New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23

associate justice of the Supreme
Court, reads as follows:
"Now that Governor Hughes has re-
tired from politics and assembled TO y
place on the highest judicial tribunal in
the world, the fact may be acknowl-
edged without hurting anybody's roliti-
cal corns that he was the greatest
friend of labor laws who ever occupied
the executive chair at Albany. During
his two terms he has signed ffty-six
labor laws. including among them the
best labor laws ever enacted in this or
any other state. lie also urged enact
ment of labor laws in his messages TO
the Legislature. even going so far as to
place the demand for labor law in one
of his messages to an extra session OF
the Legislature"
Denounces Political Bosses.
In all of his addresses to-day MI
Hughes continued mis- denunciation OF
bosses, political favoritism and use OF
public trust for private gain. There
was no direct reference to the states
bosses, but he gave his hearers every
reason TO believe that he still enter
tanned the same opinion of political
manipulators that he did when, as
Governor of New York, he dehed the
bosses and waged a victorious fight
against them.
from the time the train reached
Bakersfield. where a crowd made 1T
impossible for the train to go forward
even at O'Clock in the morning until
Mr.. Hughes had arisen and made
brief address. clear on to Sacramento,
the enthusiasm of the residents OF
CALIFORNIA; ranch and vineyard towns
was unbounded.
The principal stops were at Porter
vile, Lindsay, Kingsburg. Fresno. Tur-
lock, Modesto and Stockton. At Fresno,
the home Of Chester Howell, Progress
sivs member of Mr.. Hughes's Califor-
MIA campaign committee. a crowd Of
nearly 5000 men and women had met
about the platform at the station to
hear the three minute speech the can
didate had been scheduled to make
there. Because Of the unexpected in
terest of his audience, Mr.. Hughes
stretched the three minutes to ten,
followed his address by a general
handshaking, and almost missed the
train, as the impatient engineer tried
to regain lost time by starting out
without the signal.
Here again was found evidence that
the fractional differences in California
are of the leaders, and not of the rank
and file of the voters. Mr. Rowell, for
some reason, did not appear among the
crowds of his townspeople who turned
out to greet the Presidential candl-
date. His newspaper showed no EVIL
dence of a GOODNESS toward Mr.. Hughes,
however, and the belief is that Mr.
Rowell may have been summoned 10
the other end of the state to join IN
the Johnson campaign there.
News from Los Angeles tonight Is
that Governor Johnson is addressing
two big meetings, at which he has
again Endorsed the Hughes candidacy
While all hope Of personal meeting
between the state Executive and the
Presidential candidate has been aban-
doned, it is plain that their failure to
get together has made no difference In
Governor Johnson's attitude toward the
present campaign.
On leaving California Mr.. Hughes
has made it plain that he Is we'll salts,
fled with the conditions he has found
there. Although he is not accompanied
on his trip by the usual corps of polit-
ical managers who ordinarily preside
over the destinies of such campaign,
he has almost single handed evaded
the entangling alliances that might
have had disastrous effects on his
hopes of carrying the state.
ii is predicted tonight that Mr..
Hughes will carry California by an
overwhelming majority. Since this is
the one point on which warning Repub-
licans and Progressives agree, there
appears to be good reason to accept
the statement as correct.
Mr. Hughes will Invade that despair
Of all conservative jurists-Reno-to-
morrow.