New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-31
Records Broken in
Ohio, Supposed
Doubtful
POLITICIANS SEE
BIG WAVE COMING
Crowds Cheer Jibes at
Wilson's Claims to
Unique Virtue
From a stsn Correspondent Of IN. Tribune. ]

lfIOn sian correspondent OF Inc IrlDune.J
Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 30.-Charles
Z. Hughes received tonight the
greatest demonstration of his cam
paign. Fully 100000 persons jammed
the streets of Columbus, the state
capital, and ten thousand, crowded
into Memorial Hall, had to wait
more than two hours and half for
his speech, while he reviewed great
torchlight parade from balcony of
the Neil Hotel, across from the state
Capitol. Other thousands stood out
side the hall and cheered again and
again as he drove up to the entrance.
This is believed by Republican pol
iticians to be the beginning of a
great tidal wave of Hughes senti-
ment in Ohio. 1t was Ohio's en-
phatic reply to the Democratic boast
that the states twenty-four electoral
votes could be counted already for
President Wilson. Men who have
thought that the state should be
considered doubtful, said tonight
that Hughes would win here by from
10000 to $4,000.
Best Hughes Has Had
The Hughes reception was COM
pared by political observers with the
ovation accorded to Mckinley in
1896, when he ran against Bryan,
with the Bryan demonstration in
New York when he returned from
his trip around the world, and with
the Roosevelt reception on his return
from Africa. 1t surpassed anything
that Mr.. Hughes has met in this
campaign, even exceeding the enthu-
siastic greeting that Indianapolis
gave him a month ago and the one
in Boston last week.
High Street from the railroad sta
tion on past the State Capitol to be-
yond Memorial Hall was massed with
applauding humanity. There were more
than $4,000 torchlight paraders. Large
delegations Joined the march from Gin
cinnati, Portsmouth and other cities
near and far. Nearly every county in
the state was represented.
Mr.. Hughes reviewed the parade,
nassing with difficulty through a solid
mass of 10000 persons between the
Neil Hotel and the Capitol, from the
ne rooms that Mckinley occupied
three years when he was Governor
of Ohio.
The Republican nominee-inspired as
he has never been inspired by any pre-
vious event in his public career, ne
said-did not reach the hall until after
10 o'clock. While his automobile
struggled vainly through the yelling
crowd outside he stood up in the car
and said he regretted keenly that he
could not speak to the outdoor throng,
but had to save his voice for those who
waited within.
Gibes at Wilson Claims
Aside from his tariff utterances, the
feature of his address was an attack
upon the Wilson Administration, based
on the Presidents Shadow Lawn
speech last Saturday. II was tinged
with biting sarcasm. The President,
he said, roamed about in whimsical
domain of topsy-turvydom." The new
footing on which he placed business,
Mr.. Hughes branded as "a very slip
perry footing" Business. he declared
did not have nervous fear Of the
courts. as President Wilson said, ou:
suffered "a wholesome dread Of vague
legislation and two-faced laws.'
"The other day." he said, "our op-
moments had little festival of oei,-
glorification. They did themselves
the highest honor they could best'w.
They celebrated the birth Of freedom
They had emancipated, they said,
urctty much everything and everybody.
Finding no lesser praise to be ade-
ouate, they finally described them
selves as the generous forces Of she
age and of the world For these, they
said. will be thrown back in dis
courapement and confusion in the
event Of their defeat. They say, in
effect. that if a majority of my fellow
countrymen elect me, humanity viii
be routed.
Appreciates Tribute
"This delicate tribute to my own en-
deavors | kcenly appreciate. The culogy
needed only one further touch, and that
was to celebrate the policy that led to
the slaughter at Vera Cruz and Carri-
zal. These I suppose would be regard.
ed nv the generous forces OF the age
ms peace parties, and In the same
whimsical domain Of topsy-turvydom
tho Underwood and Adamson bills may
be haiIed as the guardians OF American
enterprise and OF American lsbor.
"We are told that the business and
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