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HIUHES.
The nomination o£ Hughes is cold
blooded reaction.
How the people came possess the
idea that he was any such thing as
a progressive mindod man it is ut
terly impossible to discover, unleea
one gets over the difficulty by hold
ing that those who so esteem the
Hughes type of men, do not think,
for themselves. Hughes is a hard
shell Baptist whose experiences and
environment has been associated
with the corporations and the pos
sessors of great wealth. His asso
ciates in law were men who gained
their fortunes by serving such pow
erful interests as railroads, traction,
banks and insurance. The very
names of which are synonimous
with much wealth.
A precise, methodical, finicky
man, “extremely careful of the pro
prieties, never disposed to break
conventions, studying the law anl
the legal system as he found them,
sticking to the letter and dismissing
the spirit ', of that legal priesthood
he has been (inite a disinguished
representative.
Hughes is married to the daught
er of another corporation lawyer
named Carter whose “great obsess
ing hobby was a peculiar and ludi
crous form ol' caste snobbery; ho
was a member of the “Settlers anu
Defenders of America", the “Found
ers and Patriots of America”, the
“Society of the Mayflower Descend
ants” and the “Sons of the Revolu
tion".
“'he first legal partnership c.i
Hughes was that of Carter, Hughes
and Cra*P.th. Hughes when a can
didate foi Governor of New * or i
denied that he had ever been a
corporation lawyer. That was false.
In 1889 he with Choate and Carter
represented the Mount Morris Elec
tric Light Co. against the City cl
New York and secured an Injunction
against the city. He secured the
franchise for the Westchester and
Boston railway from the City of
New York.
The New York, Now Haven and
Hartford railroad had to enter New
York over the New Y'ork Centr i
tracks paying a heavy tcriff. a
company was formed called tiie New
York, Westchester and Boston rail
road company. It was in reality
an abortive corporation and did not
comply with the requisite legal for
mality as prescribed by the state.
This company became insolvent ana
a receiver was appointed and the
Supreme Court ordered the receiver
to sell its right, title and interest
etc. which was done for $5,500 to
one William Pelt. This sale ope
rated to deprive the railroad com
pany of any located routes except
such as the legislature might subse
quently grant. The paper franchise
was hawked about for years when
Hughes came on tne scone.
Some powerful interest “took up
the phanthom”, and on the strength
of it tried to get a franchise from
the Board of Aldermen. Hughes,
Carter, Rounds and Schuman ap
peared as attorneys for the granting
of the franchise and of the firm,
Hughes was the active attorney in
arguing for the railroad. Hughes
there solemnly denied the fact
which was a fact, that any big in
terest was behind the project; he
asserted, what was not true, that
the company was absolutely in
dependent of connection with any
«>ther corporation.
Another corporation later also
appearod asking for the franchise,
this known as the New York an 1
Port Chester railroad, and like its
rival was owned also by the New
Hoven, that is to say Morgan and
Co.
The Board of Aldermen saw fat
pickings in this franchise and like
a well known southern republic
during the Panama opisode, held
it up for their price. But the shrewd
men at the back of the movement
had a law passed stripping the
board of their power to grant such
franchise, and vesting it in a new
j body called the Board of Estimates
and Apportionment. Charles E.
Hughes was the railroad's attorney,
i Corporation Counsel Delaney re
j fused to approve the franchise be
cause inexpedient to the city's in
terests, but the franchise was grant
ed just the same—the most valu
able that has been conceded within
recent times and one that now is
estimated as worth over a billion
dollars.
Hughes placed a feather in his
cap as the attorney in charge of the
insurance investigation and a news
paper demand was made that he be
nominated for governor.
How that investigation of wliicn
Hughes had charge, had absolutely
no result except that it gave the
House of Morgan a strangle hold
where before its control was some
what slippery, is now too well
known.
The value of the work that
Hughes had done was reflected in
the campaign contributions by Big
Business; Morgan donating $20,()ou
Levi P. Morton a similar amount,
Rockefeller, Hollins, Wells, Carnegie
each $.',,000. Fisk, Depew, Gates,
Seligman, Kuhn Loeb and Co. and
many others $2,500. It was a slush
fund pure and simple. The total
amounted to $313,023.
