Show The Republican and Progressive Candidate New ew York YOlk Sun They rhey who have been waiting on either side to see what spectacle of Republican reunion the notification ceremonies ceremonies ceremonies cere cere- monies would afford will find entire satisfaction satisfaction-or tion-or tion or complete complete complete com com- disappointment as the case may be in be-in in the report of the Carnegie hall meeting last night The room overflowed overflowed overflowed over over- flowed with harmony and enthusiasm It was an occasion sure to have a front place in the political history of our country The party of Abraham Lincoln is one again With a single purpose purpose and united in confidence and in hope for the accomplishment of that purpose the leaders of the Progressives s of 1912 and the leaders of the older organization joined in welcoming Hughes as the representative representative representative and leader of all who desire that the government I of this country shall shaIl be he rescued from the hands which I have shaped its misfortunes during the miserable four years now past or passing The presence of Colonel Roosevelt was on one of the impressive features of the meeting meetIng meeting meet- meet Ing and the soul within him must have responded with I delight to the clean cut sentences in which Hughes expressed In his own fashion those demands of Ameri Ameri- Americanism Americanism and those enunciations of patriotic sentiment which which have have aroused the nation to its duty this year The second thing for which people will look eagerly in this mornings morning's report of the tho opening event of the campaign campaign campaign cam cam- is the manner In which the candidate recently ina In Ina ina a place remote from political concerns has grasped and understood and formulated the great questions before the nation The speech of Hughes accepting the nomination leaves no doubt as to where he stands with regard to any essential issue An utterance so strong and honest so free from the consciousness of phraseology so void of the pettiness of evasion and artful conciliation has seldom been heard when a candidate for president arose to pronounce pronounce pronounce pro pro- his creed i The dependable quality of his mind and character is manifest throughout the address It may surprise some I readers of the speech to discover also in Hughes' Hughes treatment treatment treatment treat treat- I ment of more or less familiar matters a power of expression expression expression sion which adds something of himself and of his own intellectual penetration to the statement of principles already accepted by his supporters We Ve can give here only a few examples America first is what most of us have been saying America first and America efficient is his more comprehensive way of putting It Many of ofus ofus ofus us have believed that the whole trouble In Mexico came from in Washington bent on gratifying at any cost to American life or property its personal hatred of Huerta Hughes illustrates the hollowness of the pretensions pretensions pretensions pre pre- tensions of moral fastidiousness in Wilsons Wilson's repeated at attempts attempts attempts at- at tempts to destroy Huerta to control Mexican policy even to deny to Huerta the right to run for president at a Mexican election elE by exhibiting this enterprise more ef effectively ef- ef f- f than-anyone than else has done In contrast with Wilson's Wilsons Wilsons Wilson's Wil Wil- sons son's subsequent patronage of Villa whose qualifications as ns an assassin are indisputable We seized Vera Cruz Cruzon on the false pretense l of extorting a salute to the American flag has be 1 said over and over again and and with truth We seized Vera Cruz to depose Huerta sa says s 's Hughes straight straightforwardly There have been several able and ex exhaustive exhaustive ex- ex eXP expositions of the administrations administration's Mexican policy there h his has s been no such forcible riddling judicially reasoned prese presentation tation of the case as was heard last evening The same thing is to be said of the candidates candidate's discussion discussion discussion dis dis- dis- dis of the diplomatic achievements of the tion We get a new light on the enormity of the damage wrought by Wilson Vilson In occasional flashes of insight like this Instead of whittling away our formal statements by equivocal conversations we needed the straight direct and decisive representations which every diplomat and every foreign office would understand Columns could not say more either in indictment of the continuing crime of abandonment of American rights or of the service to America which a strong and sincere man In executive power could have rendered and can yet render Our intention is not to summarize Hughes' Hughes clear and uncompromising declarations concerning adequate military I preparedness pre as the necessary safeguard of peace or in industrial industrial industrial in- in preparedness under the banner of Republican protection for the contest with the liberated energies of the fighting nations In the economic struggle before us or the repression of alien sympathies in every activity unlawful on American soil or again the measures of social Justice in which his heart is enlisted His attitude on every important question is explained In his own words He knows knows' for what he stands and he can convey to others the information in a manner requiring no supplement We want at present only to exhibit the speech ech of acceptance acceptance accept accept- ance ante as the sufficient index to Hughes' Hughes mind and beliefs and purposes |