Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-02
KIND OF MAN HUGHES Is.
Facts Aboat the Republican Candidate
for Governor OF New York.

New York World.
Charles Evans Hughes looked In finer
physical fettle yesterday than at any
previous time in the forty-tour years OF
his life. That Is saying a great deal for
In the past. when Mr.. Hughes looked
frail and unable to stand the rough-and-
tumble strain OF an uphill fight for posi-
ton and a competency, and with doctors
gloomily advising Inn TO so slowly, he al
ways had in reserve the endurance Of an
army mule, the tenacity Of a leech and
the mental alertness OF lightning bolt.
During the life insurance investigation
friends cautioned him again and again
They told him he was on the verge Of col
lapse, that a Hercules could not with
stand the strain to which he was subject
ing himself Yet he went on month after
month doing the hardest and most ex-
hausting kind OF mental labor from
twelve to twenty-five hours a day.
often. after examining witnesses all day
on intricate subjects which required the
most acute concentration to deal with sue
cessfully, he would go straight home. and
after a hurried dinner would start to pre-
pare his line OF testimony for The next
day. The task would often keep him
digging away in books of accounts untll
. or 3 o'clock In the morning: and then.
with three hours or less OF sleep. he
would be up In time to do some more
preparatory work before rushing down
town to take up again the examination of
| witnesses.
No matter how long or hard he had
worked during the night or how little sleep
he had had, Mr.. Hughes always appeared
clear-eyed. brisk energetic and eager to
cope with the alert minds of the men on
| the witness stand-the great powers of
| high finance and Wall street.
Mr.. Hughes gets his powers Of endurance
| primarily from an ancestry Of Welsh.
| Scotch and Irish. His father comes OF
! Welsh and Scotch stock and his mother
OF Scotch and Irish. He has developed the
heritage. however, by the practice Of a
theory in which he is firm believer. He
holds that under the right conditions a
man cannot overwork his Brain. He says
well organized and developed brain is
! like the muscle OF a highly trained ath-
lete. which is only bettered by constant
| hard work. Exercise the brain is one
OF his maxims, and he lives up to 1t.
Mr. Hughes has been working Ike a
trojan ever since boyhood. Within the last
year he achieved a position at the bar
which meant large financial rewards IL he
| could continue the practice of his profess
sion. He is not a rich man. Perhaps $780,
900 would offset all his material possess
sions. He has never been money getter
| on a large scale
| No stupendous fees have ever come his
way. The largest single fee he ever re-
ceived was the $4,000 he got from the
state Of New York for conducting the in
surance investisa ton, and all of that vas
not by any means clear profit. Downtown
corporation lawyers said he was grossly
underpaid by the state. Some of them, for
merely attending portion OF the sessions
OF the investigation on behalf OF the in
surance companies and listening to the
testimony. received fees ranging from S.0-
900 to $4,000. Their work was an infnites-
NAL fraction compared with the labors Of
Mr. Hughes and in high class legal ability
| most OF them were admittedly his Interiors.