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Show MM LISTEN TO 1 APPEAL !! FIB ' BE HUGHES Charles E, Hughes' labor record, when he was governor of New York, was discussed by Miss Francos Kellor and President Wilson's record on the Mexican situation reviewed by Mrs. Nelson O'Shaughnessy at a meeting of tho Women's Republican club of Ogden Og-den in Republican headquarters in the Dee-Eccles building yesterday afternoon. after-noon. The speakers arrived in tho city early In the afternoon. Miss Kellor Kel-lor came to tho city in an automobile and Mrs. O'Shaughnessy, who Is tho wife of the former charge of Mexico, came over the interurban. Thv re turned to Salt Lake Immediately after the meeting thnt they might resume the journey eastward on the Hughes' special. In discussing Governor Hugres' la. bor record, Miss Kellor took up principally princi-pally a group of labor laws which he had advocated and signed, including thoso for tho protection of children and working women and to eliminate many of the terrible conditions of Now York sweat shops. She also read the announcement made on Sunday in Washington that various women's clubs had volunteered volun-teered to assist the department of labor la-bor In the organization of a national employment system. The speaker said that presidents of various women's organizations over the nation had received from the Wilson Wil-son administration offers of a month's pay to work in this movement and she declared that, with such an offer coming com-ing to women just before election, If the women assented to such a plan, which she termed a political move, it was a step backward from the women's wo-men's movement for political recognition. recogni-tion. Mrs. O'Shaughnessy, tho second speaker, made a Btirring appeal for support for Mr. Hughes on the ground that President Wilson's policy toward Mexico had been all wrong. She told of her experiences and observations as the wife of the charge d'affairs to Mexico during three years of revolution, revolu-tion, and declared that the president's policy had brought about the downfall of a nation. "I am for Charles Evan Hughes," she said, "because I have soon with i my own eyes the destruction of a nation; with my own ears -I have MB y i heard the cries of that bleeding, agon Ized remnant of what three years age was the Mexican people. "I have seen authority destroyed as certainly as if we had taken the machinery ma-chinery of administration ' Into our physical hands and broken it. I am for Hughes, because I believe a man has arisen, who, as our chief executive, execu-tive, will safeguard our most precious possessions on land and sea at home and abroad our national honor.'" Following the addressed, refreshments refresh-ments were served and about 100 women wo-men remained at the headquarters for a half hour, discussing politics. |
