Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-19

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field has taken you from the bench
and put you up as their standard
bearer. Is that right"
There were cries of no! no!' and
sput him outf it was some time before
Mr.. Hughes could make himself
heard. One moment" the nominee
shouted to the crowd, "one moment
please" When some sort OF order
was restored, the nominee went on Il
am not here, sir, as the standard bearer
of any one group or sci, but DESTROYS
to serve the whole Of the American
people"
The house roared again. the hecller
sat down and the nominee went on
with his speech.
Now that | am on this personal
note" Mr.. Hughes said, let me re-
cali some of the unusual circum-
stances under which | entered public
life. You may recall that there were
some very important Investigations in
the city OF New York. The first OF
these had relation to the charge to
be made for gas. | was requested by
a legislative committee to undertake
that investigation. ] had no desire
to undertake any inquiries which
could have possibly any political re-
lation or any other purpose than to
ascertain exactly what was fair and
Just. ,..s-
"The assurance was given me that
would have free hand for that
purpose. We went ahead on that
line, and as result, the city OF New
York had legislation in its favor by
which the consumers OF gas paid a
rate as fixed by law and sustained by
the courts, of so cents
Life Insurance Probe.
"Then followed an investigation OF
much wider concern. 1t related to
the security OF the homes OF America.
1t related to the security OF those
who, through life insurance, had en-.
deavored to protect their wives and
their children against the hazard oil
untimely death. We had in that a
very laborious inquiry. 1t brought t.
my attention a great variety of mat.
tiers deeply affecting the interests oi
the community.
1--WE endeavored to safeguard the
policy holders of the nation by wise
legislation, regulating our life insur-
ance enterprise. We endeavored to
see to il that public supervision
should be entirely impartial and
wholly efficient in the interest Of
those concerned in this great enter.
prise.
Called to Governorship.
RI was called from this to the gov
ernorship of the state. went with
a great deal OF information with re.
spect to the conduct Of public bust,
ness. went to the governors chair
with this determination; That while
/ sat there, there would be no influ
ence or power which should in any
way affect my action so as to be II
the slightest degree injurious to tn,
welfare Of all the people in tina
state"
The crowd interrupted with . yell
who's all rightf" some on shouted
The answer came from every section
OF the house in a roar:
Hughes
Now refer to this" Mr.. Hughe,
continued, because there has been re
Gently an extraordinary statemen
made that in some way have becom,
a sponsor for invisible government
Such a preposterous charge needs ne
attention and yet ! should like to TAX,
against every subversion OF the ma
advantage OF the fact that 1t has beef
uttered to remind the American PEG
pie Of one or two things.
No Barter Then.
"In the first place. during my gov
ernorship at Albany, there was n,
barter Of appointments for legisla
non.
an the next place, legislation wa
Considered upon its merits in tn
open.
There was no semblance Of in
visible government. You cannot fin
man In New York state who woul
stand up and honestly say that dur
ing my term, there was a suggestio
OF any secret or improper influenc
WIN Iespeet 70 executive action
AZ tnnss'
~ tne same time we mad legisla
uon dealing with the great suoles
o. tne regulation OF the public util
ties. There were men who did nc
at that time see the Importance {
mat acton. we thought that It wa
time to vindicate the supremacy
inc public interest. We did not bu
our way through the legislature. v
aia not compromise with principl
we went straight to the people