The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-06
Hughes Will End Tour With
Speeches in Maine.
Addressed Crowd of Several
Thousand at Cincinnati.
G. O.P. WILL CARRY KENTUCKY
Manager Hert Confident of Re-
suit in His State.
Hughes Mad at Lack of Crowd
at Louisville.

Cleveland, O.. Sept 6.-Charles E.
Hughes practically completed yester-
day the transcontinental campaign
tour on which he embarked August 5.
This morning the train Is speeding
toward Buffalo and Albany, which lat
ter point will be reached at midnight.
Thereafter the private car. Constitu-
ton, in which the 12,000-mile jour-
ney has been made, will be headed for
New England and Thursday. Friday
and Saturday will be given 10 a rapid
| fire tour of the Pine Tree state whose
| local election next Monday is regard
| ed by political prophets as having
some barometrical influence upon the
| national result in November.
| All the big guns of the party will
| have spoken in Maine by the time
| Hughes arrives there He will, there
| fore, come to the bat, so to speak, as
| the clean up man." Inasmuch as in
| the estimation of his friends Hughes
has been batting well above 300 in
the political league during the past
| few days, these friends look for him
| to make the pennant safe SO far as
| the Maine result next week is con-
| cerned.
The result of the day in Kentucky
| has served to convince the Republican
| leaders that there is real chance
| this year of carrying that state. A. t.
| Hert, manager of the western divi-
sion of the Republican headquar' ers,
| said last night:
kentucky Going Republican.
II am very well pleased with the
preliminary organization work which
| has been done in kentucky. The na-
tiOnal committee is arranging to give
some of its most noted speakers to
the Kentucky campaign. All We need
to do is to get out our vote and we
will have the state in the Republican
column again."
Hughes last speech in the west was
made before a crowd of several thou
sand at Cincinnati last night.
Mr.. Hughes declared the train
started on the last leg of the journey
to the Atlantic seaboard that he was
well satisfied with the manner in
which he had been received and was
with which his addresses had been
heard everywhere would be productive
of results.
Hughes Was Mad.
That part of Kentucky which is
represented by Lexington turned out
and gave the candidate good old
fashioned welcome. Louisville did not
do so we'd as Lexington, for, notwith-
standing that announcement had beer
made that Hughes would speak there
when the party arrived at a. m. there
was no band, no crowd and no ar
rangements for any speech
Hughes was frankly mad. He at
least had expected to speak there. But
in a few minutes along came A. T.
Hert himself a Kentuckian, who is in
charge of the Chicago Republican ma
tional headquarters, with the explana-
ton that no meeting had been intend
ed for Louisville.
1--WE didn't want to spoil the Lex
ington rally said he.
That Modified Hughes little. Then
along came the Hughes and Fairbansss
club of Louisville, headed by band
and en- route for the Lexington rally.
crowd gathered, the movie men got
busy and the entente cordiale between
Mr.. Hughes and his campaign mana
n gers was restored and the train pulled
out for Lexington, amid cheers.
spoke at Lexington.
IexinCton was reached at IL O'Clock
and a crowd of several thousand
whooped if up for their fellow Ken
tuckian, Hert with Hughes cheers as
a chaser. There was a street parade,
a reception at the Phoenix hotel and
later at 2:30 p. m. the big meeting at
the city auditorium.
The speaking at the city auditor
ium this afternoon filled the big hall
with 5000 enthusiasts and outside
there was another overflow meeting of
200 which Hughes later addressed.
Both were enthusiastic gatherings.
Hughes was introduced by Ed Nor
row in a fine old spread eagle Grafton
| which awakened the echoes of the
days before the war.
After eXtolling the character of Lin
coin. Hughes said in part:
mo American feels a stranger to
him because of his greatness. He is
brother to us all. He is kin to the
humblest because he interpreted the
spirit of the plain people.
what is that spirit? It is the spirit
of reasonableness; of fairness, of gen.
erous thought and judgment; it is
spirit which repudiates the demands OF
oppression, of tyranny and of force.
I'VE have a new spirit abroad in
these recent days in America. 1t is
the spirit that demands legislation in
advance of investigation. 1t is the
spirit that says: Legislate now and in
lveStgate afterward.'
at is the spirit of force. 1t is not
American"