The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-19

there the candidate was kept busy ten
minutes acknowledging the welcome and
listening TO assurances Of his strength in
those parts. II was ITO a'clock when the
Hughes train pulled into Saratoga. A
brass band was ~livening things up and the
station platform was crowded with Hughes
enthusiasts. A reception committee headed
nty County Judge Nash lockwood took
the candidate in tow and the procession,
with the band in the lead, moved on in the
direction Of the Worden House. A crowd
OF 1000 had collected in the street in front
OF the hotel. Mr.. Hughes WAS greeted with
a roar OF applause when ne stepped TO the
front of the veranda, and the cheers broke
out anew a moment later when he said:
There was a convention here q few weeks
ago which answered, | believe, q demand
Of the people Of the State, and II l had not
thought that il was the desire Of the people
OF the state that l should accept the nomi-
nation OF the Saratoga convention | should
not have accepted IT,"
Mr.. Hughes in his Saratoga speech re-
peated the things which he has said before
in the campaign and renewed his pledge
to give an Embossed administration. Some
comment was caused by the fact that Sena-
tor Bracket was not among the Republi-
cans who met Mr.. Hughes at the station.
h Senator showed up III the crowd in the
street later and listened to the candidates
speech. After il was over he expressed his
regrets to Mr.. Hughes that he was engaged
with a case before a jury and had been
unable to get away.
Mr.. Hughes was in Saratoga an hour.
He then went up to Washington and Warren
counties. where a considerable part Of his
boyhood was spent. At Fort Edward,
where there are some big paper mills, the
train stopped long enough for the candidate
to shake hands with a crowd OF 100 people
at the station. Local leaders at this station
and in other manufacturing centres assured
Mr.. Hughes that there had been a reaction
among the factory employees against
Hearst within the last week. They told
him that in the big paper mills in that region
there was a dangerously strong sentiment
for the Independence League candidate
two weeks ago, but that a revolt is on now.
They ave IL as their opinion that Hearst
would not break even with Hughes In some
Of these factories; The workmen are be-
ginning TO ask, the leaders said. whether
Hearst is on the level, and are doing a lot
of thinking for themselves.
At Glens Falls, in Warren county, the
place where Mr.. Hughes was born ard
where his father was for many years pastor
of the Baptist church. the candidate got a
rousing reception. h Empire Theatre,
which has a seating capacity of ,OC0, was
packed. 1t was estimated that over ! 200
were wedged into the place. The audience
was NOT, however, made up of factory
people. The hour Of the meeting, 8 O'Clock
in the afternoon, made their attendance
impossible. In the theatre were a notice
able number of gray haired men, men who
had turned out TO greet the
son Of their old pastor.
Col. j. II. Cunningham presided. Taking
MIR. Hughes by the hand he led him to the
front OF the platform and then called on
the entire audience TO rise and welcome
him home. The 1900 Clens Falls folks
let out a cheer that almost shook the roof
of the theatre. Col. Cunningham followed
THU up by launching "A Hughes boom for
the Presidency.
we trust. said he, that he will follow
in the footsteps of his illustrious prede-
cessor.'
Mr.. Hughes's speech in his old home
town was a plea for sober. calm judgment
in business matters. He said that it was
with pride and affection that he returned
to the old town. He said among other
things:
The only real menace to the American
Deople is that which affects the integrity
of their Judgment, that which affects obe-
dience to their conscience, that which
would arouse class feeling and hatred, that
is the only menace to the American people.
Il desire to see genuine reform IN cor
Dorate enterprise. Nothing was more graft
fying to me in the course OF last year than
the evidence that the business men OF
our country we're not Indifferent when the
question OF the correcting OF the admins
tration Of a great business was before the
people. they did not look askance upOn
the efforts at reformation, but on the con
NIdIY, HUH OIC CAA VI VIZ NOhAN w NAC
other they poured in upon me their COM
mendation of whatever they believed TO
be hone in the interest of business morality.
tApplause,l
there are abuses which should be ended, that
there are wrongs which should be remedied.
/ would be the last one TO stand before
YOU and say that there is no room and no
reason for discomfort.
Unhappy the man who in his own life
il perfectly content. Unhappy the people
| who in their lives are perfectly content.
Discomfort is the very essential cause OF
progress, but il must be a reasonable dis
| content. and it must be Q discomfort which
really rests upon an enduring SELF respect.
IApplause.l
81 believe that there should be effective
governmental control Of all great enter
prises in which the public are interested
and which depend upon the public for their
rights to be and to do lapplausel but l
! believe that the first condition Of effective
government control il a condition OF mind
on the part Of the people which is more in
tent upon doing justice than upon doing
injury to anybody or to anything, which
Is more intent upon conserving than upon
| creating a feeling Of bitterness. which is
more intent upon preserving the real in
terests OF the people than in stirring up a
! storm of indignation for private advantage"
Nearly the entire audience shook hands
with Mr.. Hughes after the speech. Among
others who had something to say to MIR.
Hughes in a personal way was n. C.. Nc
| Comber. who carried under his arm a book
nresented to him by Mr.. Hughes's father
As ne CMcComber) was starting for the
| front in tn civil war. The book con-
tanned this inScripAon:
M. S. McComber, who is going to the
battlefield, from his dear friend and pastor
| d. %. Hughes. Believe in Christ. Trust
in God. Remember your father and brother.
Be valiant"
At Sandy Hill, a few miles from Glens
Falls, Mr.. Hughes got what was in many
respects the most notable reception OF the
dav. The big Union Bag and Paper Mills
are at that place. Mr.. Hughes had also
passed a considerable part OF his boyhood
here. The mills had closed down 10 give
the hands a Nance to see the candidate.
N was s o'clock when the Hughes train
pulled into the Sandy Hill station and the
racks were lined on both sides by a crowd
Of 800 people. IL was impossible for the
| candidate TO make himself heard to the
immnese throng, and the engine was I'M
coupled and sent on down the track a little
Distance so that the crowd might close in
around the car. IL was a typical factory
crowd. Most OF the men were in oyeralls.
Mr.. Hughes spoke beautifully and to the
zoirt dAClarin1 that he would, IL elected,