Hughes record as Governor shows
that he vetoed the law reducing ;
railroad fares from three to two
cents; vetoed the bill giving New
Yorkers a five instead of ten cent
fare to Coney Island affecting a;
million weekly; vetoed the platoon I
bill giving the New York policemen
eight hours a day; vetoed a bill |
giving New York state school worn- ;
an teachers equal pay with that of
male teacher's, in a special measure ,
to the legislature he urged with a
wealth of eloquence and legal argu- ,
ment the defeat of the United j
States constitutional amendment
providing an income tax. He even
went further and agitated its de
feat. When Jerome failed to prose
cute Ryan for the hundred thou
sand steal by the latter in the sale
of the Wall St. Ferries railroad
company, (when Ryan was defend
ed by Hughes’ former law partner
Paul D. Cravath and during the
Grand Jury investigation concerning
which Carvath refused to answer
certain questions the question came
up whether Cravath should be pun
ished for contempt, but which wis
not attempted). Hughes white
washed Jerome in one of the most
flagrant cases of non-feasance in of
fice ever brought to public notice.
Thefts and .corruptions in connec
tion with traction companies and
franchise rights were unearthed to
the amount of $90,000,000 extend
ing over a period of years. But
they caused the gubernatorial con
science of Charles E. Hughes no
misgivings. As has been pointed
out, however, his occupany of the
governorship of New York was not
all a blank and he gratified his Bep
tist friends immensely by taking no
stock of the financial steals, Wall
Street gamblings, but boosting in
stead a bill forbidding race track
gambling.
He was the safest corporation
Governor that has ever sat in Alba
ny, and his choice by the republi
cans shows precisely where he is
bound.
He is consistent. He is not as
candid as Taft. His odor of Baptist
sanctity is over powering, and he is
the High Priest of Big Business. Ha
began his career serving them and
doubtless his aim is still to serve.
His nomination therefore is the
most natural thing in the world.
The country has got back to its
Penrose, and its Cannons; Hughes
is therefore the logical man.
In contrast with Wilson he is as
far as Big Business is concerned
quite flawless. His ideals are those
that rise like a vapor from Wall
St and which materialize in the
counting house and Safe Deposit
vault.
The country will be burdened with
no uncertain policy in the event oi
his election, for Hughes whatever
else he is, is no weakling. Every
inch of him will be trained to serv
ice and will serve whom he con
siders the “American people”: Mor
gan et al.
If he walks circumspectly and
makes no unhealthy reference to
hyphenates he will get a powerful
vote which otherwise might have
gone to Wilson. If he discusses the
flag wth judicious enthusiasm and
advocates militarism with the re
quisite zeal he will get a pow-rfui
vote from munitionists.
His election will be as logical as
has been his nomination. He 13
representative of the reaction that
has set in. He is the representative
of the views that now obtain as to
the sacredncss of Big Business and
its God-given right to control, so
that controlling, the people who are
underlings may be blest with good
time and full dinner pails; the
good times that are favored of hogs
and cattle that like a well filled crib
or a well swilled trough and care
not a continental for any other
damn thing in all the world.
And that's what will be placed
before the people this coming elec
tion. That is what will be urged;
a full dinner pail and a good jon.
Lots of work for the slaves and the
price of a meal. In return they will
render faithful and devoted service,
not marred by unseemly agitation;
favoring the further dominance 01
Big Business and the control of all
the works.
The nomination of Hughes is,
apart altogether from its purely po
litical significance, a further evid
ence of the supremacy of the eco
nomic forces which capitalism con
trols. It is reflected in the po
litical world, and they so dominate
the political world that what pheno
mena we therein see as exploited at
Chicago, are nothing more or less
than the manifestations of that po
litical power.
Sam Blythe says that after list
ening to clap trap speeches for clap
trail candidates he concludes the
present political party names are
a farce, and that there will be only
room for a politically radical and a
politically conservative party: in
other words that the phenomena wa
will soon witness will be manifesta
tions of the economic power of ca
pitalism and the economic power
which is in direct conflict there
with.
Even the nomination of Hughes,
therefore, reactionary though it be,
clears the air.
SOCIALISTS CHAI.LENGEI>.
_
I challenge every Socialist, Uadi
cal, Single Taxer, or Reformer, to
I send ten cents, silver, (Money re
funded if dissatisfied- for my book,
“Why Tilings Happen to Happen.'1
Are you sure you’re right?—W.
Hurry S|iears, Hamilton, Ohio,
CITY BATH HOUSE/.
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The Home of Good Eats.
local mats.
The Industrial Worker received
the following dispatch yesterday
afternoon:
Nome Industrial Worker
Nome, Alaska.
