Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-25
Says That latter's Ignorance Of Being
in Wall Paper Trust Hardly Re-
CommendS Him for Cuberna-
t0ria| Chair in New York,
ROOSEVELT SCORES DIX.

New York. Oct. 24.-Aided by Col
Roosevelt in his upstate speaking
tour, the Republican state campaign
managers today made every effort to
press their charge that John A. Dix,
Democratic candidate for governor,
had been interested in the so-called
Wall Paper Trust. Col. Roosevelts
speeches were supplemented by a
statement from Ezra Prentice, chair
man of the state committee. If Mr..
Dix said that his company since his
connection with it had no connection
with the Wall Paper Trust, l don't
believe it's true" said the chairman.
"The trust ceased to be active" he
continued, because the members of
the pool quarreled; but there never
was any formal dissolution of the pool
ing agreement and so far as l know
the agreement still holds
Ithaca N. Y, Oct. 24.-To inspect
abandoned farms in this section Of the
state, eXPresident Roosevelt stopped
here today at the beginning of his
campaign trip in New York State,
which is to extend until the last OF
the week. Colonel Roosevelt was to
ride by automobile for more than 100
miles during the day with Represents
tive w. W. Cocks of Nassau county,
who came from New York with him;
Rep John w. Dwight and Prof l.. H.
Bailey of Cornell. who was president
OF the Country Life Commission. APP
pointed by President Roosevelt.
Declaring that for IS months. John
A. Dix, Democratic candidate for gov
ernor, was a director of the so-called
Wall Paper Trust, Theodore Roosevelt.
in a speech here today. said that Mr..
Dix either knew nothing about the
company of which he was a director
or else was not frank in his statements
about the matter.
Colonel Roosevelt spoke early today
to crowd in front of a hotel here
before starting on his tour of aban-
doned farms. No speech was sched
uled for Ithaca, but Colonel Roosevelt
decided to reply to Mr.. Dix's denial
of Saturday that he had been connect
ed with the Wall Paper Combine as
Colonel Roosevelt alleged in a speech
in New York last Thursday.
Colonel Roosevelt said:
ION Thursday night last, I charged
Mr.. Dix with being a director of the
Standard Wall Paper Co. at a time
when it was a member of trust, the
Continental Wall Paper Co., which
Judge Lurton had stigmatized
as one of the most oppressive monop-
olies ever created and one which tend
ed to raise prices to an improper
height and therefore to do great harm
to pei sons who used necessity of
life. Mr. Walker had already written
on October p to Mr.. Dix, asking him
II he was connected with this trust.
Mr.. Walker never received an answer
to his letter from Mr.. Dix, but yester
day after l had made by statement
Mr.. Dix published in the daily papers
letter purporting to have been sent
to Mr.. Walker before made NV
statement. In this letter Mr.
Dix states that he became a director
of the Standard Wall PAPER Co. in
June. 1907, and in his letter CONVEYS
the Impression that the Standard
wall Paper Co. has not since been ,
portion Of the trust. and states tha,
ne is against trusts
This statement of Mr. Dix's is oo,,.
pietely misleading. Either he knows
nothing about what the companv NJ
which he is a director, has been doing.
or ne is not frank in his answer If
you VIII turn to Pages 227 to pa, inclus-
i've Of Volume PIP of the United States
reports. you will find the final deci-
sion Of the supreme court. declaring H.
iegal the trust of which Mr.. Dix's
standard Wall Paper Co. was a member.
This decision was rendered in February
1919, over year and a half after Mr.
Dix states that he became director of
one of the companies which was in the
trust. In the volume to which / refer
Is found copy of the contract between
the Continental Wall Paper Co., the
trust, and the Standard Wall Paper Co.,
Mr. Dix's company, which was one of
those in the trust
Colonel Roosevelt said that Justice
Harlan of the supreme court, had stat
ed that the Continental Wall Paper COM
bination was a violation of the Sherman
law
Colonel Roosevelt added:
i'Mr. Dix's partner in the Standard
Wall PAPER Co., Mr.. Julius Jackson,
was the president of the trust. If Mr..
Dix could be so ignorant of what was
going on in his own private business, of
which he was a director, and so Ignorant
of what his partner in that private bus
mess was doing, and so ignorant of what
the supreme court of the United States
definitely decided in reference to that
business, then all can say Is that he Is
altogether too innocent to be trusted IN
public office as a subordinate partner of
so able and astute a gentleman as Mr.
Mummy the boss of Tammany Hall. IT