New-York tribune., 1906-10-31
HUGHES'S RECORD DAY
MAKES TEN SPEECHES
Big Cro1Cd Greets Candidate an
Oszcego-Asserts independence.
IBy Telegraph TO The Tribune. I

tBy Telegraph 10 The Tribune
Oswego. n. Y, Oct 30.-Here. on the shore Of
Lake Ontario. in Oswego County, Charles E..
Hughes received a right royal welcome to-
night. Speaking to nearly two thousand persons
in the Richardson Theatre. the Republican
candidate for Governor broke his campaign rec
ord to date. having addressed between eight
thousand and nine thousand persons to-day.
This morning Mr.. Hughes made speeches to a
total of $500 persons at nine different places on
the loop. running to Niagara Falls the main
line of the New York Central and back tc
Rochester over the branch. Five counties were
covered on this loop, including Genesee, Erie,
Niagara Orleans and Monroe.
While Mr.. Hughess private car was travelling
east from Rochester, which he left at $50
o'clock tonight. on his way to Oswego by way
IF Syracuse, it passed the special car which car
ried William Randolph Hearst west TO Rochester,
where he was to speak at four meetings.
Owing to various delays it was S45 o'clock to-
night before the Hughes special arrived here.
The meeting had been called for o'clock and
the auditorium crowded. Several hundred
persons sacrificed their chances to get into the
theatre and welcomed Mr. Hughes with cheers
at the Midland station of the Ontario & West
ern Railroad. The cheers were augmented by a
band which headed the procession 20 the theatre.
1t was a hard proposition to get the candi-
date through the crowd and onto the stage. as
the fact that he his way quickly spread
around the audience, which edge and
ready 10 burst forth with loud welcome when
Mr., Hughes appeared After the cheering had
died down. "a local glee club sang song, the
refrain of which went:
willie won't it a single blessed minute.
When the boys begin 10 vote III November.
1t was an impressive gathering, crowding
, every inch of space to the topmost gallery and
occupying the staircase There larger
proportion of women than in the ge cam
paign audience TO which Mr.. Hughes has spoken.
NEW YORKS NEXT GOVERNOR"
John X Smith, the labor union Mayor. The
first chief executive elected by the Republicans
in Oswego in some years. presided. His intro
duction admirably brief and to the point.
Let present the next Governor of the
State of New York he said. And the audience
indorsed what he said with loud cries of ap-
proval.
Here again Mr. Hughes able, thanks 70
the migratory life of minister, to speak in
opening his address OF pleasant memories OF
boyhood days. Mr.. Hushes's father was pastor
of the Baptist Church here for several years in
the late COS.
Mr. Hughes spoke at some length the be-
trayal of the Independence League by Hearst in
Buffalo and by his deals with various bosses
over local nominations This was particularly
we'll received because in the audience were many
of the seven hundred followers of eX-Mayor
James +. Mansfield He is the man who. after
being placed in the Mayors chair by Charles y.
Bulger, Democratic boss of this region, tried TO
get the organization away from him,
Mansfield was the original Hearst man here.
having started Independence League last
summer but when Hearst went over 10 Murphy
body and soul. Mansfield became disgusted with
him. When Hearst was here two weeks ago he
came under the auspices of Buger
The result was that the independence League
went to pieces and Mansfield and most Of his
friends will vote for Hughes although they are
not saying for publication.
In other parts of his speech Mr.. Hughes said
an aspiration 10 be Governor was honorable only
when a man free to do his duty. He spoke
of the Judiciary and other deals of Hearst with
! Murphy.
Among the many Democrats on the stage was
whitehaired John A Barry. former Editor of
THE Palladium" and a United States revenue
inspector He was in front seat. with a heavy
cane. and he prnctuated his entire approval of
Mr Hughes and his doctrines by pounding vio-
lently on the stage. There several others
in the cane brigade.
I'VE want no anarchy in the name of reform
started the canes 10 humping Vigorously and
the hands OF the others clapping. Mr..
Hughes said, in part:
We are through. nope. with conditions under
which a representative of the people owes allie
glance TO some not the people. We desire To
have il understood that every man that goes
to Washington or 20 Albany through the votes
If his fellow citizens shall understand that he is
/ responsible TO these constituents for his dis
charge of his duty. unfettered by any interest,
only according To- niS conscience. And when a
man comes home To give an account of himself
and says that he has done this that because
he believed il to he right, while he may be dis
agreed with by his constituents. he will he just
y respected if ne has acted as his Consc fence
dictated.
The American people do not require servitude
They require service honorable service that
man give who holds his self-respect
| intact and who walks in the light of his own
manhood. There is no part of system OF
government which should be carefully pro-
tected from any interference on the part OF a
! There Is no better test OF mans real indie.
| pendent attitude there is no better criterion o
his real respect for an unfettered and conscien,
tious discharge of public duty, than his attitude
| toward the justices whom we place In our courts
| to dispense Justice impartially and according
| to law.
We find the boss of Tammany Hall virtually
appointing judges TO the bench. and know thai
| ii exemplihes the most Teprehensible part of the