New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-30
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II gave us great pleasure yesterday
morning to call the attention Of our
readers to the fact that Mr.. Dix was
going 10 break his silence, in a limited
sense, by giving TO our neighbor The
Evening Post" an authorized and exclu-
siye interview on the issues Of the cam
paigr We were quite sure that any
utterance Of his would be highly useful
TO Mr. StimSon. who has been trying TO
prod him into self-eIpression. by expos
ing the hypocrisy and humbug of Mr..
DiI's position And we were not disap-
pointed.
The substance of Mr.. Dix's argument
was that some Republicans lately in
office had been found corrupt and that
the Republican party was false to its
promises In that IL did not revise the
tariff downward TO q sufficient degree TO
suit Mr.. Dix Mr.. Di1's own statement
of the case is:
Not even after Mr.. Hughes's admin
istration can 1 believe that reform can
be achieved by the friends of those who
are guilty, or by their party associates,
any more than the Republican party can
be trusted to revise the tariff, after the
way il was false TO it's promises in the
last revision.
1t is perfectly true that some Repub-
licans have been corrupt, and Mr.. Dix
comedies that some Democrats have also
been corrupt he cannot trust the Re
publican party because Of its unfaithful
members. How. then, can he trust the
Democratic party? be points to Aids,
Conger. RaineS and others as men on
account of whom the Republican party
should be driven from power. How,
then. can he fail 10 point TO Grady,
O'Neil, Murphy's representative in the
corrupt office OF the Democratic State
Engineer. Sohmer and McCarren as men
on account Of whom the Democratic
party should be shut from power? Mr..
Dix knows perfectly well that the
BLACK horse cavalry WAS a bipartisan
combination that the Republicans in It
were minority Of their party's repre-
sentation in the Legislature, that in
their attempts TO block good legislation
and put through bad bills they invari-
ably had the support of the bulk of the
Democratic forces, and that only by
such combination were the honorable
Republicans prevented from accomplish
ing their purposes. The majority of the
Republicans have steadily fought these
evil forces using the Republican name.
while the majority of Democrats have
supported them. The Republicans have
striven TO DIVE out Of power their
Alldses and Congers. The Democrats
have renominated their Gradys and
given new honors to their Sohmers.
Mr. DIX thinks the state cannot be re-
formed by party associates of Aids. He
is asking the voters 10 let him reform it
as q party associate of Grady. The Re
publicans have expelled their black
horse cavalry" and put up clean ticket.
Mr.. Dix has taken the Democratic
BLACK horse cavalry" on TO the ticket
with himself and asks the people 10 put
Grady and his fellows into control of
the Legislature. and to put the finances
of the state into the hands Of the treas
urer of Tammany, whose chief distinc-
ton in Albany was earned as the cham
pion of racetrack gambling
That might seem 70 be the limit Of
humbug, but Mr. Dix seems determined
to show the voters that he knows no
limit in that direction. With astonish-
ing faulty he directs attention again TO
the hypocrisy of his tariff pretensions.
The Republican party was false to its
promises as to tariff revision? Who
! tried TO make II false more than Mr.. Dix
and his partner. Mr. Huppuch, the
present chairman Of the Democratic
State Committee? The owners of the
Standard Wall Paper Company. who did
not Scruple 10 ask that the tariff on wall
paper be increased from % per cent 70
30 per cent and ~ per cent. while com
planning OF the excessive cost of labor In
| this country. now have the effrontery to
shed crocodile tears because tariff redUc-
ton went no further than 1t did,
No wonder Murphy has been keeping
Mr. Dix silent His foresight and
strategy command admiration even
while they awaken regret. If Mr. Dix
can only be induced to talk further Re
publicanS will rejoice