The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-10-08
HUGHES HEALTH
IN CRITICAL STATE
Colorado laWmaker, Now Here,
Compelled to Leave
Home.

United States Senator Hughes, Jr., Of
Colorado. who arrived here Tuesday on
sbe Wilhelmina from San Francisco, IS
seeking to regain health and strength
bv his trip to the Islands. He is suffer
ing from an ailment which his Colorado
friends believe will result in his retire
ment from public life, and which has
long been a source of worry to his
family. When he left Colorado the lat
ter part of September he contemplated
.oply a trip to California, but decided
on arriving there to gain strength from
s sea trip taking in Honolulu and prob
ably VISIT to the volcano. That his i'll
ness is acute was proved to Denverites
when he took his TWO sons, Gerald and
Lafayette with him.
Never robust and always an IN
defatigable worker, Senator Hughes
first gave signs of breakdown when
he left the breakfast given at Overland
Park in honor Of Colonel Roosevelt and
retired to his home so i'll that he was
unable to 90 to his office for several
DAYS. After that collapse it was SAID
on good authority that the senator IS
afflicted with a goltre which has great
" distressed HIM, and which it is feared
NAV vet strange him. His circulation
IS extremely poor, due, it is said, to
hardening of the arteries.
He has been in a highly nervous con
dition as a result Of hard work during
the last session of congress, in which
he took very active part.
Evidence of the critical nature of the
complaint from which the senator is
suffering is given in the only comment
which one of his physicians would
make and that was TO the effect that
the duration of his visit to the Coast
Was not known even to his most init
mate medical advisers. 1t was limited
shat perhaps he would be compelled to
come as far as the Hawaiian Islands
10 recuperate and the statement was
maize that not until he is entirely re-
stored would he be permitted to take
ap his duties as a member of the Uni
eed States senate
Those who have been closely identi-
ied with the senator since his return to
Denver from Washington have noticed
that he was greatly depressed and that
the strength which had departed while
II rfe capital had not returned after
he returned home and that on the con
irarv he had shown even greater weak
ness.
Almost from the moment of his ar
rival in Denver he gave up business and
remained in the open air as much as
possible, turning over his political af
fairs TO his son. Gerald, although he
hoped later to take more active part
n the campaign. His condition grew
rapidly worse and his physicians. alarm
ed by his inability to acquire strength.
and the progress Of his malady, warned
aim shat the excitement of political
struggle would probably have fatal
result and it was in consequence Of this
aimonition he decided to go away.
At a recent luncheon of the Colorado
Electric Club, the senator was invited
TO make a speech and he did so, al
though his address was SO short that
the members of the organization were
keenly disappointed until they observed
that he was so weak he had to be as
sisted from the dining hall. His APP
pearance then was that of a man who /!
xas suffering intensely both physically |
and mentally and who needed a long |
sojourn in place where he could |
totally abstain form all work and DE |
entirely free from worry.