The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-23
Nevada First Admittedly Demo-
crat State on Itinerary.
Nearly Worn Out by Strenuous
Program of Tuesday.
26 SPEECHES A DAY TOO MUCH
Record for StrenuOsity Outriv-
ais ROOsevelt's Record.
Tells Crowd What New York
LabOrerS Think of Him.

Reno. New. Aug. 2S.-Charles E.
hughes today in the first acknowl?
Hughes campaigned in the first ac-
l.no~ledEed Democratic state he has
encountered since he left Bridgehamp-
ton. y. Y. three weeks ago to begin
his long swing around the circle" lie
started his invasion with an assault on
the Democratic tariff and foreign poll
cies here today. adding also a defense
of his own labor record. Big crowds
of Nevadans greeted the Republican
presidential nominee everywhere
Today, however. Hughes started an
active rebellion. Never again will he
permit local or state committees to
put him thru such a course of strenu-
osity. in campaigning as that which he
underwent yesterday. The candidate
Admitted that he is very nearly tired
out. Those with whom he talked be-
fore his train reached here said he
told them that the spirit was willing
but that no human being could stand
more days of the sort he had been I'M
dergoing during the past week.
To Have Three Days Vacation.
The gladdest man in the United
States will be Charles Evans Hughes
when August 81 rolls around aud he
and Mrs. Hughes can settle down for
three days rest at Estes Park, Colo
There the governor expects to sleep
and eat and get out in the air all he
can.
His WEAKNESS was plainly discern
ible today in husky voice that did
queer tricks of infection when he
sought to press it to renewed effoI t.
But nevertheless. he had an indom-
table enthusiasm that revived i'm
when he faced an audience.
Two or three times during the past
few days Hughes has not been able,
because of pressure of demands made
upon him by local and state arrange
ments committees to get his dinner be
fore late at night. He was scheduled
yesterday to make fourteen speeches
but at lanst eight were added at the
last moment. The nominee has ruled
that he will not disappoint a crowd
when they besiege his private cSr and
this very willingness led the local
committees to impose on him.
1000 at Sacramento Meeting.
Hughes apparently talks with great
facility but it is a facility which he
has acquired only through a long per-
id of concentration and preparation.
Colonel Roosevelt, whose tranS-cOn-
tinental trip of four years ago is real
~ surpassed in strenuosity by
Hughess. has a faculty for concentra-
ton and little preparation, but
Hughes's service on the bench and the
painstaking legal mind with which he
is equipped. force him to study long
and arduously in mapping out all of
his talks-even the smallest ones
His present trip, therefore, is even
harder on the candidate than his
schedule indicates, because so little
time is granted him for preparation.
Governor Hughes addressed 1000
persons in Sacramento last night at a
meeting which was declared by the
Republican state leaders to be nom
IL
eral workmen's compensation law
were discussed at considerable length
by him. He declared strongly for pre-
paredness and attacked the admins
tration's course in Mexico.
Reverting to his labor record he
read an extract from an editorial that
appeared in the Organ of Organized
Labor in New York" in October, 1910.
In which he was referred to as the
greatest friend of labor that has ever
occupied the governors chair at
Albany
Barbecue and Speeches.
Governor Hughes was refreshed by
a nights sleep, when he reached Reno
today for a day of parades. barbecues.
receptions and speech-mcking He
Will leave here at 9 o'clock tonight
1Or Ogden. Utah. The nominee was
met at the station by a brass band and
squad of cowboys and cowgirls who
escorted him to his hotel. After break
FAST in the main dining room, Mr..
Hughes and his wife went fer an auto
mobile ride about the city
AT noon the nominee received a
large delegation from the Nevada
Woman's party, after which Mr..
Hughes and his wife headed an auto
mobile parade thru the city The
parade ended at little park opposite
the court house where western bar
necue was on the program. Ten beeves
had been killed for the Candidate his
party of about forty, the reception
committee and invited guests All
traffic was stopped on Reno's main
street during the barbecue and for
the speech which followed This was
delivered in the open air from a plat
FORM on the courthouse steps.
The second speech was to be deliv-
cred at O'Clock in the theater here.