New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-08
Managers Feel Lack OF
Ii Hurt Former
Tours.
FAILED TO REACH
COUNTRY AT LARGE
Use of Single Issue for
Each Speech Is
Urged.

With Charles f. Hughes TO start to-
morrow on his final swing around the
circle. Democrats are hoping that the
Republican nominee will get the same
sor. Of publicity that he did on his
last trip.
Reports 10 both camps as to inc
Hughes meetings throughout the coun-
try have been chat they seemed h'Th.y
successful Apparently, as the hepuo-
licans view the situation. the candidate
has been making great Roadway win
rs audiences. but he has not beeh ~
nc ,bc attention OF the country
through the newspaper accounts VI ''-
Frie9o.v and opposition newspapers
did NOT seem 20 differ greatly IN tnls
respoct during the last part % ms al
swing. Big accounts we're pr'n1eu a.
FIRST. which rapidly dwlooIed I'D ~ .!,
and then changed in character 3ntu
thev featured trivia! incidents WnlSH
occurred u the crowd, sueh a. heS "a,
Inc almost anything but some Dig
NON. made by the candidate, which, OF
coursc is what the Republican cam
naien managers want to see IN the
headlines.
SAYS Hughes Repeats.
An old campaigucr from OHIO sur
vivor of the Mark Hanna days Veh',
ured am opinion as 10 the cause anu
remedy yesterday. Ill
.Nfr Hughes repeats himself sara
This advisor. That's the whole story
lie start5 West. making fine speech
~ Buffalo. parGnhrasine IT al OIeve-
land. twists It just little more IoI
India-.roII-. with perhaps q little aQo-
"a punch for Detroit and Chicago. but
it, ffe same old speech. IL has scarce
r. CHANGED. except in language certain
IN mo-. l ideas. 0y the time he gets 10
the Pacific Coast.
~Now the point IS, what are the
newspapers going 90 printt Ihey can
keen rehashiug that old line OF argu-
mcnt he got OF in Jerfey CITY. mat
Gets pretty f.resome by the tmt ne
.,ts 90 Chicago. $50 the obvious thlhg
happens. Any little incident becomes
the headline feature OF hls meetings
.f m.a tccEles him. no matter II the
iaar S. drunk aud does not represent
..r. ...r.- of fLc crowd 20 Ail, lnaI is
.lr Sic news item iu that meeting.
WL,1 Lccuusc enc candidate ls Eot
ta.irc 81 s.nr'. targ 40 the particular
meeting question he has not sAlo
thlc. or Sou. ur twenty times before.
Wants One Thing al q Time.
"Thc remedy i- simple. Nh hughes
should make AIs inst speech on one
subject, LIS second on another ana ms
thirl Ola still mother. He should keep
mis- up "a. much as possible, avoiding
rcpcttiou. What would happen lie
make hls first speech on tie cost OF
living. perhaps. which the Democrats
have been horribly afraid be would dig
into. taking up almost his entire
spccch with this. is there any doubt
that cyC-y LcH spaper In the country
would print q good-sizcd story ABOUT
that
"Thcn would come his next speech,
perhaps on the tremendous number OF
special lppoiatets 10000, l an toid
there are just put on the tederaI
payroll. and, as matter or lac,
merely campaign workers. lie coGld
20 into the Civil Service record OF the
Democrats in this talk, which wouId
mean be would have no trouble using
an his time for that address without
touching on any other important issue
The next morning every paper In the
country would have that on the front
Pare. barring catastrophe OF some
sort. And SO on. lie could give any
number of sDecchcs about Mexico, and
The bunclng Of cur international re
lations. bat bringing out something
new each time so as 10 Keep MS
speeches cu the front page.
"If he should put that plan IN prac-
tiee there would be no further discus
sion whatever Of the failure Of Hughes
20 measure up, as fouslng cam
paipncr. 10 his reputation. 1t is got
an answer 20 say that he would prefer
making each individual audience under
stand an the questions At issue. In
the first place there are too many
issues in this campaign for that sort
Of speech In the second place ms
real audience every day is rot the
paltry crowd he Is addressing, but the
millions Of Americans around the
breakfast table reading the papers tue
next morning.
zone other little point is that, by
concentrating on one subject for each
speech, he would have that issue peg
fectly clear in the minds Of strong
minority in the community in when
the speech was made. so that there are
advantage % the one subject peeca,
even with regard 20 the speakers i'm
mediate audience"