The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-21
Close Friend of New York
Governor Practically
Puts Him In the Field
IS UP TO THE PEOPLE
To Say Whether They Want the
Present Governor for Republi.
can Candidate for Presidency.

dress at Cooper Union tonight Presi-
dent Schurman of Cornell university
discussed Governor Hughes as presi-
Dental possibility, and declared that,
while Mr.. Hughes would not lift a
finger to secure the nomination" If
"the people summon him to service
he would undoubtedly respond with
loyal devotion to their call" 1t was
regarded as the formal launching of
the movement to secure the Republic
can nomination for Hughes.
President Schurman's topic was "A
Day of Reform, and after describing
the originating causes of the present
movement of reform, the objects 1t
had hitherto gained and the need for
further reform, especially of economy
in public expenditures, he referred
to the part that had been taken in the
movement by Governor Hughes as
follows:
"Out of the movement of reform
there has emerged upon the political
stage one commanding figure. We
have made him governor of New
York, but his name and fame have
now gone out to the uttermost parts
of the United States The investiga-
ton conducted by Charles h. Hughes
into the affairs of the big insurance
companies gave to the movement of
reform an irresistible impulse, for it
demonstrated by the logic of indis-
putable fact the havoc which unprin-
cipled greed and gambling were max
ing of funds which had been conse-
Grated by the highest obligations to
the protection of the fatherless and
of the widow.
but Mr.. Hughes not only laid
bare the hideous disease from which
the world of big affairs was suffer-
ing; he prescribed remedies for its
cure and preventatives for its recur-
renee. In the exercise of rare con-
structive craftsmanship he drafted a
bill for enactment by the legislature
which placed the vast insurance bus
mess of the states and indeed of the
United States on the firm foundations
of honor and integrity-and that
without any impairment, but with OBJ
vious augmentation of its vitality and
efficiency.
'And then this penetrating legal
investigation his master of the figures
and principles of finance, this same
constructive reformer, resumed the
he continued to differ from other en-
inent lawyers by his refusal to take
retainers from corporations or in any
other way to barter away his inde-
pendence or freedom of action. His
name was mentioned everywhere for
the governorship. But in silent dig
nifty he diligently attended to the
business of his profession.
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through the expression of popular
sentiment that his party could win
at the polls only If he ran for gov
ernor, he still refused to dicker with
politicians or to hold intercourse
with any boss, but calmly awaited a
mandate from the people and from
the people alone. The politicians and
bosses did not want him, for he was
not the type of man to work for them
or to further their ambitions of local
suzerainty. But they sorrowfully
recognized that no one else could get
the vote of the people. And the peo-
pie paid their faithful servant the
compliment of electing him alone on
his party's ticket
After paying a glowing tribute to
| Governor Hughes devotion to his
labors at Albany, President Schur-
man continued:
"There is much talk today about
making Governor Hughes the next
president of the United States. But
| the governor is too busy and too
deeply engrossed in the duties of his
office to speak or think of anything
else Some things, however, are per-
fectIy clear. Governor Hughes will
not lift a finger to secure the nomina-
ton. And his nice sense of what Is
due to the state of New York from
the officials he has appointed has led
him to forbid them making any ef-
fort to advance his own political for
tunes.
"Nor would man like Governor
Hughes want a nomination at the
hand of the bosses. on the other
hand. if the people summon him to
service he would undoubtedly re-
spond with loyal devotion to their
call If the people want him 1of
higher service it is for them TO take
the initiative and extend the call. lie
would not accept an invitation from
the bosses, and the call of the people
would make the intervention of the
bosses unnecessary.
"Governor Hughes confidence in
the people and his devotion to the
people's interests are unbounded; he
will spend and be spent for them
but he will not serve or recognize
any other political master. His po'
litical future is in the hands of the
neople. Let the public say what II
wants.