The sun., 1908-05-09
| COY. .HUGHESS TOUR
GREETED WITH RAIN AND GEN.
FR4L APATHY AT HOLLEY.
He speaks Also at Albion, Medina, Middle.
port and LOckpOrt-ROuslnG Meotins
at the Last Named Place-The Result
Of Ills Campaign Dimcult 10 Predict


Of Ills Campaign Dlmcult 10 Predict
LocKPoRr n. Y. May s.-Gov. Hughes
brought to close this evening at Lockport
the first day Of his two days campaign.
which out here is called whrlwlnd CAM
pagn. in the interest Of the candidacy OF
William C. Wallace for the Senatorahlp OF
the Forty seventh district, The Governors
day was certainly strenuous one In behalf
Of his favorite anu-gambling measureA
In his speeches he is urging the counties
OF Niagara and Orleans to elect Wallace
as an evidence that the people OF this corner
Of the State agree with the Governor that
continuance Of betting at the raoetracks
is disgrace to the State so long as the Con-
stitution forbids gambling, The Governor
to-day said that he had nothing against
sport. but that it was a violation Of the
Constitution under the guise ofspOrt which
could not be tolerated He alsa.ooutrasted
one who sat 20 the executive chamber and
plotted aud ;raded with one VINO took the
open course he is taking and strikes Vhers
he sees something wrong TO be hlt.
To how great an extent the Governors
speeches across Orleans cVmty and into
Niagara county to-day a1d thoso hC will
make in Niagara county Tomorrow may b
influential with the voters OF TINS Senate
| district il will remain for the polling next
Tuesday TO show The superficial iAdl-
cations to-day we're more batting than the
customary ante-election demonstrations
Without exception the audiences assem-.
| bled to listen to Gov. Hughes to-day were
manifestly apathetic at the beginning.
Before the Governors arrival at hall or
railway station or on his appearances
from his special train or on a theatre plat
form there was the same lack Of anything
| resembling enthusiasm. At no station did
| even a respectable handful Of people greet
| the Governors train and at several where
| bands had been provided the bands locked
lonesome as they escorted him to the meet
|
opera house. The spsthetic demeanor Of
the people who made up the audiences in
| the halls was always continued for some
time after the Governor began niv addresses.
According to the gossip among those
posing as local leaders, political apathy
overspreads the whole senate district 80
| far as regards this election and moral
apathy so far as concerns the issue Gov.
Hughes has raised. There is a small race
track in the district where the natives
occasionally see horseraoing Of one sort or
another, and when they want to. one Of
them said, while others winked, they bet
among themselves, and they are far away
from the tracks where the great betting
! is done.
| For the first time in the memory Of man.
as one pro-Hughes man said, the Repub-
| Hcans-that Is, those Of them who are with
| the Governor-are praying for bad weather
on election day, The old gag that bad
weather brought out Democrats while
good weather meant a fine Republican
vote is reversed. II Tuesday be fine
in these ATTITUDES it is generally ad-
| mtted that the chances Of Hughes-Wal-
lace victory are slim. for the belief is that
the farmers will remain on their lands
at work and let politics 60 hang. On the
other hand should the weather be bad for
agricultural work all the truly vrtuous
who rant to see Gov. Hughes win will1ome
TO the polls and help him by trying to elect
Wallace.
At best however, not much over half or
two.thirds Of the normal vote is looked for
by the political wiseaores.
Through what has been freely denounced
as deplorable mismanagement, not TO speak
| Of bad taste the Governor was dragged out
Of bed early this morning, Notwithstanding
| his arduous evening at Rochester yesterday.
and yanked away from Rochester at 8
o'clock this morning though he had q
specal train. and was landed in a pour
down at Holley in Orleans county, at $40
| for meeting that was scheduled TO open at
| 1890. The village band had not even
reached the station, but came hurryinR
thitherward in struggling form and had
| to turn back and beat drums in a sort OF
! walking salute as the Governor In an auto
mobile was whisked past them 70 a hotel
where he had TO put In the intervening
time receiving such townsmen as came
along. The small Holley Opera House was
jammed when the meeting began.
Never in their history said Chairman
| Buell. have the citizens Of Holley had the
pleasure Of welcoming 80 distinguished a
parsonage as the Governor Of New York.
| and il was Mr.. Buell., Democrat, who at
the end Of the meeting. after the audience
| had awakened, exclaimed, Three cheers
for Gov. Hughes, the grandest Governor
| New York has ever hadl' Bub 1t took Gov.
Hughes some time TO get tho Holleyites
with him.
Il am here" he said. as the Governor
| Of the State to talk directly to my con-
stituents. No one can deny me that right.
| You may talk as you please about our
system Of government. II all depends
upon the people. and am here TO ask you
for your support in an effort 10 support
the Constitution against tricky law, have
no part in factional differences, They have
no place in an issue like this, Nor am
here as a partisan. / am partisan, but
this question is the great one Of obedience
TO the Constitution. II is a question on
which any honest man finds II difficult 10
make an argument in opposition. We
can narrow the scope Of preventable temp
tations, we can protect our youth. we can
protect the men OF the State, we can
protect the homes Of the State, and 20 We
stand to-day upon a moral platform. The