New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-08
FIRST HUGHES DAY
A RECORD BREAKER
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them more than once that we wanted
them to handle their own affairs.
"That is why the Mexicans could
not understand US and that is why
they show little faith in our promises"
Air Bombs Greet Him.
The train to which the Hughes spe-
cal cars were attached arrived in the
city shortly after s o'clock in the
morning and was greeted With bonn
bardment of aerial explosives that
made further sleep impossible in the
hotel district. Then it was that Mr..
Hughes learned for the first time that
a programme had been arranged for
him in which overlapping events left
no period for breakfast or his morning
dip.
After an automobile tour of the
downtown district there was an early
morning reception at the hotel, where
hundreds of men and women were pre-
pared 10 shake the nominees hand. Mr..
Hughes and rs wife excused themselves
for few minutes, however, slipped into
a private dining room for a hurried
breakfast and Immediately resumed
their positions in the receiving line.
Then came a meeting in which he
congratulated the welfare workers of
Detroit upon the reforms they are
working for the workers in the big auto
factories and ammunition plants. He
said that the example of the Detroit
organization was being copied else
where.
1.-THE human factor is. after all, the
important factor" he said. "You may
develop your physical plants, your ply
steal instrumentalities, everything that
goes to make up the material side of
prosperity, but you are absolutely
helpless without the human factor" he
said "That is why the man who is
working for a living must be made to
feel that the country doing the right
thing by him. 1t is perfectly idle TO
say that under our industrial condi-
tions man may. take or reject en-
ployment He cannot starve and he
cannot refuse n job. 1t is for US to
make working conditions safe and TO
see that the pay of the man who works
is a fair proportion of the fruits of his
toll"
Hardly was this MONDAY meeting
concluded than Mr.. Hughes found him
self in the midst Of an ever growing
committee of the state organization of
the Congressional Union. Mrs. Marjorie
Whitimore, chairman Of the delegation,
announced that they had heard with
much JOY OF Mr.. Hughess utterances
on the subject Of suffrage in New
York. But they wanted TO hear il
again. The candidate Immediately
complied, much to the delight Of the
women, who departed to distribute
literature about the hotel lobby and in
the streets and in other ways show
that they were actively working for
the Republican candidate.
Home Run Pleases Him.
Immediately after luncheon Mr..
Hughes was taken TO the Detroit-Phila-
delphia ball game. He had scarcely
got comfortably seated when, as the
first ball was pitched. Witt, the first
Philadelphia man TO bat, hit it on the
nose and made home run, while boys
who clambered the fence beyond the
outfeld tried 70 discover its where
abouts.
"If that's the kind Of ball they play
here. Pm going to stay and cut out the
remainder of the programme said Mr..
Hughes, after he had ceased clapping.
But his managers refused 10 permit
him to butcher their programme in that
care-free manner. The game was
scarcely under way when two deter
mined men took Mr. Hughes By each
arm and led him TO the waiting auto
mobiles. Half an hour later Mr..
Hughes addressed $4,000 employees Of
the Dodge Brothers Automobile Com
pany, where a half-holiday had been
declared in order to give the workers