The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-08
ARTHUR BRISBANE.
SAYS HUGHES HAS
THE NOMINATION
No Other Candidate Has Chance
Now, He Asserts.
Roosevelt Made Mistake by
Staying at Oyster Bay.
|CAN HUGHES BEAT WILSON?
That Is Big Question That Time
Alone Can Solve.
Both Cold Men; Campaign
Should Be Chilly One.
No Other Candidate Has Chance
Now, He Asserts.
Roosevelt Made Mistake by
Staying at Oyster Bay.
GAN HUGHES BEAT WILSON?
That Is Big Question That Time
Alone Can Solve.
Both Cold Men; Campaign
Should Be Chilly One.
tBY ARTHUR BRIsBANE.)

| (BY ARTHUR BRISBANE.)
| Chicago, ILL.,, June s.-The Progress
sives Wednesday cheered for one hour
and thirty-six minutes for Theodore
| Roosevelt.
| The Republicans cheered less than
| 10 seconds for Mr.. Harding, presi-
dental candidate, and for his key
note speech.
The Progressive convention was like
| a giant firecracker that small poy
puts under a tin pail to make II iouoel.
| The Republican convention was one
Of those dismal little ''sizzers that
disappoint the small boy whose fire
| crackers are damp and refuse to make
a noise. NJ,
Moose. but the Bull Moose candidate
| evidently is not to be nominated-hy
the Republicans, at least. HIS frlenus
believe that if he has his way, the
lProgressives will not nominate MN,
either. e
| The dull, dismal, depressing, half
hearted Hughes Republican conven-
ttion will nominate Hughes-then we
shall see what we snail see.
Hughes as Ice Water.
| Hughes is as cold as ice water, ac-
Icording to those who know MN Wen.
but he is fighter. and II ne Is ice
hight, Is solid ice 1t will be an inter
testing, cold battle, and the result
doubtful
Mr.. Harding, an estimable gentle
IMAM who looks like Mckinley ana
talks like the year 1876, was supposed
Ito sound the Republican keynote
| He talked one solid hour and a half.
But he did not tell the spellbinders,
lsoon to begin, anything that might De
fused in answer to the Wilson argu-
lment, which boiled down, will be TINS:
| st have kept you at peace and nave
filled your pockets-wnat more uo yoo
want?"
When nothing has happened, there
lis nothing much to say
There would have been a good deal
to say if Roosevelt had appeared IN
that convention as the band started
the patriotic tune.
| T. RS Mistake.
/ He made a mistake when he de-
| cided to stay in cold storage at Oyster
Bay. The one thing that he has is
personality. The convention should
have seen him and heard him. To
trant and roar for weeks IN advance
and then collapse into "eX-presldent1al
dignity" is a mistake IN tactics
This is not a well-paid convention.
There is not much money going about.
1t is perhaps q convention that could
have been stampeded with speech
d
welt could have furnished.
However, the chance is gone by
And while some of -Roosevelts friends
suggested that he would realize his
mistake and arrive at the last moment,
he probably won't.
| What kind of a candidate, If nonl-
mated, will Hughes be?
| What kind of a president, if elected,
will Hughes make?
| Those are questions interesting the
public.
Energy of Round Head.
He will work hard and make pow
erful campaign. He is a concentrated
man who has saved up his energy and
held in his feelings. He has the con-
centrated Puritanica1 energy of one of
Cromwell's round heads
He will keep Mr.. Wilson and his
friends working hard.
1t will be an icy, Woodworking cam
paign of Purity, Platitude, and Pur-
itanism. To predict victory for either
side would be dangerous prophecy.
What will Hughes do if elected?
He is a conservative, but he is his
own conservative He owns himself,
has rot been delivered to anybody
great point in his favor.
| He will be a blessing to the in
terests," although they will not realize
He will keep them in bounds, will not
seriously interfere with their plans,
|
making the stupid, greedy blunders
that might give an opening to rad
ical and end their game
Hughes will be disliked by special
privilege, but he will be its wise
guardian and proiong its life
/ Preferable to Wilson.
If Hughes is ice water and Wilson
solid ice, why should one of them be
any better than the other?
Two things makes Hughes decidedly
preferable.
First. Hughes has been trained in
the law and Wilson has been trained
as a school teacher.
| Wilson spent his life saying to boys,
l"You must not do that They did it
and next term he said over again,
you must not do that" and felt that
he had done his duty in spite of the
fact that the boys never did what he
said. This shows in his bland, cheer
| ful way of saying to the Mexican BAN
dit you must not do that, remain
ling quite unruffled when the bandit
does it.
| Hughes as a judge, says "You must
not do that And if the thing is
DONE Hughes puts the doer in jail
| Hughes will not be forever talking
or writing or ultimating. With MN
an u1tinlatum will be an ultimatum.
| He will decide that the Mexicans
have right to murder each other and
murder Americans and say nothing.
| Or if he decides the contrary, he Will
saw SO, and if Mexico makes tho mis-
| take of taking Hughes for another
| Wilson. Mexico will find herself in
| trouble.
Hughes Firm Man.
| If Hughes is elected, the people in
side and outside of America will find
! that he means what he says and what
| ne says has a meaning. That is the
first important difference between
| Wilson and Hughes.
4 Tt-n 1171T1 rT--
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