The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-06-11
Judicial Robe Gone,
Hughes Is Revealed
ASRealHunlanB BEING
Shows He Is Enthusiastically Pleased to Have Been
Named Candidate for President as He Breaks His
Sphynxlike Silence Before Newspaper Men.
BY ALBERT F. FERGUSON.

Charles Evans Hughes. regular HUI
man being. smiling. cordial and court
eous. came from behind his reputation
for the aloofness and cold austerity OF
the jurist yesterday afternoon at pre-
cisely 1881 o'clock.
He showed he was unmistakably
pleased to have been named a candidate
for President Of the United States.
He came downstairs from his lunch
table to find a small group of newspa-
per men waiting to congratulate him
and tell him the news. He came down
stairs smiling. his face lighted with an
enthusiasm that showed in the bright
ness OF his eyes and the almost imper-
ceptible culver OF his lip. He stopped at
the bottom step and grasped firmly the
hand OF the first man OF the group. The
man congratulated him. The smile deep
ened and the eyes shona brighter.
There was the faintest trace of a
throaty catch as he said. Thank you"
Then he stepped to the level of the
group Of men awaiting him.
1t Is probable that none Of the six or
eight men in the group that had waited
In the library Of the Hughes home for
more than an hour for this moment,
will forget the impression the newly
made Presidential candidate created as
he came to them.
Frank and Human.
There was something SO frank. so
very, very human about the face nj the
man who has been described as a model
Of judicial calm and poise and GOODNESS
that the modes of attack and approach
that had been planned by the indl-
vidual members of the group were
brushed aside and each of the men.
who could boast of a more than suf-
left embarrassed stammering repeti-
lions of the phrase II congratulate
you, Mr.. Justice as the real man
Hughes, with Increasing enjoyment OF
the moment beaming from him, shook
each hand before he said a word.
And then he didn't say anything OF
political moment or of national i'm
/ portance or of news value. Begin
ming with just the suspicion of a
CULVER. which disappeared almost as
soon as It manifested itself. he spoke
directly to the point. He knew moth.
ing beyond the message they had
themselves given him of his nomina-
ton. But he gave the impression az
about II anyhow, and believed II. be-
cause there wasn't any reason why he
shouldn't.
III you care about It," and there
was a slight twinkle In his eye wher
he said care "and will come back
about 8 o'clock Til have a statement.
Still smiling and nodding he halt
turned toward the stairs and stepped
| plete dismissal as he waited for tn,
questions he knew were coming ano
smiled his refusal to answer them
rather than spoke II.
Long Wait for Reporters.
1t had been a bit OF a wait for tn,
newspaper men who had come to SCI
what the silent man. the sphynx OF TIN
bench. would finally do when the viii
OF the Chicago convention forced hin
to open his mouth. They were on III,
Job by 10 o'clock.
HAPPY young Lawrence Green. VIII,
has been doing the plain and fame.
private secretarying for the Hughes
family. removed the barriers that ha,
and V streets. and invited the news
papermen to make themselves com
Portable In the capacious library.
The library was one Of the first In
man part Of Huges. 1t was lined will
books. on two sides. bound in sheep
skin. as becomes the jurist. but on tn
other sides In all the varieties an
colors OF bindings in an ordinary man
library. over the sheepskin books hum
one side. and Of the entire jSuprem
Bench on the other.
The fireplace and the comfortabl
chairs were In the vari-coloreu. vari
bound section Of the room. however
And over the big shelves hung a pic
ture of Napoleon. out of uniform, witt
a strong. lined face-ap odd picture
An etching OF Charles Dickens. and
wood print of Thackeray decorated an
other side.
over the mantel was an old print
portrait of Lord Chief Justice Benhan
OF the Queens supreme bench. as 1t
title read. And beneath this rested
plaster cast OF the hand OF Lincoln
On another case near by was an empt
brass shell of a three-inch field gun:
The desk where the Justice worke
bore an assortment OF ash trays. Thi
answered q question put with niue
anxiety as to whether or not smokin
would be possible In the house.
Heaps of Books Piled Up.
Beside the trays were books heape
up as a busy man or a student heap
them at his hand when reading. Tw
OF the books were the life OF job
Hay. Others were pamphlets an
legal decisions.
on a shelf under the Sixteenth stree
window OF the library were a doze
or more books that would serve as
complete library for a campaigner |
American politics. They ranged froi
a treatise on Karl Marx to boo
about animals by Head Keeper Horn
aday, OF the New York zoo. And the
included books on Mexico. democrac.
J agriculture. diplomacy, and Sout
American commerce.
A glance at this big, comfortably
J room. with its brown tinted walls. II
smoke stained fireplace. and it's dee
cushioned, though summer shroude
chairs and couches. seemed to ind
cate that a person OF rather varie
tastes but a keen sense of huma
, comforts made very free use OF It..
That was the first tug on the cul
: tain that was to reveal the rel
Hughes later on. II was while study
ing this that Green was noticed
! make many trips back and forth u
the broad stairway. Freen hurrit
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