The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-26

t'J..s an Cheering IllW Two Th0usanu
pcoT'~ There 10 listen to Ills SPEECH
Eru.ca. COZ. ?s.-Thc To,r.c of this city
ard Corr IN University gave Charles r..
Hugh, a rctrsiEg welcome tonight. Mr..
Hughes for several year, was a professor
Il law IN tho unworthy rrd the natural
.rclr Gtivr cr TIC students and members
q the faculiv 10 Lonor a former Cornell
man Oh Grated With the itrong sentiment
here in favor Of the Hughes candidacy To
NAL G lie 'thGoa reception l. Of tie most
not~bla that Mr.. Hughes has received.
The Canail&'e arrived here at 0 O'Clock
in TIC evening and the time from then until
p. the hour set Tor the meeting, was an al
mt continuous round or handshakIng for
him. Al hus old friends On the campus
came down ID the New Ithao.. House -
greet hin. The students gathered IN the
street md cheercd themselves hoarse and
the towusfolk crowded into do their share
in welcomiue tie candidate back 10 Ithaca.
The evening rally was preceded 10y a parade
and lots Of REQ fire. The streets were lined
on both sides for several blocks and tho
candidate was kcut busy acknowledging
the greetings. Giant f'recrIckers com
reted with the Cornell veil in the general
racket on the ~strcets. Once in a While the
boom of an exploding cracker could be heard
family. but that Mas only when the Cornell
cheer leader was shifting from n ear
splitting CIort 10 another.
Tho Lyceum Theatre was filed long
before the candidate arrived. 1t seats
LEGO people, but fully 1900 we're Jammed
into the place. Every stairway and d
sill was in use, and finally. wncn the crowd
that was shut out became insistent, the
stage door was opened and the space in
the wings filed. The ground floor Of the
theatre and first balcony were taken up
mostly by townspeople. The students
were in the second balcony banked up clear
10 the ceiling. In the boxes were many
member of the University faculty Presi-
dent Jacob Gould Schurman, whose brother
is a partner in Mr.. Hughes law firm, and
Andrew d. White, former president Of the
university and eX-AmEassador to Germany,
occupied n box.
Dean +. W. HuFcut Of the law DEPART
ment presided and introduced the candi-
date. Mr.. Hughes was greeted with ire
mendous applause. He took as his theme
the judiciary deal in New York county.
declaring that the general conditions there
were such that it was necessary for a candi-
date TO go to a boss with his hat. and some
times money in his hand, and sell himself.
He scored Hearst harder than he has in any
other speech. He said in part:
1T has been a long time in the city of New
York impossible for honorable ambition at
the bar 10 he crowned by promotion TO the
bench. There are honorable men at the
bar, and there is honest work done in pro-
fessional life. We nave found in the city OF
New York a state OF Affairs where a man de-
string 10 obtain judicial ofice has had TO
look. not to the esteem Of his professional
brethren, not 10 hard professional work
intelligently done, not TO the rewards which
should come from a recognition Of pro-
f~essional standing, but he has had to &c to a
boss, frequently with money in his hand, TO
sell himself in order that he might receive
an appointment upon the Supreme Court
bench.
There is nothing more reprehensible in
our political life than the attempt Of bosses
10 control our courts. There is no stand
that any man who desires TO see purity of
political life and Independence Of political
life can take that will do more to secure
that purity and that independence than to
insist upon il that men are put upon the
bench for their learning and their profession
al skill, their honor and their Independent
life and not by the bOunties of those who
assume to control the political 0estlnleS
Of a community.
There ara TO be elected in New York
county ten Supreme Cour Justices this fall,
Eight Justices in addition To the number
that hitherto we have been allowed. 1t was
a matter Of grave concern to all the intelli-
gent citizens of that community. IL was a
matter to which men in all walks of life
have given attention, in the hope that We
might add to our bench men illustrious
at the bar, men of learning and ability, to
doal with the complicated questions that
are sure to come before them, men who
had no hand of a boss upon their shoulder.
It was at such a time as this that, anxious
TO get a nomination for Governor, in the
hope a possible election to that high
oHfoe might make possible a higher aspira-
ton to the Presidency of the United States,
my opponent entered into his arran cement
with Murphy to put upon the bench a certain
number whose nomination should be die
tated by the leader OF Tammany Hall.
Now, then. | don care how strong the
declarations in favor Of honest government;
/ don't care how serious and portentous
the statements in regard to abuses there
are In corporate or political life. | say that
any one who will enter into such ar arrange
ment and touch our Supreme Court cannot
be trusted to administer the affairs Of our
Government.
men honorable at the bar nave been
denOunCeO D0Cduhe Jley nave nau COrpOra-
ions as clients and a part Of the deal has
been to nominate for Office and to put under
the scales Of the Independence League
men who are representing corporations and
trusts and the very enterprises which are
SO vigorously denounced.
Was the opinion of the delegates to a
judicial convention consulted? We're the
axioms Of popular government considered?
Was there any attention paid to the express
sion Of the popular will? On the contrary,
a corporation called the Independence
League, claiming to control the emblem
and TO decide who should go upon the ball
lot under that emblem, on the one hand,
+. and a boss on the other, determined be-
&ween themselves how many should be
allotted 10 one and how many should be al
loted to the other, and the colors of indie
pendence were struck and all that is vile
In connection with the boss government
was revealed as the method of this apostolic
candidacy. There were men who served
NV opponent in his Own crusade-n crusade
for which he In entitled TO credit, and I wish
him to nave all the credit that he is Justly
entitled to-there were men who had served
him Loyalty and faithfully in his own crusade
against the evils, against ~monopolies,
against grasping control on the part Of
public service corporations, and those men
were turned down-or, that man. 7 should
say, waI turned down, one of tho most
faithful public spirited lawyers in New
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