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Show Hughes Is Choice Of Mr. Pinchot For Presidency In a public letter sent broadcast over ov-er the United States this week Clifford Clif-ford Pinchot, formerly a member of President Roosevelt's cabinet, sums up ns follows in declaring ho v.1'1 bupport Governor Charles 13. Uughea as his choice for president In this campaign: I am neither n Democrat nor a Republican Re-publican but a Progressive. Yet, there being no Progressive nominee, unless I choose, to support a candidate candi-date who can not be elcclcfl, I must tote for either Wilson or Hughes. For many months ntter his Inauguration, Inaugur-ation, I thought well of President Wilson. Wil-son. In many respects I liked what ho said about what ho was going to do. He talked well nnd made n good impression. It was only when I be-' be-' gun to check up what ho said by what ho did that I w-ns forcoJ to change) my view. In the end I came to seo that President Pres-ident Wilson Iras a greater power, than any other man In public life to nay ono thing but do another, and get away with it. The facts which Justify this statement state-ment nro common knowledge. I Wo have all Jinan! nlm tell Germany Ger-many publicly that sho would bo 'held to strict accountability; and wo I have learned afterwards that ho had i actually let her know secroily at tlio ' lime, by tho mouth of his Secretary ! of State through tho Austrian Ambassador, Ambas-sador, that what ho Bala ho did not I mean. Wo havo nil seen him prove that ho did not mean It by his total falluro to exact reparation, apology, or oven disavowal for tho murder of Americans on tho Lusltanta. 1 do not say that Wilson should havo thrust us Into war. Tnero was no need of war. Hut thero was need of courago to give us ppoco with self respect. If Wilson had shown courago cour-ago this country would not havo skidded skid-ded from ono crisis to tho next, again and again nnrrowly escaping disaster. disas-ter. Wo havo all heard him declare against Intervention in Mexico, whllo nctually Intervening to dictate who should nnd who Bhould not hold office thoro; nnd denounce war against Mexico Mex-ico whllo nctually engnged in wnr. With war on oory Bldo of us, wo nil heard him, In his second nnnunl mossugo, solemnly assuro tho country that wo had not been negligent of National defense. It was not truo; nnd later on ho himself proved that It was not truo by proclaiming aloud tho need for what ho had solemnly nssured us wo already had For more than a year after tho world wnr began Wilson did not rais a linger to put us In a condition of defense Only tho proverbial good luck of America has kept us from palng tho bitterest price for his unforgivable un-forgivable neglect. We havo all heard him ridicule the Idea of a greater navy, then declare for Incomparably tho greatest navy In the world, and then go back on that We hnve all heard him declare for exempting our coastwise trade from tolls In the Panama Canal; and hnie scon him show our own peoplo and tho English that ho did not mean It. AVo havo scon him elected on a p'nt form which pledged him to a single term as President and then become a candidate for another term. Wo hnve all heard him declare for tho Conservitlon of our natural resources; re-sources; and havo seen him neglect that policy, and refuse his help to defeat tho Shields waterpowir bill, the most dangerous attack on Conservation Conser-vation stive Hnlliuger'g cITort to turn Alaska over to the Guggauhclms. We havo nil heard him declare for efficiency In gowriiiiipnt nnd havo neon him set the potk barrel first and throw efficiency away. I havo known official Wushtugtoii from tho Inside for six administrations. In thnt tlmo tho government businc.s Mas never been eo badly done and so extravagantly extrava-gantly as It is now done under Wilson. Wil-son. Wo havo all heard him nnnouuco himself ns the champion of Civil Servlco reform; and havo Been him turn the government departments over ov-er to tho spoilsmen aB no other president pres-ident has dono In twenty years. Wo havo all heard him declaro for pitiless publicity; and havo seen him conduct the most secret administration administra-tion of our time. Wc havo heard him announce himself him-self as President of tho people, and hnve seen him, as the most partisan President of his generation flout nnd oppose tho Progressives, whom now, hecauso ho nculs them he seeks to conciliate and enlist. Worst of all Is this; When every principle of freedom nnd equality for which our father's fought was at stako In tlio great war, when our whole country eagerly awaited the leadership leader-ship of tho President, Wilson dodged. dodg-ed. Ho refused to take sides on the greatest moral Issue of our time, lie advised our people to bo "neutral even ev-en In thought," undecided between right nnd wrong. Whllo our friends abroad were lighting for the principles princi-ples wc held equally with them, ho taught us that profits and e&se were better than self respect. President Wilson has dono our nation tho most KorlouB Injury thnt any leaser can do to any people by making us flinch with him from a grcnt moral decision. deci-sion. Thereby ho weakened our hold ns a nation on tho principles which alono can make niy people self ic-spcctlng, ic-spcctlng, safo and strong. Having led Us wrong on the ground that we must bo neutral In tho face of tho dellherato breaking of the world's pun co, ho has Just reversed himself again, and In his speech at Shadow Lawn now assures us that: No nntlon can any longer remain neu-' neu-' tral ns against any wilful disturbance disturb-ance of tho penco of tho world. I It Is bad enough thnt Wilson's foreign for-eign policy hus left us us thn wii draws .toward Its end, without a friend 1 among tho great nations of tho world and without tho rospoct of nny 0113 of them. What is worso Is that ho has kept us from Mantling up for what wo know to bo right. Tho lgnoblo standard of profit over principle which Mr, Wilson fnrcod upon tho country In our foreign relations, rela-tions, ho has nppltfcd to himself as President. In what ho has said, dono nnd loft undnno the record phows him steadily dominated by political expediency. expe-diency. Thoso facts and many others like them, havo forced mo to goo that what Mr. WII3011 says Is no sign of what ho hns done or of what ho will do. Tho ono thing his record ohows Is that what ho stands for now ho Is not llkoly to stnnd for long, I do not caro what his platform or his campaign declarations de-clarations may bo, hecauso tho common com-mon oxpcrlcnco of us nil has taut;nt us that to him thoy aio simply 'mo-lassos 'mo-lassos to catch flics." Hugli03, on tho other hand, Is a man of his word. His record as Governor of New York proves that. It shows him to bo honest fearless and frto from tho domination of special Interests Inter-ests mid corrupt politicians. So far oh tho Consorvntlon policies are con- rnini'il, both what ho sold and what ho did could hardly havo been better. I am confident that under him theso policies will bo safo. Ho is a anong man who will dodge no moral Is-iues, and ho will give us an honest and imi offlclent administration. As a Progressive I bollovo in Nationalism. Na-tionalism. So does llugliis. I am certain that under Hughes the Progressive Prog-ressive policies will faro better than under Wilson, nnd that tho snfety, honor and welfare of tho country will bo in Immeasurably surer hands. I can not vote for Wilson lio aiiso I can not trust hi in. Ho ilueo not do what he says. Hughes does. Theri-foro Theri-foro my cholco Is Hughes and I shall work nnd voto for him. Very truly yours, oiKr'orm pinchot. ., ....in m |