The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-01
Keynote Struck Chord of Har-
m0ny for All Factions.
1000 Persons Brave Tempera-
ture to Hear Him.
YES, HE ACCEPTS NOMINATION
Evades No. Issue in Launching
Republican Drive.
Mexican Muddle Big Issue-A
Vigorous Campaigner.
BY PERRY ARNOLD.

BY PERRY ARNOLD.
New York Aug 1.-Charles Evans
Hughes's keynote for the coming
campaign pleased all Republicans to-
day. Party chiefs who assem- bled to
hear the former justice formally ac-
cept the nomination last night, spent
today in praising the striking sem
tences with which the candidate out
lined the issues on which the G. o.
P is to start eviction proceedings
against Woodrow Wilson and the
Democratic majority in the senate and
house.
The fact that 1000 men and women
sat for nearly three hours in swell
tering. sizzling heat to hear the nomi-
nee break another one of his famous
silences in the meeting at Carnegie
hall was looked upon by Republicans
today as auguring well for success in
November Moreover, the same sticky,
sweating auditors had enough enthu-
siasm left at the end of that session
in the close air of the hall to cheer
Hughes vociferously. They would
have liked to have heard something
from Colonel Roosevelt, but the for-
mer Moose, playing second fiddle" al
political gathering for the first time
in a great many years, hustled out of
the hall.
An Effective Campaigner.
| Hughes's speech pleased today be-
cause in the view of his friends he
supported his harmony plea with a
selection of the issues for the CAM
paign which combine views of Repub-
lican stand patters, Republican liberals
and Progressives The "oid liners
were pleased with ringing protection
declaration on the tariff: the liberals
with the labor, conservation and ad-
ministrative efficiency sections, in his
upbraiding of the Wilson administra-
ton, and the Bull Moosers with the
| "Americanism" creed, the prepared
ness platform and the Mexican discus
sion.
Republicans and Democrats alike
today were convinced that Hughes's
principal issue in his fight against
Wilson will be the Mexican situation.
In Governor Campaign Years Ago.
The second line offensive will be
bombardment along the lines of "ade-
cuate" preparedness and the tariff
Nearly eight years ago, Hughes ac-
eepted the gubernatorial nomination
| in Madison Square Garden. At that
time and in the campaign which fol-
lowed he was adjudged one of the best
campaigners New York had ever seen.
Considerably grayer of beard and
more bald last night than in that other
night of acceptance. Hughes exhibited
no diminution of vigor in his stump
ing ability, in the opinion of those
who knew him in other days.
On his transcontinental trip starting
Saturday, his supporters expect him to
give the country a sample of the sort
of campaigning that made him famous
| in the gubernatorial race.
Mr.. Hughes's Speech.
The text of Mr.. Hughes's speech fol-
lows in full:
Senator Harding, Members of the
| Notification Committee and Fellow
Citizens:
This occasion is more than a nexe
ceremony of notification. We are not
here to indulge in formal expressions.
We come to state in plain and direct
manner our faith, our purpose and our
pledge. This representative gathering
is a happy augury. 1t means the
strength of reunion. 1t means that
the party of Lincoln is restored, alert
| effective. 1t means the unity of q
common perception of paramount ma
t!onal needs. 1t means that we are
neither deceived nor benumbed by ab-
| FORMAL conditions. We know that we
are in a critical period, perhaps more
critical than any period since the Civil
| war. We need dominant sense of
national unity; the exercise of our best
constructive powers: the vigor and re-
sourcefulncss of a quickened America
We desire that the Republican party
as a great liberal party shall be the
agency of national achievement. the
organ of the effective expression of
dominant Americanisn- What do /
mean by that? / mean America con-
scious of power, awake to obligation.
erect in self respect. prepared for
every emergency, devoted to the ideals
4 of peace, instinct with the spirit OF hui
man brotherhood. safeguarding both
individual opportunity and the public
interest, maintaining a well-ordered
constitutional system adapted to local