Show THE HUGHES FIGHT IN NEW YORK All AIl the country countr has been watching the fight light of Governor Hughes of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York against n the tho track race gang of gamblers And e cr every one who stands for justice justic an and morality is sorry 11 he lost New York stat s h been heen cursed by bya a coterie of oC gamblers ho whose chose interests I o ha been heen centered in a line of of race tracks Thc They have bave for years maintained main main- tamed the tho most harmful establish establishments establishments ments known to civilized countries They have gathered the least east desirable of or all the thc nations nation's citizens And the they have ruined more men and debauched moro women than any other ten agen cles don known to modern life They should have havo been crushed and driven from business precisely as Governor Hughes tried to lo drive them It is to be regretted that ho could not instantly bring to his bs aid a sufficient sufficient dent popular pressure to effect the passage of or his righteous bills It also aso is to be bo regretted that the themen themen themen men identified in the fight on the governor gov gov- are Identified with tho the fi fight ht n against the Republican party Scratch I a i track race-track magnate In New York and rind you rou find a Democrat influential in inho inthe ho tho councils of oC the tho Democratic party part From Perr Perry Belmont Delmont down to the keeper of or the gates they thc they are all aU against the tho Roosevelt Roose administration against the tho rule of the Republican party arty a against every man of prominence prom- prom in that part party TonI Tom Taggart chairman of or their national national na- na ional committee is a 3 typo of oC the tIme whole holo lot With his gambling resort nt at t French Lick Indiana he sets the theace pace ace for for lawlessness and wholesale vice ice And the York state gamblers like kc him for the unclean dollars he heas has as made Let Governor Hughes never IlO tier der or In Iii spite of the result of tho the recent reent re- re cent ent vote yote in his senate the tho people or of f York state certainly are virtuous enough nough to compel a righteous judgment judgment judg judg- ment meat in the end |