The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-18

NY HOPE II an autopsy Is ever
performed on me YOU vii! fnd
something besides sawdust and
usefu, information"
This remark 10 not "a he found
lsnone the collected speeches OF
Charles E. Hughes. It was made in
lie smoking room Of a special train
4, the end Of q days campaigning in
he autumn Of 1908. when the Gov
srnor vas telling the voters why he
should Be sent hack to Albany for
another term. In various forms it
Ass bssn repeated in other quiet talks
WITH friends from that time 10 this.
70 one Newspaper mar who sought
Attenuation for Q biographical sketch
from the then Governor he gave but
one s~usssstion 40 to how the material
Snould b handled.
NJ you can DO 90 conscientiously''
No ssld, Try In what you write to
% something TO dsabuse the public
mind Of the impression that am
. sos, Of austere blue stocking person
w.,heu. any red blood or bowels OF
mercy, that I am q mere coldly cal
eula,ins interrogation point"
For IL there Is anything that this
serene. even tempered, kindly sym
pathetic mar resents II Ia the popular
notion. whose prevalence Is perhaps
no, as wide as II was once, that he
is temperamentally all Puritan. in
,el,ectuallv a dweller IN some cold.
remote peak. a monkish recluse. un-
emotional. forbidding, inaccessible the
apo,heosis Of ~austerity. He knows TINS
10 a false picture. His friends know
4, is false and presently the people
as ne goes among them. will know
rs falsity as they awake to the TACT
that MIR. Hughes, IN addition TO his
other attractive qualities. In a human
heirs in a nation of a hundred million
other more or less human beings.
The Hughes myth. the delusiOn a.
10 the friEid pedantry Of this man, Is
a creation Of politics. II was care
fully erected by the politicians whose
wills he crossed In those days from
1905 70 1910 when he was Governor
Of New York. Some who didn't APP
preciate the truth and som h dio
Joined for their own purposes In
Spreading the fable in the hope that
the voters would accept this judgment
rather than the evidence OF their Owr
senses. II Is a serious thing for q
man in public life to he pictured al
Mr. Hughes has been. He had to
overcome the handicap when he was
Governor. he will have to do II agar
as he seeks election to the Presidency
New York knows him. The Hughe!
myth IS probably permanently dissi
pated in his home State. But there i
no doubt about Its present persist
ence among thousands Of men in othe
parts Of tho country, \ remark oftel
hfard by those who attended the Chi
tago Republican convention was this
Hughes? a great man, a great In
'eI'ect, hut he hasn't got the stuff tina
appeals TO the ordinary voter. He
Just a thinking machine"
Go ~ TO the Hotel .AstOr, wal
GOVT "A second floor corridor n loo
through n wide open door into a rOor
Nnete Candidate Hughes has bee
greeting old friends and making ne'
ones nee Monday. Then pass anon
ue men gathered in other rooms OF tn
slte single out those who have
hsh, = say that they really know h.y
ana you'll find out whether or not the
oeNeve he Il lust a thinking machine
Ask Charles F'arnham. who manage
as tours when he was Governor; a.
Nooert Fuller, who was the Governor
~cretary; 4 Brown University class
mates who are dropping In on the
"ay to commencement reunions; a.
snybody that counts Charles
nuRhes AZ . personal friend or hs
Nked with him for mora than tn
minutes. Yes. even AJAX the politician
VINO piered together the Hughes myt
.kht and ton ear ago and sec VIII
"ey mink about II nov.
a erS reporter aid this. The Ar
~V'son he encountered was one vi