MASSHALL, June 3, via St. Mich
aes, Alaska, June 11.—Work for
hundred miners, Marshal: five dol
lars day eight hours.
FRANK H. WASKE1.
Mr. Waskey was until recently C.
S. Commissioner of the precinct ana
is now an operator on several
claims on Willow creek in the dis
trict. Without doubt a communi
cation signed by him is of a reliable
nature, but those prospective min
ers for Marshal should recollect thai
the Senator has already been to
St. Michaels with many passengers
and there is the possibility that
that there may since his wiring be
nearly enough men on hand. They
will therefore have to govern them
selves accordingly. There is certain
ly no strike, in the labor sense, on
'at Marshal but the Industrial Work
jer accepts na responsibility for the
accuracy of the telegram.
MINERAL APPLICATION NO. 0283
L\ S. Land Office, Nome, Alaska,
April 18th, 1916.
Notice is hereby given that the
Flume Dredge Company, a corpora
tion organized under the laws of
the State of California, with Its
principal place of business and post
office address. Mills Building, San
Francisco, California, has through
Jas. M. Streeten, its authorized
agent, whose post office address is
Nome, Alaska, made application for
a United States patent for No. 14
i Above Discovery placer mining
'claim, situated on Melcing Creek,
in the Council City Recording Di
strict, Territory of Alaska, and de
signated as Mineral Survey No.
1172, which said placer mining claim
is described according to the plat
and field notes now on file in the
U. S. Land Office at Nome, Alaska,
with a magnetic variation of 21
deg. 38 min. E. as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, a
spruce post 4 ft. long, 6 ins. dia
meter, in earth mound, scribed 14
Ab 1 1172 on N. face, whei ce U. S.
L. M. No. 1172 bears S 59 deg.
34 min. \V. 380.3 ft. Thonce N. 35
deg. 35 min. W. 544.4 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. 56 deg. 27 min.
E. 1376.6 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence
S. 37 deg. 56 min. E. 526.4 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence S. 55 deg. 37
min. W. 1397.6 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
place of beginning, containing an
area of 17.025 acres.
This claim is situated on Melsiug
Creek about four miles north of
Council City, Council City Re
cording Precinct, Alaska. Lo
j cation momir.cnt No. 1172 is
fa schist stone 37x20x5 ins.
j 18 ins. in the ground, with mound
i of earth 4 ft. high, 6 ft. base, situa
f ted about 30 ft. above the bed or
Melsing Creek, on the south side
thereof, in latitude 64 deg. 55 min.
N., longitude 163 deg. 39 min. W.
The location notice is recorded in
Vol. 10, page 132, of the records
Council City Recording District, Al
aska.
The adjoining claims are as fol
lows: On the northeast No. 15
Above Discovery on Melsing Creek;
on the southwest, No. 13 Above Dis
covery on Melsing Creek; claimants
unknown; on the northwest ana
southeast, claims unknown; all un
surveyed.
O. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., April 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., June 21, 1916.
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THE NOME INDUSTRIAL WORKER 1!
I
is prepared to handle
all kinds of
JOB PRINTING
Let us figure on your
work. Call up Black
134 or call at
THE INDUSTRIAL WORKER OFFICE
UrHIit |
“S. S. UMATILLA”
Nome Direct to Seattle
I Make Your Reservation Now
I ALASKA LIGHTERAGE & COIL CO.
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First
Sailing
South
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. VICTORIA
!i SAILS FOR SEATTLE JUNE 15
1R. A. Carroll, Agent, Nome
Steamer Artie
For Speed and Comfort take the Strm. ARCTIC for York,
Tin City, Lost River and Teller. For information call up Al
aska Lighterage & Com. Co. or
U. S. Mercantile Co.
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HIPRESS
hite Boots
$8.00
Cheap John Store
Kent Transfer Co.
General Transfer & Freighting
float & Qi£
Phone Main 139.
MURPHY HAS THE GOODS
Summit Shirts, Stetson Hats,
and Conneily Shoes
DRI-BAK CLOTHING. A Suit of this will answer any miners
requirements, and has proven the best goods of the kind on the
market to date.
PHIL MURPHY
WE CAN DO IT.
For first class work and ijronpt
delivery ph me Main 1A1 and the
People's Steam Laundry «U1 oil
and get your laundry.
W. J. WILLIAMSON Prof.
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publication of application therefor.
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Industrial Worker.