The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-05-30
Governor Hughes on Gambling.

Governor Hughes of New York is making
great campaign in his state for the passage of a
race-track anti ti-gambling bill He has called an ex-
ira session of the legislature consider this matter
and the legislature is in session at Carnegie
Hail. week ago. he commenced a speech by de-
claring, 81 would rather be before the people in an
effort to bring to pass the abolition of an niquty
of this sort and witness the demonstration of desire
to maintain honest representative government than
to hold any office in the gift of the people" The
people are struggling for better civic conditions.
They striving for higher IDEALS and when they
find leader who will courageously advocate better
conditions they gladly follow him. The people
often misled by designing who fool them into
believing that the worse is the better cause They
mslead them by misrepresenting the advocates of re-
FORMS None but the gamblers in New York can be
benefited by pool selling at the tracks The lives
of many men are destroyed through this perncious
form of vice.
The argument is all on the side of Governor
Hughes and he will win his contention because he is
courageousy and determinedy making the fight
In one of his great speeches in New York, Cover
nor Hughes quoted speech from Daniel Webster,
which is applicable now, when it delivered
The speech of the immortal Webster called attention
in his forcefu language the great fact, that after
all leaders can do nothing unless the people sustain
them in their efforts to better conditions.
The following is the quotation from Webster made
use of by Governor Hughes:
Nothing will ruin the country if the people them
selves will undertake its safety and nothing can save
it if they leave that safety IN any hand but their
Would to God, sir, could draw around me all
these twelve millions of people; would to God that
could speak audbly to every Independent elector
in the whole land. | would not say to them valnly
o+,1h hmm
quire the adoption of any measure recommended by
me, but would say to them with the s1ncerest con-
vction that animated mans heart that their
safety and happiness do require their own prompt
and patriotic attention to the public concerns, their
own honest devotion to the welfare of the state.
would say them that neither this measure nor any,
measure can be adopted except by the cogent and
persistng action of popular opinion.
[ would say that the violation of law cannot be
redressed but by manifestations not to be mistaken,
of public sentiment I would say to them that the
constitution and the laws their own rights and their
own happiness, all depend themselves, and II
they esteem these of any value, if they were not
bought too dearly by the blood of their fathers, if
they be inheritance fit to be Transmitted to their
posterty, I would beseech them, [ would beseech
them to to their salvation.
After Governor Hughes had concluded his address
member of the constitutional convention of 1884,
in New York state made address in which he
used this language:
Everthing that is unscrupuous and beneath honor,
everything that is despised in politics by whatever
party has been observed in attempt to defeat the
con stitution. There is party division. They
altogether for the gamblers.
yield to no one in respect to loyalty to party.
Every ought to be member of party Par
les discuss topics and debate questions If the
)erS were only sincere 1t would be all right. Many
DIN parties for what they can get out of them.
Mere going to impress it upon some people in this
tate that they don't dare deliver senator. We
must have men elected by the people accountable to