Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-06-15
HOW c. O.. p. CANDIDATE FIRST
WON HIS POLITICAL SPURS
Continued from Page II
Prefers to Be Jurist.

He is not a man by temperament
Z by inclination coVet0us of admin
astrative Office, OF public honor and of
popular applause. He is not a good
mixer" nor a pliable party man. He
would much rather be what he has
tbecome-a jurist of 10y and pow
rer, and with the inality that a SUI
-preme court justiceship implies to
deal with acts of both executive and
legislative departments of govern
eemnt, than be a governor or a presi-
dent. So when he was offered the
republican party's nomination for
mayor of New York in 1906 he de-
clined so as to do his duty as a prose
$putor.
Elected State Executive.
Nevertheless, a year later he ac.
Eepted the same party's nomination
o governor, and was elected, tax
ing office January /, 1907, holding the
place for four years. Within that
time he made his record of the third
-epoch of his course, one that he
probably looks back upon with least
satisfaction of any in his career.
since it involved him in controversies
with party bosses, since he was
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sdo, and was made to see the deep-
seated corruption that exists at Az
Abany, be the party in power which
1T may. 1t was while governor that
Mr.. Hughes learned how to get moral
support from the people, such as he
soften could not find among the domi-
nant party's leaders; and he did put
on the statute books some laws which
registered contemporary democracy's
deepest desires.
Champions "Direct Primary"
Though an ardent advocate of rep
iTesentatlve government and a critic
nf a pure democracy in the inter
sests Of the former he became a cham.
Spion OF the direct primary and
pressed 1t upon his party, the legis-
Stature and the people, with results
tthat were registered later and under
aanother's administration. Though a
critic OF socialism, and a defender
OF legitimate property rights, and a
believer In the corporate method of
doing business and investing and in
FcTeasing capital, he Insisted that the
state must supervise and control It's
public utility corporations, and in re-
dnrn for privileges granted them ex-
act social duties from them; and with
this end In view he led in a move
ment iercely resisted, but neverthe-
less triumphant, which gave the state
s1ts first public utilities commission.
forests Saved; Gambling Hit.
He had not been in office a month
before he lined up FOR conservation
of the forests Of the state against the
interests" that had been denuding
the timber lands and playing fast and
loose with the states assets on the
forest reservations. In the OF
atinn1 he came into collision with the
sporting and gambling interests Of
the state, who had thriven on Their
spoil won at Illegal race meets; and
forthwith he began a fight that moi
sDnly diminished but ex~terminated the
gang that had grown rich on the earn
ings Of the poor, the dissolute and
abe worldly. 1t was in this fight that
she won the NEE from his foes o..
being called Est. Charles the Bap
tist,', and at the / time earned
the support OF elements in the coun
try that always since then have haG
s#a singular degree of trust In his pro
zbity and moral courage.
Speeches show Independence.
The speeches which MI. Hughes
while governor, delivered to fellow
republicans, I'd civic and religious or
ganizations, II to historical celebral
StiOns like the Jamestown exposition
All struck . high note of political and
sssspaItisan Independence, Of robust Am