New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-03
MR.. HUGHES CHEERED
Continued from fisst psge

The campaign in opposition has been a re-
markable one II started with generaAtieS'
rapidly descended into puerities, and now ap
pears 70 have an attack OF desperation. AT th0
outset desired to know. exactly what ths opp
sition meant and sought to bring II 10 d
point do not mind debate. l oeheve IN pun
lie controversies That is the whoiesoHle AiIet
lean way of securing a good conoucl OF IL
fairs and in insisting upon the accountao pity
of public officers. But we want tnlnss 81 oiei
forward-stragh and cano1o II IIial
aspres to be Governor or TINS state ne hiN
stand for something
I have not noticed the insinuations with re
! gard to myself and the various personal CRU
cisn7s thef have been launched forth in this
campaign for the reason that having eelN0
you TO the best of my ability for Two years
was willing to leave TO you without any sus
gestion upon my part the decision OF tnose llla'-
/ tiers. 49,. =. .ha
close received the other day c1rcuisl IN
! this: How to vote for Taft and Chanler. ana
I find somebody is paying for advertisements ems
along that line THE kind Of split ticket ChoI
would go with a split conscience"
The committees regularly organized OF our
! political parties. understand dlsoWn inns MS. ~
( tempt Whose money is paying for TINS sort OF
thing? Whosoever it may be. 1t Is not tne
money of those who willing to stano N Ine
not the money of those who are willing TO st an1
up and be counted before a just American
public
believe in the American people voting as
they please, straight or split, any way, but
I believe in those who counsel them coming IoI
I ward frankly and submitting their purposes anu
! objects to intelligent consideration Enorts OF
| this sort to stab in the dark count Tor nothlng
This morning when I came into the city
| found in OF the morning papers state
| ment that my father yesterday had asked all
! Christians to vote for me. and had ADVISED ms
! fellow citizens to cut the Republican ticket 1t
was an absolute lie. There was not word OF
| truth in it from beginning to end. 1t was maze
| up out of whole cloth, and simply SHOWS, as
said few moments ago, the desperation OF the
opposition in the closing moments of the cam
/ paign 1t is a tribute to what we stand for
| that they have got to resort to methods OF
| that
And now to-day I found the browning act Of
! this political cause Of infany. Here they repre-
| sent me in various parts of the city as digging
| up graves as endeavortng to disturb and desc
! crate our cemeteries. At the last moment they
| are trying to turn large body of people against
me upon an utterly baseless statement and by
| the circulation of malicious caricatures of this
description.
They would represent me to our Hebrew fell
low citizens as being guilty Of the dissertation
of their graveyards and as being guilty Of an
attempt to dishonor what they hold most pre-,
| cious. There is not word of truth in 1t, and
| they know it.
| I signed bill providing for a road over on the
| other side Of the East River. 1t simply gives
to the local authorities of this city the power to
open road 1t does not provide for the desc
Grafton of any cemetery or the disturbance OF
any grave; the contrary, Il provides for a
means to prevent that. It is simply for the
purpose Of securing road in the discretion OF
I would not sign a bill for the dissertation Of
graves. and my understanding was when l
signed II, and Is now, that not a single grave
! will be disturbed by this road
STANDING ON HIS RECORD.
What want to call to your attention is this
| I am willing to stand before my fellow citizens
| with regard to any act that l have done, or
statement that have made I may have made
mistakes. I do not profess-the Lord Knows
to be infalible, but do profess to Try to do
right and TO be fair and square to my fellow
citizens.
have not the slightest sympathy with big
otry. They ere representing me in one section
like Of some Of our fellow citizens Some Of my
warrnest friends are among those whom they
thus try to stir up against me If there is any
thing In the world that thoroughly despise as
un-American and unworthy Of any citizen OF
this great Republic. it is feeling of hostility or
prejudice against any portion of our people, on
the score Of race or creed or philosophy.
We have had really glorious time in this
campaign. 1t was pleasure TO go through the
direct contact with our people in New York
State. haven't any doubt, my fellow citizens
say in conclusion this that these meetings of the
last three weeks have filed me with a more
, intense desire to do what I in the service
Of the people of this state.
IF I am elected Governor I shall &C into office
not only with the added experience of two years
past and the lessons that have been learned
but with a renewal of the pledge that made r.
you before. and which make again. that I will
best of my ability shall be Governor OF all the
people of the state
The next meeting was at Bohemian Hall. In
East 73d street. There also was big throng
of Bohemians and Germans who shouted and
cheered and cheered again. Ex-senator Elsbers
and Carl Hauser had talked before the Governor
got there and the audience keen to hear
him
I've been trying to do the square thing by the
people of the state" began the Governor.
yes and you've been doing II all right" re-
sponded a Hughes adnirer with a big voice
who set the meeting into gale OF cheers for g
moment. Again, when the Governor declared
that after he had managed 10 get his opponent
20 a point in the campaign, the Democrats
/ position seemed to be pretty close to in
dorsement of the last two years" shouts OF
Good for you" You're the man for us! rams
through the hall.
The Governor went in detail into the per
sonal liberty campaign proposition, and the
way his audience took 1t showed that there was
no general misunderstanding Of his position in
that section Of the city
Following that meeting came two open air
speeches the first at 22d street and Eighth
avenue. to nearly one thousand persons, while
others half way down the block hung our OF
windows and thronged doorsteps. At this place
the Governor gave considerable attention 20 the
record made by tire State Department OF Labor
IN The last two vears-the enactment of the
child labor law the law for mercantile tnspec-
tion and the improved facilities for enforcing
the labor laws The second meeting was at
18Th street and Eighth avenue, where lie talked
along the same lines to from one thousand To
fifteen hundred persons
AT CLINTON HALL
r.,-,,. the West Side the Governor plunged
down into the lower East Side, speaking next at
clinton Hall. That assembly place was SO
5arnr,ed that the Governor had considerable diff
AcuItv IN getting to the stage. When once he