Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-13
CANDIDATE HUGHES
MVADES MISSOURI
Say He viii Change Tactics
and Tell What He Would
Have Done
By Perry Arnold.

UNITED Press staff correspondent
st. Louis, No., Oct. 13.-On what
President Wilson considers his lucky
day-Friday, the 13th-Republican Can
didate Hughes swung into democratic
Missouri today confident of making
enough votes to carry the "show me"
state in November. Western republican
campaign managers have expressed
great confidence at the chances for
,nelr tickeG carrying in the state and
hughes, himself, pIanned two red hot
speeches in Springfield late this after
noon and at Jopnn tonight-to carry
convincingly the doctrine of republican
ism.
from now on Hughes plans freely to
discuss what he would have done were
lie president. The meeting in Louisville
last night ''took the lid Off the ques-
tiOn OF the submarine issue. 1t forced
hughes hand to certain etxent. He
had planned to await until it was GER
tain that the U53 and the complexities
of the bringing of the submarine war
fare to American shores had been dis
posed of, before striking out on the
question of how he would have handled
the submarine issue. But his inter
fogator at Louisville last night forced
earlier answer to the question.
Members of his imemdiate party to-
day were jubilant over the tremendous
reception which Louisville accorded his
answer. The candidate has encountered
very few crowds on all his campaign
trips which accorded him such whole
souled reception as that at the Ken
lucky city last night. The crowd ap-
preciated the fact that although heck
led" the republican nominee struck
back stronger than the hit which his
questioner aimed at him.
Police were powerless to handle the
crowd and there were numerous COM
ments among Kentucky republicans that
the democratic administration of Louis
vile provided only two policemen, abso-
lutely helpless against the mob which
jammed the hall-to afford protection
to the governor and Mrs. Hughes. Mrs.
Hughes got lost from her husband in
the mob and those with her had literal
ly to fight their way to the platform,
shielding her as much as possible from
the enormous crowd.
Hughes today hoped to seize the op-
portunity offered by plenty of time be-
tween speeches to rest. Yesterday s pro-
gram in Kentucky greatly tagged the
former justice. At the Louisville meet
ing this fatigue was apparent in his
voice, and his physician ordered q slow
program on train conferences, and the
like, in view of the fact that tomorrow
in Nebraska, Hughes faces program of
half dozen talks.
Hughes is beginning to find out that
a candidate not only has to talk and
travel, but must sign hundreds of auto
graphs, must acknowledge hundreds of
small gifts, ranging from flowers to
Indian relies, and must take particular
interest in babies named after him. SO
far on the trip, he has received notice
of two such infants who will go through
life named Charles Hughes something or
other. One is one of triplets born to a
Rochester family and the other was one
of set of twins born in u little Florida
town. In both cases Hughes sent per-
sonal letter accompanied by an auto
graphed picture.
Being a practiced campaigner now
after 10 weeks of stumplng, the repub-
lican nominee is enlarging his repetoire
of near jokes and epigrams for the au-
diences he greets. He started out at
first very timidly to remark slangingly
he had leone back.' He developed q
punning epigram about the Wilson ad-
ministration IS diplomacy without dol
lars and without sense" and today he
seemed fond of his latest coinage of
phrases-the "new slavry" as opposed
to Wilson s new freedom.