The daily sentinel., 1908-04-11
Man With
Whiiskers
CAN HE WIN OUT?
Glenn Guernsey Talks About
Gov. Hughes---The Muzzling
Of Bryan---Has New York
Really Got a Mayor?
Especial to The Sentinel.)
(By Glenn Guernsey.)

New York, April 11.-Can a man
with whiskers be elected president of
the United States? Republicans of
the Empire state, who are holding
their convention in Carnegie Hall to-
day, appear to think 50, and will
give Governor Hughes their indorse-
| ment. despite his hirsute appendage
To discuss a mans facial embellish-
ments in connection with his fitness
for a high office may appear friv-
olous, but instances are not lacking
to prove the importance of conform
ity in such matters. William Alfred
Peffer, one time United States sem
atcr from Kansas, was an able man,
but he is now principally remem-
bered as "the man with the whisk-
ers." That New York, the most
sophisticated state in the Union.
should support for president man
who wears a beard of the most bu-
collie variety is little short of n public
calamity. But while there are barb
ers there is hope. Perhaps Governor
hughes will yet see great light and
consent to shed the spinach, in con-
formity with the Twenty-third
amendment to the Constitution,
which explicitly declares that no man
who habitually lodges the tonsorial
dTIlSt Suiii De eliSiDic W tilc pitSi-
dency.
Incidentally, today is the 46th
birthday of New York's chief execu-
tive and presidential aspirant.
Browsing about in Who's Who.
find that he made his initial appear
ance in Glens Falls, N. Y. on April
IL, 1862, as the son of Rev. David
and Mary C. Hughes. Glens Falls
folks were only mildly interested in
the event and shook their heads
sadly at the proverbial fate of
preachers son. In his youth the
governor-to-be displayed none of
those precious traits of which we like
to read in the biographies of the
truly great. He graduated from
Brown University in 1881, but side
stepped his fathers profession for
that of pedagogue. Later he de-
cided to embrace the ancient and
honorable profession of the law, and
graduated from Columbia Law
School and was admitted to the bar
in New York in 1884. Meanwhile,
he had manifested his good taste by
marrying a Brooklyn young woman,
Miss Antoinette Carter. He first be-
came nationally prominent as attor-
ney for the Armstrong Commission,
which probed the large life insur-
ance companies. Elected governor
of New York after whlrlwind cam
paign, in which he was opposed by
no less a parsonage than William
Ramrod Hearst, he is now hailed by
his admirers as another "logical
choice for the highest office in the
gift of the American pee-pul.
Such, gentlemen and voters, is the
veracous life story of Charles Evans
Hughes. whom New York now takes
pleasure in presenting to your re-
spectful consideration as the sue
cessor in the presidential chair of
those other mighty men who also
held down the job of governor of
New York-Theodor Roosevelt and
Grover Cleveland. l wish him luck.
But If I were the seventh son of
seventh son, and Governor Hughes
should ask me to read his destiny in
the stars, / would advise him to be-
ware of stout, fat man who is likely
to cross his path on the ioad to
Washington, and--to shed his
whiskers.
The Muzzling of Bryan.
Will he or will he not? That is
the question. In other words, Will
liam Jennings Bryan has been invit-
ed to attend the Jefferson banquet
of the National Democratic Club on
Monday night, and to eat his fill, but