New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-07
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soneeze ont Of President Halpin the secret OF
the ticket.
.yo1 won't have long to watt said Mr..
17alnin. This did not satisfy the longing heart.
Never was a slate more closely shrouded in
mystery The old stagers did not like 1t. Dis
triet leaders. who for years have been let IN
on the ground floor" on everything going on.
sal6 rglv things good naturedly. Halpin said
never a word. and the mystery deepened
While the committees were in session in the
recess the rumor went around that the candi-
date would be Charles E. Hughes. the famous
Insurance inQuisitor.
..F5uches and the Municipal Ownership League
This WAS the message that went through the
crovrs with electric duickness. In three minutes
every one had it,
Twin he take It. or VIII It be another rebuff? -
This followed quickly Oh the heels OF the
Hughes rumor. Instantly the convention was
excitedly discussing the chances of victory with
Hughes for Mayor.
Hughes, Young and Wells,'' was the next
verbal bulletin and again the delegates surged
toward President Halpin and ex-Lieutenant
Governor woodruff. Charles f. Hughes for
Mayor. Richard Young. of Brooklyn, for Con-
troller and James L. Wells. of The Bronx, for
the slate which went around the convention hall
like horse on the gallop. Neither Mr.. Wood
ruff nor Mr Halpin would confirm the slate. In
the middle of the speculation the gavel sum-
1noned the delegates 10 order once more
senator Alfred r. Page proceeded to read the
r,atforrn. prefacing It with the following reso-
luton, which was adopted amid applause;
while every civilized nation. including the belg
sTen1T to theodore Roosevelt our President
FOR his unexamped achievement in substituting
the blessings OF peace for the horrors OF war py
a successful Intervention unparalleled in the his
tory q dP54nay m zen the croWins glory
Of career that began in our own city and had
eminent as that in which we are now engaged
Then came the motion to nominate the city
ticket and Senator Nathaniel A Elsberg
walked to the platform to name the candidate
for Mayor. Even at this time there was nothing
definitely known about the slate. Senator Els
berg was III good voice, and his hard hitting
sentences were punctuated with applause. The
room was stin a church the speaker began
10 arraign the public service corporations for
their derelictions Mr.. Elsberg spoke of the
great ability Of the gas Investigating commit
tees counsel, and of what he is doing now as
counsel for the insurance Investigations
Hughes. Hughes yelled hundred dele
gates, and then volume of applause broke forth
that seemed TO shake Carnegie Hall.
What is it that the people Of New-Tork are
hoping for and praying for?'' asked the speaker,
adding: 'They are calling for a leader who will
lead--a reforme1 who is a true reformer.''
Again the applause drowned the speakers
voice,
THE most eloquent campaign speeches he can
make the questions he is putting to the
Witnesses declared EisbeFg, as the crowd rose
and with waving flags cheered for Charles E.
Hughes.
SENATOR ELsBERG'S SPEECH.
Senator Elsberg. in nominating Mr. Hughes,
said:
This convention meets in an epochmaking
OF our State and city well--a period of aroused
and active public sentiment and of awakened pub
lie conscience and spirit. 4 period when the in
dividual citizen, alive the responsibility that is
his under q government of freedom, is taking
The acts and the omissions OF our public servants
Genial personality, engaging manners and address
Inislead the public judgment when the people
weigh the records and achievements Of our public
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hands.
I shall not upon this occasion recite the things
that every person in this halt already knows 1
in The last two Years snail not sneak Ia yoI af
length Of how the peoples government has been
used 10 further selfish Of how IL has been used
interests. shall content myself calling your
aftepIlon 10 q subject that seems to be of
transcendant public interest and Importance and
that firmly believe creates The Opportunity as II
clearly marks the duty Of this convention.
The people OF New-YOrk believe and feel that
there has been in these years too close A
friendship between the city government and GER
tain public service corporations, and, in particular
those corporations which deal In that great and
Indispensable necessity-the gas that al our people
use for light. In answer to what seemed an over
whelmins cry for relief from the situation that
12ted, IN answer to the demand that III from
every gas consumer In our city. the Republican
party and Republican legislature appointed a
committee to investigate the gas companies of
most remarkable and interchangeable man who has
come into public within a genera
ton, and who, with unerring judgment and
marvellous ability, exposed the conditions of
these corporations, exposed The eXtort donate bur
des they had laid upon the people of city from
rived. and let in the food of wholesome light and
publicity which resulted IN the remedial legisla-
non that a Republican legislature has placed upon
me statute books. In the next four years that
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1lts or the work so ably done by the whom
have named, unless the city government is directed
ana controlled by those who in sympathy with
mat WORK And the complicated questions OF the
relations between the city and the companies whose
FRANCHISES have expired will expire can only be
s1ghty solved If their solution be ntrusted the
man who brought those problems and abuses to
PRAISE FOR INVESTIGATION.
To-day another investigation Is proceeding an
other committee appointed by q Republican legis-
3ature Is at wori- and that committee IS inyestf-
eaunS SUBJECT that interests every and
woman not alone in the city and State of New
York. but in the whole United States and-fFat has