Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-07-05
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BERG MYTH
Writer Says That Presidential
Candidate Is Warm.blood-
ed Human Being
HUGHES TAKES GREAT
HUGHES TAKES GREAT
INTEREST IN PEOPLE
BY Jack Lat

WneTe OlQ all lndL SUN come IIOu
| about this man Hughes being cold
storage plant for the preservation Of
judicial dignity, whiskers and ice
water?
Take it through me, Charlie Hughes
| Chat goes) is fine fellow, a gooC
scout and a bear He doesn't lool
like his pictures, he doesn't act like
his reputation and he doesn't tall
| like a candidate.
Invited to Chicago
The minute | met him | liked hin
so we'll that invited him to Chicago
| told him of the Herald petition and
the Herald plan to bring him out fol
July 4.
1--WE had about seventy-tive invita-
tons for that day." said he, but
haven't made any promises. Tell me
about this Chicago movement"
| explained. He listened interest
eddy. | had been given to understand
in Chicago that Congressman Madden
had started to New York, bearing an
invitation from Mayor Thompson to
Mr.. Hughes for the day. No one had
arrived ahead of me with the sug
gestion. 1t was news to the candi
date.
He made some notes regarding it.
He will probably make no engage
ments until after his official notifica
ton; but from the sparkle in his eye
and it is a good sparkling bue eye
i expect to report Mr.. Hughes
Fourth of July speech without date,
line to lead my story.
Nominated? Only Hearsay
OF course he didn't commit himself,
He is in a delicate position. You
know he doesn't admit yet that he has
been nominated-it isn't official. He
fished around for a way of denoting
his present equivocal status and he
put it this way:
"'Since my that is, since the-l
should say, since they-rather, since
| came into this unexpected promi-
nence-"
So, on politics and policies he gives
out stingy written statements. But
on less ticklish topics he talks, and
talks like human being. He isn't
half as dignified as the State street
floorwalker or as mysterious as city
hall clerk who thinks he might be
talking for publication" He splits
it out the way it comes to him and
he doesn't amend it after it comes.
And He Can Laugh, Too.
The most astonishing discovery of
all was something within him which
had been credited to him least of all
He has a sense Of humor-rich, bub.
bling humor. He laughs like a child
He has dimples when he laughs His
eyes crackle and his chest shakes
He closes his fists and holds them up
and out l wish l had had De Beck
with me to sketch that gesture. One
wodak print of it would revolutionize
Americas impression of the Republi.
can party's presidential choice.
Think of Hughes as he has been
portrayed-the clam, the hard-shelled
clam-and fancy him saying this:
'Now I've told you all my plans for
my little holiday-everything except
what Pm going to eat. l don't know
what that will be because l love to
Will AOOus LUZ ~
will be worth eating, though my old
friend, Ben Barker, has lost his cook
oh, what a cook she was! | travel
to Hyperion, R. l., every year just to
taste one of her fritters."
A Mummy? Not He
That is the man who was called an
animated feather buster" by his
enemies and mummy" by his
friends a week ago.
Barker is an old Brown University
schoolmate of Mr.. Hughes. The can
didate is going there Monday night to
stay until Wednesday, when he is to
address the students and attend the
thirty-fifth annual alumni reunion.
81 couldn't stay away from that,
said he. at would be treason"
And then he smiled again, that un
heralded, infamous smile which
predict will soon be known through
the land as Familiarity as Teddy's
teeth or Taft's bay window.
Then he said:
"And on Wednesday we are going
to lunch at the old eating-house; the
old place where l ate when | was q
Sunderland I'll see the annual pro
cession on the campus, a function in
dividual to my old school"
Last Of His Privacy.
And for a moment he closed his
eyes, and the smile flickered as hi
thought, perhaps of the fact that the
| world no longer let's him enjoy any
thing, but besets with crowds anG
stands hungrily on Broadway in gap
ing groups, just to point out the win
| dow behind which it thinks he may
be sitting.
He sits in the Hotel Astor, on the
second floor, at the present time. AL
| day long the original Hughes mar
comes-droves of him-to wait hours
for a one-minute interview and de
part with a silly grin that assays
"Well, l guess l made an impression
He'll remember me when he comes
clean with that patronage"
| Worlds A-Whiskered Now.
It is headquarters of whiskers
The man on the door has Van Dyke
AS l came in, patriarch with gray
muttonchops excited. Behind me
waiting, was a colonel-looking party
with a goatee. The man after him was
a DOWNSTAIRS with CarranZa muff
l saw New York reporter pussyfoot