New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-16
CHEER DIRECT PRIMARIES
With voicesand Appetites Young
Republicans Show Strength.
ADDRESS BY HOTCHklSS
Brooklyn Dollar Diners Stirred
as He Says Party Must Stand
Behind Hughes.


York State had only all been present at the
dinner of the Young Republican Club, In
Brooklyn. last night to imbibe some of the
enthusiasm for direct primaries SO gener-
ousIy evinced there, Such was the burden
of the sigh which escaped from host or
otherwise contented diners, who listened to
and appIauded vociferously the speeches OF
William H. Hotchkiss. Superintendent of
Insurance; Assemblyman George Green,
one of the authors of the Hinman-Green
bill; ex-Judge William II. Wadhams and
Controller Prendergast. More than three
hundred forsook a midsummer night S
dream to support. by eating a dollar meal
at the Imperial, the principle which is to
be thrashed out at the extra session of the
Legislature, beginning June 20.
On the vote for direct primaries at this
extra session, said the speakers. rested the
immediate future of the Republican party
in this state
Say what you will of our primary ma
chiRery," said Superintendent Hotehkiss-
that 1t is not up to date 0he nationwide
sweep of a movement for better conditions
proves this or that Il is the last strong
hold of privilege-the people of New York
demand a change. With Republican voters
a real primary ballot in their hands is less
dangerous. even to present leadership, than
a sense of wrong in their heads
Must Stand Behind Hughes.
MIR. Hotchkiss insisted that the Republi-
can party now stood before the people sole
ly on the record of the Hughes administra-
ton This he contended, was the best ever
But they demanded proof. he said, that
what has happened is not, as some say.
,,,+o tIn .,Iv,
in government
he continued: :" Did you really mean 1t or
have yeu done we'll these four years be-
cause the Governor made you do So?
We have high authority fer the
statement thaa Hughes is the greatest
asset of the Republican party. New York
ers of all classes believe in him as they
have believed in few men: their loyalty to
aim is like that of their forebears to Clay
and Webster and Lincoln. Shall the Re
publican party now cast aside this asset?
He cannot be the party's candid ate-weuld
that he could! But those who think that
his name-what he has done for New York
will no longer point to victory are blind
and will not see that it is not Hughes, but
what Hughes stands for, that makes our
best asset.
Direct voting in New York State is as
certain IS was manhood suffrage one hun
dred years ago. . Shall We not hope
nay, believe-that the representatives of the
Republican party, in extraordinary 5ession
assembled. will respond to the peoples
wish? So doing. theirs will be the credit
for stirring victory this fall and a con-
tinuance in power in state and nation of
that great party in whose principles we be-
lieve and whose history is, these fifty years,
the history of the American people"
No Wireless from Roosevelt.
'Let George do it," shouted some one. as
Assemblyman Greene arose. The speaker
by saying: George has been do
ing his best trying to do 1t, and hopes to
succeed in the extra session.. Mr.. Wadhams
opined that the organization leaders were
allowing their thoughts to wander far out
to sea- in the hope that ex-President
Roosevelt. on his return, would oppose the
direct nominations movement
Although / have received no wireless
message from him. said Ir. Wadhams, Il
know that Mr.. Roosevelt must be and is In
sympathy with the movement and will give
to the people the greatest weapon with
which 10 smash the combination between
special privilege and the boss
Controller Prendergast would not only
smash the power of the boss through di-
rect nominations, but would annihilate the
Committee on Rules of the Legislature and
strike at the power of the few to
dictate legislation. He pleaded for state
wide enrolment saying there was no Ne
cessity for different method of enrolment
in one section OF the state from that which
obtains in any other section.
Darwin r. James, president OF the club,
presided POSTMASTER.