The Detroit times., 1910-10-29
ROOSEVELT FOES
IN c. D. P. INVITE
DEFEAT, NOV. 8
They Hope the Former President
Will Be Canned" Once and for
Always, Says ellison
Gardner.
Roosevelt Seems Discouraged at the
Outlook, But Says Fight
Will Go On.
RY OLSON GARDINER.

! palgn, and TO ask him some questions.
One OF the questions was: why in
the name OF common sense are you
going TO make speeches In 0hio?
Another was: Why do the papers
continually refer TO a perfect under
standing between President Taft and
ex-President Roosevelt looking to
Taft's denomination in 1922"
Beginning with the last question l
might say that the answer was sub
stantially as follows:
1T is enc OF many published lies. .
AS 10 the speeches in Ohio the an-
swer was:
Il shall ask that my action in going
TO Ohio be judged by what say In
Ohio"
But II 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 bit discouraged.
He made a cracking good speech TO
perfectly TANNED opera house on
the evening OF my arrival: but he al
mded 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
81 "a h1fnang Wit n
whom he Is trying TO work, are dill
gently spreading the idea that failure
is written in the stars In their case
the wish is father TO the thought They
| have no more use for Roosevelt than
a schoolboy has for a birch stick. anu
the one dream which now lightens
their existence Is that Roosevelt VIII
be canned" once and for always.
| Then, hall again the gladstone day OF
corporation contributions, race tracks
graft and all the incidents or the
OdelLPlatt-Woo order OF things
Then there is with T. r. a carload
OF newspaper correspondents repre-
senting the New York papers and tn
press associations. Most of them rep
resent offices which are violently an
tagonistic. and all are croaking Ike a
| 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 10 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 tho
people about the hotel?" the old man
asked.
Yes"
Have You interviewed the help
We'll, no: but l will.
And he did: and this was his re
port:
practically every man jack Of them
crazy for Roosevelt. A lot OF EN-
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. beine
willing to take Dix or Charley Murphy
himself as al alternative. Get tins
opinion OF the wage worker and the
sentiment is quite different.
or course, Roosevelt isn't 7candi
date One Stimson Is the candidate
But II Is useless to talk about Slim
son. The public eye Is on Roosevelt
and when election day comes, nine on
OF ten OF the voters In New York city
will think that Roosevelt Is on the
ticket Big business will vote for tho
Tammany outfit because 1t is opposed
TO Roosevelt. and the man at the bot
tom will vote the Republican ticke
beeause Big Business has Endorsed the
Tammany ticket.
Put iust where the dividing linz
VIII come between Business and Hu
man Beings remains to be seen. Lott
OF Human Beings Will, as usual, o'
fooled.
In the circular sent out by Tam
many Hall soliciting contribution
from Wall-st., the issue Is clearly de
fined:
Roosevelt will disturb values. 1
will require a large sum Of money Il
defeat the Roosevelt policies.
Those are the very words used.
+ Tammany Hall, Wall-st., and the
busIness-controlled newspapers all OF
one side, Roosevelt ana some or the
people on the other.
The terror OF disturbed business
conditions and unsettled values" Is
the club with which the opposition IL
trying TO bludgeon Roosevelt and pro
gressiyeism II is the same will
which Bryan was dubbed in 1896 And
it is being worked in much the same
way
Better vote for Dix. He's best fol-
business.
That is the message carried by the
ticker tape.
do not know how strong the pOpu
lar conscience will be against this APP
peal. am unable 10 say whether the
New York landslide will be for OF
against Roosevelt
Makes Longest cross-country Flight
BRUSSELS, oct. 2S.-The longest
continued cToss.country aerOplane
fight with a passenger was accom-
plished today by Matthew, a French
aviator. who in a biplane flew from
Paris to Brussels. 1875 miles, In three
hours and 90 minutes. Matthew left
Paris at 1890 this afternoon and ar
rived at Brussels at O'Clock. He eX
poets to start on the return trip late
| today.