Connecticut western news., 1907-01-03
HUGHES' ADDRESS, New York's New Governor De- flyers Inaugural on Assum-
 ing Office. ...
PROMISES TO KEEP FAITH.

People Have Bound Him to Earnest
 and Honest Endeavor and He Will
 Discharge Obligation, He Declares.
 Higgins In Albany For Ceremony
 Despite His Illness.
 Albany, N. Y., Jan. 2.-Charles Evans Hughes of New York city in beginning his term of office as governor of the state of New York with his inaugural address gave warning to bosses that people and by the people. He said in part:
 "I assume the office of governor without other ambition than to serve the people of the state. I have not cov- eted it's powers, nor do permit myself to shrink from its responsibilities. You have bound me to earnest and honest endeavor in the interest of all the peo- pie according to the best of my ability, and that obligation, with the help of God, shall discharge.
 ''We have reason to congratulate our selves that coincident with our pros perity there is an emphatic assertion of popular rights and keen resentment of public wrongs. There is no panacea in executive or legislative action for all the ills of society which spring from the frailties and defects of the human nature of it's members. But this fur nishes no excuse for complacent inac- tivity and no reason for the toleration of wrongs made possible by defective or inadequate legislation or by admin istrative partiality or ineff1ciency.
 Safety of Government Involved.
 'The security of our government, de- spite its constitutional guarantees, Is found in the intelligence and public spirit of its citizens and in it's ability to call to the work of administration men of single minded devotion to the public interests, who make unselfish service to the state point of knightly honor.
 'If in administration we make the advantage, if in executing the laws we deal impartially, if in making the laws there is fair and intelligent action with reference to each exigency, we shall disarm reckless and selfish agitators and take from the enemies of our peace their vantage ground of attack"
 The retiring governor, Frank w. Higgins, who, in spite of threatening condition of health, came the length of the state for the purpose, formally sur rendered the reins of governor to his successor and left for his home at Clean a private citizen for the first time since 1893, when he was first elected senator.
 Legislative Caucus.
 There were two interesting develop ments in the legislative caucus. John c. Marriott of Richmond, supported for the position of stenographer of the sen- ate by Congressman Parsons, chair man of the New York county Repub- lican committee, was victorious over George Shotwell, who was understood to. be favored by Republican State Chairman Woodruff.
 Much interest was also evoked by the selection of Senator Patrick H. McCar- ren of Brooklyn as chairman of the Democratic caucus committee in the senate, giving him a commanding po- sition in his party in that body.
 In the assembly Democratic caucu' Assemblyman James Oliver of New York was made the candidate for speaker, which carries with 1t the minority leadership long held by AS. semblyman George M. Palmer of Scho. harie, who failed of renomination last year.