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Show HUGHES' MAIDEN SPEECH. Colorado Senator Eulogizes Late Democratic Presidential Candidate. Washington. Senator Hughes of Colorado found opportunity on Friday in connection with the consideration of print paper and wood pulp provisions provis-ions of the tariff bill to make his first speech in the senate. This opportunity op-portunity was the result of the read-' ing by Senator Johnson of North Dakota Da-kota of a newspaper clipping respect-1 ing the free lumber piank of the last Democratic convention. It provoked various comments on the Democratic platform, among which was a statement state-ment by Mr. Bailey that that platform plat-form was written by "Vne man," evidently evi-dently referring to Mr. Bryan. To that statement Mr. Hughes took exception. He declared there were parts of the platform which were not the work of Mir. Bryan. Mr. Hughes eulogized the Democratic presidential presiden-tial candidate, who, he said, enjoyed popular esteem to a degree that could) not be equalled by any one else, "unless," "un-less," he added, "we resort to the' banks of the rivers of Africa to find1 some one," referring, of course, to former President Roosevelt. |