New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-30
HEDGES COUNTS STRAUS
OUT OF THE RUNNING
He's the Only Man in the State
Who Thinks He Will Be Elect
ed, Says Candidate.
ASSERTS INDEPENDENCE
If Elected Will Try to Improve
On Hughes's Work, He Tells
Upstate Authorizations
ing Rally at Syracuse.

ing Rally at syracuse.
| from STAFF Correspondent OF The Tribune
| Syracuse, Oct 29-In the Arena, the
| hall here in which William Sulzer and
Oscar S. Straus, his opponents. were
nominated, Job +. Hedges, Republican
candidate for Governor, tonight told a
big and sympathetic audience that he ex-
pected TO be elected chief executive OF the
| state. He said he would take Office with
| out a promise made TO anybody or a
string on him, and added that.he would
be ashamed TO take the oath of office II
he had to fetter himself or surrender his
mental freedom to get the place.
Mr.. Hedges said he expected to be elect
ed because he was sure the voters were
thinking this year. and If they thought
| they were certain to see that the Repuo-
lican party was the only agency avail
| able TO give better government 10 the
state than Tammany. Mr.. Straus was tie
only man i'm the state, said the Repuhli-
can candidate, who believed he could be
elected, and that was a fair sample OF
| his political judgment Progresslves VINO
| really wanted TO progress surely could
not stand for two years more OF TAM
manyism and they would be responsible
for that II they did not vote the Repuo-
| lican ticket.
| The Arena, a great barn OF hall. had
few vacant seats. II was more nearly
filed for the Republican meeting tonight
| than il was at any session Of the Bun
Moose or Democratic state conventions.
VT was not merely an audience of curiosity
tbittcn people either. Those who turned
out came 10 hear Mr.. Hedges, Mr.. Wads-
worth, the candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor. and Secretary Nagcl Of the De-
partment Of Commerce and Labor VINO
talked On national topics, because they
believed they would get sense and sanity
I'm speeches. il was one of the old.
! fashioned shouting, cheering brand Of po-
| itical meetings. The audience was there
manifestly 10 show that Rcpublicanism
hereabouts was militant, and nobody who
attended the meeting could well escape
| that conclusion.
Talks at More Than a Dozen Places.
! Mr.. Hedges reached here tonight, after
I speaking at more than a dozen meetings
during the day. He left Rochester early
in the morning by automobile with George
] w. Aldridgc, Senator Argctsinger, eN-Seh-
ator Dunn and other Monroe County men,
| 10 speak TO the workmen OF two factories
outside the city. Then he motored TO
Falrport for n meeting. There he took
special trolley car for meetings In Wayne
and Cayuga countics-at Macedon, Pal
myra. Newark, Lyons, Clyde, Savannah
Port Byron and Weedsport From Weeds
port he came TO this city I'm his special
! train
Mr.. Hedges, Secretary Nagel and ex-
I Speaker Wadsworth were the guests OF
| Francis Hendricks AT a dinner with eN-
| Governor Horace White, Mayor Schoen-
| ecke Senator Walters and others. I'M
| mediateIy after the dinner they entered
| automobiles, which formed division IN
| a torchlght parade from the centre OF
! the business section to the meeting halL
/ All this marked the big night OF the cam
/ Uaign here. and the local men said II did
| not fan behind similar occasions In other
| years. ~
Mir. Hedges IS no stranger here. but HIS
| audiences In former years nav, maven mao
| that part tonight, and he showed that
! he was glad they did.
| Il tell you. | want YOU" he said to
| his hearers And II you want me as
I
/ The cheers and applause Indicated that
! the "wanting" was mutual.
Mr. Hedges said the issue, so FAR as
! this state was concerned was perfectly
! clear this year Ii was whether Tam
! many should be permitted 20 continue us
! demands on the state treasury or Repub-
! UCan administration OF the Hughes brand
! restored.
Bosses Won't Get Him.
! II would be his endeavor, ne said, 10
give such an administration to the state.
! He was not perfect, he admitted, but he
was not afraid TO tackle the job. More
over, II was perfectly foolish for anybody
even Mr.. Straus. to say that the bosses
would get him.
"A boss" he said, rs only the visible
evidence OF many mems cowardice.' Con-
tinuing, the candidate said:
Now it does not worry me that people
OF the state have to pay more taxes under
| q Tammany administration; II they want
| TO- let them: IL doesn't affect me. MY
| money is in bonds, tax exempt, ana stored
away where moth and rust WIZ not cor
rupt II. II you people want TO pay II, 20
ahead and pay IT, | don't care. II don't
! hurt me except as general condition.
| / am engaged as g matter or real, SIN
! Cere pride, in the state OF New YORK, In
| this campaign because | want TO put hes
| back where she was two years ago, and
| then improve her. | don't want 10 see the
! great Public Service Commission made a
| football Of politics. | don't want TO see
| the public highways made means TO
! ride into the state treasury instead OF
| market roads for the farmer TO get his
| products to the market. / don't want to
! see all these departments used that way.
! / have n pride In II, and | know every
| time there develops a scandal under Tam
| many Hall the cause OF good government
! has been set back
Mr.. Hedges said that Mr.. Straus his
| Progressive opponent, was promising to
drive tuberculosis out Of the state II he
| became Governor.
How silly" was his comment, and he
| continued:
| Now. / can't cure disease II you elect
me Governor. and I'm not going to say
| | can All | can do is to tell the truth,
and I'm not going to say | can do any
| thing more but / can make the admin
! lstration at Albany what the law says
| IL should be, and / can restore those de-
| partments with the aid Of the Legis-
| iature to where they were when Hughes
| was Governor. and then we Will go ahead
and improve on Hughes.
Gives Test for Office.
A man asked him the other day, Mr..
Hedges said, If he would appoint TO Of
flee men who had been politically active.
He considered this an especially asinine
question. lie himself had been very &C