Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-10-21 | Page 5 | Baker Defends Administration

BAKER DEFENDS " ADMINISTRATION Flint, Mich., Oct. 20. Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, in a speech here tonight, criticised Charles E. Hughes, Republican presidential nominee, nom-inee, charging him with conducting a campaign of suppression and raising irrelevant issues. "Ho not only has said nothing vital, informing, or helpful," help-ful," declared Mr. Baker, "but tho public pub-lic ceases to expect anything like that of him." He alluded to the allegation that he had compared tho soldiers of tho American revolution with Mexicans, denying press reports of his speech and saying that he had praised the continental soldiers and their leader. The secretary of war defended President Wilson's administration and praised the Adamson eight-hour law and tho farm credits act. Answering Answer-ing the charge that the passage of the Adamson law was a "surrender," he said: "No man can conscientiously do anything wrong while he is president presi-dent of the United States. The office makes the man who occupies it a pa. trlot."