New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-06
Rl1OKLYN HAS WARM
| GREETING FOR HEDGES
..,iDee Meets Enthusiasm
Everywhere in WhirIwInd
1our Through Borough.
,r UNION LEAGUE DINNER
l., at Six Republican Clubs as
a wnrsll-Wadsworth and Stein
brink Also Cover About
the Same Ground.

| ,oh E. Hedges demohs'ia'' -" o,,,,,.
'o0 whirlwind tour of Brooklyn
%" .,sbt Amid a train OF automool'es
." ne, s.d around TO speak at various Dig
h ru ."son clubs. Muffled In an ulster
raced from dress-sul' meeting - ao t
League Club to collarless gain
VDO" ~ ont in Brownsville, At one
ems - cbatted with men and women
F'' -, IN Brooklyn society. AT an
IO'""s ,slked TO a gathering of four
y. elderly negroes. But at each ana
acting and on the roads between
s"' erected with cheers and smiles.
gave him a dinner at the Union
iu. Clpb on Bedford avenue. with a
.rcbestra playing cheerful music lie
u n.sd the services Of the music, Tor
'''r moraged to keep his critical audience
TIC John NJ Harlan, son OF the
I've. Justice. acted as POSTMASTER ana
1..oauced the Republican nominee as the
-, Governor Of New York state
n, Hedges told the assemblage' II ne
.nctsd Governor, he would work hard
,ai,hfully for their interests. He as
,5 them that he had neither poiiucai
..,rss nor enemies hanging to his coat
IN. and. II, during the campaign ne
"a discover any there he would leave
\, Goa, behind him. 49,.
- haven't a whole lot of patience with
.sn,s who continually talk in classics
y. ,.fAr 10 the common people ne
..u 81 feel pretty proud and happy
-, stand before those common peo-
w.. tell them what want to do and
Isl nv ambitions are and see them look
u m. face and then cheer me. yes
nat makes ne pretty proud"
/ Ia Cleanse the Atmosphere.
/ ", Hedges didn't meet James W. Wads-
II. at any one Of the meetings.
~. ,,4,ch at the Union League Club was
pss,ged only in method Of expression al
| -. ~,hsr meetings that followed. In part
" said
want to say to you good people that
lave just three ambitions tnls ian 90
T,rt 10 participate I'm this campaign 10
~ The atmosphere Of some very noXlous
.asms that is abroad: ! want To DO my
~ toward the proposition that human
rrgs come into the world and i've
,hro1gh II by natural process and not by
sautory enactment, and that by ana
.re every man has TO Work out MS own
aviation, and that anybody VINO enoes-
Tors Ia substitute anything else Is steal
hg somebody's mental integrity.
l Inc real fact is that We are all progress
dives and all i'm favor OF the uplift but
v, are at angle sometimes as TO how 10
srpetrate Il and how 10 show II TO the
Ithsirnan Of the committee. That's about
Nm the difference. And II we don't get
Ircted II we are iust calm and decent
land wholesome about il, this whole situa-
lion will be ironed out The fact Is that
Ismong our common enemies across the
liver, over In the City Hall and that gen.
Iaal section no one is going 10 hear me
apologize for the Republican party during
this campaign.
| understand Tammany Hall. 1t is not
ID political organization at all-it is an
TERMINATION come together for mutual
financial advantage. under the guise OF
p0ltes daughter and applause). They
happen TO be in control of the Demo
! atic party, and therefore. temporarily
III the state.
1 want TO be Governor during office
l hours and Just what I was when the
| Office hours are over. At o'clock we Will
lock up the halo with time lock, so
We won't be tempted TO use IT,. And there
ivill be no things so small that we are
AFRAID or uninterested in taking them up,
and nothing so big that We are afraid
will knock US down ] won't walk
foot 10 make a quarrel with any man,
aor walk an inch to dodge one.
And when | come back here some
umss-l hope ] may-you won't De
ashamed Of me You may differ from
me- but you will never lose respect for
can And | want everybody 10 tell me
how to do II when ! get up there great
applause
High Pitched Enthusiasm.
From the Union League Club Mr..
Hedges went to the Metropolitan Saenger
Hail. al Pitiin and Watkins avenues.
Outside. on camp chairs. was the in
syilable brass band crashing out a mar
la air Up and down the street were
RAINING brands OF red fire. Inside was a
l og crowd and a bunting strewn plat
form. From the moment Mr.. Hedges APP
,,leaTed til he went away enthusiasm was
red hot
Rom saenger Hall the train Of ma
enlnes whirred away 20 the II. II. Gar
net Club, at No. 1889 Fulton street. a
lsgro organization. 1t seems that there
vas some mistake about the time Of the
spasers arrival and few were on hand.
aen Mr.. Hedges went TO the Invincible
V'0o' No IS Herkimer street. the 18th
ssemoly District Republican Club. No.
Hl Chureh avenue; Prospect Hall, In
souh Brooklyn, ard the 10th Assembly
Dsuict Club, at No. GOT Fulton street.
James w. Wadsvorth. jr, candidate
Lieutenant Governor. and Meier Stein
alnk' candidate for Attorney General,
p|osed the trail which Mr. Hedges had
aAasd. Mr.. Wadsworth was tired on,
ma noarse, as he had just come from
"rV' Orange County, where he spoke
''"erday. but he spoke vigorously and
sisinbrink.
~ "adsworth reiterated the policies he
!" previously directed against the state
snocracy as Murphy-ridden, and then
Aaeo his fires upon the Levy election
A'. saying:
~, me were told by our friends when they
RAJ INTO Office two years ago-as we
| n. en- IN their platform-that the people OF
h.y. state Of New York were going to
s,e,a direct primary law. They have
s,sas.e7o law, but you cannot find the
E,,,. OF II with a spy glass.
"a ... Know how II works, and yet 1 have
Way good idea as TO how 1t has
|dir.e, IN Brooklyn. There Is nothing
|st,tr.. about II. We witness under that
ri,,.~ self-perpetuating political COM
taskinI Forcing nominees upon parties and
faiS II practically impossible, politi-
las. speaking, for any objection to be
. w. against the organization slate.
[as,. nave decried. and oftentimes justi-
3,sns. 80 political bossism, but il also
7f,rs hned Tor this administration TO make
n Oosslsm legal. and 10 tie the hands,
IL n might say, the writing hands or
= Zen ysncii OF voters, with ballot four
7s,Sssn stand for the repeal Of these out
|s.tssi statutes, and We are going TO