Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-03-01
MeEamiy
Physician


During ahe ssw YORK state cam.
paign last faai. predictions we're made
freely thma Charles T. Hughes. il elect.
ID governor. would looEn up very
strong ~ n republican presidential
possibility In 1893,
Since the election of Mr.. Hughes
by q decisive vote this presidential
talk has been In the increase. and
Governor Hughes has been greetei
a. q probable candidate on frequent
While he Is attending
strictly to business In the executive
chamber at Albany and 10 doing moth.
Ing 10 encourage this talk. II I'm very
plain 10 those around him that the
mention ~ his name i'm Connection With
this nomination does not hurt his feel.
ings In the least.
Mr.. Hughes Is a strong man and II
performing the duties Of his office in
a manner 20 Justify his election. In
addition TO being a strong man there
In no lodging the fact that Governor
Hughes IL about the chilliest PROPOSE
ton that has been discovered In New
York political life In many years. This
makes him doubiy dangerous TO the
plans Of President Roosevelt AMI
other Washington statesmen who have
been gulng ahead with their own
ideas concerning what the republican
national convention Of 1908 should do.
When Governor Hughes wal investi.
eating the lighting combine Of this city
and then vas investigating the insu.
rance companies. he demonstrated TO
the satisfaction OF the public that ne
was a man Of determined ideas con.
corning the conduct Of public officials.
On the strength Of this he was elected
governor and. I'm his two months I'm
office. certainly has carried political
death and d~esolation into the head.
quarters Of machine politicians.
The fact that Mr.. Hughes was elect
ed as a republican has contained no
grains Of comfort for his party asso
l%ciates. Had he been a democrat he
could not have been more ruthless In
his pursuit OF republican officeholders
who did not come up TO the standard
he had set. The result Is that hii
two months In Office have given salts
faction alike TO clean democrats and
clean republicans. but have caused
terror among those I'm the machin,
ranks.
Not since tho governorshfp O
Grover Cleveland. nov a quarter OF
century ago. has the state Of Ne,
York had an executive determined {
secure political reform by first cleanl
. fng hls W party. Hughes, 1ik,
cleveland. has stirred up bitter strii
I In the ranks OF those who worked Il
his election. But Il was this actio
on the part OF Grover Cleveland tn;
made him the candidate OF his par,
8 for the presidency In 1884. and man
close students Of political affairs b
Ilieve that history now is repeating
self.
n During his two months in offic
O the governor has beaten the legisl
a lture into submission. has named h
y own man ais superintendent Of publ
h works to build the s101. 200, 900 bar,
canal, has Instituted searching n
d forms In the National Guard, and b
gone after the State National Ins
rance department In a name tn
promises It's complete overhauling.
>. also Ia responsible for legislation
!, completely remodel the state railro
commission. and. so far, has only |
- gun.
Whether or not Governor Hughes
destined TO become his party's ca
"A didate for the presidency next We;
at the present time he certainly
Icasting a shadow that can be Sc
from the white house without the
- OF glasses.