New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-01
HIGGINS RESUMES TOUR.
RIG OGDENSBURG RALLY.
Senator White Defends Candidate
Speech at Potsdam.
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.t ~ V oct 31.-The rock-rippeo
ia I9o,,h,,oan- county of st. Lawrence gave run
vent 70 its party spirit tonight III llS
to Frank Wayland Higgins the hoii''iee -
co,,e-oor for whom its voters Will roll up d iiia
,ori,,, exceeding eight thousand week rum ~
'.-o,, one of the greatest political demon
.o.;ons ever seen in Ogdensburg was menu III
,ha roun Hall Standing room was at pre-
,,,i,r, more than half an hour before the Ihee'
CO. onened and hundreds of people were turned
o,,.v There were more than thousand visit
ors in the city from the surrounding towns ex-
-sion trains having been run on all the rail-
roads.
For an hour before the meeting the streets
leading TO the hall were thronged. Bands. fire.
works and salutes of aerial bombs attracted nan
Of the population OF the city to the neighoor-
hood Of the meeting place. Among the VislIorS
we're sixty students of ST. Lawrence University
at Canton, twenty-eight miles away seats
had been reserved for them in the rear OF the
hall. and before the arrival Of the speakers tley
entertained the crowd by singing campaign
songs set to popular airs. They were singing
song commencing Higgins, Higgins we VIII
vote for you" to the air of Teasing when
Lieutenant Governor Higgins was escorted 10
the stage by State Senator George r. Malby.
The crowd cheered wildly when Mr.. Higgins ap-
peared Then the boys gave their college yell
and sang another VERSE of the song, and the
cheering was renewed and prolonged for several
minutes. The meeting throughout was one or
the most denonstrative which Lieutenant Gov
ernor Higgins has addressed in his tour Of the
State. <52 ~
MIR HIGGINSS SPEECH. E#M.
The speakers. in addition to Mr.. Higgins mn
Judge Jerome B. Fisher. Chautauqua Cocbfn-
and State Senator Horace White, Of Syracuse.
Senator Malby, who presided. also made brief
but forceful speech in opening the meeting
Every point made by the speakers was vigor-
ously appauded. The Lieutenant Governor
spoke as follows:
enee in the rock-ribbed Republican County of st.
Lawrence In my trip through the state l nave ave
State and national tickets. The native State Of
her electoral Vote for her fayvrte son The policies
OF the Republican party have commended them
selves to the people of this State. The unpar-
aeled prosperity of the last seven years, standing
In splendid contrast with III. depression and de-
spair Of the preceding Democratic edninistratlol'
points the way to q continuance Of existing con-
ems alike the national tranquility at homo and the
national honor abroad.
more eloquent than mine The gifts of oratory
nd sa place in the of
the insignificant and the scandalous. They have
conceal the menace to good government implied in
their success by speaking an Infinite amount of
record. Mistakes have no doubt occurred The
NOV 5edgmeht OF our -e execqTe may gfE
not IN be compared with perfection. but with the
ten years long viii recall the last experience Of
the people Of this state with Demooratic rule.
OF the theft Of the Stale senate bV a defiance of
the orders of the court of the nomination OF
Maynard as judge Of the Court OF Appeals as a re-
fraud Of the legislative trickeTy and job6ery, Of
the explotation Of city charters for personal gain
Indignant people that Buried The T parg in erited
the same discreded leaders who used IT as an
agency 70 ADVANCE their selfish and INSCRIPTIONS
people OF the State to-day.
PURPOSE OF REPUBLICAN PARTY GOOD.
In the government Of a great State, as in any
cooperation efPPc gs or private undertaking any one
But we maintain that the general tendency and
and that the general tendency and purpose Of the
Dfnbo oGis1i par party . has been bad
checked, that unnecessary positions should be
abolished, that contracts should be strictly en-
forced that expenditure should be limited t. the
needs or the State. that taxation should be
to the maiRtenance Of th S lts S1st ontrIeu60a
tlal no class OF persons or property shall be OPP
I believe that II is better to impose reasonable
taxes upon inheritances, the liquor trafi and the
corporations than unreasonable taxes lpon the
indirect taxation unfairly depressing ne Cities
Judge t1erflCk says that the poor widow DAYS the
estate must inventory $4,000 net before It IS taxed
Does he believe that the estates OF ur mill
ionaiTes should escape taxation?
In conclusion. / desire to say to the cis zens of
the State Of NewTork that I have not bt ei placed
he ne bib boSon !, now OCCUPY as santitate for
personal ambition self seeking, nor G'ould I
sacrifice nv personal independence or 50 fraSnact
slton however exalted. In eleven years Il official
NE have striven with earnest effort tC lct in
my personal Judgment in the performance 81 nv
duties. do not claim that I have made - mis-
/ cheerfully await the verdict of my fellow zeTs
Senator Whites speech was a warm butte
10 the character and official record Of the ndi-
date for Governor.
Lieutenant Governor Higgins and Ser .ors
W hite and Malby spoke this afternoon TO ore
than fifteen hundred persons who crowdel the
IoWn han IN Potsdam. District Attorney -ris
presided Al Potsdam Mr.. Higgins was ell
coIneQ by Ernest a. Fay chairman of the "a
publican County Committee. General y III
rift and his son, Assemblyman Merritt. cyl a.
gresham Parker. William r. Weed and OF \ r
leading Republicans. All assured him that r
Lawrence County would give a Republican r
rality on next Tuesday closely approxinati1.
If not exceeding. the Mckinley figures of 1SSi
and 1900 0''
Mr.. Higgins YVES Joined here tonight bv Fred
eTlck j. k-H..I". -tate Superintendent of Bank
me.1. - ~2 viii Journey %,
lno5f'N ME yAzSsts of Superintendent
n ~ ~ 1etzS& &c. il speak in the
Eat6A M D. Us expected TO
.,-a&lF& the way from
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