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Show HUGHES IKES IE SPEECHES 01! ID NIGHT Republican Candidate for President Comes Down Hudson River Valley; Campaigns in Brooklyn. WILL MAKE TOUR OF NEW YORK TODAY National Committee Spoils Day of Rest by Making Arrangements for a Whirlwind Finish, NEW YORK, Nov. 3. Charles E. Hughes wound up bis 2S,000-mile presidential presi-dential campaign tour with sixteen strenuous hours of campaigning today down the Hudson River valley and in Brooklyn. The nominee delivered nine speeches, starting at 8:45 o'clock this morning, and did not reach his hotel until after midnight tonight. Tomorrow, the last day of the campaign, cam-paign, was to havo been a day of rest with a big rally at MaVtison Square garden gar-den at night. Instead, it will be a whirlwind whirl-wind day of more speaking in New York City. When the nominee arrived here tonight ho found that the national committee com-mittee had speeded up the campaign bo that he will spend virtually the entire afternoon touring the city. Five speeches are on his programme. In almost every speech today and tonight to-night the nominee told his audiences he was confident of victory next Tuesday. Ho told them there was little new he could say with regard to the issues of tho campaign. On bis trip down the Hudson River valley he made the tariff one of the chief themes of his speeches; here tonight be spoke chiefly of Americanism. Ameri-canism. Audience Applauds. "Let me, say to you," he told an audience audi-ence in Brooklyn, the last he addressed tonight, "that if I am elected president, as I expect to be " he got no further for the moment. A man in the gallery yelled: "You will be." Tho entire audience rose and roared its approval of the interruption waving wav-ing hundreds of American flags. ;'It'I am elected president, ' the nominee nom-inee continued, "we shall have an American Amer-ican administration, with exclusively American policies, without any deflection deflec-tion to serve any other interests. Supreme Su-preme must be "America's interests in the thoughts of the American people, and supreme will be America's interests in an administration in my charge." In his tour through Brooklyn tonight, Mr. Hughes campaigned over ground familiar to him as a boy. The first meeting he addressed in the Green Point section, was within three blocks of the Union Avenue Baptist church, where his father once was pastor. The streets through which ho passed wero those on which he had played as a boy, he told the audience, ami familiar faces were among those who heard him. Appreciates Welcome. "I have had many a generous welcome wel-come and many a inanifestntion of enthusiasm en-thusiasm on my long trip," he declared, "but best of all is the welcome home." The second meeting of the evening was in tho Brownsville section, a district dis-trict which his advisors told him was strongly Socialistic in its politics. Hero the streets were choked. Traffic was blocked and tho services of more than fifty policemen were necessary to got the" nominee 's car through the crowds and to the entrance of the hall. At this meeting Mr. Hughes reiterated his endorsement of the Republican platform plat-form plank, declaring for a treaty with Russia that will recognize the right of expatriation. Tho audience cheered this more than any other utterance. The third address of tho evening was at Kismet hall. On his way there the nominee passed the house in which lie was married. Here again he found all space in the hall crowded with an audience audi-ence that had waited two hours to hear him and hundreds standing in the street. "It haa been my good fortune during the past few weeks to speak in many states," Mr. Hughes paid, "and everywhere every-where there has been this manifestation of a deer patriotic feeling, of an intense interest in our vital concerns, but there is something about the generosity ot" this welcome in mv native state which I had the good fortune to servo four years, that makes it more gratifying to me than any other welcome could nossibly be. Expects Victory. ' "I hopo and expect that next Tuesday we shall have a triumphant victory in both nation nnd state." Tho Hughes special reached New York fifteen minutes Inte, and was met nt Grand Central stntion by a delegation delega-tion of bund reds of members of the K ujrhes CoHegcmen 's league, garbed f.r parade and equipned with every noise-making device. They filed through (the runway leading to his train, escorted (Continued on Page Nine) HUGHES IKES NINE SPEECHES DAY ID NIGHT Republican Candidate for President Comes Down Hudson River Valley ; Campaigns in Brooklyn. (Continued from Page One.) him to his car, and then fell in behind, waving flags and tooting horns. The big concourse of the station was crowded and the nominee was cheered as he made his way to his car. Mr. Hughes expects to remain in the city till after election. He will. receive the returns at the hotel in which he f has made his headquarters here since his nomination. Hughes Ends Travels. Charles E. Hughes, ended his travels as a presidential candidate here tonight. to-night. The nominee Bpent the day journeying jour-neying down the Hudson river "valley from