Hughes is denouncing the Underwood Simmons tariff, and DaFollette, in Wisconsin, and Townsend, in Washington, are making their campaigns for the Senate partly on their advocacy of that measure. Hughes is declaring the child-labor bill a delusion and a snare, and yet it had the support of a majority of his party in the Senate and House of Representatives. The Republicans split wide open on the question of denying the protection of the government to American citizens traveling the high seas, but most of them favored that policy of dishonor. More than half a hundred of them voted in the House Representatives for the Administration right-hour law, which so excites the candidate's wrath. There is not a Democratic Measure included in the whole record of legislation Mr. Hughes says ought to be repealed which did not have more or less Republican support.

If Mr. Hughes were a competent and successful leader, instead of a leader whose incompetence had been established, he could do nothing with a party so divided. Uncertainty in foreign relations, doubt and indecision in matters domestic, would be the inevitable outcome of his victory at the polls. Men marvel nowadays at the drift to President Wilson, which set in three weeks ago and continues all over the land. It is not only to be marveled at. The American public has many reasons to support the Democratic candidate, but none more compelling than a realization that only in Democratic victory resides real hope of steadfastness, consistency, vigor, and efficiency in national government. 