New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-10
D. US REBUKE CASSIDY
DOWN HUGHES CRITICISM.
Senator at Club Dinner Implies
RebMke of Governor.

remarks that, while they were not lniTnlcal 20
Governor Hughes. displeased the diners who
felt that in them there was yelled rap at the
reformer OF whom the Governor is a type. Cas-
sidy got thoroughly "booed" but finished his
speech, though the "Rah. rahs' and the cries OF
Hughes! Hughes!" drowned out most OF It,
Il am sorry the Governor has gone" began
Cassidy, because l about to say some
things that perhaps now may seem indicate
not said in his presence.
I'VE need men," he continued who will stand
up for property rights when those rights are
assailed improperly. We need these men Just
much We do those to stand up for labor
| and personal rights when they are attacked
wrongly.
Il have stood in the Senate of the Empire
State and attacked the man to whom you have
paid Difference and honor here Tonight because
believe he is big enough and broad enough to
believe that every other man is not an echo of
himself "a faint applause and then cry
"Hughes"O
Il believe that he feels" he continued. that
his every act and word ought to be just as
ready to stand investigation those Of any one
else. l believe man should be SO idealized as
10 supersede honest investigation. applause
suspicously long. and then or two ID. L."
cries and Hughes cheer or twO) Every word
that falls from the lips Of him whom you honor
tonight deserves to fall into the arena of honest
debate. OaughterD
~ want no to be echo Of myself,
said the Senator and his words reused his hear
ers to chuckle. Il invite the fullest and freest
investigation"
The clapping and cheering and applauding
grew loud this point that # was possible
only TO catch an occasional word or two of each
! of the speakers sentences. He continued:
when the people forget that some rights are
~ them We do
No words that emanate from these lips QaUgh-
teri shall be infallible'
Then it the real Hughes demonstration
| began There were cries Of Hughes: Hughes!
Hughes from every part OF the room. When
the noise let up for a moment the speaker
started IN again. But the noise began as soon
as he continued Cassidy got in reference 70
the Spanish, and then ended By saying that he
believed that. under the leadership OF Theo-
| dore Roosevelt and Governor Hughes, the Re
| publican party would win battles not yet won"
The sentiment caused some applause. and in
the midst OF II the Senator sat down BY the
time Senator Cassidy had finished the room
was more than half emptied Of tho diners
Four hundred and seventy-fve members Of
the fraternity, representing the various chap
ters of the society, were present. II was
genuine od-fasnioned dinner Of college men,
with college songs. college cries and college en-
! thusiasm that would have done credit 10 under
graduate days.
AT no dinner this winter has Governor Hughes
received a heartier and more enthusiastic greet
| ing. Cheer after cheer was raised for him at
| every possible opportunity. Not only he
| acclaimed as a square deal Governor" the
| straight line Governor the 'best Governor
New York State had" but also the
| next President OF the United States"
William II. Van Steenbergh, Rutgers -. pre-
| sided The Rev. DR.. Josiah Strong Adelbert, 60.
/ gave the Invocation. In addition to Governor
! Hughes the speakers were Professor jeremiah
! ". jerks. Of Cornell to the toast "Trusts-Fra-
| ternal and Otherwise President ". II. T.
Faunoe, OF Brown University. on Delta Up
silon'; the Rev. DR.. Nehemiah Boynton Amherst.
70 on Responsibilities Of Scholarship" and
| Senator oven Cassidy Colgate. 81. on our
! Lawyers in Politics"
| The Governor came DOWN from Albany late in
! the afternoon, dressed on the train and went
direct to Delmonico's from the Grand Central
| station. There brief reception at :. 80
! o'clock. before the dinner began
Among those NJ the speakers table not on the
toast list We're; Gerald Y. White. Of the Cana
dian Parliament; Judge John L, Comet, OF New
Jersey; Charles L. Eidlitz, Ex-Governor Foster
N. Voorhees, Of New Jersey, Professor w. J.
| Chamberlain. of Rutgers; the Rev. Dr. D. f
| Triple of Drew Theological Seminary; County
! Judge w. e. Mills OF Fulton County
Letters were received from Congressman Sc
reno Z. Payne Governor Fletcher d. Proctor Of
| Vermont, and T. S. Luther of Trinity. and Pro-
fessor Burdick. Of Columbia.
| Congressman Malby and Assemblyman
Merritt, although Delta Upsons were pres
cnt guests of tho Union Chapter. Colonel
Treadwell, military secretary os Governor
Hughes. was also a guest.
| Thirty FIVE Of the thirty-seven chapters OF the
/ fraternity We're represented. and there
members present from Maine TO California Col
! lege and fraternity flags decorated the big ball
room.
Mr.. Van Steenbergh introduced the guest OF
| the evening 'jurist investigator. champion
of the common people. statesman, honOred son
Of Delta Epsilon, Governor Hughes"
Three cheers for the Square Deal Gov
ernor." rang through the room from nearly Ave
hundred lusty threats. Again and again the
cheer was raised.
Il do not come to you as the Governor of
the state" said Governor Hughes. Il come to
! YOU member Of the Delta Epsilon frater-
| nifty. I have observations to make about
politics political conditions. Il not here
To exhort you ask for your support to refer
TO anything that may be deemed to have any
| political significance. l am here to take you
| by the hand In the common bond of Delta Up
slon. II the memories OF Delta Epsilon
taken out Of my life there would be few things
Of value in memory that would remain"
The Governor then told of how he came 10
join the fraternity at Colgate University. and
| spoke of the men in the chapter then who have
| since become we'll known. From there he
| tered the sophomore class in Brown, where
! President Faunce of Brown then in the
junior delegation of the Brown chapter. Il
didn't know at that time that he was to be-