Bisbee daily review., 1904-09-01
Democrats Open
 New York Campaign
SENATOR BAILEY FLAYS THE RECORD OF PRESIDENT ROOSE-
 WELT WITHOUT MERCY.
"A Good Man to Select For War; Not the Man Fer Statesmsnship.' and the Senator Goes Over the Char acteristics of the Two Men.

Davis ratification meeting held laSt night in the New home of the Kings County Democratic Club in Schermer horn street. It was the opening broad side of the Democratic campaign in Brooklyn, and many of those connect ed with its management supported Mckinley in 1896 and 1900. It was not an ordinary campaign meeting, being held in a club house and attend ed by solid substantial business men.
 As many as the hall on the top floor of the clubhouse would hold, about, 1,500 were present. Others stood in the railways at the entrance Many could not get within range of the voices of the speakers, and left in dis appointment
 The chief speaker was Senator Bailey. of Texas. The speech was over 6O0O words in length. and the slow oratory of the Texan required two hours to deliver it; but not single person left the hall until it was finish ed.
 On the platform were Edward NJ Sheppard. Gorge Foster Peabody Comptroller Grout. Senator McCarren' District Attorney Clarke, Fred w Heinrichs. Luke D. Saapleton, Congress man Fitzgerald. Harrington Putnam, Congressman Wilson and J. Warren Greene.
 President H. A Metz, of the club. made the opening speech. In his opening paragraph he mentioned the names of Parker and Davis. Instantly a whirlwind of applause broke loose that lasted sevral minutes.
 Senator Bailey in his speech first scored the Republican campaign man ageTs, charging them with circulating distorted extracts from judicial opin- ion never prepared or delivered by Judge Parker and used to inflame the minds of certain classes against the Democratic candidate.
 He said the chief issue of the cam paign was the candidates themselves adding:
 Perhaps it will relieve some ap prehension for me to say in advance that in all I may say about the Presi dent that there will be no syllable about his private character of habits. We sought to nominate a candidate who in his private and domestic life is as much like Roosevelt as possible, and who in all other respects is as much unlike him as we could find"
 With great detail the Senator went into the Republican charge that the money panic in 1893 was due to the Cleveland administration, giving many facts in support of his assertion that the commercial and industrial troubles
 
 in 1892, during the Harrison admins tration; the panic of 1893 was one of the consequences.
 He took up the race problem in the South, accusing Roosevelt of having aggravated it's natural difficulties by many acts, particularly the plan to re duce the representation of several of the Southern States. He paid a touch ing tribute to Mckinley, who, he said had accomplished much toward wiping out all sectional feeling He took up the question of lynchings in the South saying that every thoughtful man in that section depreciated the outbreaks of violence and was determined to suppress them. Then he said:
 'If, however, there are among us IntU NliO YuStllg AAt tdHltSS SUI II which sometimes expresses itself in a public lynching, they could not find in all the range of English literature a more pointed and complete defense of such conduct than has been furnish ed by the Republican candidate for the Presidency. Long. before the dream of Chief Magistracy of the Republic ever entered his brain, he devoted him self to the more pleasant but less pre- tentious task of writing books. and in work which he calles Ranch Life and Hunting Trails" he thus records his approval of the mob.
 During the last two or three years the stockmen had united to put down all the dangerous characters, often Dy the most summary exercise of lynch law. Bands of horse and cattle thieves have been regularly hunted down and destroyed in pitched fights by parties of armed cowboys; and. as a conse- quence most of our territory is per fectly lawabiding'
 They made a solitlde and call it peace, the President might well have said. It is one of the interesting oddi- ties of the Presidents mine that none can contemplate with equanimity country made perfectly law-abiding' by the unauthorized and unlawful war fare of the mob against the outlaws. The President then adds. as if relat- ing a commonplace incident, this mild statement:
 "A little over two years ago one committee of vigilantes in Montana shot or hung nearly sixty-not, how ever, with the best judgment in some cases'
 "As the President says, they did not shoot and hang with the best judg- ment in all cases He must mean that they did shoot and hang with the best judgment in some cases.
 Tn his work entitled Winning of the West the President asserts that good men in such cases band themselves to- gether to put down, with ruthless Sc verity by the exercise of lynch law. the worst offhand In many cases of lynch : law which have come to my knowledge the effect has been healthful to the