The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-09-07

SANS He HAS NOT BEEN ASKED
ARoL JTsRi INTER- suTs WOULD
HARDLY REFUSE!

NEW YORK, Sept. Z. Charles =.
Hughes, back from his European trip
on the Cunarder Caronia, refused yes
terday to discuss in any way the po-
Htical situation i'm this State. To all
questions having the remotest bearing
Iion the possibility of his being nom
E'inated BIZ the Republicans for Gov
ernor, and to political questions gen
orally, beginning with those which
reached him by wireless while the lin
er was still several hundred miles
from port, he had but one reply:
''There Is no situation that I am
aware Of which makes it Incumbent
upon me to say anything in regard
to political matters, and have SO
recently returned that am not suffi-
ctently informed on politics to enable
me to discuss them intelltgent1y.
81 can only say that | have neith-
er given nor received any assurances
from any one on political matters, nor
have been asked to give any"
various questions were put to Mr.
Hughes in the course OF the day will
the apparent object of drawing an
inference of political significance
from whatever he might say. Among
these questions was one asking wheth-
er the statement was true that he in
tended to come out with declaration
for State Senator Stevens for Gov
ernor. Mr.. Hughes declined to dis
cuss the matter, on the ground that 1T
was political question. He also re-
fused to say what he thought of Mr..
Hearst's candidacy.
It is believed by Mr. Hughes's
friends that his personal preference is
very strongly to be left out of the po7
lttical situation entirely, but that II
united demand were made for his
nomination by the Republicans of the
State, he could not fail to consider 1t.
It is taken for granted that he would
not under any circumstances accept
nomination from a faction of the
Republican party, and his statement
that he had not given or received any
assurances nor had been asked to
give any, was as disposing of the in
ttmations Of the odell faction of the
Republicans that 1t had received as
surances that he would accept the
nomination at its hands.
Mr.. Hughes did not meet any poll
tfcians yesterday. or have communica-
~ Ia 49,. ~ Ia 1dfnr from thn
Caronia at 8 O'Clock in the morning,
he went to Breton Hail. Broadway
and Eightystxth street, and then to
his home, at $40 west End avenue,
with Mrs. Hughes. In the. afternoon
he visited his Offices at Broadway and
Wall street, and took UP matters OF
personal business. He declined to dis
cuss the prospects of his work as spe-
cial attorney for the Federal Govern
ment in the Coal Trust cases. and
drew the line on all insurance topics
on the ground. which he took long be-
fore his trip abroad, that his connec-
ton with the Armstrong Committees
Investigation and with the framing OF
the new laws made it improper that
he should comment in any way on
the developments in the campaigns
now in progress.
The only thing he said-and it was
with sigh of rellef-bearing on in
surance, was:
"I'm glad IT isn't Sept. 6, 1905"
Mr.. Hughes appears to be in much
better health than when he went
abroad. 1t was we'll known before his
departure that the strain under which
he had been IN the seven months in
which the Armstrong Committee was
at work and thereafter until the ne"
insurance laws were passed by the
Legislature, told severely on him. Yes
terday he had the appearance OF
man who had rested pretty thorough
ly-