Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-11-03
ROOsEvELT's ROUGH RIDING.
Addresses ut Ten or More Points on
Long Island Railway.

NEW YORK, November 2.-Theodore
Roosevelt began his speech making 70
the Long Islanders to-day, before the
their breakfasts, and by noon he had ad-
dressed audiences at ten or more stations
along the line of the Long island rail-
road. His principal topic was Richard
Croker, who last night attacked Colonel
Roosevelt's administration of the Police
Department during the mayoralty of Mr.
Strong. At Southampton, for example,
Colonel Roosevelt said that If the Demo-
cratic ticket was elected in the State, il
meant that every storekeeper in the
State would be laid under tribute to Tam
many Hall.
"Tammany," he said, already black
mails vice and collects tribute from those
who thrive on vice, but it is now begin
ming TO levy tribute upon honesty where
honesty is helpless and IL you elect Tam
many you will assistin that operation"
At Valley Stream, Colonel Roosevelt
said:
You don't want TO forget that our real
opponent is not Van Wyck, but Richard
Croker. a man who has laid a dirty nand
on the whiteness Of the ermne. Mr..
Croker objects TO the Police Board under
my management. Well, he might. 1
should be ashamed If l had run it to win
his or his friends cOmmendatlon."
OVATION AT FLUSHING.
The tour OF the day closed with two big
meetlngs--one at Flushing and the other
at Long Island City
Colonel Rooseyelts train arrived at
Flushing a o'clock, and he rested until
it was time for him 10 speak. The hall
was damned to the doors, and he received
an ovation. He said in part.
More and more during the last fort
night we have been brought face TO face
with our real, not our nominal opponent.
Burly Mr.. Croker has shouldered nice Mr..
Van Wyck aside, and appears as the
leader in name, as he already was In fact.
Mr.. Van Wyck Is allowed 10 continue TO
talk about the canal, concerning which
he can say not one word of value; can
not make one promise beyond what /
have said and made He dares not frank
ly discuss one single issue which is an
issue-one issue concerning which there
Is difference OF opinion. Our opponents
decline TO speak OF free silver. because
they say Il is not an issue, though every
man in the State knows that IL is an issue,
and that those who say 1t is not are
uttering an untruth. which they do not
believe. and which they only utter be-
cause they dare not say what they do
believe. But Mr.. Van Wyck is not the
real candidate. My real opponent is Mr..
Croker, and, unlike Mr.. Van Wyck, he is
willing 10 raise all kinds OF issues, and
he is himself an Issue. He does not
speak Of honest finance, and nobody would
pay any heed to him II he did. for he
knows nothing about It,
POLICE BOARD RECORD.
But having attacked Judge DAILY. and
attacked the Bar Association, he now at
tacks me. and l will meet him a great
deal more than half way. He attacks
my administration OF the Police d part
ment. I should be sorry indeed il Il
had merited his praise. He says In ef-
feet that under my administration crime
went unpublished. That statement is SIM
ply untrue. Near the close Of my two
years term Of service. the presiding
Judge OF the Court of General Sessions
stated that crime had diminished until
it was less than ever before in recent
years. Mr.. Croker does not recognize
what we really did with vice.
THE acknowledged financial part
existing between certain
leaders of Tammany Hall and
protected vice is the scandal and
disgrace OF New York. II was on this
point that l warred. I broke UP that
and I will break II up again
whenever the circumstances offer, let
Mr.. Croker cry ever so loudly.
CROKER SEEKING DICTATORSHIP
"Tammany now blackmais vice. but IL
has already begun 10 blackmail honesty
where honesty is helpless. II il gets
the power 1t will extend its system OF
corruption all through the State II was
once before done, when Tweed was die
tator; II behooves the good people OF the
State 10 see that II is not done now
Mr.. Cookers Governor could send Mr.
Croker's judge To any part OF the State, |
and II Mr.. Cookers Mayor were charge
with malfeasance. II would again b. Nj |
Cookers Governor who would try him |
What a travesty on justice such a trial |
would be-
Mr.. Croker is striving to render tn,
Judges his equally seryile tools. He has |
The Mayor; he wishes the Governor. II |
the police force and the judiciary. the |
Executive at Albany. and the Executive |
IN New York. all become his supple /
kneed servants, his power Will be su. |
preme, and we will have no single way
II making effective protest against any |
extreme of corruption or lawlessness.'
At Long Island City Colonel Roosevelt
again received a splendid welcome He
poke on precisely the same lines as had
occupied him at Flushing