Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-07-07
Is Preparing Arraignment
With Care He Equipped
Self for Inquiry.
CONSIDERS HE IS
A LAWYER AGAIN
Preparedness VIII be In
portant Feature of
His Speech.

Special to The World
DRIDGEHAMPTON, n. Y, July 6.
~ Charles h. Hughes is preparing
his arraignment of the Wilson admin
iStration with the same studious thor
oughneSS and zeal with which he
equipped himself in 1905 for the life
insurance investigation.
Here in the reStful quiet of an an
cient Long Island village he is study
ing national problems. sorting, claSsi
Tying and assimilating in his analyti-
cal mind vast stores of statistical data
and documentary evidence bearing di-
rectly upon those issues which he ex-
poets to force to the front later as
the very cruX Of the coming cam
paign.
Day by day here in his study under
the Trem edden trees he is practicing
political preparedness.
He is so saturating his mind with
every material fact bearing upon ma
tional problems that it must needs be
an adroit interlOcutor who can catch
him mapping when any pertinent
query may be hurled at him later as
he faces the country's voters
To callers with whom Hughes
talked this afternoon he explained
that ne is now devoting his time to
this fundamental task of preparing
rather than to the mere formulating
of his speech of acceptance.
To clothe ones thoughts in clear
and convincing language he holds, is
a paratively simple matter. once
the mind has grasped accurate con-
clusions and fortified those conclu-
sions with nControvertible facts.
The work upon which he is now
engaged will be crystallized doubtless
not only in the speech of acceptance,
but also in a score of others which
he will deliver, once the active cam
paign is launched.
Hughes Again the Lawyer.
Hughes considers himself again in
the role of a lawyer, who has been
retained in the most important case
which he has been called upon to
handle in his entire career. He rep
resents the Republican party in an
action in which Woodrow Wilson and
the Democratic party are codefend-
ants.
The American people constitute the
jury, which ultimately is to pass
upon the merits of the case.
Because OF the poor light there he
has abandoned a small room in the
front Of his summer home, which
hitherto had been used as a den, ana
has formed a study by screening Oft
one end Of the music room. which
extends the entire length, east To
west, of Tremedden.
His desk is piled high with books,
official reports and collections Of data
which have even the remotest bearing
on questions which he will be called
upon to discuss when he goes upon
the stump
Will BE Thoroughly Prepared.
. 90 l,a@ a sIat -
for the presidency ever went before
the electorate better prepared to pre-
sent the questions at issue or better
fortified to resist any onslaught than
the Republican nominee will be by
the time the campaign opens
1t is certain that preparedness will
have an important place in the speech
of acceptance. Friends of Hughes
know that he feels deeply about tn.
state of unpreparedness in which the
most recent Mexican crisis found the
nation, and that he will make his po-
sition clear in his reply to the address
| of notification.
With the data and the docum ents
| on his desk are piles OF notes Hughes
has penciled from time to time when
| considering material for his campaign.
speeches
Unlike President Wilson he does not
| use a typewriter, and. though he
| studied stenography in his law school
days, he used it 80 little subsequent,
that he has forgotten most Of the
shorthand characters. Consequently
the notes are all in longhand
Hughes expects to pass a quiet day
tomorrow, but in the evening he will
drive with his family to the Bridge
hampton Golf club. which is only a
few hundred yards from Tremedden
to watch the fireworks display He
does not expect to make a speech.