New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-14
v. H. RUSSELL BOLTS DIX
Believes 1t Patriotic Duty to
Support StimsOn, He Writes.
THIRTY YEARS A DEMOCRAT
But Finds Progress in Utter
ances of Roosevelt and Presl-
Dental Acts of Taft.

In a letter to State Chairman Prentice
William Hepburn Russell. formerly Com
missioner of Accounts and an active Demo-
cratic worker and stump speaker Tor years
came out yesterday in support OF Henry
l. Stimson for Governor and the Taft
Roosevelt policies in general AS pro-
Sressfve Democrat he urged all other DEM
ocrats who wanted self-rule in place OF cor
poration rule to break away from wall
Street influenced Democracy and vote the
Republican ticket
Progressive Americans" said Mr.. Rus
sell, must stand for a leadership that
fights the battle of the peoples rights and
that leadership at this time and in this
campaign ], as progressive Democrat.
find in the public utterances of Theodore
Roosevelt and in the Presidential acts Of
William Howard Taft"
Roosevelt Taft Hughes Republicans
showed much interest in Mr.. Russelrs let
ter when its import became noised abroad
last night They figured that the en-
phasis on the issue OF "Rooseveltism' in
this campaign, made by the reactiOnary
Democrats behind the Dix ticket and
equally reactionary Republicans who say
they will bolt Stimson, would have its
counter effect.
This letter they took to be the first indi-
cation of the reverse swing of the pendu-
lum. They predicted that where one con
sentative" Republican, or Wall Street cor
poration biassed man, was lost to the Re
publican ticket because of Roosevelt, two
progressive Democrats or independents
would take his place
Takes Issue with Young.
Mr. Russell virtually raised that point
himself He took direct issue with Charles
H. Young, formerly president of the Re
publican Club, who resigned from that body
and blazoned himself as a Dix supporter
because he couldn't accept Roosevelt the
Gar"
Every reason which Mr.. Young advanced
for making him refuse to vote the Repub-
lican ticket, said Mr.. Russell, was potent
reason why he himself intended TO vote it,
And he never before has voted anything
but a Democratic ticket, save in municipal
elections.
The nub of the whole proposition. accord
ing to his ideas. is whether the people or
Wall Street influences shall dominate po-
liticaI thought and political administration.
On that issue he thinks ii is time for the
reorganization of party lines completely.
Mr.. RusselTS letter, dated yesterday, 1ol-
lows. in part:
For thirty years have supported with my
vote and with my voice every candidate Of
the Democratic party for Governor of the
state in which / lived. and for President
of the United States. l have never voted
for or supported a Republican candidate
for any office other than in municipal cleo
items, where | have always counted myself
All independent.
In the three campaigns when Mr. Bryan
was the Democratic nominee for President
L supported his candidacy and canvassed IN
this and other states in his support, at a
time when nearly every man who now
claims TO be a Democratic leader in the
State of New York was opposing his can
didacy and boted the Democratic ticket.
Again. in 1906. | supported the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor when John
A. Dix, the present Democratic nominee,
after having himself been a candidate for
the nomination before the Democratic con-
ventiOn. bolted its action and refused to
its nominee
l therefore regard myself as better
Democrat, in thu sense of party regularity
heretofore, than are the men who compose