The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-06-11

Hughes knew ABOUT MIS- nomination.
When the hour that Hughes was 70
SAY something" arrived the quiet and
changer cham p' a Sit. The red brick house nat az
the corner OF sixtesTth ane v streets
residence Of a lawyer to the abiding
place Of figure in the worlds history.
Along the sidewalk In front Of It ard
on Sixteenth street automobiles were
lined up In democratic array. A battery
of motion picture cameras were trained
on the door. and the eight newspaper
men who had been received by Hughes
earlier were the centers Of little groups
Of their fellows. the number being aug
mented to thirty or forty. detailing the
experiences OF the earlier interview.
Messenger boys bearing kilograms
dashed up to the door and delivered
their missiyes' the crowd satnetsa
street patriotic broker hurried home
. and flung o couple of flags to the
breeze from the windows of his hand
some residence.
The assembling of the people, the
| newspaper men who were invited and
the other elements Of the crowd that
| attends history In the making was so
very natural and SO very gradual that
when o'clock arrived the newspaper
men In the front Of the group were sur
prised to find themselves damned
against the doorway.
Promptly at the hour the door was
| opened. This time the visitors were in
| vited to. the upper floor-the drawing
| room and reception room. They trooped
up the stairs and made themselves
| comfortable. The wait was half an
/ hour this time. Several times there
were false alarm and a movement To-
ward the head Of the stairway as a be-
lated correspondent put in his appear
ance'
Comes Up This Time.
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s,air. this time IN the new Ieve, Of nj,
fe,Iov-citizena NJ the nress ana the nu,
nj, ana the nuhIic In peneraI-,s some
nm,siders had edged In
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the stems very deiiberateiy hut smilins
the same hannv smile, IL seemed To
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Number OF Copies Limited.
He laughed noiselessly as he sale
tb,.
ms ..,;,,. - ., s.,,
been able to turn out but few OF
these. We are working on them-Mr.
Green "a. n. Is the onlv one here now
us een 80. To- ne vs. e ne, -, .S,n. Co. ~"
and we expect to have others.
limit the copies l have to the press as.
fast as we can. so that all OF you can
have one. and from the looks OF TIL.
do tt. " Will 'aNe NO ''''' "s"' -
Again that noiseless laugh and benign
look over the silent group, Ihere wa.
m mo ets He "%iet,v HANDED our fo,,
statements.
1t vas calmly, ,unhastily, and very
pleasantly done.
ana now you other gentiemen
fences what he had said IN ms state,
meant the Who'll. Thing. He told then
| hn thap 10 70
ne uio not want tnem 70 quote nun
because ne wah.en mem 70 take noun,
ing put ms staienents. Inc smear o.
papers c9ntahed ms ,et.er OF res'sn en-.
g son 10 raesu n,a ns 10 anu ms
gram OF acceptance OF the NOMINATION
10 ShaiInhn iraru,hs. u ,,,,,,
rms DONE candidate Hughes, tuis
avowed as such IN the eyes OF ms
men petore MIN, ana accepting the re.
sponsiollitles with the appearance OF
man VINO Is GLAD 10 get INTO resu.
lar nght again, stepped BACKWARD inte
an angie OF me stairway SO that ths
press ASSOCIATION men couIu set ~
, him. downstairs and out with theii
precious documents. ,They hurrieu
OUTPUT the influence or the momenl
, or whatever II was seemed 10 put any
IDEA OF rush entireiy OUT or tnei,
I heads, They probably proke mo .
run when they got outside the door
or maybe at the root or tne steps
But they walked down the steps
II pI..oJ Mar ~ Eaaa
|. c RACED wen ~ aaor nas' .,o
81 Candidate Hughes looked at those
, who were left expectantly, invitingly
, He knaw thsv were eager IN cues.
! .,s A u NY 80, he a,an,. ~,
tioh hiH' ne khe" nc u.un NO.