New-York tribune., 1906-09-27

Roosevelt 0den and Higgins-under whose admin
and what tribute TO popular government through
strong united and able party Organization.
prouder still that, although found tax rate on
the real and personal property Of this state Of 50 5S
OF continuous criticism and opposition steadily
duced direct taxation in this state until this year
we are able 10 announce the fuflment OF that
promise also and the long looked for fruition Of
OF the state its internal Improvement and its in
creased expenses, for the first year within tho
tax has been levied in this state this year for the
administration OF the state government, nor need
fund Of $5325 900 having been made from current
ceipts. instead Of by the levy OF direct tax, as
might have been done.
That we should have been able during these years
Dtnses biIf eS0id aIso bee ba a3 fi M ~ + *
constantly increasing demands upon the treasury
service to lis Citizens and psrformed ali those
history amounts to a demonstration that during
these twelve years the affairs this state have
not been in untntelIigent or unsafe hands
Mean while. what has become OF the party which
was driven from power with such odium in 1894? I
Will not stop 10 narrate the vicissitudcs through
the old leaders, the strange fances and theories Of
ago by the old leaders and their defeat then, al
though they asserted that the party had abandoned
its heresies and become safe and sane. which, how
ever proved 20 pe Chy a 4ucid interval Suh1ce II
TO say that to-day AT the other end of this state
are wrestling again they have off and on during
all these years for the return 10 ancient standards
holding aloft before it new and strange banners
Inscribed with devices calculated t. allure the
thoughtless the distrustfu the pre1udiced and the
discontented.
DEMOCRACY IN STRANGE HANDS
From party which formerly adhered. and MANY
OF the rank and file Of which yet adhere. 10 known
policies and fixed principles OF government. it has
been led or degenerated into an aggregation of
men, ideas and methods without cohesion or an
approved leadership-a mere party Of opposition TO
existing conditions. ready TO decry what has been
accomplished, crtticise what is attempted and seize
upon the latest popular idea or vote catching de-
vice as its WatchwOrd with which TO wage a cam
pelgn- Inc splendid accomplishments I have re
1erred 10 nave not been achieved without great
effort; they have happened or occurred; thev
have been produced and every step has been de-
cried, criticised and opposed By our Democrats
opponents, both in the Legislature and out Of IL
Why should there be d change? Why should
substance bs relinquished for shadow? Why should
suspicion supplant Judgment? Why should
achievement and performance by responsive
coherent and cohesive party be exchanged for
theory and promise by incoherent party ir-
responsive 10 the great principles for which
Democracy once stood. and lacking in cohesion
that they -re unable to agree among themselves
more coherent. or more responsive more able
10 agree If victorious? II victorious which SET
Of theories or promises Will prevail? which rev
enue laws that We have enacted viii they dare 10
repeal. and, II repealed, whence is rhe Money
coming TO pay the necessary expenses of the state?
Are we return TO a direct taxation on me far-1a
and the homes, or are we 10 give some Of
benehcent work or improvements now being car
ried in the state! VIII II be our election law
or primary law, or our ta~ On the liuuor trar-
fc or stock transfers, on CCrroratInns ar
do prefer 10 thllE k that will he
ganized Ineffective assault OF the dissor'iap, 5nd
disc6nteutcd who Will attempt 10 destroy what II
has al many years To build fgb
ONLY render unstable and uncertain existing CON
dItors and thus deprive US az least for a time Of
an fu measure OF the peace and the 6a 1irijr,5
ana The prosperity with which this country Is heinz
TrToT tis and those who sent us here rests o. r
-,eisfira Of the responsibility for peace ma bo7t1
80 and prosperity breed carelessness and nerflat
trtet among the idle, the uniformed ana tho ~
cl21s. Gus revelations OF the last year both here
- nave ar times shocked even rba dtA
e., - clear headed but the Investigation v-iia,
Lull.aaie5 those conditions We're both needed -
saintoTv and / am proud OF my membership in a
a-L.t.tt b1+b great enough and honest enoftgb -
baIS sJ5ressed itself 10 them with thorous hnesS -
and feaTlesshess. ,4a. +bey han. Co.,
,td .onditions but they nave also afforded omar
80 .t'tch those who were minded were t,i1i,,
I'iiIGG G mon and attempt to turn 10 their a5van
80 E.tt,tcsl and otherwise 1t Is pre-eminentl,-
49, ,ooInesg caution and judgment and II ia
upon those thaI ''' +'' -'''79 now.
as lt always - 20 New York leads, ought 10 lend
g. tt5.i,ass in wealth in population, in enterprtsA
~ p.slilesSt ~ charities and in sound and an
- 'a,to5s Of administration In the discharge
- s,i,Jas 10 human kind II shines among the
galaxv nf states ike DIE. - ,,'I, I3i be-
"a Ga-9e ol ~ ~ Them II Is affording example
~ - ss .t- s,ates See 10 II that nothing oc-
ours 70 injure its pre-el SI ocoir ~ s OF These
tSos &c., ~ o. represent by our unwisdom and
carelessnesA permit u