The Arvada enterprise., 1916-08-10
Mr.. Candidate Hughes Slips Up
and Then Falls Down

Mr. Candidate Charles Hughes maybe probably
manipulating and controlling the enhancement
Of their own political and financial profits But what he
know" ao" th motives and principles that move women to action
OF public moment where they ballot
would not earn INN the fee of dog biscuit at banquet
If any public anywhere placed
intelligence, political ethics principles the voting
the Sagc states do remember the the occasion
IN NloHdaH evening July "IS, IN the city OF New York. Mr.
Candidate Hughes delivered his speech of waiting
prcsagcntcd the country had been
with glowing accounts of how this of keen analytical mind
policies and acts Of administration Republican senator's bosses and
or all anticipating slaughter Mr. Wilson
ana the Democratic party Mr. Candidate Hughes had not waded
through three pages Of the drear eight
before the experienced Republican leaders the platform witnessed
the complete disappearance of political idol excepting its feet OF
the hopes of the Republican leaders the hopeful atcpation
the rank and file Of the party where like heavy frost apple
1t did not need the reports that flashing
from local leaders all over the country during the wcnfour hours
that followed to convince the leaders gathered
Mr. Candidate Hughes had fallen down mscrab in his o
1t was and u.s. plainly evident to the voters of the nation that if Mr.
Candidate Hughes after weeks of investigating and sounding public
opinion the country could only indulge carpng criticisms
Of Mr. Wilson official acts and policies without offering single
concrete specific example Of what would premises
follow that neither Candidate Hughes nor his Roosevelt
advisers dared point to the grim sagcd spectre of the only
alternative for the Mr. Wilson had pursued That the
situation that Mr. Candidate Hughes following his speech
ACCEPTANCE In sheer political despair he realized that something
radical mus, be done if he was TO be saved from complete political
Womans suffrage! Yes. on a day in last October Mr.
Wilson, in his capacity private citizen had journeyed from
Washington Princeton New Jersey pur
the other hand Mr. Candidate Hughes member of his family
had ever Voiced said word in favor of votcs
Mr. Wilson had repeatedly and publicly declared Votes
Women He always said that h believed that should be
tn" voters OF each state to decide themselves The
ST. Louis convention declared SO also did the Republican
ycnom at Chicago declare And Monday July 3s Carnegie
Hall New York. Mr. Candidate Hughes declared of
precisely the mind ON the subject
But August 1st Mr. Candidate Hughes desperate poll
ca before the shadow
party platform declaration
OF these things mean to Mr. Candidate Hughes in that situation
Absolutely nothing, his later actions show Then that Mr.
"nd" Hughes bhougt himself of the Susan b. Anthony amend
r hence sudden and vehement advocacy of that
The one straw to drowning 1t won't him. Mr. Cmd-
date Hughes Will learn that the suffrage Demo
Gratis kcpubcaS what they be politically
of right and convictions He will they swaycd
to unusual political action by any the a poll
teal opportunIst like Mr. Candidate Hughes profcr.