The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-01

The important event of the closing week Of this Chautauqua season was the address by Governor Hughes. This occasion, like the illuminated fieet. ap- peared to be moveable feast and the crowd was becoming impatient at its continual postponement when the fact became gradually known that he was awaiting a visit to his home from that arbitrary domestic fowl, the stork.
 Immediately was felt that touch that makes all the world akin, especially such disproportionately feminine world as Chautauqua. aud when Gov ernor Hughes came here three days after her ladyship. the new baby. ar- rived. many callers boasted they would ask if the baby were yet named. But venture to say none so presumed. for Hughes's manner. though afable. does not invite familiarity.
 Ones first thought on seeing him Is that he should have a new picture taken; for the apparently timber jawed snub-nosed, wool-covered photo- graph familiar to all of us. does not do him justice. I say familiar to all of us with local pride should not have felt before realized that we Eoutherners areA better informed on national and international issues than most people from other sections. When . New York lady kindly undertook to enlighten us as to Governor Hughes. We took her beyond her depth by ask ing in detail of his investigation of the gas and insurance matters. The credit of this wider knowledge of public men and affairs belongs to our Southern newspapers which give all the news from other sections, while the North ern papers seem to print only freakish and sensational items of Southern news. For instance. if you mention Robson to the ordinary reader from another section, they would immedi- atesly recall the imputed kissing mania of this brave naval hero, but the fact that Hobson has been elected to Con- gress would rarely be known.
 But let's return to the familiar wood. cut of Governor Hughes. It gives no hint of the immense strength of his face. His penetrating glance Is soft ened by his broad, honest smile. He has 6 long. large. straight noise. Ills bushy beard conceals the massive jaw. but his lower lip thrust forth so pugnaciously betrays the born fighter His wide mouth shows long white. powerful teeth; his grey eyes, close. and deep-set, yet light with enthusf- asm or flash with indignation. He Is tall and has been called spare, but either he Is fattening or he likes his clothes to 1t snugly. His manner Is grave, but not gloomy. alert but not precipitous, intense but not tmpas- stoned. He has a goodsJ hard, service- able voice, clear but not musical.
 A Chautauqua audience of about 5000 people. composed of all classes and representative of all sections, gathered to greet this Presidential possibility. But there was very small influx of country visitors as conn pared with the masses that pressed in earlier in the season to hear Governor Folk, Judge Lindsay and Bryan; this may be explained by the uncertainty of Hughes's visit, the lateness of the season and the threatening weather. For, to the surprise of professional politicians, Hughes has made good with fine people of his State. Hughes is of the new political school. which es- schews shoulder slapping. soft-soaping, ste. He doesn't talk up to one audi ence and down to another; he just