New-York tribune., 1906-10-24
MR.. gUGHEs,s PROMISES.

| The most significant thing about Mr.. Hughes
| speeches such as the one at Kingston, is that
| the whole state knows he means them Ihey
| have about them the unmIstakable mark of sim
cerity and none Of that hedging and generallza-
| tion which mean one thing before election and
| quite q different thing afterward. Mr. Hughes
souarely faces the questions of government WIN
which he will have to deal if elected. He brings
| the discussion down to the actual duties Oh
Governor of New York while Mr.. Hearst is
| trying TO stir up passion with talk ABOUT the
| enforcement of federal statutes, conditions In
| Panama, the wrongs of letter carriers, the
rights Of Jews and every other conceivable topic
by which prejudice may be aroused
Mr.. Hughes tells the people without Qulbbe
and without reserve Just what he would do as
Governor to enforce the law through all the
departments, to investigate abuses, if any exist,
and correct them, to stop grab bills, TO protect the
rights of both capital and labor and to make all
the operations Of the state to regulate business
at once thoroughly efficient and thoroughly hon
est. He does not mince words. He names the
commissions whose efficiency he will consider,
and he makes ii perfectly clear that no financial
interest or political boss has any understanding
with him or can hope for any special favor
from him.
Mr.. Hughess manner and words are them
selves sufficient to carry conviction Behind
them are reputation and a character which
Mr.. Hughes says he is against bosses everybody
believes it. for his whole life has been consistent
with the declaration. When he says he will in
vestigate conditions at Albany and right any
wrongs which he may find regardless Of per-
sons, everybody trusts him because he has
shown himself to be an Investigator of just
that character. and even his opponent, Mr..
Hearst, has testified to his sincerity and thor
oughness as an investigator in the most fulsome
terms.
Nobody discredits every profession of his with
chapter from his personal record showing a
private practice inconsistent with his public
promises. He is not friend of labor unions who
on the sly runs open shop" and works his
men what he himself pronounces to be excessive
hours. He does not denounce those who avoid
subpoena servers. while himself lodging law
suits, or preach against corporations while him
self avoiding his responsibilities by means Of
corporations. He does not threaten to send Grim
ina bosses to state prison and then enter into
partnership with them to control the courts Of
justice. He does not call for more popular cleo
tions while creating political trust and incor-
porating political party so that he may abso-
lutely dictate political nominations.
His whole life is record of consistent hon
esty and sincerity and clean living He is ap-
pealing TO sense and reason, and that is why
people trust him, and why. while his opponent
is appealing to passion and striving to ride into
Office on whirlwind of hysteria, the people
fuse to have hysteria They remain strangely
calm. They may puzzle some politicians, but
their calmness is the calmneSs of Mr.. Hughes
himself. They are not being stampeded by a
propaganda whose success depends upon an epi-
demic of emotional insanity