Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-02
ROOSEVELT TO
N. Y. VOTERS.
Secretary Root Makes Stirring
Speech at Utica in Behalf
of Hughes.

NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-The storm cen
ter of political action in this state vas
transferred from the up state counties
to the city of Greater New York, and
from now until Nov. 6 both Charles e.
Hughes and w. r. Hearst, Republican
and Observation-Disclosures league
candidates respectively, will make their
appeals TO the voters Of the metropoll-
tan districts.
The programmes arranged for them
call for many speeches daily, and their
vigorous and almost unprecedented
campaigns will continue almost to the
dawn of election day. Mr.. Hearst has
already returned to the city, and Mr..
Hughes will arrive here today from
Utica. where he closed his up state
campaign last night.
Secretary Root at Utica last night
made the only speech he will make in
the present campaign. He spoke at
the closing meeting of Mr.. Hughes up
state campaign. and his speech was an
earnest appeal for the election of Mr..
Hughes. With the authority of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Mr.. Root said, he as
sured his hearers that the president
greatly desired the election of Mr..
Hughes as governor of New York.
Il say to you,'' said Mr.. Root, that
he Ghe PRESIDENT regards Mr.. Hearst
as wholly unfit to be governor; that he
considers Mr.. Hearst's election would
be an injury and a discredit alike to
honest labor and to honest capital.
president Roosevelt and Mr.. Hearst
stand as far as the poles asunder. LIS
ten to what President Roosevelt him
self has said of Mr.. Hearst and his
kind. In President Roosevelt's first
message to congress, in speaking of the
assassin of Mckinley, he spoke of him
as inflamed by the reckless u~tterances
of those who, on the stump and in the
public press, appeal to the dark and
evil spirits of malice and greed, envy
and sullen hatred.
1.-The wind is sowed by the men who
preach such doctrines, and they cannot
escape the responsibility for the whirl-
wind that is reaped. This applies alike
TO the deliberate demagogue, to the
exploiter of se~nsationalism and to the
crude and foolish visionary who, for
whatever reason. apologies for crime
or excites aimless discomfort
81 say by the presidents authority
that in penning these words, with the
horror of President McKinley's murder
: fresh before him, he had Mr.. Hearst
specifically in his mind. And | say
by his authority that what he thought
of Mr.. Hearst then he thinks of Mr..
Hearst now"
Characterizing Mr.. Hearst as a vio-
lent and unworthy demagogue and a
persistent office seeker. Mr.. Root de-
clared that as a congressman he had
proved a worthless public servant, that
while protesting to favor an independ-
ent judiciary he had made a deal with
Tammany Leader Murphy for the
nomination of a judiciary ticket in
New York, that while i~nveighing
against corporations his own corporate
management shows insincerity of his
profession, that it is not calm n law.
full redress of wrongs which he seeks,
but the turmoil of iniamed passions
and the terrorism of ~revengeful force;
that he is guided by selfish motives
and that he is mot guiltless of Me-
Kinley's DEATH
'The immediate and necessary effect
of MI. Hearst's election" said Mr..
Root. "would be to deprive the presi-
dent of the moral support of the state
of New York. it would be to strength
en- the presidents enemies and oppo-
nents and to weaken and embarrass
would inevitably lead to a reaction
against all true reform and genuine
redress of grievances"
WhensMr. Root said Mr.. Hearst neg
lected his duties in congress a man in
the balcony cried out. That's a lie.''
Instantly Mr.. Root replied, Here
are the records of congress to prove it,"
AS Mr.. Root was speaking of the
Hearst assaults on President McKin-
ley and reading extracts from the Jour-
nal a man in the crowd on the stage
jumped to his feet and shouted:
Il protest! Mckinley is dead! Let
him rest! l protest."
The incident created wild confusion
in the theater.
Greater New York is ablaze with DO
litical enthusiasm. The Republican
followers held more than a hundred
meetings in as many different places.
and W. r. Hearst spoke to sixteen diff
ferent audiences between 8 O'clock and
midnight in Manhattan and the Bronx.
His chief address was made at Car-
negie hall to u crowded house.