New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-27
Goes Into Mountains After
Winning Votes in
Twelve States.
DEMOCRATS ADMIT
SUCCESS. OF TRIP
Denver Gives Nominee a
colorado Welcome" to
Doubtful State.
By RAY II. LEEk.

Denver, Aug. 26.-Seven thousand
miles of campaigning were finished
here tonight by Charles h. Hughes
when his special train pulled out for
the mountains and a four-day respite
from political worries.
No matter what the result of this
campaign may be, the Republican
Presidential candidate has gone long
way toward accomplishing the purpose
he announced on leaving New York
three weeks ago.
81 want TO meet the voters and per
sonally tell them just what | stand
for" Mr. Hughes said.
In this trip he has met and talked
70 more than half q million voters, he
has made more than 1b0 speeches, and
he has clasped more hands than any
statistician would care to enumerate.
He has carried his message of national
elkciency and diplomatic force into
twelve states and, if outward evidences
may be accepted, he has made most
favorable impression by the simple de-
vice Of appealing TO the reasoning
powers of his audiences.
Gained Votes Everywhere.
While no figures but the election
returns can show the results of this
tour, even Democratic leaders have adj
mitted that Mr. Hughes has aided his
candidacy wherever he has gone. with
the possible exception Of California,
where they insist that he will lose
votes because of the manipulaions Of
the conflicting Republican and Pro-
gressive leaders. Even in the face o.
that situation. however, there is no suc
gestion that the state will be lost.
OF the twelve states trayersed on the
first leg of the Hughes trip all except
two are ordinarily classified as Repub-
lican on national affairs. The doubtful
ones arc Montana and Nevada. In both
of these local conditions and NJ
Hughess vigorous stand on suffrage
will go a long way TO aid him.
Here in Colorado the situation is
complicated, and the most knowing Of
local politicians refuse to hazard =
guess az the probable result of the
election when they permit their per
sonal opinions to become public. Roose.
welt is the only man who has been able
10 defeat the Democrats here in NAM
years, and il has been said that moth
ing short Of earnest aid by COlone.
Roosevelt would carry 1T for the Re
publicans this year.
Colorado Suifragists Divided.
The sufragists have affairs well in
hand here and have shown a willingness
TO vote in the past. II is generally be
lieved that the strength of the women
voters will be about equally divided
between Hughes and Wilson. However,
those who credit Wilson with keeping
the nation out of war and those who
have been won by the Hughes espousal
Of equal suffrage seem equally active.
The welcome accorded the Hughes
party on arrival just before noon to-
day was hearty, but not noisy. 10 was
what is termed a Colorado welcome"--
sincere and spontaneous Several thou
sand men and women iocked about the
station and lined the streets through
driven 10 the Brown Palace Hotel.
At noon Mr.. Hughes addressed nom
partisan meeting at the Mile High Club
Iu his address he summed up practl-
cally all Of the points he has made or
his tour. He spoke Of the necessity OF
q firm Mexican policy, backed by mill
tGry when necessary, a businesslike
tariff law that would protect every in
dustry i'm the country. national etficien-
cy and the elimination Of pork from
national appropriations.
Confident of the Future.
81 look into the future with conf
dence." Mr.. Hughes said because !
think we are now entering upon a new
era Of which these words are the
watchwOrds: Cooperation and efficien-
cy. You cannot have either amount to
anything without the other. You must
have throughout this land a sense of
cooperation. You in Colorado must
feel that you are brothers TO those IN
Massachusetts and New York. We can
not afford 10 be sectional.
I'VE must have policies to upbuild
the South, as well as the North and
the East and the West. We have got
to have common prosperity, or We
shall have no prosperity. We have got
to succeed altogether, or we shall not
succeed al all.
Did you ever reflect how the nations
abroad are able TO turn the entire force
of national energy into a given direc-
ton at will? We cannot do that in this
country so easily. We have a compli-
Gated system of government. We would
not foregO the complications of that
system, for they mean to US local in
dependence in local affairs quite as
much as national power and national
strength in national affairs. But we
must meet this foreign competition
with the maximum efficiency at home.
In that way alone can we survive
Crowds at Small Stations.
The Colorado campaign really opened
at Greeley, where several thousand
farmers heard Mr. Hughes deliver an
address in the public square. Two
moro car-end addresses were delivered