New farl = STATE OF NEW YORK PUBLIC PAPERS OF CHARLES E. HUGHES GOVERNOR 1907 ALBANY J. B. LYON COMPANY, STATE PRINTERS 02-17-22 M.Y. Priblic Lib INAUGURATION The ceremonies attending the inauguration of Charles E. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN :— So long as our institutions "He is a wise and useful public servant who, disregarding his own future, sees and averts on the one hand the dangers arising from a relentless despotism of wealth, and on the other hand the threatened excesses of an irrational and tyrannical class-hatred which would lay waste and confiscate if it dared. "Temporary success cannot satisfy the conscience of one who to retain office would jeopardize civilization and liberty, either through the corrosive power of corrupt wealth or by hypocritical appeals to the passions and prejudices of the ignorant or thoughtless. No public officer can serve two masters. He who regards party or faction or business interests or personal ambition first and his own oath of office last, is a traitor to civilization itself. "Macaulay prophesied fifty years ago that the day was not far distant when in the State of New York a demagogue, |