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Show CONDEMNS HARSH, COARSE CRITICISM Atlantic City, N. J Oct 20. Vice-President Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall, speaking speak-ing here tonight, pleaded for less criticism crit-icism of the president for the way he has handled the problems growing out of the European war, and defended tho legislation that averted a great railway strike, "bringing Industrial peace In a week." Mr. Marshall was bitter In his arraignment ar-raignment of those who pick flaws In the president's efforts to maintain neutrality. "I would rather be a hyphenated hy-phenated American than an orator criticising the president," he cried, adding that If the critics would go to the recruiting offices in Berlin and London they would be a more contented con-tented people. "It Is the first right of an American to be a partisan," he said, "but it is his first duty to be a patriot. The man who hampers the president in time of danger Is an enemy." Discussing the eight-hour law, Mr. Marshall said that there was now less criticism of the law than of tho way in which it was enacted. He explained that such legislation was necessary; that there was no time for arbitration, arbitra-tion, and it had become an Imperatlvo duty of congress to enact such a law. Answering tho charge that the laboring labor-ing men had forced the president and congress into such position that they wero compelled to provide tho eight-hour eight-hour law, he cited cases in certain Republican Re-publican administrations when, he alleged, al-leged, capitalistic groups had forced legislation, and said that if that was the case then "may not honest laboring labor-ing men choke a little justice out of a Democratic administration?" Answering charges that the present prosperity of the country was due to the European war, he asserted that domestic business is in no way dependent de-pendent on conditions in Europe and is greater in this October than in any October of previous campaign years. oo |