The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-06-24
LIFE HISTORY OF
CANDIDATE HUGHES
Became Famous in Trust Probes
Which Stirred New York Sew
eraI Years Ago.
SON OF BAPTIST CLERGYMAN
Mads Governor Twice, but Left Chair
to Accept Supreme Court Place
Given by Presidential Hard
Worker.

The United States Supreme Court
Justice who has become Republican
candidate for president was an IN
known lawyer in New York city until
the newspapers there started an ag1-
tation against a gas trust and certain
big insurance interests. When the
authorities took up the matter Mr..
Hughes was put in charge or the
special Investigations. The work he
did made him famous. Opportunity
had knocked at his door.
Hughes comes of good stock His
father, Rev. David c. Hughes, who
was 9 Baptist minister, and his moth
er, whose maiden name was Mary Z.
Connolly, were of more than usual cul-
ture and shaped the boys early educa-
ton with the object of preparing him
for the ministry.
Charles was born at Gleps Falls, d.
Y, April IL, 1862, but when he was
very young his parents removed to
Newark, N ]. Here the boy attended
the public schools, from which he was
graduated in 1873. Too youthful to
enter college, his father tutored him
for a year, the intention being that
Charles should enter the College Of
the City of New York when old
enough.
Has Fine Education.
He matriculated at Madison univer
sity of Hamilton, n. Y. the school
which is now known as Colgate uni
versity. Remaining here until 1878,
rf1Trr1 ~
Brown university would suit him bet
ter, and there he entered and was
graduated in 1881 His degree of A.
M. came in 1884, the same year in
which he was graduated from the Co
Iumbia law school.
At the close of his college days
Hughes was Of extremely frail appear
ance and of delicate physique. His in
clinaticn was to enter the educational
field, but he found difficulty in obtain
ing employment. The heads Of the in
situations to whom he applied consid-
cred him a mere boy and refused his
application.
In 1884 Mr.. Hughes was admitted
to the bar in New York, and practiced
until 1891. In his time he was prize
fellow of the Columbia law school and
for a year OF his term was student
In the Office of Stewart L. Woodford,
United States district attorney. In
1888 he became clerk in the Offices
of Chamberlain, Carter & Hornblower.
On December 5, 1888, he married in
Brooklyn Miss Antoinette Carter, the
daughter Of Walter s. Carter, mem
Der of the firm.
His tendency to teach was still
strong within him, and despite the
protests Of his father-in-Iaw, who
wished him to continue with the firm,
he accepted a chair in Cornell univer-
sity law school
To Oregon for 5ondhoIders.
Soon after Mr. Hughes resumption
Of the duties of active practice he was
sent to Oregon as the representative
of the bondholders of an unsuccessful
railway property. He spent seven
months in the West arranging affairs
and when he returned he became the
court member of the new firm of Car.
ter, Hughes & Dwight From 1893 I'm.
til 1895 he retained his interests in
Cornell law school, where he frequent
" appeared as special lecturer.
Three years ago when Edward
F. Dwight died, the title of the
law firm was changed to Carter
Hughes. Rounds & Shurman. The
death of Mr.. Carter caused another
change, and the firm became Hughes
Rounds & Shurman. with Offices at s.
Broadway.
This brings Mr.. Hughes career
down to the beginning of the gas In
vestigation in New York-an investi
cation that stirred the metropolis a,
nothing had stirred It since the Tweed
ring exposure.
Probably no one single investigation
ever produced such far-reaching re
suits as the insurance probe. I
stopped the practice of great corpora
tons making gifts Of money to polit1
cal campaign funds. It stopped tn,
5ugglery Of trust funds between insur
ance companies and banks
Charles Evans Hughes is the maj
responsible for stopping this crooked
ness. Even the gas and insuranc,
crowds admitted that
Is Strong and Earnest.
In appearance Mr.. Hughes is not RI
bust. He is about five feet ten niche
Ia height, of slight but well propo1
TONED figure. His hair is brown an
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