The sun., 1916-10-16
HUGHES'S SPEECHES
HAVE MORE PUNCH
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lean audiences. Now he talks about
we, us & Co." and how he has come
back" and promises that they tths
special interests) will not be able TO
put anything over
a month ago. two weeks ago, his
Supreme Court restraint prevented him
from abiding directly to the President
ever In the most scathing attacks
against TIE Presidents policies. Now
he slams into Mr.. Wilson regardless.
A month NC he seemed to disdain re-
plying to anybody. Recently he took
large slices out OF the cuticle of Richard
Olney. DIR. Eliot and Vice-President
Marshall. A month ago the public did
not clearly understand where Mr.. Hughes
stood as regards several matters inn
portant In the public mind. for example,
what his attitude would have been to-
ward Germany when her U-boats with
out warning destroyed American lives,
or what he would have done about the
Lusitania.
In the last week he has taken pains
10 instruct every mind about those mat
ters. In Louisville he fought for three
minutes to get "a chance TO say that
no would not have permitted U-boat
warfare against Americans and that
he would have broken with Germany IL
Germany had rejected his warning not
TO sink the Lusitania.
Replying to Hcct iers.
These are merely samples. Time and
again he has turned on hecklers. waving
down the cheers Of his sympathetic au-
ditors so that the questions could he
repeated and distinctly understood and
SO that he could reply with all emphasis.
He had the nerve In West Virginia
10 tell a questloner who wanted to know
aeout the Virginia debt" that the
supreme Court had decided unanimously
mat West Virginia owed a lot OF money
TO virginia and that II was the duty
OF the questioner and everybody else to
respect that decision.
At another place he silenced A heckler
ana aroused the audience TO wild cheer
ing ny his reply to a two cent fare"
question. saying he stood for vctoing
iesislation enacted before Investigation.
when they went at him with the Dam
u matters hand grenade he slammed
u right back. saying tina. he had done
MS duty in that case and would do II
over again. That was In PHILADELPHIA
and they nearly took the roof on. In
stances could be multiplied. all significant
or hughes's determination, to make him
self clear at any cost.
Nothing In the world Is more certain
than that Charles F.. Hughes would pre-
rer 10 set a new American record for
temperate campaigning. hut tina: he can
nRht IKE a wolf when he has TO when
his opponents get him mad. That is
what he Is doing now and that. In the
opinion OF many observers OF his moods.
IS the factor that is turning the people
MS way. His arguments have not
changed. The man himself has changed,
OF ra'her reverted TO the Hughes OF ten
years ago, one Of the most effective cam.
pa'gners New York State ever had.
More Effective style.
Tie Is arrayins to-day the sal lie tariff
arguments. the same American rights
arguments. the same Mexican srgu-
ments. the same Adamson bill argu-
ments, the same economy and efficiency
arguments that he arrayed a month ago,
but he is pouring them out In a vastly
more effective style.
Nothing much seemed 20 ru'ne MIN
them. Nothing interrupted the placldity
of his dignincd discourse. He stood
usually in one spot upon his stage.
making few gestures. seldom changing
the pitch OF his voice.
Now his eyes burn with earnestness.
sometimes with anger. Preparation rolls
down his face as he PAGES back and
forth swinging his arms. His voice. al
ways far carrying and penetrating even
when rasped by overwork. fairly clanvs
out his periods and climaxes. The effect
OF all this IL that he Is much more con-
vincing. lie throws out to his audi
ences undeniable evidences Of his sim
cerity, earncstness. neutrality-suspicious..
The newspaper correspondents have