New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-03
HUGHES HONOREDGUEST
NEW YORK DAY AT FAIR.
T1centy Thousand Greet Governor at
SeattIe-He Speaks on Lac.
IBy Telegraph TO The Tribune.l

Seattle Aug . = Fully twenty thousand per-
sons gathered at the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Expo
sition grounds, where New York Day was cele-
brated to-day. to receive Governor Charles T.
Hughes, the demonstration being of the most
enthusiastic in the West. At the audi
forum. where the New York Executive addressed
the people of the Northwest in the afternoon, the
seating capacity of twenty-eight hundred filled
an hour before the Governor was scheduled to APP
pear. II is estimated that than ten thousand
turned away from the auditorium after the
building had been packed TO its fullest capacity.
At the luncheon in the New York Building at
O'Clock this afternoon Governor Hughes sat Oppo-
site Democratic possibility for the Presidential
nomination. Governor John A. Johnson of Mime
sofa.
After President J. T. Chilbers had delivered an
address Of welcome to the Governor and his party
Governor Hughes responded. saying in part:
Sometimes hear telling that we do
not have very much respect for law in this coun-
try as compared with some other countries II
the law must be based upon those sentiments
which win common appreciation because of their
Of socialism here. The reason is that the average
American boy to-day. the same as fifty years
make of himself and he wants the reward honesty
There is no chance for demagOgy on any large
scale either. because of the growing appreciation
cess of democracy. We are TO be ruled by in
extraordinary bulwarks OF conserH atlsln IN tnls
country i'm our constitutional provisions but our
security i Hol III lAS NoilStituti''
difficult 10 change; our security is in the edu-
Gated intelligence Of the average man and his
appreciation of what is due to his neighbor
Every locality must have something in which II
is interested, and il is right and proper that IL
should struggle for that interest, but after ALL the
prosperity of the country a whole Is more
important than any particular interest, and the
general sentiment of people is that. not only
united stand but by virtue of our union We
prosper.
We have diversities of laws, and there is
of the great projects of the future. There was
opened up by the late President of the United
States d wide avenue of opportunity when he
year ago. We have needed 20 come together
as the representatives of the people of the respec
tive commemorative and to talk over. not what
shall be done but what be best done locally so
that may realize two bonds of unity,
through federal relationship and another through
state harmony, made possible by our conception
of our common interest and by increases in the
Facilities or current exchanges.
Governor johnson also called upon for
toast, and he responded in address which
Ceived hearty applause.
At the official dinner to the Governor and his
party. rendered by the exposition authorities at
the New York Building in the evening. over FIVE
hundred Of the leading persons in this state were
present. Governor NJ. r. Hay of Washington.
Mayor Miller of Seattle, President J. +. ChiIberE
of the exposition. Ex-Governor John McGraw and
many other notable persons in social and political
life on the Pacific Coast delivered toasts.
The entire population of Seattle were New York
badges. and the city was decorated with banners
and steamers of welcome