The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-17
HUGHES ABAND0NS
HIS FORMER TACTICS
Now Tries to Arouse Enthusiasm BY
Straight Appeal For Business
Administration.
But HEARS LITTLE
OF USUAL CHEERING
Pacific Coast Folk Are Cordial. But
Campaign Shows None of the Snap
of n Militant Assault.
OF USUAL CHEERING
BY WILLIAM HOSTER.

Portland. Ore, Aug l6.--Charles e.
Hughes today began TO concentrate
his campaign fire upon straight ap-
peal basis.
Before the Portland Ad, Club he
took a covert shot at the attitude OF
the Wilson administration toward big
business. He said:
We have got TO protect every ave-
niue OF honorable enterprise, so that
good straight. honest bushes; has the
success and the opportunity Il de-
serves, so that abuses are fearle ssly
condemned
We must be able 10 supply con-
v!ction we must be able 20 ron iemn
what is wrong without lodging indis
eliminate indictments and putting
business achievement OF an honorable
character under a cloud. The time
has gone by In the United States for
IT."
Hughes has taken the hint from the
Indifferent attitude of the crowds that
have faced him west OF the Rocky
Mountains He has .ilro vn wide open
the protective tariff yalse. That a
strong play for an efficient and ESQ
nomiCal business administration b.
the affairs OF the nation, II IS under
stood. now. will be his priaaipal lines
Of attack through tho remainder of
HIS campaign All otoe" things being
equal-both party plat'orn9s agreeing
more or Tess on preparedness and pro-
lection OF the national honor-Hughes
will make his fight on business admin
istration and the protective tariff
Vitality Lacking.
His heart was gladdened last night
at the reception Seattle gave his talk
along these lines. and today Portland
rose in like manner, Seattle and Port
land. as a matter of fact. have greeted
him more spontaneously than any
other stopping point since the de-
parture from New York. But there
liz still much TO be desired from the
Republican viewpoint. With criu-
cal campaign impending, there Is
notable lack of that vitality and en-
thusiasrn which prevails in fight.
Old campaigners with the party are
pointing out that the overthrow OF an
administration is forecast in cam
paign by a certain militancy on the
part Of the people. a spirit of intense
protest and violent partisanship, which
are entirely missing so far on this
tour The people do not appear to be
stirred up. Their attitude is like that
OF a Chautauqua advance. They well
come the candidate cordially at the
station. go to the hotel and shake
naNQS Win MIN. atteHu ms injecting
al night, and applaud those portions
of his speech which meet their fancy
and return TO their homes.
No Cheering in Evidence.
Except at Seattle last night and In
Portland today. there has been little
cheering and scarcely any of the
familiar crowding about the hotel TO
catch a glimpse of the party hero and
cheer him every time he shows his
face.
An improvement In the situation
may be shown when Mr.. Hughes re-
turns east. Here in the West there
Is more or less OF grievance that is
being nursed by all OF the people alike.
A Portland business man put 1t into
these words today:
We have had none OF the pros
perity from war munitions and the
like which the East has enjoyed
What little OF IT has come from the
shipment Of these munitions has been
cut Off by the dockmen's strike which
Is under way. For the rest, we have
felt all the force of the reduction of
the tariff. which has practically ruined