San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-20
NEW YORK IS
1.-THE POL|T|CA[
| CENTER Of. us.
10th Parties Hold Conven-
tons and Shout for
Cal and al.
HUGHES BACK HOME
republicans Shout for Him
kOnce More as He Boosts
Coolidge. -
FUGHES BACK HOME
BY ROBERT T. SMALL.

Upright. 1924, by Consoi. Press Assn,
New York, April 19.-New York
hs the political center of the country
is week.
A Governor Al Smith accepted the
Elimination" of the Democratic party,
( d the secretary of state, Mr.. Charles
ian Hughes, delivered the real hon
y to goodness, copper riveted, key
Pie Of the Republican campaign.
pere have been other keynoters be-
RE Mr.. Hughes, but they did not
by put. Mr.. Hughes remained on
fc ground all the way through, and
is safe to say his speech, with his
pquent laudation Of Mr.. Coolidge,
II retain its prestige as the clarion
II Of the G. o. p. throughout the
mpaign.
THE New York Republicans and
mocrats held their state conventions
ie same day and only a single letter
parated their rallying cries. The
epublicans were for Cal and the
pmocrats for Al. There was a trifle
bre enthusiasm at the Albany con-
tve of Democrats because Al was
ERE in person and after a resolution
ID been passed urging him to run
the presidential nomination, the
vernon appeared on the stage and
Elivered one of the heart-to-heart
ks for which he has grown famous.
Cheered Hughes Before.
The Republicans here in New York
4d to cheer for Cal in the proxy of
secretary of state. Three times
fore the Republicans of this state
ID cheered for Charles T.. Hughes as
eir own standard bearer. Twice he
ept to victory as governor of the
tie, the third time he missed the
esidency of the United States by a
rrow margin of a wavering decision
California. Oddly enough in his
ter years, Mr.. Hughes appears a
liter advocate for others than for
nself. Perhaps that is his legal
Inning. The entire country remem-
IS the great speech with which he
kned the Taft campaign in 1908 at
1ngstown, Ohio. Yet when he was
eaking for himself for President
ut years later it was said he had
t his vigor and forcefulness as
mpaign orator.
(Another eight years have elapsed
q once more Mr.. Hughes is on the
stings. This time he is fighting for
chief, the President of the United
ates. and evidently is himself again.
his opening speech at the state
INVENTION Mr.. Hughes paid no heed
atsoever to the coming Cleveland
Invention. He passed it over as per-
DIS a necessary interlude, but that
all. His vision reached on to the
ction and he averred that the people
the United States already had de-
led to keep Mr.. Coolidge at the
m; to keep him on ~his own char
ter and his own platform. Natural
this aroused his Republican hearers
a high pitch Of enthusiasm. The
thusiam was broadcast on the ra-
and put several receiving sets out
commission.
Say Al Good Enough.
Meantime the Democrats Of the
tie were grooming their favorite son
the race, a son who twice has been
cted governor Of the state by huge
jorities, and in the fateful year of
20 almost overturned the great Re
blican sweep. The New York Demo-
its take the stand that if Al is good
them, good enough to be governor
the biggest state in the union, he
good enough to be President of the
tied States.
The state endorsement Of AL Smith,
President is not an empty gesture.
intensive campaign is to be start
in his behalf, and he may be sent
.sonally into several states which
eady have invited him to make
Ieches. The idea of such a speak
tour would not be to obtain
dged or instructed delegates, but
rely to get the people acquainted
tn Al, whose personal magnetism
carried him so far here at home.
vernon Smith has some very pow
ul leaders Of the party at his back
eaders who are said to control
bugh voters to block the nomination
Mr.. McAdoo or any one of the