Show BELIEVE MANAGERS J HUGHES CAN TURN THE TRICK it NEW V YORK Aug 12 Even his supporters admit that the task of Charles Evans Hughes is the most difficult confronting a Republican candidate for the presidency since the civil war His Isis managers have probed public sentiment senti senU meat ment sufficiently to realize that it would be no easy task to defeat President President dent Wilson with even a solid and arid perfectly organized party behind Hughes The straight goods Republicans who are arc supporting him in m order to get and patronage themselves for the pap that go with victory are frankly skeptical sHep of the fate in store for them if he is elected which under present conditions con con- seems improbable The attitude assumed by him toward the leaders of his party when he was governor of New York is not encouraging encouraging aging to them now Hence they are inclined to confiscate the cloak of his highly respectable reputation to cover their own purposes of electing their state and local candidates regardless regardless re reo of the effect on his own candidacy can The hundreds of thousands of Progressives Progressives Pro still smarting under what they believe to have been their betrayal betrayal be be- at the hands of their leaders have not indicated their acceptance of tl Hughes though most as representing of of the the chieftains their ideals of the army of Armageddon have tried to coax cajole or coerce them into so The managers of Hughes express confidence that the Progressives will come back home meaning home meaning the Republican Re Re- Republican publican home home as as a result of or the failure of the effort made at Indianapolis Indianapolis Indianapolis Indian Indian- apolis to reconstruct the Bull Moose national machine Reports from Progressive Progressive Pro Pro- circles rather Justify the assumption assumption as as- that a very substantial percentage percentage per per- of the Progressive vote will fall into the Wilson column The Hyphen Vote The German German American American vote reasonably reasonably reason reason- ably figured at 2 is visibly shrinking in the Republican calculations calculations which counted on 75 per cent of it for Hughes The restoration of friendly relations friendly relations between the Democratic Demo Demo- Democratic cratic government at Washington and the imperial German government provided provided provided pro pro- vided an important reason for this shrinkage and the exact neutrality ob observed served by bythe the president resident in securing to the U liner Deutschland Deutschland Justifiable protection was another Almost as important an influence In removing the hyphenate prejudice toward Wilson was furnished by Hughes in his Hotel Astor address favoring favoring fa fa- the proposed amendment to the constitution to permit women to vote So radical a project is fraught with such grave and repugnant possibilities ties in the Teutonic mind that there has been a marked change in their attitude toward the Republican candidate candidate candi candi- date Not the least of the sumptuary re reo suits of universal franchise in their view will be nation wide prohibition Already in various parts of the country country country coun coun- try notably In the twelve states where women enjoy the franchise in varying degrees Hughes is being acclaimed as the women's candidate and the hyphen vote is manifesting unexpected indifference to him Task Before Him The task set for Hughes by his managers managers managers man man- agers during the ne- ne next net t four weeks of campaigning is to reconcile conflicting elements and interests to provide his party and its state and local candidates w with th an issue that can be used effectively effectively effectively by them in their efforts to unseat the Democrats at Washington and in in two twenty-two of the forty-eight forty states where they reign supreme to propose a national program ram more attractive to the voters of the country than the policies polities pol pol- and achievements of President Wilson to provide adequate remedies for so called Democratic evils The managers of Hughes are confident confident confident dent that he can turn the trick They count upon his personality his judicial mind the logic of his arguments the trend of sentiment toward the theRe Republican Republican Re Re- pu publican party which they see with eyes of faith |