CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY.

By JACOB GOULD SCHURMAN, LL.D.

I.-PUBLIC OFFICE AND PARTY PRINCIPLES.

I. Reply to Committee Appointed to Notify

him of his Nomination for Mayor of

New York City, October 9, 1905.....

II. Speech in Response to Formal Notifi-

cation of his Nomination as the Re-

publican Candidate for Governor, at

the Republican Club, New York City,

October 3, 1906....

III. Inaugural Address, Albany, N. Y., Jan-

uary 1, 1907...

IV. -Speech at the Dinner of the Republican

Club of the City of New York, October

18, 1907.

V. Correspondence with James S. Lehmaier

of New York City....

PAGE

vii

3

19

24

37

PAGE

VI.-Address before the Republican Club of

the City of New York, January 31,

1908....

VII.-Address at the Union League Club Meet-

ing in the Auditorium at Chicago,

Saturday, February 22, 1908.

40

62

II.-REGULATION OF PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATIONS.

I.—Message to the Legislature, January 2,

1907, Recommending the Passage of

the Public-Service Commissions Law

II. Speech at the Banquet of the Utica

Chamber of Commerce, April 1, 1907.

III. Speech at the Glens Falls Club, April 5,

1907....

IV. Speech at the Banquet of the Buffalo

Chamber of Commerce, April 18, 1907

V. Speech before the Elmira Chamber of

Commerce, May 3, 1907....

133

VI.-Veto of the Two-Cent Fare Bill.

III. OCCASIONAL ADDRESSES.

I. Speech at the Banquet of the Albany

Republican Organization, February

27, 1907..

II.-Speech at the National Arbitration and

Peace Congress, New York City, April

15, 1907..

157

163

III.—Address at the Dedication of the Build-

ings of the New York State College

of Agriculture, at Cornell University,

April 27, 1907....

IV. Address at the Unveiling of Tablets at

the Hall of Fame, New York Uni-

versity, May 31, 1907....

V.-Address at the Jamestown Exposition on

Jefferson Memorial Day, July 5, 1907,

in connection with the Reunion of

the Descendants of the Signers of the

Declaration of Independence....

VI.-Address at Chautauqua, August 24, 1907

VII.-Speech at the Washington County Fair,

Sandy Hill, N. Y., August 27, 1907..

VIII.-Speech at the Dedication of the Mc-

Kinley Monument in Buffalo, Septem-

ber 5, 1907. . . .

IX.-Address at the National Encampment

of the Grand Army of the Republic,

Saratoga, September 10, 1907.......

X.-Address at the Dedication of the Monu-

ment to General Greene at Gettys-

burg, September 27, 1907....

XI.-Speech at the Jamestown Exposition on

New York Day, October 10, 1907....

PAGE

171

179

190

203

215

231

235

239

243

XII. Address at the Dedication of the Monu-

ment to General Franz Sigel, New

York City, October 19, 1907 .. . . . .

XIII.-Address at the Charity Organization

Society, Carnegie Hall, New York

City, November 19, 1907...

XIV. Speech at the Opening of the Civic Forum

at Carnegie Hall, New York City,

November 20, 1907...

XV.-Speech at the Meeting in the Interest

of Tuskegee Institute, Held at Carne-

gie Hall on the Evening of January

17, 1908.....

INTRODUCTORY

BY JACOB GOULD SCHURMAN, LL.D.
PRESIDENT OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY

IN complying with the request of the editor of The Independent1 to write an article on Governor Hughes, I have assumed that what is desired is, not an intimate account of his personality, but an estimate of his attitude and career as a public man. Even for this purpose, however, a brief sketch of his life will prove a helpful introduction.

Charles Evans Hughes was born at Glens Falls, New York, on April 11, 1862. On the father's side he is of pure Welsh stock, on the mother's side in the maternal line of pure Holland Dutch stock, and in the paternal line of Irish, English, and Scotch blood, with a predominance of Irish. At the time of the son's birth the father was a pastor of the Baptist Church at Glens Falls, though he had formerly been a teacher. The mother had also enjoyed

1 1 Reprinted from The Independent, December 26, 1907.