The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-10-01
ROOSEVELT OPENS
CAMP AIGN IN
NEW YORK
Delivers First Speech Before
Republican League
HITS ROCHESTER CONVENTION
Contrasts Work Of Democratic Gath.
ering With the Naming of
Ticket at Saratoga

I New York, Oct. Theodore Roose-
Welt, addressing the national republi-
can league at Carnegie hal, yester-
day delivered his first speech of the
state campaign. Praising the plat
form and Henry l.. Stimson, the re-
publican nominee for governor, he
compared the republican state con-
yention with the democratic conyen
ton now being held at Rochester and
on the strength Of his comparison
said he felt that the republicans had
the right to appeal to every decent
citizen in the state without regard to
party affiliations to vote their way.
The Saratoga gathering he STYLED a
peoples convention free from the
[ influence Of special interests.
n am here to report progress. We
have just held the republican state
convention at Saratoga. There never
has been held in the state of New
York a convention that was more me-
I thodical q peoples convention--not
lobbyist, not a representative of
! sing'e great special interest exercis-
I ed a finger-weighfs influence in that
/ convention That convention repres-
ented absolutely the opinions. the rea-
soHed convictions and beliefs of the
plain everyday men who make up the
rank and file Of the republican party
in the state of New York; and 1t rep
resented equally the reasoned faith
OF the independent voters. Three
/ points, three essential points were
made in our platform Of principles
the three points upon which the con.
4 test this fall in New York is to be
waged. In the first place: That we
stand, not timidly, not half way. but
aggressively, for honesty in public
and In business life. In the next
| place, that we stand for government
| tai efficiency: and in the third pace
/ that we stand for the right of the peo-
pie to control themselves and not to
( be controlled by some one else.
Now the voters of this state will
/ have to choose between that on the
/ one side and on the other side this
| (here Mr.. Roosevelt held aloft a news
paper clippingl-which | shall now
describe to you in the language Of
one of our most envenomed foes,
I leading representative of the Wall
street democracy, the New York
/ Times of this morning. describing the
/ democratic convention now sitting.
Now. mind YOU, am reading what
appears in the New York Times-our
enemy, our bitter enemy. and | am
reading its description OF its party's
/ convention, and / ask you to listen
/ to the words in which that party's
convention is described by his friend.
All day and night the democratic
4 leaders have been going hat in hand
/ to Mr.. Murphy and asking him hum
bly, TO favor this or that candidate
And in its editorial the New York
/ Times falls in with the other demo-
/ cratic leaders and asks for the nom
ination Of a candidate by the conven-
ton. Now 1t goes on: Never before
has Tammany hall been in such UNI
questioned control of state conven.
tion. Never before has any Tam
many boss been enthroned as the
state leader in the unlimited way in
which Murphy was recognized today.
The convention is in the hollow of
his hand
"Such statement from me might
seem extreme. I am merely quoting
the testimony OF leading democrat
in speaking of the democratic state
convention | will 20 on: Back of
Murphy's control are rumors Of
strange and sinister influence. You
cannot throw brick in any direction
in Rochester without hitting some
lobbyist or railroad attorney Now
this is not what I am saying II is
the New York Times. The New York
Times, describing the convention of
its party. 1t continues: The woods
have been full of them from the start
They got here before the delegates
did
"a democrat says that. mind you"
the colonel went on, then concluded
reading the excerpt from the Times:
The writer of this dispatch has at.
tended many conventions, state and
national, and he has never seen a
more general air of distrust and sus-
picion than prevails throughout Roch-
ester today as to the action of the
convention. The convention session
meant nothing. The real convention
was In Mr.. Murphy's ROOM
Gentlemen, have read to you the
absolutely truthful statement made
by leading democratic paper in des-
cribing the democratic convention at
Rochester. I have given to you the
absolutely truthful statement of
what our convention was and feel
that we have the right to appeal to
every decent citizen in this state
without regard to party, so long as
he is a good American and an up
right and honest and farseeing man
he stands with us at the polls and to
put Harry Stimson In Che governors