New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-31
HEDGES IN CONFESSION
SAYS HE IS EMBOSSED
Candidate, Making Declaration
of Faith, Asserts He Is "Free,
Mentally and Morally"
AUBURN WARM TO PLEA
All Elements Applaud His APP
peal for a Change at Albany
Would Put No Politics
Into National Guard.

IFrOm stan Correspondent OF Inc lflbune.J
Auburn, N. Y, Oct 3O-Iob f. Hedges.
Republican candidate for Governor, trav-
eiled to-day through Ontario, Seneca and
Cayuga counties, telling voters that II
they 'liked the kind OF state government
they have had for the last two years they
must not vote for him, but If they want
ed anything better they must vote for
him, for the Republican party this year
is the only agency through which better
memt can come. He ended the day with
a big meeting here. at which he adj
dressed an unusually sympathetic audi
enCe. g.. ...
1t needed no great amount Of argument
TO persuade his hearers here that a
change was desirable, for the Republic
cans and Bull Moose already knew It.
The Democrats are mostly followers Of
Thomas Mott Osborne, who quit Governor
DIX after he found Murphy, Of Tammany
was able to control the executive. So all
elements are alive to the dangers of Tam
many-contTolled government-so much
alive It IS whispered that some OF them
will take no chances with Sulzer, although
Mr.. osborne seems satisfied that Sulzer
has recovered from his admiration for
Croker. ~
Mr. Hedges made tonight what he
catIed his confession of political faith.
In st he pledged himself to be an "un-
bossed" Governor.
Wadsworth eerates Tammany.
James w. Wadsworth. jr., candidate for
d. Lieutenant. Governor, travelled with Mr..
10, oil oh
meeting the-way Tammany Hall used the
state government and the Legislature for
political advantage Representative Sc
reno T. Payne spoke with the candidate
here tonight talking mostly on the tariff
and the high degree Of prosperity under
Republican control.
Mr.. Hedges had hard luck with his
railroad schedule to-day He was forced
10 omit speeches scheduled for Brighton
and Pittsford because HIS train was late,
and was able merely TO shake hands with
the voters who crowded around him when
finally he did appear. Further along the
train was an hour behind, but in spite
Of the wait 'he found good sized throngs
at Victor. Canahdaigua Geneva, Water
loo and Seneca Falls From the latter
place he came to this city and was taken
by automohile-to Skaneateles, where there
was A late afternoon meeting. .
At Seneca Falls Mr.. Hedges, replying TO
a telegram asking him to give his views
on the disturbance in the national guard
due to Governor DiN's displacement Of
Major General Organ said
- have been asked this question: "Wnl
YOU. If you are Governor. take politics
out OF the national guardG' j don't
know. l knOW that If ] am Governor, 1
will not put any politics into the national
guard and / viii not put politics into
ANYTHING that is not for the benefit of
answer 10 that. Whatever is wrong l
will try 10 Tectify ii, and | want every
human being within the sound OF my
voice to know that.
The trouble with the state government,
a Mr.. Hedges told his audiences all along
the line, was that Tammany had put its
brand OF politics into everything. Not that
Tammany was to be considered q political
machine in the ordinary acceptance Of
that tern--far from it. Tammany was
simply an organization for the aggrandize-
ment Of the few who controlled it, It
was a system which put loyalty 20 the
few who ran IT above a mans oath of Of
flee. That was why state departments
went TO pieces under .Tammaay admins
tration, and why Tammany in New York
City produced conditions which were re-
sponsible for the Rosenthal murder
If the Democrats could stand for that