The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-25

for him ~noisily. Mr.. Hughes said among
other things;
If there is anything in the United States
that ought to be put down II Is cynicism
with reference to the conduct OF repre-
sentatives in office, the idea that there are
no honest men serving the people. theidea
that all legislators and all men charged
with official duty should be put under sus-
picion and regarded as more or less corrupt.
you cannot have faithful service in any
country unless you applaud that service
and give tho just reward which should
always honorable action, II
you want good men in the Legislature,
then when you have q good man in the
legislature honor him. BE Jealous to find
out what good he has done. Be just as
jealous TO inc that out as to detect evil
that has been done"
Mr. Hughes ended a stirring appeal for
sound. unbiased public opinion. free from
indiscriminate censure, with these words:
There is nothing which so characterizes
the American people as their readiness to
arise in resistance to wrong, e arose
is resistance TO tyranny. Ihey arose In
again and again when any matter was at
stake which involved a moral question
with an ea~rnestnees and a determination
and an emotion which have attracted the
admiration OF the world.
-But what an awful thing it is for a mar
to attempt to pervert that sentiment and
that beneficent impulse.
what an awful menace to society it Is
for men systematically to endeavOr TO cor
rupt that upon which we rely IN any great
contest.
what an awful thing deliberately to
poison the very sources OF influence and TO
make sound public opinion on the part OF q
great number OF voters impossible!'
At Waverly, as at every other place that
Mr.. Hughes has visited, many Democrats
assured him of their active support. One
who approached him was j.. W. Quigley.
He had voted the Democratic ticket for
twenty-five years, but he said he was ON
to bolt this time. And he wanted to tell
Mr.. Hughes that he would get not his vote
! alone, but the Democratic votes OF his four
sonsand three nephews. Two or three other
Democrats came up to the candidate with
this declaration:
Were Democrats and would like 20 vote
for you, but we ant because We live over
the line in Pennsylvania.
A big crowd was out at Owego, Senator
Platt's home town. Mr.. Hughes. was
scheduled for a stop OF only five minutes
there, but the throng which rushed in at the
rear of his car was so large that his voice
would scarcely carry to those on the fringe.
Many were roosting on iron pegs on the
telegraph poles and the windows and the
roofs OF buildings in the vicinity were alive
with people. Mr.. Hughes gave the Owego
folks a talk straight from the shoulder.
He had been engaged, be declared. in
exposing p~retenoe and undressing a mas
querade, The crowd cheered him to the
echo and then scrambled wildly for Hughes
buttons as the train pulled out.
At Binghamton the Hughes car was
switched 70 the Delaware and Lackawanna
Railroad. There was a wait Of fifty minutes
there The time was occupied by Mr.. Hughes
comforting with the local leaders OF BroOme.
AssemblyInan James T. Rogers, who is
rouRhing il up with Col. George w. Dunn
in the local situation, was one Of the callers.
n - l. -, aAA AAoApNn MAD MF
Hughes on the rest Of his trip through the
Between B~inghamton and Cortland stops
were made at Whitneys Point and Mara
thon. The candidate spoke in a hall at the
former place to about 800 persons. AT
Marathon the train stopped only 1--we min;
utes. A crowd Of 500 and the TO wn baud
were out at the station. That band was An
many respects the most wonderf III that ha
yet turned up in the Hughes campaign
members Of one family.
aThe whole dam family band, |" was what
one Of the Broome county Republican
leaders called it.
cornet. Father toots the tuba and the
children do the rest. When the tran pulled
out the family was struggling with March,
ing Through Georgia."
The local leaders who boarded Mr..
Hughes's train told of unfavorable con-
ditions in the Republican ranks both in
Tioga and Broome counties. In Tioga
the Republican forces are split over the
candidate for Assembly. Many influential
machine men are openly opposing the
candidacy OF ByTam l.. Winters, who wa
nominated a year g over one OF the local
leaders and h is running again under
the same conditions. Some OF the machine
Republicans are out for Fred j. Davis OF
Owego, the Democratic nominee, and VIM
tiers, it was said. has a hard fight on bis
hands.
The Republican vote in Tioga is going
to be split badly on account Of this fight
but the leaders assured Mr.. Hughes tina
the county woul give him its usual Republl-
can majority. The head Of the ticket will
not be cut, they said.
In Broome county the fight between
A~ssemblyman James T. Rogers and Col
George W. Dunn is not so bitter, but IL ii
feared by some that it is going to reduce
the Hughes plurality. The Rogers factor
has got control Of he county organiza-
ton and the fight is centring around Robert
G.. Parsons, candidate for County Judge
on the Republican ticket. Parsons wal
mixed up in the fight for control OF tbs
county machine, and it was said that DunT
and his followers are not working themselves
70 death in support of his candidacy.
The Broome leaders assured Mr.. Hughes
that he would get a plurality OF more thar
5000 in that county, which is 300 more thai
Higgins got.
Mr.. Hughes will leave here in the morn
ing. He will speak in Binghamton in tn
afternoon and Ithaca at night.