Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-04-25
Colonel Hughes, The Dspossd Post.
master al Columbia, Tenn.
Handed Out Some Hot shot.
SPOKE FREELY 70 ROOSEVELT
Says That Cold Deal Was Used
on Him and That the Deal Was
From tile advantageous Talk
of the Tennessee Colonel PLAINLY
Flushed the Executive.

WASHINGTON. ID. c., April ID
IL was shot in the back without heor
ing the shot, and without chance to
see the assassin"
Thns it was that Colonel Arch NJ
Hughes, the picturesque postmaster
at Columbia. Tenn, who has l.aen re.
moved because OF his Identification
with the BrownlowTaft faction In
Tennessee. began Il line Of talk to
Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt, which gave
that exalted individunl rorty-three
separate and distinct kinds of feel
lng. Hughes was removed ostensibly
hecause he was away from his office
TOO much, but as II matter of fact if
was to make room for Clay Evans
lhird termer, for it was admitted that
me record OF Hughes office was a,
Representative Gaines accompainal
Colonel Hughes to the White House.
ana Tor chawing up furniture and or.
a,orically paving the eartn he has no
superior in Congress. and vet he came
way admitting that he had been ont.
done, and that Colonel Hughes had
handed ont TO the President a line of
talk so straight from the shoulder
ana SO pointed that il left everything
else he had ever heard of at the
white House a mile In the wake.
want You TO understand, sir, that
my reputation is more to me than any
or all the offices within your gift. |
was a barefooted Confederate soldier
at sixteen, and there has never been
a blot on my record as soldier. n
public official, or a citizen, and | most
earnestly protest against being re.
moved without even a hearing. You
would give the most insignificant
messenger in the service a hearing.
nut | was removed without any no.
tee Whatsoever, upon the ex parto
statement of the Assistant Postmas.
ter, who expected to profit, and who
did profit by my removal. Not ONLY
did not get Il square deal but they
used cold deck and dealt from the
bottom of me-"
While Colonel nughes was talking
pursuit of Justice. And il ended nv
vigorous use of q clenched fist in such
close proximity 10 those famous white
teeth as to make even the aggressive
MI. Roosevelt take n step backward.
For five minutes the verbal hot
shot poured forth in unbroken sue.
cession. The Presidential tempera.
lllre ranged from the sizzling point
of combatipeness down to the stage
OF handclapping approval. But 1t was
All strong enough put by the gallant
Iennesseean as to show the Presi-
dent that he had met a man fired
with as much energy and determine
tion as he himself is. and man who
would beard the lion in his den In the
shoulder talk addressed to him than
the President sending for the Post.
master General and telling him to
give careful attention TO the case of
Hughes.
II is safe to say that not In all his
experience has the President met a
man who was less clustered Ivy the
presence of greatness, anad that he
mas never had more straightforward
shoulder talk addressed to him than
that which he heard from Colonel
Hughes.
There We're some thirty or forty
people in the room when IL all tool,
place. and they all came out declaring
that they had never dreamed of hear.
ing President talked to in such
manner Usually men are obseuuious
When in the presence of the President
and forget everything they had in.
tended 10 say. but Colonel Hughes did
not mlncc words or gestures to let
the President know that he had been
the victim of a raw deal.
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