Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-11-03
CRITICISES DEMOCRATS
FOR MAKING PROMISES
Mrs. Hughes Left Him Today
To Meet Women On
Goldbug Train
By Perry Arnold.

(Unlted Press starr correspondent
Hudson, N. Y, Nov. BY the time
Charles L. Hughes reaches New York
City tonight his tours for votes complet.
ed, he will have travelled close to 30 1000
miles. Members of the Hughes party
estimate he has been seen by nearly one
third of the voters of the United States
in the most comprehensive, nerve rack
ing oral marathon for votes any presi-
Dental candidate has ever undergone.
Save for about IL days, the repubE.
can nominee has been continuously trav-
cling and stumping since August 5.
He has made speeches in 32 of the As
states and passed through two or three
more without talking. He has been as
far north as Bangor, Maine; as far
south as Nashville, Tenn, as far west
as the Pacific slope. For the most part
he has travelled on the first campaign
special de luxe ever introduced in Amer.
lean politics. He finishes his campaign
tour in perfect physical trim.
"Governor Hughes is splendidly fit, !"
said his physician, DR.. Caliisan, today
"There isn't even any seriousness to the
condition of his larynx from the tre-
mendous strain he has put on his voice.
No man, unless he is absolutely fit,
could have stood the strain to which
the republican nominee has been sub
jected and have finished in the perfect
condition Of body and nerves, that Gov
ernor Hughes has"
Spoke Two Million Words.
Hughes has made about 500 speeches
in the 12 1-2 weeks during which he has
been actively campaigning. He has spok
en- perhaps two million words of argu-
ment-which averages 66 words to each
Travelled mile.
Throughout the 10000 miles and with
in sound of his voice on about 495 of
the 500 speeches has been Mrs. Hughes
the governors adviser, his critic, his
boss, when it came to ordering him
to rest and last of all, his most enthus.
iastic booster. Mrs. Hughes has left a
trail of buttons across the entire nation
and has shaken almost as many hands
and patted just as many ba oies heads
as her husband.
The candidate particularlized on com
mereial conditions here and abroad aft
er the war in his speech here. He quot
ed again from the speech of Chairman
Hurley of the federal trade commission
on the need for combating European
rivalry at the close Of the struggle
~ agree with Hurley as to the neces.
sity for organization and efficiency -
he said. "But he stops short of full
conclusion, which, it seems to me, he
should have reported; because we may
have very high degree of efficiency
and we should develop it to the utmost; /;
and we may have the best possible or
ganization and we should do far more
than we have done to encourage it and
still we may not be able to compete with
Europe, where there is at least equal or
ganization and equal Efficiency
Speaking of democratic promises, he
said:
When people talk to me about their
bay windows and present prospects
that they are going to enjoy in consider
ing the country while looking through
these beautifully built windows, l ask:
Well, where is the foundation for your
housef If you do not have founda-
tion for your house all you have got
is castle in the. air. And the founda
tion of this house of improvement, of
good wages, Of proper hours, of whole
some conditions of work-the foundation
of that house is the stability of Ameri-
can enterprise and the opportunity for
work. There has got to be employment
in this country before we can talk about
the conditions of employment.
Mrs. Hughes left the special train
here in order to hasten to Newark to
welcome the women 3 Hughes trans.con-
tinental campaigners