Home › Charles Evans Hughes › Charles Evans Hughes

Charles Evans Hughes

"MAIS resiste-t-on a' la vertu? Les gens quin' eurent point de faiblesses sont terribles," observed Sylvestre Bonnard of the redoubtable Therese. This fearsomeness of the good is an old story. Horace remarked it, when, walking about near Rome, pure of heart and free from sin, he met a wolf. The beast quailed before his virtue and ran away,--to bark at the statue of the she wolf giving suck to Romulus, by way of intelligent protest. A similar prevalence of virtue and a similar romantic quality, where it is least to be expected, was disclosed in a recent encounter between Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of State, and one of the irreconcilables, when Mr. Hughes, integer vita scelerisque purus had just commissioned Colonel George Harvey to take the seat once occupied by Woodrow Wilson in the Supreme Council.