New-York tribune., 1906-10-24

Job E Hedges and Senator Horace White. OF
Syracuse, also spoke
CANDIDATE MAKES EARLY START.
Leaving Kingston at 7:45 a. In' MI Huehes
and his party struck down through Ulster
County toward Middletown IN Orange county
oyer the line of the Waikiki Valley Railroad.
AT New Paltz, the first stop at o:oo MI
Hughess attention was called from his break
fast by school cheer. 1t came from hrty
girls from the State Normal School Inelr cry
was followed by a cheer from as many men
After responding briefly to the greeting MI
Hughes got down to shake hands all around
..I5ere take the hand Of an ex-Hearst man, >"
said one OF those first in the line, and he
grasped the candidates hand warmly.
II had the Hearst craze badly. SAID the
stranger who introduced himself j. Eng
lander hut have got bravely over it When
q man IS shown TO be such hypocrite as
Hearst IS / don't want anything more to do
with him." Mr.. Englander travels for tho
tobacco house of L Miller & Sons. or NO OIL
West 10th street, Manhattan
There were sixteen out of seventeen men In
our Office for Hearst last fall. he said. put
they are all for Hughes now"
Brief stops were made at Waikiki and Walden.
where there were more cheers and handshakins.
AT the latter village John Chapman, OF New
burg boarded the train. He told Mr.. Hughes
elections for twenty years. but was going to
give UP his job and vote for the Republican
candidate this year His father had also bolted
Hearst. he said.
The train pulled into Middletown at 1O:2o
O'Clock 1t is dfstinctively a laboring mems
town, and the cordial reception for Mr.. Hughes
there was particularly noteworthy. In addition
to the car shops of the Ontario & Western
Railroad. the National Saw Company and
Howell & Hinchman, tanners. have large
plants in Niddletown the population OF whlcn
SIS 10000. Both the works and tannery
closed down that ths 700 employees might see
and hear Nr. Hughes. H. H. Blanchard super
tntendent Of the saw factory, is an oldline
Democrat, but has come out enthusiastically for
Hughes.
CITY COMMITTEE FOR HUGHES.
C E Nance. OF 1Iiddletown, one Of the dele
CATION from that city who met the train az
Walden. told Mr.. Hughes that the entire Demo-
cratic City Committee Of Middletown had re-
signed left the remnants Of the organization
10 the Hearstites and all were going TO vote Tor
Hughes. There is a normal Republican pIu-
'raity Of 900 in MiddIetown. but according to
5fr Nance II will be much larger this year
There was an eager crowd of 700 persons, the
majority Of whom were dressed in the garb Of
labor at the station as the train pulled into
1Iiddletown. The car Twilight was shunted
onto a side track. and when the crowd had
cheered itself hoarse Mr.. Hughes addressed
them. He caught them at once when he asked
why Mr.. Hearst had not answered the question
he had been asking for two weeks as 10 why
the Hearst corporations do not pay their taxes
Then he told Of his sympathy for the laboring
man ana with the enforcement of the labor law.
He referred to his belief that corporations
should be made TO live up TO the ms OF their
charters and franchises. He sa'6 in part:
Ny opponent last night IA Few York had a
great deal to say IN proof II his sincerity. but
be did not answer the question which for more
than two weeks have been putting why is 1t
that the great corpora ions which he manages
for the purpose of publishing and selling his
newspapers do not pay their taxes and support
the government OF the city or New York whlch
protects them?
He did not answer the question why it is
when people injured by his newspapers that
they find i difficult to serve summonses upon
the officers. and the Judges OF the Supreme
Court IN New York are compelled to make or
GERS fer the publication Of such summonses in
the newspapers. He says that he is a friend
of labor, but he hei explained why 1t is
4fh1t his candidacy is denounced by union lapor
e,ld the Democratic candidate for Governor IN
ills home state of California.
= I believe in labor organization. 1 believe in
the good that has been accomplished through
the union of woTkingmen for the purpose Of
bettering their conditions. Labor has perfect
right to organize II I elected Governor
propose to see 20 1t that the labor laws of this
state enforced
We want TO make sure that every corpora
ton that gets privilege from the State Of New
York does its duty by the people Of the State Of
New York and I for that every time. We
want TO see that everybody who gets anything
fn the way Of a privilege from the public
makes hts return to the public. We want to
make sure that everybody is made TO under
stand that the people OF this country rule, and
that the public Interest is more important than
any other interest.
Job z Hedges also made hit saying in
part:
People that labor are smart enough to labor
and smart enough 10 read. II Mr.. Hearst thinks
he can deliver the labor vote he is mistaken.
man who earns 50 a day is able TO save enough
of II To buy some other paper than THE Jour
nal" which he gets for nothing. A thing you
get for nothing is not worth much.
The audience cheered long and loud Mr..
Hedges referred to the fact that all through this
section of the state Evening Journals" were
being given away in the street.
Among those in the crowd were members of a
Hughes club wearing farmers straw hats.
A Miss Brown climbed on the car platform
and gave hat TO Mr.. Hughes. He put it on
moment, saying y shall accept IT as a symbol Of
your support" Then he sent II in to his state
room TO be kept as souvenir
CROWD AT DAYLIGHT MEETING.
From the car Mr. Hughes was carried off 10
the Middetown Opera House in an automobile
The street was filled with people all the way.
Although It was II o'clock when the meeting
was called 10 order there were one thousand
persons in the big auditorium There were
women in the boxes, but the larger part Of the
audience was composed Of serious, sober minded
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