disposition of labor grievances, by having a better spirit and a desire to be open-minded in every ! consideration. That is the only hope of the future. " |