Hughes as an Epic Hero
CANDIDATE HUGHES has acquired another handicap in this campaign, in the approval and benediction of Professor Hugo Muensterberg, of Harvard University. The 100 percent candidate, according to the Teutonic apologetic in this country, has "an epic mind," and "every true epic hero stands alone."
If Mr. Hughes is an epic hero, he is with him, and so.
Penrose, Cannon, and Reed
Robert Bacon supports him because of a belief he will do something for France, and the editor of the Fatherland because of a deeply cherished conviction he will do something for Germany.
As an epic, the Hughes campaign is an innovation, for the powers of light and the powers of darkness—we are accepting each camp's estimate of the other—are united in the chorus. It was not thus "when 'Omer smote -s blooming lyre" and Virgil, Dante, and Milton sang. The old-time epic hero had a single object, and, unless we conceive the object to be the attainment of office, we cannot impute anything of the sort to the epic hero Professor Muensterberg holds up to the world's applause.
A bio as Senator Lodge is. He has failed dismally to make anything of either of the only two issues he has attempted to raise in this campaign—sectionalism and that "postscript" claim that was foisted on him. 