The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-03
Democratic Candidate for Gov
ernor of Empire State Says
a Few Things.
CHARGES FORMER PRESIDENT
WITH WILFUL FALSEHOOD
Makes 1t Plain That He Regards
Roosevelt as Ambitious,
Vain and Dangerous.

NEW YORK, Noy John A. Dix
Democratic nominee for governor. made
his first public address in this city to-
night at u meeting at Carnegie hail,
which also served as the occasion for
Mayor Gaynor's announcement Of his sup
port OF the ticket. The mayors voice
still being week, this came in the form
Of letter 10 Hermann Rider, who pre-
sided.
MT Dix devoted the greater part OF his
speech TO a denunciation OF Theodore
roosevelt. He charged the former pres
| ident with wilful falschood In repeating
aa,ccnsations for which Mr. Dix in his
oIHa'S Hs 3 speech demanded an apology.
re oeclared that Roosevelt. because
y. si Milat ne deems to be his political ne
cessity OF the hour. struck hands and
maze ~ political alliance" with William
II, Hearst whom four years ago Roose-
| yclt had publicly branded az Responsible
| Ior the assassins bullet which made him
president" '
Asks for Calm Judgment.
rms campaign" said Mr.. Dix. ''iko
80 80 many IN The past. involved questions
OF policy and expenditure; OF reform and
retrenchment and other questions which
necessarily have TO do with CARRYING ON
ths wei ordered business or government,
! , Such questions would have been SET
tled In the usual way by appeals 10 rea-
son and TO experience. and by that ap-
PltSa.ion ,hia', 10 common sense Judgment
| the average American.
- put this was not to be. In the center
OF me stage there was hurled by the in
oIuinate vanity, the dangerous ambition
and the reckless conduct of a rnan Vic
mas become the apostle of the tumult and
the protagonist of misrepresentation-th
Homentous question OF whether our very
IePupucan Institutions should survive or
! undcr the assaults Of the agitator and
| tie egotist. should go down 10 dcstr1,c
.ion as nave other great countries under
similar onslaughts-
'Instigation of Panic.''
| Fortunately, The battle-ground chosen
Tor this Fight was that which combined
| patriotism. intelligence and publi. snirIt
IN their highest form. and the decisive
u@o,eat @ Whlch lies before this creator of
| unrest this fnstigator of panic, this de-
struciiIe agent OF business depression.
VIII not alone retire him to a sphere of
"e, e, earned and unenvIed seclusion but
| VIII serve as a signal warning to al
p,neV men who mag LET their ambition
! ohno tneir Judgment 10 tho fact that this
ls ana must remain government OF tho
people and by the people.
Never before have we had 40 n,icb
| occasion to blush for the conduct of "a
man who had been the first citizen of
striking difference could he found in our
history, because the last Republican pres
i@dent @ and the illnstrous mon who pre-
their conduct after they had retired from
the great office which they had held
Severe Roasting.
Read all through the history Of our
country. examine and study the cilarac-
,rs sers and careers Of all those who have
been chosen To MI this greatest of human
positions, and where shall We find In ali
the long line or men who have stood
ioth In their day and generation. each
aS the foremost American citizen: where
shall we find man whose qualities
whose conduct whose career after leay-
nity l1g Once and nay naye been so lacking In dig
Look for moment upon the man
VINO IS now rushing up and down the
t;it',,,, state shouting threatening. abusing and
"ilfully Observation-Disclosures con-
tempt and ridicule upon the great office
he has held; and avoiding the discus
sion ot az the real issues Of this cam
paign. and then upon his great prede-
cessors who never forgot that they owed
to their countrymeu the duty of bear.
ing themselves always with dignity and
with honor.
Supreme Egotism.
Look first upon the man whose every
thought is OF himsolf regardless of the
f9rtunGs. f, I,n the Welfare or the reputation of
men whose every thought was OF their
country. country. and in whose conduct all OF
Their ,,sn eountrymen % regardless of party
Look first upon tho man whose reck-
less utterances and Misrepresentation
iurists OF the country may have him
dragged To court To answer the charges
Of wilful slander and then call to your
word lest they should do injustice or
harm TO those who differed
Look on the one hand at the man
who typihes assaults upon the courts.
the bulwarks of our liberties and upon
the press. those whose right is more
sacred to freeman and then upon the
men whose every thought and act taught
respect and regard for lawfully cousti-
tuted authority and say with which OF
these men and their policies you would
Dramatic Contrast.
when the shouting and tnmut shall
have died away, WHEN the verdict of inn
partial history shall have been rendered.
l would a thousand times prefer TO stand
with the plain. strong men who she'd
luster upon their country, rather than
with the man who: publicly, branding an
bullet which made him President, has,
within few years thereafter made
political alliance with the man whom
he had so branded,
Let his friends take whichever horn
al the dilemma II suits their effort and
his vanity o,he to rhG9so; o,y my nd "PpGnsns
lessly belied fellow citizen when he
had Mr.. Root make the Utica speech
nation OF self-respecting men in making
an alliance With one but for whom. IL
we believe his own charges President
Mckinley might have lived To serve out
his elected term Of Office. and my oppo-
nent's non,inator might never have been
President of the United states.
II asked this man last week for the
apology which ono man owes another
for oven involuntary misrepresentation.
"Iis answer has been to repeat, and
now charge wilfully and knowingly to
repeat in as many places and to as
many people as his voice would carry. the
statements which now publicly brand
as false.
''I withdraw my request for an apology
and say with all the. emphasis at my
command that man who has been pres