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Show oo HUGHES WINDS UP! IN A WHIRLWIND New York, Nov. 3. Charles E. Hughes wound up his 28,000-mile presidential campaign tour with 1G strenuous hours of campaigning today uown tne Hudson river valley and 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 his campaign, cam-paign, was to have been a day of rest, with a big rally at Madison Square garden at night. Instead, it will be a whirlwind day of more speaking In New York City. "When the nominee arrived here tonight he found that the national commtitee had speeded up the campaign so Uiat he will spend virtually the entire afternoon touring the city. Five speeches are on his program. Confident of Victory. In almost every speech today and tonight the nominee told his audiences audi-ences he was confident of victory next Tuesday. Pie told them there was little new he could say with regard re-gard to the issue of the campaign. On his trip down the Hudson river valley he made the tariff one of the chief themes of his speeches; here tonight he spokje briefly on Americanism. Ameri-canism. "Lot me say to you," he told an audience in Brooklyn, the last he addressed ad-dressed tonight, "that if T am elected president, as I expect to be " he got no farther for the moment. A man in the gallery yelled: "You will be." The entire audience rose nnd roared its approval of the interruption, interrup-tion, waving hundreds of American flags. "If I am elected president," he continued, con-tinued, "we shall have an American administration with exclusively American Amer-ican policies, without any deflection to serve any other interests. Supremo must be America's interests in the thoughts of the American people, and supreme will be America's interests in an administrtaion in my charge." In his tour through Brooklyn, tonight to-night Mr. Hughes campaigned over ground familial to him as a boy. The first meeting he addressed in the Green Point section was within three blocks of tho Union Avenue Baptist church, where his father once was pastor. The streets through which he passed were those on which he had played as a boy, he told his audience, and familiar faces were among those who heard him. Welcome Home. "I have had many a generous welcome wel-come and many a manifestation of enthusiasm on my long trip," he declared, de-clared, "but best of all is the welcome wel-come home." The second meeting of the evening was in the Brownsville section, a district dis-trict which his advisers told him was strongly socialistic in its politics. Hero the streets were choked. Traffic Traf-fic was blocked and the services of more than fifty policemen were necessary neces-sary to get the nominee's car through the crowds and to the entrance of the hall. At this meeting Mr. Hughes reiterated reiter-ated his endorsement of the Republican Repub-lican platform declaring for a treaty with Russia that will recognizo tho right of expatriation. The audience cheered this more than any other utterance. ut-terance. The third address of the evening eve-ning was at Kismet hall. In his way there the nominee passed the house in which he was married. Here again he found all space In the hall crowded with an audience that had waited two hours to hear him and hundreds standing in the street "It has been my good fortune during dur-ing tho past few weeks to speak in many states," Mr. Hughes said, "and everywhere there has been this manifestation mani-festation of a deep patriotic feeling, of an intense interest In our vital concerns, con-cerns, but there is something- about the generosity of this welcome in my native state, which I had the good fortune for-tune to serve four years, that makes it more gratifying to me than any other welcome could possibly be. "I hope and expect that next Tuesday Tues-day we shall have a triumphant victory vic-tory in both nation and state." oo ! |