The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-15
81 Will Use Full Executive In
fiuence If Elected"
LOCALITIES HIS SET SPEECH
Carries Less Oratorical Am
munitiOn Than T. r.. or Taft.
"WOmen Onlyo Audience
Cheers Candidate Wildly.

Tacoma, Wash, Aug. 15.-Governor
Hughes is putting the personal punch
into his speeches in Washington state
He began today to use the personal
pronoun in pledges and promises.
IF you elect me to an executive Of
fice," he told an audience here today,
Il propose to use my full executive
influence"
This was the first time that the
Republican nominee has used the inti-
mate personal p1onoun. It was in
dlcative of a further step in the gov
ernors warming up process
In his speeches across the continent
SO far the G. o. p. aspirant for pres
idential honors has heretofore con-
Ilned himself to speaking of the party.
The only personal references were
veiled
Uses Only One Speech.
The governor has really only one
speech. 1t starts off with a plea for
unity OF Amerfcanism. touches on pre-
paredness, attacks Democratic policies
on both matters; swings to the Mexf-
can problem, jumps back to an attack
on the Democrats for governmental
inefficiency, pork" methods. and lack
OF coordination and ends with
Pieoge or better government" under
Republican rule. Roosevelt usually
: had six different speeches in his cam
paigning and Taft at least four. Both
altered these stock speeches to en-
phasize some different section Hughes
localizes his
Today Hughes chose inefficiency as
his main battering ram in the assault
against the Democratic citadel. But
what was remarked most by those
who have been associated with him
since the start of his campaign trip
was the extraordinary polish" which
the nominee has now applied to this
| one speech. 1t was perfect indication
that the governor has now reached the
summit of his campaigning skill. He
put in new synonyms, new SMILES,
new epigrams and consequently he got
as big a reception here as anywhere
| on the trip
! Tonight at Seattle.
| In addition to his Tacoma speech
today, the governor was due to speak
J tonight at Seattles great outdoor
stadium National Committeeman
Perkins reported today that tests
showed there would be no need of a
sounding board to save the governors 8
voice there.
| Hughes was wildly cheered by wom-
( en- in the audience which heard his
woman suffrage speech at Spokane.
He declared that equal suffrage was
inevitable and pledged his full sup
port to the federal woman suffrage
an endment
Speech to 5000 Women.
I Spokane, Wash, Aug 15.-Add-ess-
/ ing them as my fellow citizens
/ Charles E. Hughes spoke to an audi
ence of 5000 women voters n the
Spokane Auditorium theater.
A tremendous wave of handclapping
welcomed the salutation-
Not a man was present in the audi
ence save the half dozen members OF
the orchestra the official stenogra-
piers and the male members of the
nominees party.
On the platform were the 500
women members of the committee to
welcome Mr.. and Mrs. Hughes to
Washington. In the box, on the floor
and in the galleries women of al ages
and conditions in life-several negroes
and two Spokane Indians-in maze
of life and color crowded every avail
able inch of room. 1t was picture
at once picturesque and impressive
Mrs. H >e;hes, carrying great elus-
ter of American beauty roses. occu-
PIED a box with members of the COM
mittee. Miss jeanette Donaldson
county superintendent of schools, pre-
sided and introduced the candidate,
who, for the occasion, abandoned his
sack campaign coat and appeared be-
fore his unusual audience in cutaway
suit with a red carnation in his but
tonhole.
Little to Say on Suffrage.
He paid the ladies the compliment
of addressing them in the same terms
and along the same lines that he has
talked to male voters thruout his tour.
Only at the beginning of his speech
did he refer to suffrage.
| Hughes interspersed his speech 18th
many epigrams that have not hereto
fore found place in his set speeches.
I He expressed the profound conNic-
4 ton that votes for women will be an
accomplished fact in the near future.
Il am interested in good national
Housekeeping" he declared, opening
his discussion of the problem of an
/ efficient busiHess-like and economical
administration of the nations affairs.
There were few cheers. but vigcr-