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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

In the current issue of Everybody's
Magazine appear two timely articles
dealing with presidential candidates.
Wilson and Hughes. Hughes. by
William Brown Msloney. a New York
newspaper man who served as a writer
on "The World" the late Joseph Pull
!tzer's paper. tells Of Justice Hughes
life up to and during the New York gas
investigations. Hughes was appointed
attorney for the legislative committee
on investigation. His genius-like abil
ity in handling the matter, the preci.
sion of his work and the mass of
authentic facts he gathered. won him
his first public note.
Because of the reticence of Hughes.
the attorney, in those days, the news
papers built up that great icicle myth.
But in his article Mr.. Meloney shows
the fallacies of these oft-quoted criti-
cisms of the great standard bearer of
the Republican party today. Mr.. Me-
loney speaks authentically.
Joseph Pulitzer became interested in
Hughes. He instructed his writers to
seek out everything connected with his
life, "to write story about him SO
that blind man could see him. As
those stories began to come in Pulitzer
said. "this man will 60 far" and
later he made the prediction that
Charles Evans Hughes would one day
become president of the United States.
Showing the ''humanness" of Hughes
we reprint the following from MIR. Me-
loney's article:
Hughes. the lawyer, the self-respect.
ing bill-paying father and husband of
$40 West End Avenue, New York, un-
derwent no change as the result of his
transition to the executive mansion at
Albany, nor did his family. They made
a home of the old pile in all that the
word "home" can imply. And those
kids" never became obsessed by the
idea that the were any better than
anybody's else youngsters in Albany.
Their mother saw to that. Their prin-
cipal companions in playtime were the
orphan children in st. Joseph's Catho.
lie home. whose grounds abut upon the
back yard of the executive mansion.
Two or three times a week regularly
Mrs. Hughes would get the sisters ib
charge of st. Joseph's to let an install.
ment of their charges visit her, and
there would be games and cakes and
ice cream. Frequently she would make
the governor quit his office earlier than
usual to show himself, for to these
children the chief executive of the En-
pire state was tremendous person.
something like king or a prince come
to life out of fairy tale. Wherever
the children of st. Joseph's of those
days may be. they must have found
life just a little sweeter, a little less
bitter, for the touch of mother love
that Antoinette Hughes put into it
then.
"This might be little one of mine, /"
she would often say. holding mother.
less tike to her breast.
In another article in the same num-
ber of Everybody's is another story.
Business Men Aaginst Wilson," writ.
ten by c. P. Connolly.
Mr.. Connolly travelled from New
York to Kansas City, interviewing
business men. The article is not bi-
ased attack on the policies of Presi.
dent Wilson, for the reader is in
pressed with its fairness. Still Mr..
Connolly says that by far the greater
number of business men of all the cit.
les he visited, with the exception of
st. Louis. we're opposed to President
Wilson's reelection. One of the open
ing paragraphs of the article follows:
Had picked out men whom knew
the chorus of dissent could not have
been more hearty. 1t was a complete
surprise to me, particularly the over
whelming sentiment against MIR. Will
son in New York and Chicago. Some
were more specific, some more preju-
diced, and some we're more profane
than others: but all we're agreed that
Mr.. Wilson is theorist who insists
upon putting his theories into effect
long after they are shown to be wrong
that he is cultured gentleman, of liz.
erary tastes. who has had no business
experience; that he is honest, and is
trying desperately to do things, but
that he has no foresight: and finally,
that the White House is too expensive
q training school for statesmen.
And in closing MIR. Connolly says:
That Wilson is not popular among
business men is beyond question. !
mean the men who are confronted with
facts-who look at things as they are
today. or as they are Likely to be in the
next few years, and who concern them
selves not at all with the distant fu-
ture.. They are against Wilosn. II an
election we're to be held tomorrow, and
If it were confined to the business men
of the country, Wilson would be over
whelmingly defeated. That is the
sentiment, not of big business, for
have not sought in any general way to
ascertain the attitude of such men, but
of the average run of business mer
throughout the country men in many
instances unfriendly to big business.
Perhaps there is one way to account
for the situation and that is that bus
mess is Republican, and that these
men are partisans. But that does not
quite explain the almost universal dis.
satisfaction. Business cannot be all
Republican.
The only city in which | found any
Wilson sentiment of any magnitude
was st. Louis, and there many of the
business men are southerners. who are
naturally Democratic, and whose SYM
pathies found both argument and apoI.
ogy for the Administration vet
even there the Republican sentiment
WAS strong