Show HUGHES MAIDEN SPEECH colorado senator eulogizes lato 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 of the tariff bill to make lils his i first speech in the senate this opportunity port unity was the result of the reading by senator johnson of north dai kota of a newspaper clipping respecting the free lumber plank of the last democratic convention it provoked various comments on the democratic platform among which was a statement by mr bailey viat that that platform was written by one man evidently 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 candidate who lie he enjoyed I 1 popular esteem to a degree that could not be equalled equal led by any one else unless he added we resort to thel the banks of the rivers of africa to find some one referring of course td to former president roosevelt |