Evening star., 1912-10-03
HEDGES MAKES HIT
New York Republican Nominee
Opens Campaign There.
WANTS ROADS, NOT DEALS
Root Agrees With Audience When
It Applauds Viii.
WANTS ROADS, NOT DEALS

NEW YORK, October 3.-The repub-
last night at the ratication meeting
held at the New Star Casino, in East
107th street. Senator Elihu Root, Job
E. Hedges. James w. Wadsworth, Col
ABE" Gruber and others spoil. The
casino was engaged becaucs it con-
tains one Of the largest auditoriums In
Harlem. seating 1000 persons 1t was
well filled last night.
The opening speech was made by
Senator Root.
1t took Job Hedges. the republican
nominee for governor. however to cap
ture the heterogeneous audience body
and soul with an epigrammatic broad
side interspersed with shrewd sharp
shooting. Drolleries and straight from
he-shoulder statements followed each
other in such a bewildering and alto
audience was with him from the start,
and an incipient diversion on the part
Of Roosevelt adherents-young men.
for the most part-who occupied seats
in the center of the hall. was promptly
nipped by Mr.. Hedges.
Applause for Wilson.
INOOt Sdlu, III part.
"Fellow-citizens: Mr. Wilson Zap
plause), the democratic candidate. for
whom I have great respect-and I am
glad to perceive that some of you have.
for he is an honest and upright Ameri-
can-Mr. Wilson says that the repub
lican party got us into our present
trouble by means OF the protective
tariff, and he proposes to get US out
by destroying the protective tariff and
substituting for it tariff for revenue
only, without any protection for Amer
ican industry and labor.
Now. under the tariff manufacture has
fourished. has it not? Everything has
been done to encourage manufacture
has 1t not? And, mark, 1 mention this
not because of love for the manufacturer,
but because / believe 1t to be for the
benefit Of every American. Applause.)
Listen to what has been done, according
| to the census Of 1900 and 1910. The cap
| ital invested in manufacture has in
| creased in those ten years from $s.975.-
10000 to $18, Az, 100000 (Applause) The
wages and the salaries paid in manu-
| facture have increased from 81. 73O,OOO QUO
to $4385, 900 OOO-(applause)-and those
| wages nearly doubled in that ten years.
mounting up to the enormous sum of
over $4,000 100000 of the highest wages,
| by and large, paid anywhere In the world
or ever paid anywhere in the world
Prolonged Cheers for Hedges.
Mr. Hedges, who followed Senator Root,
| was greeted with prolonged cheers A
| voice from the gallery exclaimed: 'Oh,
you Jobr'
| II saw that the distinguished gentle
| man who presided over the democratic
convention, or whatever that gathering
may be called. said that the republican
party drew q joker from the pack and
/ nominated him for governor.
'Hey, job" came another voice from
the gallery, ''the joker wins in many a
good game.
'That," said Mr.. Hedges complacently,
"is one of the arts of refined oratory-to
| let the other fellow say it for you. And
l am going to play that card on the fifth
| day of November. and whatever Is on the
board 1 am going to pick up
Now. why do l want to be governor?
You are entitled to know. l want to be
governor because I have pride in the
state to which l belong; l want to be
governor because the party to which l
administration upon it's books and l want
to be governor to see If cannot improve
upon those administrations.
Everybody Wants to Deal"
II believe in square deal So does
everybody. The trouble is, everybody
wants to deal. 1 am looking for a rea-
sonably extended temporal career. but 1
yield to no man who walks the earth in a
desire to be wholesome and decent and
brotherly and to help the other man. The
test of generosity is not what you give.
but what you have remaining when it is
over.
You can divide men into two classes
men and shrimps. ! want no more OF
this question of whether the peop.e rule.
want an election law so simple that
man will not have to retain an attorney
Dare Not Nominate.
I'VE have got to lock horns with a
party that commends the administration
of a man it dare not nominate-a peculiar
thing.
Nov, what has that distinguished ad
ministration done up there?" asked Mr..
Hedges, who continued:
"It went into Office proclaiming that the
republican party had been failure for
sixteen years in Albany, and they did
not change single law-except to get
little more patronage. daughter.) They
did not change single policy of admin
istration. From the highroads they be-
came highwaymen; everything looked
alike to them.
Their only question was, How much
is there of it and where is it.? And they
found most of it, and want to go up
there and see that they do not find any
more. / want to go up there to demon
strate that it is possible to be a gov
ernor of the state of New York without
finding out how to divide the proceeds-a
simple proposition. I want to 60 up there
to see that this state builds roads-and