New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-02
Leaders to Concentrate
Campaign Around
His Train.
HAS DRIVEN WILSON
OFF HIS PEDESTAL
Defined the Issues and
Caught On" with
People on Trips.

Inc second hugheS campaign VN"i
has convinced Republican managers
that their best strategy is to get their
candidate to the people as fully as
possible. and concentrate their ener-
ries around his special train. No
doubt exists in their minds that the
tour was a remarkable success.
Wherever the Hughes train stopped on
its recent journey through Illinois, Wis
consin. Indiana, Ohio. Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and New York, and some
places where it did not stop, the recep-
tons given Mr. Hughes were enough
TO crafty the most skeptical Republi-
can campaign manager. Hughes
caught on" was the unanimous yer
diet
Got at 17s Electoral Votes.
The seven states he visited in the
last two weeks have a total electoral
vote Of IFS. In the Electoral College
266 votes are required for choice.
Consequently il is easily apparent how
important these seven states are.
OF the seven states Illinois and
Pennsylvania are declared certain to
nile ND large Republican majorities.
Wisconsin Is expected TO follow If the
La Toilette faction plays fair. lndi-
ana and Ohio no longer look doubtful
20 the Republican forecasters. who say
such n tide of Hughes sentiment IS
4 rra4 try
York will be carried easily and per
bsn~ even New Jersey, Wilson's home
state.
Has Travelled 10000 Miles.
Mr.. Hughes has traversed 10000
miles OF rails on his two campaign
trims. one-fourth in the last two weeks.
Rut that does not consider the terri
tory and people that he has reached
nv automobile travel, which is cn i'm
rortart adjunct Of his trips. At most
Of the stops he was whisked a mile or
more from the station TO hall or pun
lie square. and on his memorable visit
to Pittsburgh forty -mile-ar hour
auto procession carried him through
miles OF steel plants in the suburbs OF
the city.
The tour Just ended was one Of the
most strenuous stumplng campaigns on
record. Il played havoc with Mr..
Uugbes's voice. which threatened many
times 10 fail him, although Saturday
night AZ the Buffalo wind-up i sounded
ss clear and strong as when he started.
There were seventy-eight stops IN the
eleven DAYS. and most Of them meant
speeches. State Tax Commissioner
Ralph W. Thomas tried to relieve the
candidate. but soon gave out, and Mr..
Hughes found himself rescuing his res
cucr.
Wilson's Hands Forced.
Nr. Hughes now has covered the
most important territory on the polit-
ical map. Also he has squared Oft the
issues-unless something occurs before
November TO change the present status.
Paramount among these, according TO
him. is the one raised by the Adamson
so-called eieht-hour law. The other
two great issues are the tariff and
Amercanism.
One Of the most significant results
Of the second Hughes tour. as the Re
publcans see 10, is its effect on the
democratic campaign. President VII
son had intended merely to conduct
front porch campaign. Mr.. Hughes has
drawn him out. From Saturdays
speech il appears 20 the gleeful Repub-
Iicsns that Hughes has made such IN
roads on the Democratic lines that the
President has been forced from the
pedestal Of dignity.
Tending Toward Joint Debate.
II would not be 2 surprise TO many
who have followed the campaign close
" 10 see 10 resolve itself into series
Of debates between Hughes and Wilson.
That trend has become more and more
pronounced since MI Hughes began to
concentrate his attacks on the Wilson
settlement Of the threatened railroad
strike.
Sin Hughes began his attack on the
law az Nashville; he continued along
that line with effective results in
Maine His efforts had so much sting
in them that President Wilson came
70 MS own rescue week ago in his
first Shadow Lawn speech. The Pres
idsnt drew parallel between the
Atkinson law and the eighty-cent gas
legislation, in which Mr. Hughes fig
ured as counsel Mr.. Hughes, in re-
ply, shot the Wilson parallel full of
holes.
Reaches Labor Vote.