New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-27
Collected Every Penny Due the
Federal Government, with
Fines in Addition.
DIX QUESTIONS BOOMERANG
Republican Nominee Asks if In
formation Was Got from
Parker and Stanchfield,
Sugar Trust Counsel.
fRv telegraph to The Tribune. ]

the antitrust laws. His answers came
as promptly and with as much force as
the answers of Governor Hughes to the
i'll fated Chanler questions in the cam
paign two years ago. The Dix questions
proved a verita BILE boomerang. Having
answered the Dix questions in the frank
est and most Outspoken fashion, Mr..
Stin1son demanded in return some kind
Of answer to the questions he has been
propounding to Mr.. Dix for the last two
weeks.
Not word has he said about the re-
peal of the Public Service commissions
laws" said Mr.. Stimson; mot word
in explanation Of his double position on
the tariff; not a specification of the Re
publican extravaganza he and his col
league are pratng about. His silence
on all state issues is dense and Murphy
esque' Why does he not answer?
Instead of being disconnected by the
Dix questions, as the Democrats doubt
less fondly hoped would be the case, Mr..
Stirnson welcomed them. They didn
concern the issues of the campaign. to be
sure. and were distinctly personal; but
him to show that he had no wish or de-
sire to conceal anything about his record
or his views. and he would tell the peO-
ple all about both if his Democratic OPP
ponent wouldn't.
Incidentally, these questions carried
with them splendid retort from the
fact that Judge Parker and John B.
Stanchfield who are prominent in the
Dix camuaign.. both were of counsel for
the Sugar Trust when Mr.. Stimson was
prosecuting it. That fact he pounded
home. to the great delight of his audi
ence. wherever he spoke.
II ask Mr.. Dix whether he got any in
formation that l did not collect enough
penalties from the Sugar Trust from
Tudge Parker and from John B. Stanch-
field. who defended it when L prosecuted
if ~ he uueried. amid loud laughter.
Asks Dix About Advisers.
Taking up Dixs and Parker's criticism
of the size Of his fees when acting as
special attorney in the sugar cases, he
said:
II would like Mr.. Dix to ask his adj
,-ieers Judge Parker and Mr.. Stanch
field. who represented the trust, whether.
IN all fairness. they think 1 was overpaid
for beating them"
And. finally, he delivered clincher to
Dix's query why he had not indicted
John +. Parsons and other directors of
the trust.
Il began with the men lower down."
he said. because it was by their hands
that the frauds were done. but we
worked up until we had convicted the
secretary and treasurer of the company
and the general manager of its refinery.
and if the president OF the company had
not died within two weeks of the dis
covery-welI, the record of the case
shows what might have happened to
him.
Why, just think of the nerve of
man." burst out Mr.. StimsOn, whose
only public record we know anything
about is that as a candidate he says he
believes in a downward revision of the
tariff, but a wallpaper manufacturer
asks for an upward revision on his COM
modify critiCising me because l collected
only about some S3.U00.O10, which was
every penny owing to Uncre Sam. with
fines in addition, and convicted every Of
Ger whom the grand jury felt warranted
in indictingr'
Mr. StimSon received a list of the Dix
questions this morning in the Buffalo
newspapers He chuckied when he read
them. At his first meeting at Niagara
Falls he made his reply. which later he
supplemented by a formal statement of
the same nature. From then on at al
most every meeting on a trip along the
Falls Road through Niagara and Or
leans counties to this city he reiterated
his declaration. and called on Mr.. Dix to
come out of the bushes and tell where
he stood on the big issues of the state
campaign.
Whom should we ask for an answer
If IT, opponent keeps silent-Charles F.
Murphy, of Tammany Hall?' asked Mr..
Stimson, pointedly. His own opinion he
showed clearly. This is no mere case
of Republican against Democrat 1t is
a case of the State of New York against
the power of Tammany Hall"
Expedition in Fighting Territory.
The StllnSOn tAptbltlOii pdSStu iINO
fighting territory to-day. Niagara
County at the best will be Republican by
a very small margin; the Democrats
claim il by about five hundred. Monroe
County is reckOned by careful observers
TO be in rather bad shape. Local Re
notifications confess it isn't as good as
they'd like to have l., though they say
the Democrats have no chance of carry
inq, the county. on the other hand, the
democrats are very cocky about the
outlook in the county. Orleans County
is reported TO be about normal on the
.tate ticket Senator Mackenzie is GER
tain 10 he defeated in the Niagara Or
loans district; one Republican candidate
fo. Senator and possibly couple of AS
semblymen may be defeated in Monroe
County. The Orleans County Repub-
bcans hope to regain their Assembly
man. whom they lost on the direct nom
nations issue last year
There was no indication of apathy at