Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-23


Reno, New, Aug. 23.-Cbarles Evans
Hughes campaigned today in the first
democratic state he has encountered
since he left Bridgehampton, N. Y,
three weeks ago to begin his long
swing around the circle.'' He started
his invasion with an assault on the dem
otratic tariff and foreign policies here
today, adding also defense Of his own
labor record. Big crowds of Nevadians
greeted the republican presidential nom
inee everywhere.
Today, however, Hughes started an
active rebellion. Never again will he
permit local or state committees to put
him through such course of strenuos-
ity in campaigning as that which he un-
derwent yesterday. The republican can
didate admitted that he is very nearly
tired out. Those with whom he talked
before his train reached here said he
told them that the spirit was willing but
that no human being could stand many
more days of the sort he has been un-
dergoing during the past week. The
gladdest man in the United States will
be Charles Evans Hughes when August
~ rolls around and he and Mrs. Hughes
can settle down for three days rest at
Estes Park, Colo. There the governor
expects to sleep and eat and get out
in the air all he can.
His WEAKNESS was plainly discernible
today in husky voice that did queer
tricks of infection when he sought to
press it to renewed effort but, never
theless, he had an indomitable enthus-
iasm that revived him when he faced an
audience.
Is About Worn Out.
Two or three times, during the past
few days Hughes hasn't been able, be-
cause of pressure of demands made upon
him by local and state arrangements
committees, to get his dinner before late
at night. He was scheduled yesterday
to make IA speeches, but at least eight
were added at the last moment. The
nominee has ruled that he will not dis
appoint a crowd when they besiege his
private car and this very willingness
led the local committees to impose on
him.
Hughes apparently talks with great
facility-but it is facility which he
has acquired only through long period
of concentration and preparation. Col
onel Roosevelt, whose trans.continental
trip of four years ago is really sur
passed in strenuosity by Hughes, has u
faculty for quick concentration and lit
tie preparation, but Hughes service ON
the bench and the painstaking legal
mind with which he is equipped, force
him to study long and arduously in map
ping out all of his talks-even the small.
est ones.
His present trip, therefore, is even
harder on the candidate than his sched-
ule indicates, because so little time il
granted him for preparation.
Governor Hughes addressed 1000 per-
sons in Sacramento last night at a meet
ing which was declared by the repub-
lican state leaders to be bipartisan.
Labor legislation and a federal work
men IS compensation law were diseueced
at considerable length by him. He de-
clared strongly for preparedness and at
tackled the administration 8 course in
Mexico.
Reverting to his labor record, he read
an extract from an editorial that ap-
peared in the "Organ of Organized La
Dor in New York" in October, 1910, in
which he was referred to as the great
est friend of labor that has ever oc-
cupied the governors chair at AL
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