New Britain herald., 1916-07-03
A Sense of Proportion Will Be De.
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Springfield Republican,


 The point of view makes all the diff ference in the world. Here is the Pittsfeld Eagle captivated by the words of MT. Hughes to MT. Roosevelt you have sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call re- treat" The Baltimore Sun on the other hand, views them as "graneloise, lines'. misapplied, for the reason that the uppermost thought in the minds of most people was the fact that the coloneps letter indorsing MT. Hughes was a trumpet call to retreat to the progressive hosts which the colonel assembled and led in martial splendor four years ago to the tune of "On- ward Christian Soldiers":
 In 1912 the progressive party had come ito stay" The old parties had shown their incapacity for righteous government. They were corrupt be- yond redemption The only salvation lay in the magnificent new party whose platform, the colonel himself assured the world, was the most i'm portant public document promulgat- ed in this country since the death of Abraham Lincoln.' It was to go for ward until it conquered.
 The moral appears to be that 1t does not pay to take the Roosevelt eloquence too seriously He deals in superlatives that time often mitigates and banishes This is a part of tho Roosevelt aggressiveness that Candi- date Hughes can least afford to copy. Nor should there be any real danger that man trained by the writing of judicial opinions will fall far away from the restraint which that work imposes. Nevertheless there has been just a hint of the possibility that in rising to meet the Roosevelt demand for assertiveness Mr. Hughes might beled into assertions that are easier made than sustained in the light of facts that are in the record.
 Republicans who have entertained, doubt as to whether Charles E. Hughes was a real man or a cold pub lie funetionary are pleased to see him warming np to the situation, but the republican, candidate for president has no need to be anything other than himself. Those who were near to him as governor of New York knew him to be warm-hearted and responsive. The time. came, however when certain politicians who failed to manage the executive felt 1t necessary to per suade the public that he was 9 good deal of an icicle and quite remote from the people. The extent to which these enemies of Gov Hughes were able to poison the popular thought about the executive was a surprise 10 those who really knew the man. The fear that what has been may possi- ply be brought about again has doubt less led, advisers of MT. Hughes to urge him to show what is popularlv called rcd blood.'' Ts
 If strong leader ana able cant paigner should be Jed to#stumble at this time 1t would be though giving ear to advice well meant but not of the right sort There should be proportion In all things MT. Roose- velt has come to declafn against President Wilson as the sum of all evil in public life. and that tone and temper will not become Mhe repub- lican candidate for. president. The popular sense of fair play would mako 1t 8 bad investment The exigen- cies of politics are real enough, but 1 broad patriotism is a better thing to tie to even in campaign times It will not pay to key the contest on the republican side to ans extreme Of l shrilrS denunciation such as has been 1 nr1t in evidence at the start.