The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-06
WINDUP FOR HUGHES.
DURLANDs FILLED Ar HIS LAST
MEETING or THE CAMPAIGN.
HIS Last word q Promise TO DO All He Can
I'm h Interests OF All the People
JOB Hedges Amnscs the Crowd and
Tim woodruff Predicts q Victory


Charles f.. Hughes friends and neighbors
Of the upper West Side gathered In Dur
land Riding Academy. on West sixty-sixth
street. last night to give the candidate .
welcome home aud cheer for his success
to-day.
There were more than 1900 persons in
the riding academy, all the building would
hold, and at $o'clock Police InspectorWals
ordered the squad OF cops to rope OF the
entrances n allow no more to pas in.
The audience was from the upper West
Side. Men of business came with their
wives, and boxes were filled with women
and their escorts in the dress OF the thelt-s.
The interior Of the academy was a garden
OF flags and riotous witt color. There
must have been Over a hundred twelve foot
flags draped in festOons over the hox fronts
and along the galleries. From each cross
ing Of the steel Orders in the roof hung
webs of naval pennsnts, radinting from a
centre and streaming out to the sides OF TIE
balconies. Had there been a floor instead
Of the tanbark a military dance could heve
followed the Hughes reception without tbs
addition of an inch Of bunting.
Before 80 people teysn to arrive at the
academy and by y o'clocA every box wss
filed; the stage erected at the west N OF
the building aus taxed to its utmost seat
in clplcity ami paoble were standing
where the police permitted. Fnlly one
third OF the audience were women Many
of them sat ON the platform.
Hector Nj. Hitchings acted as chairman.
He introduced Lieut. Gov. Linn Bruce
first. Bruce, showing In marks of fatigue
in his face and in his voice, nevertheless
rose to the occasion with o speech that
consumed forty minutes Of the time that
must intervene before Hughes was ex-
pected, at 1918. At the first mention Bruce
made of the candidates name a cheer that
lasted for fully five minutes interrupted
the speaker. Another cheer Of no less nag
nitude was given the name Of Roosevelt.
Job F.. Hedges. the humorist Of the cam
paign tours, was introduced after Bruce
finished.
The trouble with William Randolph
Hearst is that he has been reading his news
papers," said Hedges. y And when a man
reads day by day in his own paper how
great he IL it is likely to make him biased
in his favor. Any man who draws humanity
into two classes. with himself in ono class.
is likely to become prejudiced in his favor;
and the other class has q tendency TO get
nervous
The speaker draw a roar Of laughter with
a figure which he faithfully pounded out
with mook oratorioal emphasis.
IF / were Father Knickerbocker," said
he. and / saw my Willie playing in the back
yard and throwing mud at the little boys
across the street, and getting his own
clothes all dirty in doing it. why, I'D bring
him in the house and take him up stairs
and put him in the fine old family bathtub.
And there the speakers voice grew serious
and tensely dramaticl I'd wash that Willie
OF mine with the soap OF truth and scrub
him hard with the brush Of sinoerity-and
a wire brush at that ~ he was clean
again"
Referring TO the Jeffersonian dress that
Mr.. Hearst has claimed rs his by inheri-
lance Mr.. Hedges said. In the tail OF that
long JefYersonian coat, where the Constitu-
ion. OF the United States used to be, you will
now find no Constitution. but the eleventh
edition Of the Evening journal with block
type three inches high"
Tim Woodruff followed -Hedges's WITH
cisms with a short speech in which he re-
iterated the predictions he had made earlier
in the day Ak TO the results of to-day's cleo
ton.
The lowest possible majority Of Hughes
above the Bronx will he 200 900. and l don't
believe Hearst will carry the city OF New
York"
voice from the gallery called out: How
about Kings"
Kings will go for Hughes safely
returned Woodruff.
The State chairman declared that he was
confident Of the election Of a Republican
Legislature and enough Republican Con-
gressmen to insure that the next Congress
would be Republican.
Il have not yet found a single case Of
disloyalty on the part OF any Of the Repub-
lican leaders anywhere in the State" said
Woodruff. Nor have l heard any criticism
OF the methods we have used in conducting
this campaign. Il has been q straight hght, I.
above board, and-I am satisfied
Others who spoke before the arrival Of
the candidate were Judge Charles F. Moore,
who was introduced a. q Democrat from
Virginia; Walter n. Chandler and Attorney
General Julius M. Mayer. In the middle Of
Chambers speech q section OF the tenn
porary platform erected at the west side OF
the building for the accommodation OF
benches q about two feet. to the level Of
the tanbark beneath. There was a sub
dued scream n several people started to
leave the building in q hurry. but Chairman
Hitchings and Chandler, who was speaking,
cried out 10 the people to sit down and the
panic was Of short duration. Nobody was
hurt in the sinking OF the floor. and aside
from some torn dresses there was no dam
age done.
The crowd spotted Herbert q. Parsons;
who tried to get behind those on the plat
form, but the audience wouldn't have Il
and he was dragged out for q speech.
Charles z. Hughes was nominated for
Governor he said. -bsbAuse he was the
brilliant and uncompromising investigator
OF wrongs and abuses 90 use the words OF
his opponent. Tomorrow we will elect
him Governor OF the State for that same
reason"
There was a whoop at that, followed by a
giIse alarm that Mr.. Hughes, who was then
twenty-five minutes late, had arrived.