SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
Special Correspondence A Gubernatorial Possibility New York, April 2, 1910. IN the month of September, 1905, Charles Evan Hughes, a lawyer for the legislative committee which was appointed to...
...Next year the Republicans of the state nominated and elected him governor...
...He was named in the last Republican national convention for president...
...r. d...
...Hotchkiss was a progressive in active public affairs long before Hughes came upon the political stage...
...Hughes took up the subject...
...IN the month of September, 1905, Charles Evan Hughes, a lawyer for the legislative committee which was appointed to investigate the life insurance companies of New York State, suddenly filled the public eye because of the manner in which he questioned witnesses and illuminated dark places of legislative corruption...
...In October of that year, the Republicans of New York City nominated him for mayor...
...He declined...
...The similarity in the temperaments, equipments and methods of the two men has struck the whole state...
...Hughes showed up five years ago...
...Two years later they reelected him...
...There are many, including some of the shrewdest of the professional politicians, who see another "Hughes" in Hotchkiss...
...Hotchkiss has suddenly loomed big in the Republican party of the State, as the man to carry on the Hughes policies...
...Undoubtedly, Mr...
...Hughes as Superintendent of Insurance, who is investigating the life insurance companies of the State and showing up the same kind of legislative corruption that Mr...
...He was one of the pioneers in the movement for direct nominations and advised the propaganda of the Direct Nominations League of the State before Mr...
...Just now he seems to be favorite among the rank and file for the Republican nomination for governor this year.—p...
...Now comes William H. Hotchkiss, a Buffalo lawyer appointed by Mr...
Vol. 2 • April 1910 • No. 14
