Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1916-08-31
the TRAGEDY OF HUGHES

"""'' N huRucr RphO' i"o
Hughes of 1902" The New York
World undertakes to answer that ques-
ton, which the Democrats are asking
themselves with establishment; which
the Republicans are asking themselves
with bewilderment and disgust. Thus
the World answers:
The Hughes that New York used to
know, the Hughes whom the World
supported in 1906 and in 1908, has dis
appeared. In his place we have
Hughes of the Penrose- Cannon Gal
linger type, whose mind never arises
above the petty partisanship of Re-
publican organization politics.
No other candidate for President
within the memory of living men ever
ran down hill so rapidly as Mr.. Hughes
hai done since the day following his
nomination. 1t is both the campaign
sensation and the campaign mystery
OF the country. Wherever men talk
politics the one question is, What
has happened to HughesT
mo body has answered that ques-
ton; yet it admits of an answer and
the explanation can be found in Mr.
Hughes Chicago speech when he SAID :
AS ] was on the bench 100 per cent. q
Judge, ] then became 100 per cent. a
candidate.
That Is where the Hughes of 1905
has gone He has disappeared in the
Hughes Of 1916. who is 100 per cent. a
candidate. The country thought the
Republicans were nominating a great
leader who was still 100 per cent. q
Judge, with all Of that implied-a lead.
or VINO was wise. just, fair, learned,
honest in all his statement, upright in
relation to all the great issues of the
campaign and fearless IN his discus
sion Of them. Instead they suddenly
find man who has changed himself
from 100 per cent. Judge into 100
cent an Office seeker, with all the dis
ingenuousness. with all the evasions.
with all the lodging and twisting and
deliberate misrepresentation that usual
ly characterize the 100 per cent. Office
seeker Hughes the Judge and states.
man has been swallowed up in Hughes
the candidate.
That Is where the Hughes Of 1901
is gone.
The Hughes Of 1916 is merely a par.
tisan aspirant for office. He assail,
President Wilson. but he has no poll
cies Of his own. He abuses his oppo
nent, but he Offers no construction pro
gramme. He has even forgotten tn,
courtesy that ought to exist between
opposing candidates for President
THE Hughes Of 1916 sneers at Pres
ident Wilson's successful efforts u
keep the country out Of war with Ger
many. hut he is afraid to say what h
would have done that the Presiden
did not do, or what he would have lef
undone that the President did. HI
ridicules President Wilson's efforts +
bring 4 new order of things out Of tn
Mexican chaos. but be dare not 80.
what his own Mexican policy would be
He makes boastful professions abou
his devotion u America First. bu
encourages the German vote to sup
port him in order to punish the Presi
dent for refusing to yield to the Kal
ser. He accuses the President Of va
cillation and timidity in dealing wit
the gravest national and internationa
problems with which any other Presi
dent except Lincoln has had to grapple
but he lacks the mural and politics
courage TO say how he would meet III
situation.
''ln the midst Of the greatest crisi
known to modern history. the most in
portant issues In Mr.. Hughes min
are the substitution Of a Democrat
Director Of the Census for q Repuliea
Director Of the ,Census. the appoint
ment Of con Of Battery Dan Finn
a place 10 the customs service and III
failure Of the President, occupied Wit
matters Of the frt magnitude.
keep all the petty port out Of River
and Harbors Bill II Ia like abusin
Abraham Lincoln because the street
In Washington were not better pave
during the Civil War and declarin
that In consequence his Administrative
was failure. He 10 tryin
to pussyfoot into the presidency unds
the guidance OF the Old Guard Repul
licans. He takes his political Advis
from them. just Us he takes his can
paingn fund from Wall street II
takes his campaign information frol
them. He makes the kind Of speechs
that they tell him he ought 10 max,
They warn him not To try To presei