Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-12
ROOSEVELT FLAYS
N. Y. DEMOCRACY
Terms Party as 'UnhoIy Alliance
Between Wall Street
and Tammany
HAS PRAISE FOR GOV. HADLEY
Declares Missouri Democrats Are
Subservient to the Spe-
CiaI interests
HAS PRAISE FOR GOV. HADLEY
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ASSOCIATED Press1
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 11.--Theodore Roose-
welt denounced the Democratic party in
New York as an "unholy alliance be-
tween Wall street and Tammany Hall'
in a speech here tonight, and attacked
the Democratic party in Missouri by
calling it the party that represents
the special interests and special privi-
leges."
Col. Roosevelt also defended the
present position of the Republican
party in regard to the tariff. He did
not discuss the Payne tariff law, say
ing that he wished the people to look
forward and not backward. He said
the party was united on the doctrine
that the tariff shall be such as TO
equalize the cost of production here
and abroad, and that 1t should be
regulated by commission.
He said that under the present sys-
tenn it was impossible to obtain salts
factory results, and added that when
the commission system was established
there should be governmental super
vision to determine whether the work.
men were getting the benefit they were
supposed to have from the tariff.
1t was Col. Roosevelt's first speech
in the present campaign. The great
Coliseum was crowded to the doors
with a throng which cheered him en-
Enthusiastically.
COMAIENDS HADLEY
He began his speech by commanding
Governor Hadley as IAN upright and
fearless public servant"
Governor Hadley," he continued,
"has represented the kind of party
loyalty in which / most believe-the
kind of loyalty to> the party which
finds expression by seeing to it that
that party Is the most loyal servant
of the people as a whole.
I'm New York state our opponents
call themselves the Democracy. They
have the very slenderest relation to
any historic national party bearing
that name. For In New York what
calls itself Democracy consists in real
ity of an unholy alliance between Wall
street and Tammany Hall. 1t is
enough to make Andrew Jackson OF
Tennessee and Tom Benton of Missouri
turn In their graves to realize what
the organizations are that claim to be
their spiritual heirs and representa-
tives at this present day.
''And as 1t is in New York. so 1t Is
here in Missouri, the genuine party OF
the people, the party that stands for
popular rights, that stands for all the
people, is the Republican party; and
the party of reaction and Bourbonism,
the party that represents the special
interests and SPECIAL privileges is the
party that arrogates to itself, forsooth,
the name of Democracy.
PARTY HARBORs CROOKS
"In New York the special interests.
all of the powers that hope to keep or
acquire privileges to which they are
not entitled, have gone without antag-
onists because they feel, quite properly,
that in their ranks Is the place for
every man who believes In either
crooked business or crooked politics.
and especially in the alliance between
crooked business and crooked politics"
Col. Roosevelt then turned to dis
cussion of new nationalism, every pr1n-
ciple of which, he said, was to be
found in the profession and the practice
of Abraham Lincoln"
This was followed by his remarks
about the tariff.
"I think the surest way to prevent an
agreement is to indulge in useless re-
examinations about the past. You re-
member the present tariff was made up
bv exactly the same methods that It's
predecessor was made, and that the
predecessors Democratic predecessos
was made by exactly the methods that
have obtained in tariff making for an
indefinite number OF years."
Col. Roosevelt then 1ndorsed the
plank in the Missouri Republican plat
form which pledges the party TO a
workingman's compensation act.
Col. Roosevelt closed his speech with
vigorous attack upon the Democratic
party and an appeal to the people to
support the Republican party.
POLICY NOT COHERENT
"Our opponents" said he, "stand for
nothing. In one state they claim 70
represent a radicalism so extreme and
kInr a f.
tempt to apply it in practice 1t would
invoke the most absolute reaction. In
other states they stand avowedly, or II
not avowedly they stand in reality, in
spite of hypocritical professions to the
contrary, for open reaction. They have
no coherent policy
"a marty that nominates Mr.. Bryan
as a radical one year and Mr.. Parker
as an ultra conservative next time, and
then Mr.. Bryan again, and then waits
to see il somebody won't carry an cleo
ton somewhere so they can nominate
him again-that party has forfeited the
right to the respect and support Of in
dependent citizens who seriously wish
we'll to their native land
1--WE have coherent policy. We have
had difficulties. we are settling them,
not by a compromise of principles but
bv coming together on a platform
which is one of high principles and one
Of proved efficiency. We ask you TO
support u.s. We ask you to support us
in Missouri as in New York, because
we preach the same doctrine in Mis-
souri, and in New York; because what
say to you tonight is exactly what l
say in every state in this Union"
Col. Roosevelt will leave at o'clock
tomorrow morning for Heoria, ILL.,,
where he will spend the afternoon and
evening, making a speech to the
knights of Columbus.