Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23
LIFE OF LEADER
OF NEW WORKERS
SOMETHING ABOUT THE CAREER
OF CHARLES E. HUGHES, RE-
PUBLICAN CANDIDATE
Man Who Recently Has Come into
Public View Has Been Little Known
Outside Borders Of the Empire State
lis Remarkable Man.

An interesting glimpse at the ca
reer and achievements of Charles
evans Hughes, republican candidate
Ior governor of New York, appears in
Harper's Weekly of Saturday, October
ID Mr.. Hughes is distinctly in the
pubic eye just now. What he is. what
he has done, enable the public to as.
sumo what he will be and what he will
10 as governor OF the Empire state.
Mt Hughes was born at Glens
Falls, N. Y, April IL, 1862. His father
was Rev. David G. Hughes, Baptist
minister. Early In his youth his fam
ny removed to Newark, N. j. Here
the boy was educated at the public
schools, from which he was graduated
IN 1873, at the precocious age of IL
years. Since he was too young to
think of entering college, he remained
at home studying under his fathers
tuition with the intention of entering
the college Of the city of New York.
Following an alteration of his plans,
he matriculated at Madison university,
Hamilton, N. Y, now Colgate uniyer-
sity. In 1878, however, he determined
that conditions at Brown university
would be more to his purpose, and in
1881 he was graduated from the latter
university at the age of nineteen, hay
Ing won meanwhile the Dunn premium
for the highest standing in English lit
erature.
During the next two years he
taught mathematics at Delaware acad-
envy, Delhi, at the same time attend
ing the Columbia law school. In 1884
he graduated from the latter institu-
ton as prize man, receiving the de-
gree of A. M. For the next three
years he was special lecturer In law,
having been admitted to the bar in
New York in his graduation year. I'm
til 1887 he had, therefore, the benefit
of the training given by teaching law
for four evenings week Meanwhile
he had become a clerk in the offices of
Chamberlain, Carter & Hornblower.
"Mr. Hughes married in 1888 Miss
Antoinette Carter, the daughter of Mr..
w. 8. Carter, member of the firm
From 1891 to 1893 he held alprofessor-
ship at Cornell university, abandoning
his work with the law firm and devot-
ing his entire time to teaching. His
speciality at Cornell was contracts and
evidence. In 1893 he returned to New
York and resumed active practice, al
though for time he still retained his
connection with the Cornell law
school, holding also similar position
in the New York law school.
HE first came into prominence be-
fore the general public through his
connection with the investigation Of
the gas situation in New York; but it
was not until he undertook the work of
chief counsel for the Armstrong com
mittee in its life insurance investiga-
ton that Mr.. Hughes acquired wide
renown. The prominence which his
work In that enterprise gave his name
brought him nomination by the re-
publicans for mayor Of New York In
the campaign of last autumn, although
Mr.. Hughes had made not the slightest
exertion to procure 1t. Three days af-
ter he had been nominated by accla-
nation he declined the honor, feeling
that his work in connection with the
insurance committee held the first
claim upon his energy; whereupon the
nomination was given to Mr.. WINS
1T was pointed out not long ago in
these columns that the varied and
thorough training which Mr.. Hughes
received during the early days Of his
career had been admirably effective in
preserving the balance between the
powers of the mind. No doubt it is, in
large degree, to his practice as a lee
turer that Mr.. Hughes owes his readi.
ness Of expression, his fluency and d.
rectness In exposition; the teachers
training has habituated him to an
alyzing the matter in hand to the
search for the principles involved. to
the discernment between seemingly
similar cases, to the avoidance of false
analogies.
"on the other hand, his very prac-
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