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Show ii mm hears WILSONGHEERS I Nashville Audience Heckles j Republican Candidate With Repeated Questions and ii Opposition. Nashville, Tenn., Sept 4. In terrl- lory which no Republican presidential ; nominee ever has visited before, Chas. i E. Hughes tonight faced a tumultuous 1 audience in the auditorium here. With ' cheers for Woodrow Wilson ringing again and again in his ears, heckled by questioners and halted often by i Democratic sympathizers, the nominee ! criticised the administration for its policies, argued for a protective tariff tar-iff and, in a reference which the audience took to apply to the enact- ment of the Adamson bill, asserted that he stood firmly for the arbitra- , Hon of all Industrial disputes. . "I believe there is no grievance I with respect to labor," Mr. Hughes ; said, "that cannot be settled by a fair, : candid explanation of the fact's, j "We have, in the past, had to deal t frequently with the opposition of em- ployes to the principle of arbitration. I Sometimes they have refused to arbj-.! arbj-.! trate disputes. Public opinion has been ;! against them. I stand here firmly for ; the principle of arbitrating indus-3 indus-3 trial disputes, and I would not sur-5 sur-5 render it to anybody in the country. ( Reign of Reason. Ij "I believe that anything that is ;! right in this country can bet settled right What is our republican gov-ernment? gov-ernment? What are our free instltu-i'; instltu-i'; Hons'' We have come down the long rj course of history with the people fight-5 fight-5 ing slowly, slowly now with defeat and now with victory for a recogni-J recogni-J tlon of the reign of reason, instead j of the reign of tyranny and force. I "Now, then.-1 stand for two things: "First for the principle of fair, im-I im-I partial, thorough, candid arbitration, a and, second, Tor legislation on facts according to necessities of the case. i. And I am opposed to being dictated to either in he executive department or congress by any power on earth I before the ficts are known. 'j Wins Applause. ! "We hav? a great country and a i great futurf. But it can only be pre-' pre-' served in qne way: That is the way' i of all honfst, fair investigation and 1 candid treatment. Show me the wav flj tbat is rigit and I will take it, but I won't tak any way that I do not know anything about." The audience, which had interrupted interrupt-ed Mr. Hughes repeatedly in the earlier portion of his speech to cheer tor Wilsoi, heard the nominee's declaration dec-laration i silence and at its conclu-; conclu-; sion applaided him. ; Tonight: address, the second of the day, was delivered before a crowded houte. Tie crowd came early and re-; re-; malned to near all the nominee had to say, but ktore he started it showed : plainly tyl many Wilson supporters $ were preent. Cheers for Wilson. J W. raylor. Republican state chair-; chair-; man, the'irst speaker, was lnterrupt- ed time iter time by cheers for Wil- son. Ami a burst of Wilson cheers he sat don, and the second speaker, j George Tollman, chairman of the meeting, s,od up. Mr. Tillman was on j his feet fo ten minutes, much of the 3 time vainbendeavoring to make him- - I self heard. He introduced Mr. Hughes and the audience waited in silence. "I shall not forget the warmth of the welcome of this vociferous meeting," meet-ing," Mr. Hughes said, and the audience audi-ence applauded Ho added that what he bad to say was to be said "good naturedly" at a time that the American Amer-ican people were taking stock. "I do not desire in anything I say to express aught but the highest respect for those who do not agree with me," he continued. "I simply desire to say what I think, why I think it, why I am here, and then let the American people judge according to their own conscience." Outlines His Views. The audience applauded and Mr. Hughes outlined his views on American Amer-ican industry, the test it will face when the war ends and the doctrine of a protective tariff. He was interrupted inter-rupted frequently by applause and now and then by cheers for Wilson. More applause greeted his reference to labor la-bor legislation enacted during his term as governor of New York. , "Now, our opponents do not believe in the doctrine of a protective tariff." he said, producing a memorandum from his pocket. He checked a Wilson Wil-son cheer by adding: "I am not going ; to say anything unpleasant, my i friends. I am just going to read the , Democratic platform. Reads Democratic Platform. He read the tariff plank of the platform of 1912. "I believe," he continued, "in protecting pro-tecting American industry." "And the man who can do it is Woodrow Wilson," shouted a man from thQ balcony. Applause checked the nominee. "There would not bo much disposition disposi-tion to clap," Mr. Hughes said, smilingly, smil-ingly, as the applause died down, "in this country if that doctrine got headway head-way very long." Mr. Hughes declared that "nobody would put over anything for private gain at the public expense" in the tariff If he could help it, and was given giv-en prolonged applause. The nominee (hen assailed the administration for Its policy toward Mexico. He outlined its attitude toward Iluerta, declaring that the question was not one of recognition rec-ognition or non-recognition, but one of protecting American rights. "You would have recognized that assassin, as-sassin, wouldn't you?" shouted a man from the audience. "Now, I did not say that " Mr. Hughes started to reply. The rest of his answer was lost in the tumult which followed. Silences Questioner. "What would you have done?" ! shouted another man, as the noise subsided. sub-sided. "I would have protected American rights," the nominee responded, pointing his finger at the questioner. The audience rose to its feet and applauded loudly. It was the last of the heckling, although! al-though! there were other outbursts of cheering for President Wilson. The rest of Mr. Hughes' speech was devoted devot-ed to a discussion of efficiency of government. The nominee's address tonight ended end-ed his political activities of the day. He entered Nashville this morning to find a program different from the one he thought he would face, in that It provided for a review of the Tennessee Ten-nessee National Guard and an address at a Labor-day celebration. The first he declined, on the ground that he had not right to review federalized state troops. The proposal that he attend the Labor-day celebration was dismissed dis-missed when he was advised that labor la-bor leaders arranging it had not sent him a formal invitation and that if he spoke he would be restricted to a topic top-ic of a non-political nature. Mr. Hughes left late tonight for Lexington, Ky., where he will speak tomorrow. " |