Show HUBBARDS HUBBARD'S CIVil RESTORED BY BT PRESIDENT Writer Had to Obtain Pardon Before Getting Passport to Sail San on Lusitania Washington ton May Ia 8 S. Elbert Elbert Hubbard tho the writer believed to have havo been lost loston loston loston on the Lusitania obtained a pardon from President resident Wilson Just before sailing sail sail- sai- sai ing lug for Europe It was learned toda today In order to have his civil civi rights restored red and thus obtain a a. a passport Hubbard pleaded guilty guity In Buffalo N. N Y to a n charge of oC misuse of ot the malls mails mals In 1913 and was sentenced to pa pay paya a a fine tine of oC 00 Tho The matter mater objected to appeared In magazine The conviction automatically deprived him of oC tho the rights of ot citizenship and President President President dent Taft denied him a pardon the same year lear on the ground that the petition petition petton pet pet- peti peti- tion ton was premature Last month Hubbard called caled at the tho White House an and told Secretary ty that he wanted anted to go to Europe to write about the war and and pointed out that he could not obtain an American passport because of ot the conviction hanging over o er him The matter was ns Immediately immediately im Im- im- im mediately taken up with Attorney Gen Gen- eray cray Gregory and the tho pardon was signed by the President President p e |