The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-11

Republican committee and +. H. Butler
of the Netps were at the station to greet
Mr.. Hughes when he arrived in bufalo.
The candidate too up quarters at the
Hotel lroQuois, and he was soon besieSed
by local leaders who wanted to put him
in touch with the situation in this county.
All of the leaders assured Mr.. Hughes
that his strength in the county was in
creasing every day, but they told aim
too that the situation demanded unre-
hitting efforts on the part Of the Repub-
lican campaign managers from now nul
election day. The leaders informed Mr..
Hughes that there are three elements which
are entering into h situation In Erie
county. In the first place Hearst has
antagonized nan Democrats who were
for him by putting Independence League
candidates in the field in opposition to the
Democratic nominees. Mr.. Hughes's
visitors declared that the Independence
League has lost many votes in this way.
Then there is, they pointed out, the an
tagonisms among labor union men to the
Hearst-Fingy Conners alliance The local
Republican leaders assured MIR. Hughes
tina the resentment among Buffalo labor
union men over this alliance was deep, but
it will, they added, require the best efforts
of Republican campaign speakers to
emphasize the relationship between che
candidate and the Democratic State Com
mittee chairman, before many Of the labor
union votes can be counted safe for the Re-
publicans.
The third element entering into the Erie
county situation, the leaders said, is the
discomfort among Republicans over the
rank disclosures in the city government
in the last year. Many Republicans, it was
said. were prepared to vote for Hearst as
a protest, but the deal put through here at
the Democratic convention caused them
to halt, n they are falling in now behind
Hughes.
The leaders expressed the belief thai Erie
county would be carried safely by Hughes,
but their plea with the candidate and his
campaign managers was for the greatest
possible number Of speakers to convince
the labor vote.
Considerable dissatisfaction has been
expressed by upstate leaders wi tn the
itinerary OF Mr.. Hughes's first tour. They
complain that he is being sent into small
places like Lyonss~ Canandaigua and Seneca
Falls, Republican s~trongholds, when he
really ought to be out fighting Hearst on
his own ground in the larger cities and in
factory centres.
At S o'clock in the afternoon Mr.. Hughes
held a reception at the Hotel ~Iroquois.
IL was the most enthusiastic gathering
that had greeted the candidate up to that
time, not even barring his New York mass
meetings.
For more than an hour Mr.. Hughes was
kept busy shaking hands. The reception
was held on the second floor of the hotel.
and at one time the line Of supporters ex-
tended down the main hallway from that
floor, across the hotel lobby and out into
the main street. A heavy snow was falling;
the flakes were almost as big as ostrich
plumes and melted as soon as they struck.
The enthusiasts outside the hotel were
standing in slush half an inch deep, but
they waited on, moving up in the line one
at a time.
Buffalo politicians who attended the re-
ception said there had been nothing to equal
1t here in point OF enthusiasm for several
years. Mr.. Hughes was greeted with all
sorts Of encouraging remarks. You'll be
10000 plurality" We're with you heart and
soul, =" were some of the things said to him.
In the long line were many Democrats.
Hello, Jim, you here?" remarked one
Democrat to another near him.
yes, Inc | zee you are, too. l couldn't
stomach the deal" was the reply.
Mr.. Hughes picked out in the line MANY
who had been in the lecture room under
him when he was at Cornell. There were
many Of Buffalo's prominent business men
in the line.
Mr.. Hughes will leave here in the morning
for Geneva. He will speak there in the
afternoon and jump to C~anandaiRua, where
he will attend a night mass meeting.