Excerpt from Addresses at the Banquet of the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, November 26th, 1906 You have now learned why in the deuce we sent for him. The next regular toast will be The State of New York. The gentleman who will respond to that toast needs no introduction from me. We praise him for what he has been in the past; we honor him for what he is in the present, and we will trust him for the future. Ladies and gentlemen, Charles E. Hughes, the Governor-elect of the State of New York. (loud applause.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.