The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-04-14
NEW YORK WONDERS III HUGHES
WILL be ELECTED.
MAYORALTY CONTEST
Courts will Be Called Upon to De.
eide Who 10 Mayor Of Gotham Next
Week-Meanwhile Mcclellan q
Holding Job Down.
tBy Glenn Guernsey.)

New York, April 1l.--Can a man
with whiskers be elected president of
the United States? Republicans Of
the Empire state appear to think so,
and will give Governor Hughes their
endorsement, despite his hirsute ap-
pendage. To discuss a MANS facial
embellishments in connection with his
fitness for a high Office may appear
frivolous, but instances are not lack
ing to prove the Importance of con-
formity in such matters William Al
fred PETER, n time United States
senator from Kansas, was an able
man, but he is now principally re-
membered as 'the man with the
whiskers." That New York, the most
sophisticated state in the union,
should support for president a man
who wears a beard Of the most bucolic
variety is little short Of q public ca
lamity. But while there are BARRIERS
Hughes will yet see a great light and
consent to she'd the spinach, in con-
foymity with the t~wenty-third amend
ment to the constitution, which ex-
plicity declares that no man who ha-
~bitually lodges the tonsorial artist
shall be eligible to the presidency.
Hughes Birthday.
Incidentally, today was the forty
sixth birthday Of New York's chief ex.
ecutive and presidential aspirant.
Browsing about in Who's Who, I find
that he made his initial appearance
in Glens Falls, N. Y, on April IL, 1862,
as the son of the Rev. David and Mary
G. Hughes. Glens Falls folk were only
mildly interested in the event, and
shook their heads sadly at the pro-
verbal fate Of a preachers son. In
his youth the governor-to.be displayed
none of those precocious traits OF
which we like to read in the biog-
raphies Of the truly great, He grad
uated from Brown university in 1881,
but side-stepped his fathers profess
&oAOAr ALL tA0I vi q AdtCl
he decided 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 mar
grying a Brooklyn young woman, Miss
Antoinette Carter. He first became
nationally prominent as attorney for
the Armstrong commission, which
probed the large life insurance com
panies. Elected governor of New
York after a whirlwind campaign, in
which he was opposed by no less a
parsonage than William Ramrod
Hearst, he is now hailed by his adj
mirers as another logical choice for
the highest office in the gift Of the
American pee-pul.
His Life Story.
M Such. gentlemen and voters, is the
veracious life story Of Charles Evans
Hughes, whom New York; nov takes
pleasure in presenting to your respect
full consideration as the successor In
the presidential chair of those other
mighty men who also held down the
Job Of governor Of New York-Theo.
dore Roosevelt and Grover Cleveland
II wish him luck. But If I were the
seventh son OF a seventh son, and Gov
ernor Hughes should ask me to read
his destiny in the stars, I would ad
wise him to beware of a stout, fat man
who is likely to cross his path on the
road to Washington, and-toshed his
whiskers.
A New Mayor-Perhaps.
Has New York a mayor? We who
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