The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-02
Secretary of State Quotes PTesii- dent and ExcOriates the
 Democratic Candidate 
INS|NCERE DEMAGOGUE ONE
 0F HIS POLITE PHRASES
Has Proved Worthless Officeholder and Comes Before the Voters Gov cred With the Stains of
 Tammany Support.

Utica. N. Y, November 1.-Seeretary Of State Elihu Root joined with Charles E. Hughes, the republican candidate for gov ernor of New York, here tonight in ad- dressing a political mass meeting in the Majestic theatre.
 The doors of the playhouse were closed shortly after 1 o'clock so great was the crowd within, and the streets were thronged thereafter with persons seeking admittance. A second meeting was ar ranged in Mannerchor hall, and MT. Hughes also spoke there.
 Secretary Root came here direct from Washington. and using the name of Pres ident Roosevelt. and speaking IS he said, with his authority he asked the peo- pie of the state to elect MT. Hughes gov ernor. Appealing to the workngmen who may hear or read my words Sec retary Root exclaimed amid great out burst of applause and cheering;
 Appeal to the Laboring Men.
 Do you believe in President Roosevelt? If you do help him with your votes 1 say to you with his authority that he greatly desires the election of MT. Hughes as governor of the state of New York, 1 say to you with his authority that he re- gards Mir Hearst as wholly unfit to be governor, as an insincere, self-seeklnS demagogue who is trying to deceive the working men of New York by false state ments and false promises; and l say to YOU with his authority that he considers that MT. Hearst's election would be an injury and a discredit alike to honest labor and to honest capital, and serious injury to the work in which he is engaged of enforcing just and equal laws against corporate wrong doing
 Secretary Ri5ot dsciared flat 'President Roosevelt and Mir Hearst stand as far as the poles asunder"
 aListen.' he said, ito what President Roosevelt himself has said to MT. Hearst and his kind. In President Roosevelts first message to Congress in speaking ot inc assassination of Mckinley, he spoke or him as nfamed by the reckless utterances 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. The wind is sowed by the men who preach such doctrines and they cannot escape their share of responsibill- ty from the whirlwnd that is reaped.
 Applies Alike to All.
 ''This applies alike to the deliberate dcmagogue, to the eXploiter of sensation alism. and to the crude. foolish and vis- ionary who for whatever reason apolo- eizes for crime or excites aimless discon- tent
 .I say by the Presidents authority that in penning these words with the horror or President McKinley's murder fresh be- fore him, he had MT. Hearst espeeialiS In his mind
 "And | say by his authority" concluded inc secretary of state that what he thought of Mir Hearst then, he thinks Of Mir Hearst now
 The demonstration of applause and cheering which followed continued Tor some time.
 Mr Root was warmly welcomed here tonight and some one in the galleries called out
 who'll be the next President?
 There was a response of Root.
 Twice during the delivery of the speech the secretary was interrupted by per sons in the audience. and the great crowd in the theatre was in an uproar. one or these interruptions came when Secretary Root declared Hearst had been elected 10 Congress to serve the American voters and failed to do so.
 That's liev' shouted a man in the balcony.
 At once there was a roar of put him ant" but Mir. Root held up has hand for silence, and said:
 let him remain.
 Summarizes Hearst's Record.
 He then read statement which he declared summarized Mr. Hearst's rec prd in the national House of Representa- lives. The second interruption came when Secretary Root was referring to the as- sassinatton of President Mckinley.
 "AIcKinley is dead. Why should you bring him into this?" cried a man.
 Again the tumult arose, and several men started to eject the man. Secretary Root asked that he be left alone, where upon the man voluntarily left the place. MT. Hughes spoke just prior to MT. Root, and in his remarks paid a personal com pliment to the secretary, saylng:
 ..He comes to us tonight IS hero of the victories of peace
 Violent and Unworthy Demagogue.
 Characterizing MT. Hearst as a violent and unworthy demagogue, and persis- tent office-see'-er, Mir Root declared that as a congressman he had proved worth less public servant; that while protesting to favor an independent judiciary he had q ply for the nomination of judiciary tick cts in New York; that while inveighing against corporations his own corporate management shows the insncerity of his profession that it is not calm and lawful redress of wrongs which he seeks, but the turmoil of iniamed passions and the terrorism of revengful force: that he is guided by selfish motives. and that he is mot glltless of Mckinleys death."
 We are witnessing in the state of New York" said MT. Root ''one of those tests of popular government which often have come in the past and always will come In the future when a successful dema- gogue attempts to get elected to office by exceeding all other men in the denunca- ton of real evils, and in promises to cure them. II cannot be doubted that many workingmen in the state are about to strengthen the enemies and weaken the friends of popular government all over the world by voting for MT Hearst, who is lust the kind of a demagogue that