The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
ROOSEVELT DENIES
 ALL AUTHORSHIP
New York Tariff Plank Is Not
 of His Making
ONLY PART ENDORSED
New Nationalism Is Again Discussed in His Atlanta Speech and He Ex- plains Attitude Toward the
 Payne Tariff Law

l Atlanta, October 8.--Th eodore Roose. welt tonight disclaimed all responsi. 1 bilty for the tariff plank in the New York state republican platform. In do- ing so he replied to criticisms which ticularly by some of the so-called in surgent" republicans In the west to the effect that he talked one kind of poI- itics in the west and another In the east This criticism was based large ly upon the fact that, while he dld not indorse the Payne tariff law in any of his western speeches, the tariff plank of the New York republican platform commended the bill. Colonel Roose- welt made 1t clear In his speech tonight that he had not indorsed the Payne law and that he did not agree with the New York tariff plank. He said that he would stand on his speech as tenn porary chairman of the New York re- publican convention in which he com mended parts of the Payne law but did not indorse 1t as . wh ole.
 Colonel Roosevelt's speech was de- livered at the Uncle Remus Day cele- bration here. He began his address with an appreciation of the life and works cs Joel Chandler Harris, au- thor of the Uncle Remus Tales. Then he turned to his recently enunciated doctrine of the new >nationalism.
 "In speaking to you of the new na- tionalism," he said. q want at the outset to answer publicly a question put to me this evening by couple of your journalists as to one feature as to what I had spoken of as the new nationalism, concerning which they thought I had spoken differently at different times. These gentlemen asked me just how I reconciled what I had said in the west with the tariff plank in the New York state republican plat form. I answered them that I did not reconcile 1t: that on that particular platform I must refuse to be judged hy what the platform said, but what I myself said.
 "You probably know We had quite a lively time at Saratoga. I was elect ed temporary chairman and served as such with reasonable efficiency before the platform was adopted. There were a number of men who voted for me for temporary chairman who were in har- mony with me on all of the most vital points at issue, who yet dis agreed with me on certain points, on one or two that I regarded as of great importance. And so my speech as tenn porary chairman put my position as accurately used language could put it. and on any point where what l said In my address differs from what was said in the platform 1t must be under stood that I personally must be judged by what I myself said in this matter of tariff plank.
 That fight, as I regarded 1t, was pri- marily a fight for the great Fundamentals of citizenship. It was fight against corruption, against what Is the abso- lute negation of democracy. and that Is against bossism and a fight for genuine popular rule. We carried the issue to a triumphant conclusion and in our plat form embodied all three blanks and on that platform, as candidate, we put q man of unfiinching courage and high and stainless character.
 ITO achieve that great good l worked with many men who on one or more other points did not agree with me We laid no emphasis on our conditions as re- gards the points that in that particular district were minor because it was abso- lutely essential to good citizenship that we should win on the vital issues, that we should win on tile great principles of insisting that there should be no par don for the dishonest public servant, and least of all for the dishonest public servant of our own party; that no boss or group of bosses should rule the party and that the people should exercise their right to control their own affairs"
 Colonel Roosevelt then passed to a dis cussion of the general principles of new nationalism, reiterating the views which he expressed In his speeches in Bristol and Knoxville yesterday.
 On leaving the auditorium Colonel Roosevelt went to negro church and talked to the negroes of Atlanta on good citizenshp.. From the church he went to his car for the night. The colonel is to leave at 5:so q. m. for Hot Springs. Ark.