Albanv. He delivered five ! speeches on the way, and after his arrival ar-rival here addressed three meetings in Brooklyn. In his day speech Mr. Hugh spoke chiefly on the tariff and the maintenance main-tenance of American rights abroad. He also assailed the administration for ' " hroken promises" with respect to the: reduction of the cost f living, the ob- servance of the merit system in making mak-ing appointments, the maintenance of American rights abroad and economy in the expenses of the government. Conditions which industry in the United Statea will face at the close of the war were characterized as cause for "serious consideration by" every student of our affairs. ' ' ' We want to' look out that we do not have a headache coming to us in the near future," the nominee told an audi-; audi-; once at Newburgh, "because there are quite a number of things that we must carefully consider." Commercial Competition. Among the. chief of these Mr. Hughes ranked commercial competition after the war with European nations, "not at all wasted by war, but disciplined, organized as they have never been before. be-fore. ' ' The Underwood tariff, Mr. Hughes said, would not meet the situation situa-tion as a measure of protection to A merican industry. "Our opponents told us four years ago," Mr. Hughes said at Kingston, "of the wonderful opportunities thev were going to give to American business. busi-ness. We know what actually followed, fol-lowed, I do not mean that they were insincere. I simply mean that what they think fitted American life does not worlfl with it," Hr. Hughes said he asked his oppo- nents what they were going to do about safespiarrling American industry and they replied that they had a tariff commission. com-mission. A tariff commission, he continued, con-tinued, did not pass laws. Facts Ignored. "T do not blame them," he said, "for their eontiuued adherence to the old policy which through the generations gener-ations they have maintained, and the doctrine which in platform after platform plat-form they have asserted. T really in a sense admire their tenacity and the wny in which they ignore the facts of life in their constancy of spirit," ft was no time, Mr." Hughes declared, for his political opponents to be sensitive sen-sitive about criticism. "We are taking account of stock," he said in his Newburgh speech. "Our opponents seem to be a little sensitive about the stock-taking. Thev seem to have the idea that there ought not to be any criticism of the administration. Well, we would not do very well in American life under our institutions if we went ahead in that way. We want fair criticism. We want 'candid criticism, criti-cism, but we must conserve the opportunities oppor-tunities of American life and the honor of the American name. " The policy which would conserve the honor of the American name and result in upholding American rights was not (he policy of braggarts, he said. Devoted to Justice. "We have not the slightest desire to go through the world braggarts, boast-err-," he said. "We haven't anv desire de-sire to stimulate ill-feeling bv a truculent trucu-lent attitude. What we want to show is this: That in a world of keen rivalries rival-ries and excellent understandings we constantly stand erect as a nation hav-ing hav-ing courage and the indomitable spirit which our ancestors showed when they preserved the integrity of the nation; that we are a land devoted to justice; that we are intent in a courteous wav iirtfin maintaining our national honor, and that the rights of American citizens citi-zens on land and sea throughout the world, in all events, be maintained." "Tf young Americans were to go ! forth es the advance guard of American Ameri-can enterprise," Mr Hughes said in his Kingston speech, "it must be understood under-stood throughout the world that there is no prouder title than that of American Ameri-can citizen and that the American flag protects men lawfully doing their work wherever they mav be." Mr. Hughes spoke at Hudson, Kingston, King-ston, Poughkeepsic, Xewburgh and Yonkers. Crowds greeted him at each stop. At ea-.h place many sought to hear the nominee unsuccessfully for lack of room at meeting halls. At Harmon, Har-mon, where the special stopped v to change engines, groups of railroad men in overalls left their engines to gather around the rear platform of his car. They cheered him, and several shouted j that they were going to vote for him. Others wished him good luck. Crowds at Each Stop. In his Xewburgh speech Mr. Hughes declared that he would deal faithfully; with each problem, if elected, and seek, its reasonable solution. "All that is worth while in this; life," he said, "is the opportunity to ; serve to the best of one's ability.' While I cannot tell what the special exigencies of coming years may be, J. j propose, so far as in me lies, if you invest me with executive authority to deal with each problem faithfully, according ac-cording to its merits and solve it as judgment and conscience may require." Mr. Hughes will remain here till after aft-er election. He will receive the returns re-turns election night at the uptown hotel he has made his city headquarters headquar-ters since his nomination. |