The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-18
HOBSON ASSALS PRESIDENT.
EX-NAVY OFFICERS TALK TO
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.

Man Who Sank the Merrimao at Santiago
Followed UP Broadway by Cheering
Crowd-Governor-Ch airman's Return
10 the Grocery Business Foretold.
Capt. Richmond P. Hobson was the
chief speaker at the MONDAY meeting,
yesterday, OF the Commercial Traveller
League, 597 Broadway. A great crowd
was there to greet him and he Was cheered
a ain and again. In opening the meeting
President Ziegel tou ched on State issues,
saying:
This great OH tpouring OF business men to-
day convinces me that we are going to
send back the Governor Chairman, who has
disgraced his high Office. not to the ice
business, but to the grocery business which
he hes made 30 strong feature Of his adj
ministration. The only difference will be
that after Jan. the Newburgh concern
will no longer have a monopoly OF sup
plying the State institutions with pro-
visions. Under Gov. Herrick the grocery
houses in New York will have an equal
chance with Mathews q Co."
Both Congressman Bassett and j. G.
McNeilly of Mount Vernon also lambasted
the Grocery ticket They said 1t was an
outrage that Odell should devote his entire
time to the Craftsmanship Of his party
organization when he was receiving pay
as Governor from the whole people.
Capt. Hobson said
II know this is my first political cam.
paign, but also l know that the school OF
the army and navy, where duty is the watch
word, ia not a bad political training.
believe politics is the work for ones coun-
try in the time OF peace. as arms Is the duty
OF every man in the time of war.
bad tr,tn liant
Roosevelt and Chairman Cortelyou. He
said that the President, like CAESARS wife,
should be above suspicion. The impanel-
ling Of Attorney General Knox in the Sem
ate, he declared, was "a subterranean
conspiracy In oriticising the President
for not interfering in the Colorado labor
war, he said that Mr.. Roosevelt was the
most lawless man in America.
Is It not strange. he asked a little later;
"that President Roosevelt, who has posed
the real hacker and adviser of the Addicks
ring in Delaware and the Quay ring in
Philadelphia"
Capt Hobson dwelt at length on the
negro question and blamed the Republican
party for introducing it into politics. He
to dominate the world and compared
Mckinley as the beloved Of the people to
Roosevelt, the man who had made thousands
Of enemies by his stand on the negro ques-
ton.
On the labor question he said:
believe the time is coming when the CAPT.
talist and laborer shall meet on common
ground / further be lieve that the time is
coming when labor will get its rights in de-
creased dividends and increased earnings.
l believe that labor should be strongly or
ganzed to prevent its rights from being
tramped upon. also believe that capital
labor from max ing unwarranted demands
on capital. l believe that both capital and
labor should respect the law above all things
Capt Hobson got another round of ap-
gathered around him and shook his hand.
The police had to be called in to open a
way for him to the door. He walked up
Broadway still surrounded by the police
and followed by crowd who cheered him
for several blocks.