The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-11
OLD GUARD, DEPRESSED
 BY HUGHES CAMPAIGN,
 WANTS A NEW MANAGER

Boston. Sept. 1.-The campaign which Charles E. Hughes has been conducting came to a temporary halt yesterday while the nominee rested, pending the outcome of the state elec- ton in Maine today, After three days devoted to speeches in the Pine Tree State, MT. Hughes left behind him a situation which is puzzling to ponti- clans, The Republican leaders are predicting Victory, but there is evl- dent in the manner of the Old Guard leaders, both in Maine and in this state, a lack of the assurance which marked their attitude immediately af- ter the national convention in June. They expect to win in Maine, but they are not ready to offer the odds they would have given then. And they are all ready to discount the importance of the Maine election if it goes against them.
 There hes been a. Hull in the Repub- hcan campaign hn Maine since the de parture of Colonel Roosevelt after his Lewiston speech. Mr. Hughes was well received, and faced big meetings, but as a whole his addresses were not of a kind to keep up the tension which Roosevelt created by his outskopen ntterances in attacking the Wilson ad- ministration and the hyphenates. Some of the old Guard were frankly disap- pointed.
 MT. Hughes, while vociferous in his remarks about the passage of the Ad- amson E1ght-Hour bill and the ship ping legislation, issues which some of the leaders wished he had sfletracked flor Americanism and the tariff while h ,P f1nL L-fc +n tion, did not match Roosevelt in the determination and bitterness of his assaults upon wilson and his remarks about Americanism and the German Americans. Whereas Roosevelt called President Wilson by his name and heaped ridi- cs2c and vituperAtion on the President and his advisers, MT. Hughes referred to them as "Sur friends on the other eide," and emphasized the fact that it was friendly discussion of the issues and that he liked to have it considered such. In a way these forms of attack represented the two extremes, and the politicians, with little time for a can vass, were wondering how the people would be affected in sizing up Hughes.
 Want a Reorganization
 In more ways than one, some of the political leaders feel, the result Tn Maine may have a vital effect upon the national campaign. A Democratic k victory, or even Republican victory Try a very narrow margin, with possi- bly, the defeat of Colonel Hale, the Republican nominee for the long term as senator, may open the way for a pretty thorough reorganization of Re Or ho nfh be more difficult for those who believe \ carry with it direct and unauali.e ed atfaciz upon President Wilson and his administration, to bring 1t about if Maine should go Republican by large plurality, and by so doing lend strong indorsemGnts fo the methods adopted by MT. Hughes. r.
 There is an unquestioned feeling among some of the Old Guard leaders in New England that a reorganization of methods is important if the Repub- licans are to hope for success in the nation, especially if the result in Maine is not satisfactory. For one thing they feel that the campaign has been i1nismanaged sadly and that MT. Hughes has been permitted by those directing lis efforts to waste much time in states that were either surely Republican or surely Democratic and also to get into situations which have not aided his fight.
 In a nutshell, the feeling is that MT. Hughes has had-full opportunity to run his campaign as he has seen fiji and that in the face of results he should listen to reason. This, of course is the opinion of the Old Guard, which has had its toes stepped on by the nominee. On the other hand some o1 the Progressive party leaders have ex- pressed much the same opinion. One of these leaders said that to his mind the campaignn slumped after the first week or ten days because MT. Hughes had "gone hunting armed with bird- shot when he should have taken buck shot in his ammunition bag"
 Criticize Management
 The criticism of the Old Guard ele- ment is directed as largely at the man. agemert of the campaign-in which the Old Guard has taken no leading part-as, at the utterances of MT Hughes and his method of handling the assault upon President Wilson They feel that 1t was a waste or time to send MT. Hughes to Tennessee and Kentucky, which states they believe will go Democratic, and that in the other states included in the Western swing too much time was given to sure Republican strongholds and not enough to doubtful territory.
 They are of the belief also that talk vof efficient government, economy and the businesslike management of the