The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-19
BIG HUGHES MEETING IN TROY.
M ATTACKS HEARST'S POLITE
CAL INSTNCERTTY.

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Tro7. Oct. Is.-Charles E. Hughes finished
. DAYS tour Of the uppe Hudson region
here tonight with a speech before an
enthusiastic audience Of 2,2OO people. with
former Governor Frank S. Black presiding
and with Mr.. Hughes in fine Hettle for
speaking. The Troy crowd had a com-
bIna'lon which worked out one Of the moet
mcoessful mass meetings that the candi-
date has vet attended In the upstate
districts. The crowd which was admitted
10 Rand's Opera House did not begin to
include all the Troy folks who wanted to
hear Mr.. Hughes. Fully 1000 people stood
in the streets in front Of the opera house
and fought 10 get near the doors. II was
all that the candidate and the other speakers
could do to gain admission at the stage
sptranoe and it took a small squad OF
policemen 10 oper mp a lane. and when
NJ Hughes got TO the platform his clothes
were badly mussed.
Mr. Hughes confined his attack TO what
he calls Hearst's political insinoerity.
Tonight he knocked the prop from under
the attempt which Hearst has been making
10 assume all the credit for the recent
decision {. the Court of Appeals regarding
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that the decision which the Court Of Ap-
pesls handed down was based on the deci-
sion rendered by Judge Lacomb in the
United States Circuit Court and hich was
obtained Trough Mr.. Hughes's efforts in
arguing the case in cooperation with
Attorney-General Mayer.
Mr.. Hughes also took Mr.. Hearst to task
for stating in one Of his newspapers that the
decision Of the Court Of Appeals finally
affirmed the right Of the Legislature to fx
the price OF gas in Greater New York at
50 cents. as though the Hearst suits had
brought that about. Mr.. Hughes declared
that the question was not finally determined,
that il would be decided ultimately in the
United States Courts. He declared with
emphasis that brought cheers of approval
from the crowd that Hearst in making
those statements was thinking more Of gain
ing votes than he was of telling the truth.
The Troy audience was composed almost
entirely Of men. the most of them laboring
men. They cheered the candidate roundly
when he appeared on the platform and con
tinued to warm up more the longer Mr..
Hughes spoke They followed him in
tently through his entire argument of the
gas problem in New York city and ended
by giving him a rousing sendoh when he
applied the Hearst statements as illustrative
Of his opponents insincerity.
no Hearst for us; we have been fooled
long enough" shouted a strong lunged
laborer in one of the front rows of the
theatre, and the sentiment was approved
BY a burst of applause.
Ex-Gov. Black in introducing Mr.. Hughes
said:
Il have made prophecies occasionally;
nome have been fulfilled, and some have
not, but I am willing to enter n more to-
night, and that il that the man we send to
Albany on January 1, whatever he may
prove to be, will not be undersized. He
has been tested in various capacities OF
prominence and power in the State and in
every one Of those positions he has not only
made good, butrmore than good
Mr.. Hughes began his talk about the
Hearst gas statements by rizlng
them AZ loose talk, false talk He con-
tinued
aWhv does such a statement appear in
the columns Of the AmericGn? Because my
opponent is not satisfied with the credit 10
which he il justly entitled in connection will
the eighty-Cent gas fight, but wants credit
to which he Is not justly entitled. IL would
he inferred from this statement, and any
reader Of il would be entitled to draw the
inference, l think il is the only permissible
inference, that the eighty-cent gas fight
had been won in the Court of Appeals and
eighty-cent gas had been established finally
by law, and that my opponent had estab-
lished il. Now that is not the fact at all
Mr.. Hughes described in detail the steps
that had been taken, ending with the
Lacombe decision, which permitted the gas
company to charge 81 a thousand, but COM
PEELED it 20 deposit the extra 20 cents
pending the litigation on the constitu-
tionality of the law. Then he went on:
Just as soon az Judge Lacombe had
made that order, or While the matter was
pending before him. the New York American
said to consumers. Come along, now, you
can get the 80 cent rate and we will go into
court and We will protect your rights for
you if you let us handle your cases. and
We will zee that you pay so cents'-Wh lch
was good. / am glad they did II. And
when a mans meter was about to be taken
out he would so TO a State court Judge
and get him to stop il. But the basis OF
that action of the State Judge was the
action Of the Federal Judge in the pro-
Ceeding TO which / have referred.
Now, when the State Judge said, We
will not allow your meter TO be taken out
II you will give security you can pay 80
cents until thism matter IL finally settled, the
company took an appeal and the other day
II got to the Court of Appeals. How did
the Court of Appeals decide that the ~
cent gas rate was right? DID II finally
affirm the right of the Legislature, as this
editorial did, to pass an 80 cent gas blllE
Nothing of the kind. And no one knows
that better thai my opponent and his at
iorneys. TIT Court merely said that the
door was not shut upon the man who wanted
10 go TO a New York court and keep his
meter in while this. matter was pending
decision, and they left the matter for ulti-
mate decision 10 the United States court.
After explaining hat the ground OF the
Court Of Appeals decision was the decision
Of the Federal, Judge in the action which
he had argued for the State, Mr.. Hughes
exclaimed
Now, why should my opponent think ne
ran fool the PEOPLE Of New York, as though
there was no day Of reckoning, into believ-
ing that he had finally won the 80 cent
gas fight, instead Of being satisfied with the
credit to which he was entitled? 1t was
because he thought more OF making votes
than Of stating the truth" tApplanse.l
Job Hedges also spoke at the Troy meet
ing. A reception at the Rensselaer, Hotel
preceded the rally. Mr.. Hughes shook
bands with more than 400 people in an hour
or so.
Mr.. Hughes and his campaign party
left the Grand Central station at 7H
o'clock in a special car attached to the
Adirondack and Montreal express. Al
Albany the Hughes car was switched TO the
Delaware and HUdson Railroad and made