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Show PEOPLE DEMAND dlGEJUGKES "Idle to Expect Democratic Reform While Looking On Pas! Record" TRENTON. N J, Sept. IS. Charles E. Hughes. In opening the Republican Republi-can campaign In New Jersey at a state rally here today, declared thai Maine, with an unmistakable emphasis, empha-sis, points to the verdict of the country; coun-try; thnt the. people demand a change and with fresh courage ' wo shall re-sumo re-sumo the path of well-ordered government, gov-ernment, of prosperity and progress." ML ST ANSWER NOW. A general result is the great assize, as-size, the only time when administration administra-tion la brought to an accounting. Wo are not a censorious people, hut ley Ity In passing Judgment upon officers of government and political parties ill-hei omes a 'democracy. The best surety of the future Is not in the promise of platforms, but In th oer-tainty oer-tainty of the rehuke for mal-admln- Istration and in the chi cking of harmful harm-ful tendencies by the displacement of those responsible for Un-iri and the r-J r-J fusal r Invest with power those who ' would continue or condone them We I endeavor to appreciate accurately the I mischief, not simply to be critics 1, but I to point the remedy and the future course." I It Is Idle to trust those who have been In power- during the wai period, With Its lavish outlays, Its indifference indiffer-ence to expense. Its reckoning In billions bil-lions as we formerly reckoned in ml-honr, ml-honr, with thl. dutj of economy and retrenchment,'' Mr Hughes i.ibl Their experience unfits them for It It is equally Idle to expect .adequate results from- those who would follow the same traditions and have the same fealties," "WIIjSON USURPED POWER." Discussing foreign relations .Mr. Hughes recalled the presidential demand de-mand for ,t partisan congf sMon.i victory vic-tory In 1918 which he characterized as "th extraordinarv return for the -... ., i mtrj i,i nf pu itiic.ins m support of the administration in tho : conduct of the war." Continuing he said , There was no need for such ex-I ex-I fremoR of exclusi veness and denial of Participation in prosecution of policy. Republican loaders lnd lon looked to J an association of nations to aid In se-1 se-1 curing the peace of the world. It would hae been well to recognize the fact that the president had not the j exclusive treaty -making power. It WgS wrong to give to foreign people! I the Impression of an authority which! j did not exist. It was a highly danger-! OUS role for an American president virtus 1 1 i i to foreign peoples I against their jr, ern ments " "HEART is B l " Mr Hughes said there was no scr-I scr-I lous controversy about the deslrabll-! deslrabll-! Ity of an association pi league of free, I nations to aid in prrintlr.g the peace j of the world, but the question Is one , of method and Its essential import. Of Article X. he said: "This artick- has been described as "the heart of the covenant' If U Is, I the covenant ha, a hnd heart Article X is really the vice of the covenant' Why there should have been such tenacious-Insistence upon it must remain re-main a mystery, unless it can be said to he due to pride of authorship. In a. host of contingencies, now unforeseeable, declared the former Justice, it will be heceSsarj to de-I de-I pend upon the Intelligence, good ense. fineness and sincerity of thei I president to be elected and In thlsl connection Mr Huehes said "Senator : Harding invites the confidence of the j country " |