The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-10-28
They Hope the Former President
VIII Be Canned" Once and for
49, Always, Says Gibson
Gardner.
Roosevelt Seems Discouraged at the
Outlook, But Says Fight
al Will Go On.

Delen, and to ask him some questions.
One or the questions was: why In
the name OF common sense, are you
going to make speeches in Ohio?"
Another was: why do the papers
continually refer to a perfect under-
standing between President Taft and
ex-President Roosevelt looking 10
Taft's denomination In 1927"
y Beginning with the last question I
might say that the answer was sub
stantially as follows:
1T Is one OF many published lies. ="
AZ to the speeches In Ohio the an
swer was:
II shall ask that my action in going
to Ohio be judged by what | say in
Ohio"
But It is assumed that you go
there to indorse the state platform
and candidate for governor"
II can only say that go to Ohio on
my own terms, and that my action
must be judged by what say to Ohio
people"
Which disposes. for the present. oil
that question.
How T. r. is getting along with his
New York campaign Is a more com
plicated matter.
He seemed to me a BIZ discouraged.
He made cracking good speech TO
perfectly damned opera house on
the evening Of my arrival but he al
luded In his speech to the possibility
OF defeat, and promised that the fight
should go on.
! found plenty OF reason for his pes
simistic feeling In the men around
him. The old guard Republicans, with
whom he Is trying TO work, are dill
4 gently spreading the idea that failure
IL written In the stars. In their case
the wish Is father to the thought They
have no more use for Roosevelt than
q schoolboy has for q birch stick and
the one dream which now lightens
their existence Is that Roosevelt will
be g~canned" once and for always.
4 Then. hail again the gladstone day OF
corporation contributions. race tracks,
graft and all the Incidents OF the
Odell- Platt-W oodruff order OF things.
Then there Is with T. r. a carload
Of newspaper correspondents repre-
senting the New York papers and the
press associations. Most Of them rep
resent ofices which are violently an
. tagonistic, and all are croaking like
flock OF ravens.
But found one man who shed a
CLEAN. He said he had been hanging
around the Waldorf reading the New
York dailies, and talking to the guests
of the hotel. until he came to the con-
clusion that Nobody was for Roose-
Welt. Not a chance on earth
One day he met wise old poliu-
clan.
"You say you have talked to the
,.people about the hotel?" the old man,
asked.
eyes"
Have you interviewed the help?"
well, no; but will"
And he did, and this was his re-
port:
practically every man jack of them
crazy for Roosevelt. A lot of 'em
q Tammany people, too. But every one
going to vote for Roosebelt.
which to me Eliminates the situa-
ton. Talk with the stock brokers and
the big business folk who come to dine
or live at the gilded hotel, and they
unanimously oppose Roosevelt, being
willing to take Dix or Charley Murphy
himself as an alternative. Get the
opinion OF the wage worker and the
sentiment Is quite different.
OF course, Roosevelt isn't candi-
date. One StImson is the candidate.
But Il is useless to talk about Slim
son. The public eye is on Roosevelt,
and when election day comes, nine opt
of ten OF the voters in New York city
u will think that Roosevelt is on the
ticket. Big business will vote for the
Tammany outfit because II Is opposed
10 Roosevelt, and the man at the bot
tom will vote the Republican ticket
Aacause big Business has Endorsed tho
fammany ticket
Pint hst where the dividing line
will come between Business and HUI
a man Beings remains to be seen. Lots
of Human Beings will, as usual, be
fooled.
In the circular sent out by Tam
many Hall soliciting contributions
from wall-st-, the Issue is clearly de-
fined:
roosevelt will disturb values. II
viii REQUIRE large sum of money to
defeat the Roosevelt policies.
Those are the very words used.
Tammany Hall, Wall-st., and the
business-controlled newspapers all on
: one side, Roosevelt and some OF the
people on the other.
The terror or disturbed business
conditions" and unsettled values IS
~. cInb with which the opposition Is
trying to bludgeon Roosevelt and pro
ureeaiyeism. II Is the same with
which Bryan was dubbed in 1895. And
Il Il being worked In much the same
way.
Better vote for Dix. He's best for
business"
That Is the message carried by the
ticker tape.
do not know how strong the popu-
lar conscience will be against this APP
neal. am unable to say whether the
New York landslide will be for or
against Roosevelt.
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