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Show Reasons Why Hughes Should Be Elected BECAUSE he stands for Protection, Prosperity, Preparedness and Patriotism. Patri-otism. BEC'AL.SE he will not permit partisanship to triumph over Patriotism. BECAL'SE his speech of acceptance expresses hi i desire to co-ocerate with labor for its advantage, not to exploit it for his own. BECAL'SE he will command the respect of Europe and Asia and win the friendship of Latin-America. BECAUSE he will never by proclamation deny the right of Americans to pursue their business in other lands under the protection of the American flag. BECAUSE he will not repudiate the American flag in any land. BECAUSE he will not put action into words, but words into action. BECAUSE, as Theodore Pioosevelt well says, he has high sentiments of justice and dignity, is upright and straightforward, is an incontestable incon-testable master of judicial matters, and always translates his words into deeds. BECAUSE he is a strong, sure, courageous man, with a clear-cut program before him and with the courage, intelligence and determination to carry it out and bring to our country self-respecting peace and world-wide respect. BECAUSE as Governor of Xew York he has already proved that he dared to do the right thing, and is prepared to further do and dare when called into a wider field. BECAUSE he is not a dreamer and not a quitter. BECAUSE he is a firm friend of preparedness for the United States ami not for preparedness through political expediency. BECAUSE he will not burden us with war taxes in time of peace. BECAUSE we' need a tariff not founded upon free trade, nor for "revenue "reve-nue only," but to protect American labor and American industry from the deadly competition of the foreigner. BECAUSE he is a red-blooded American, l'lis policy will be "America first, America cllieient." BECAUSE he can be depended upon to keep platform pledges. BECAUSE he will protect this country against being flooded with tint cheap manufactures of Europe after the war. BECAUSE he is the chosen head of a party which has long fathered all great constructive legislation which experience has proved to be wise and which has invariably been opposed by the Democratic party. BECAUSE a business man is going to be especially needed in the next few years. In consequence of the European war a tremendous readjustment read-justment of the world's business is ahead. The United States mils! be economically prepared. It must not, as now, bo left' defenseless. defense-less. It must not have a President with an untrained business mind, ever changing. Mr. Hughes made a remarkable record as a business Governor of Xew York. He has extraordinary ability to see all sides of a question. -Not from him, as from Wilson, wilt be heard any declaration that he will hang business men "high as Hainan'' if they do not agree with him. BECAUSE he is a man of forward vision, of practicability and firmness, not a mere rhetorician and theorist. BECAUSE he stands for the protection of American lives and proper!) abroad as well as at home. BECAUSE through him the whole tuition will be in the Government. . It will not be ruled by one section, nor by otic man. BECAUSE he is for an effective, not an unsound and sham - system of rural credits to help the farmer and for a wise conservation o! natural resources. BECAUSE he is for a Federal .workingmen's compensation law suitabh for the employes of the. Government, and those employes engaged in interstate commerce and. subject to the hazard of injury. BECAUSE' he tV.vors investigating before legislating. |