Show HUGHES AFFIRMS NOTHING I SAYS SA YS SENA SENATOR TOR WILLIAMS L IA MS Mississippian Says That the Candidate Uttered Blind Expressions of Antagonism I Partisan Hate and andI I Criticism By JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS UnIted States Senator from M Mississippi issis sippi WASHINGTON Aug l.-l l. have Just received a request to dissect the Hughes speech in in about a thousand words and to give a brief comment as asto asto asto to how it is being received in Wash Wash- ington I have been sometimes unjustly complimented com corn as being fairly ingenious h but I am afraid that I am not ingenious enough to be able to use a thousand words dissecting this particular sub sub- However I will try my best How was it received That reminds I me of ofa a historical incident A distinguished distinguished distinguished distin distin- president of the United States appointed d a man attorney general The I latter concluded that he would go back to the neighborhood where he had hadI I been raised and which he had left because because be be- cause he not could make a living to see how the people took the news Upon the way from the railroad sta eta station tion to his aboriginal village he asked them If it they knew a man by a certain name naming himself One of them spoke up at Yes he is the man manthe manthe manthe the president has Just appointed at attorney attorney at- at torney toz-ney general he said Well Veil what did the people say about it was asked The reply was They said nothing much they just laughed I I I I I Platitudinous Rehash The speech is a 3 platitudinous rehash re rehash re- re hash of negations and blind partisan hate It views us with alarm but it does not point with pride to any Republican achievement There is nothing positively affirmative in it except except except ex ex- ex- ex the last part in which Mr Ir Hughes positively accepts the nomination There is a iong long arraignment of the president because of what he has done and anti failed to do in Mexico But the American people are waiting I anxiously yet to know positively and affirmatively what Mr Hughes will do if it he should be elected president He might have come out positively In favor of immediate intervention in Mexico If It he had done that he would have stood at an any rate upon firm ground tenths Nine-tenths of the American people would not have approved of his beatIng locatIng beat beat- ing himself that way but at least he would have been located He did not issue a statement telling what he would do tomorrow if he were in Wilsons Wilson's place That Wilson lIson ma may have committed committed com corn some mistakes in Mexico goes without saying I expect he knows It bett better r than Hughes does But it seems all ll of them turned out In the long iong run fairly fairly well whether by accident or on purpose Wilson Called the Kaiser The same thing is true about his arraignment of the president regarding the Lusitania incident The president demanded disclaimer a-disclaimer and change of policy upon the part of the kaiser and the kaiser agreed to the change of policy policy pol pol- icy and made the disclaimer True he did it after quite a time and in rather an ungracious way but he did it which was all that was insisted upon I So far as I know Wilson is the only i man in this world that ever called the kaiser to taw made him toe the I I I I j epig I mark and stay there I Up lp p to date at t tany any rate the future can be permitted to take care of itself He lie has done it all without entanglement in the European Euro Kuro- war of barbarity and Insanity Hughes Hught's arraigns our lack back of preparedness pre pre- charges charges it all to the Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic party and the administration We Ve have appropriated the largest amount of money ever appropriated in inthe inthe inthe the history of the republic for both arm army and nav navy preparedness or preparation preparation prep prep- for the common defense to use a better bE phrase Again he is all criticism criticism criticism cism and amino no af affirmation Does he want to appropriate more than we have al already al- al ready appropriated Who Kept Us Unprepared We Ve who are on the ground find a great many people who are quarreling I Because we WI have appropriated so much I for or the army though very few quarrel about what we appropriated d for the nav navy What is Hughes' Hughes figure How I much better does he want us to go than Roosevelt or Taft or McKinley I Is he right in saying that if we had been more resolute than Wilson In protecting protecting pro pro- American rights it would not I have led bed to war with Europe The president was resolute did protect I American rights and his protection has not led to war with Europe If the I European war found us shockingly unprepared to use his own language who left us shockingly unprepared I A few general words about the organization organization or 01 of peace pace whatever that I means if anything definite at all seems at first blush to be a little af affirmative affirmative affirmative af- af but it is rather vague His reference to our prosperity as temporary n is at best an tion How does dols he know how do you know how do I know It seems to be pretty real As only about 19 or 20 per cent of our exports have been munitions munitions munitions mu mu- of war our prosperity cannot be charged to the European war Besides Besides Besides Be Be- sides that any man that knows anything anything anything any any- thing knows that war anywhere on the globe never of itself brought prosperity prosperity prosperity pros pros- to anybody anywhere else The I amount mount of ot legitimate trade destroyed by it always overbalances the emergency emergency emer emer- I gency genc trade created by it Wilson as a Leader I It is rich to hear Hughes say that I II has followed not led I the president when a whole lot of gra gray haired senators senators sen sen- at Washington are charging him I every day with having led too much I The truth is that he is about the first firs president since Andrew Jackson died that has in fact led Even Lincoln followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed as ae certain war governors learned when they wanted Immediate emancipation and various other things His promise to aid labor and his promise that he will block are only the platitudes of politics Everybody says he will before he is elected and a great Ireat many people think American People Are Anxiously Waiting Yet to Know What Hughes Will Do If He Is Elected He Says Dissecting Speech they will and some few like Wilson live up to it ft The truth is that Wilsons Wilson's administration adminis adminis- I has been almost without parallel par par- for affirmative constructive progressive progressive pro pro- legislation One of the few fw apparently affirmative things in I Hughes' Hughes speech is his advocacy of a rural rura credits bill What we have al alread already already al- al read ready done he advocates If as Hughes announces is prevention fl I suppose by th the tiie way he means prevention of calamity and war and all eli that then the function tion of diplomacy under Wilson Vilson ought to suit Hughes Hughes says sars he doesn't understand what Wilson Vilson meant by ly strict accountability Apparently the kaiser did understand it Doesn't Measure Up His speech is in as many words as were ever used by any candidate for the presidency in mere blind expressions expressions expressions of antagonism negation partisan hate and criticism and in as few words as any in the affirmative as assertion as- as of a fixed position I am ab absolutely absolutely ab- ab sincere in saying that Democrats Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- I ab-I ev tv evi i who hitherto admired theman the theman theman man and rather admired the letter which he published Immediately after he tie was wa nominated have felt sorry for him film on account of his incapacity to measure up to the present prent situation even from the Republican standpoint which Is rather a limited one If Roosevelt had been in his place and could not flot have found an Issue he would have made one somehow or anyhow The only question that any Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- I cratic stump speaker will have to ask in the campaign is What does Hughes positively propose to do about anything anything any any- thing that Wils Wilson n has not already done or which the Democratic party has not put upon its program for fu future future future fu- fu ture doing Will Wili he repeal the bank reserve act Does he propose to revise the tariff upward again as wa was wali done lone under Tafts Taft's administration to the infinite disgust of the American people Does DoE's he propose a hostile program of slaughter of thousands of poor illiteratE illiterate ate Ignorant needy starving people In Mexico Does he propose to take up the Lusitania matter again and carry it further Does he propose to take Roosevelt's advice and send an American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean army and navy to Europe for the assertion of Belgium's undoubted rights of neutrality He criticises the taking of men out of their peaceful pursuits and sending them to the Mexican border Does he mean by that he would repeal the tile national guard act just passed If Jf he does not mean that what does he mean By lJ mj ny count I have now used or abused my thousand words Heaven j knows that I didn't know that I ll could when I started I |