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Show NATION'S VOTERS KICK CHARLES E. HUGHES INTO REAL COIN GETTING JOB HE IS IIG Defeated G. O. P. Candidate Has More Big Fee Work Than He Can Do BY JAMJES HEXLIC. X. E, A. Staff Correspondent. NEW YORK, April 26. Charles E. Hughes may not havo assayed 100 per cent as a presidential candidate back in 1916, but as "a lawyer and as a money-getter in tho legal field, it doesn't seem he has any serious competitors. com-petitors. . Friends of the former Republican candidate say that his income is ?1,-000.000 ?1,-000.000 a year. If he really makes that $1,000,000 Hughes is making! .moro -0parCicstniotlyleg,al--work -than-any other" lawyer In this country. Hughes' present lncomo Is in striking strik-ing contrast to what he received as a Justico of the United States supremo court. That position pays 14,500 a: i year. When Hughes was defeated for the presidency some said he made a mistake in resigning from the supremo court In order to run. But did he? What really happened In November, 1916, was that the voters of this country coun-try and particularly the voters of California kicked Hughes upstairs into a position paying about sixty times what his former ono had ieIJ-ed. ieIJ-ed. So busy Is Hughes' law office on lower Broadway that attorney's say ho has enough work on hand and offered him to keep him busy for tho next hundred years. He'll be very lucky if he gets to finish it. He was 5S years old on April 11. |