New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-27
ST|MSON ANSWERS DIX
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the night meeting. George w. Aidridse
and most of his lieutenants were on the
job before, during and after the meet
ing 1t was we'll organized affair ana
from four thousand to five thousand per-
sons attended the meeting. The audi
ence was enthusiastic. especially when
Mr.. Stimson promised to continue the
Hughes standards of administration ana
declared for cleanness i'll official llfe.
One point which he made regarding MT.
Dix's failure to reply to his questions
about state issues particularly caught
the crowd. He quoted Mr.. Dix's SEN
tence. Passing for the time being the
success or failure of the Hughes admin
istration from the standpoint of the rent
payer and the taxpayer etc.
HE passes 1t by, as he says, for the
time being said Mr. Stimson, "but he
never got back to it. So that 1 have not
found any answer TO these cardinal
questions in what he said last night
Job Z. Hedges, Attorney General
OMalley and Speaker Wadsworth got
cordial receptions. Mr.. Hedges maze
one of his typical humorous speeches ana
brought out roars of laughter when he
pilloried Judge Parker. At various
times he was interrupted by a couple of
men in the gallery who had imbibed TO
the point where they knew they could
make better speeches than anybody else
Job stood it for a time, but his pa
tience isn't as long as that of his name
sake. So, finally, he said:
81 judge these friends of ours up aloft
are survivals from the recent convention
in your lovely city" Thereupon an
usher fell upon them, and they vanished.
Wadsworth and Merritt with Party.
The Stimson party left jamestown
early this morning, passing through But
falo and on out along the Falls Road.
Speaker Wadsworth, state committee
man for Niagara and Orleans counties;
John A. Merritt, jr. his predecessor in
that office, and many other Republicans
of those counties boarded the Stimson
special al Buffalo. At North Tonawanda
the first meeting of the day was held,
rear platform speech in which Mr. Slim
Hughes policies and standards of admin
istration to the great appreciation of a
big throng.
The Niagara Falls meeting was good
one, and it was a cordial audience
which filed into the theatre and listened
to Mr.. Stimson as he denounced Tam
many, made his tart replies to the Dix
Il.x, n RI n
swers to his own queries. Mr.. Stimson
was keen to get 10 his work. He plunged
at once into his subject. with barely
word of introduction. He told of the
silence of Dix on the issues of the cam
paign, broken at last on matters largely
personal to himself. He continued:
He has addressed to me certain questions
on matters which are not matters OF state
issue, but which represent questions en-
tirely outside o. this campaign and per-
ready to answer them, and, although /
have only received this morning, within an
hour. copy of his speech. ! propose here
to give you an answer to the questions
which he has addressed to me.
Mr.. Dix has asked me why. when ! was
prosecuting the Sugar Trust for the FRAUDS
derweighing frauds, the frauds connected
with the tampering of their scales-l did
not collect more than s2,134,000. He is not
satisfied with that amount. ] collected
every dollar OF back duties, so far as the
government experts could calculate them,
after six months investigation, every col
lar of back duties which the Sugar Trust
had failed to pay to the United States gov
eminent; and / say, in addition 10 that,
that l collected Judgment OF sl40D as
smart money-that is, punishment for fall
ure to pay those duties and the fraud con-
nected Herewith: and ] would prefer 70
answer Mr.. Dix'S criticism of the amount
DC
statement from the Attorney General of the
United States, who my superior officer
at the time. in regard to that prosecution.
Quotes from Attorney Generals Report
The Attorney General. in his report of
last December, made to the President OF
the United States, commented thus on the
amount of this recovery. He said:
4 believe 1t is the largest individual re-
covery ever secured by the government on
a claim of that nature" He said further
1T is but simple justice to Mr., Henry h
Stimson that / take this opportunity OF com
mending his services to the government IN
this matter which have been distinguished
by extraordinary intelligence, persistence.
learning and address and which nave re
suited I'm the collection of so large an
amount and in the bringing to justice of so
many of the participants in these frauds.
And ask Mr. Dix now on m, my part,
would lead him to believe that | had not
collected enough when I collected that
sum. l ask him particularly whether he
got the information from his political ad-
visers Alton r. Parker and John B.
Stanchtield, both of whom have acted as
attorneys for the Sugar Trust in the cases
that I have prosecuted against II. | should
like an answer to that question with equal
frankness with mine.
In the next place. he asks me why didn' I
prosecute the Sugar Trust under the Sher-
man antitrust law, and prosecute its oil
reCtors under that law. Well. now, as a
matter of fact these are the facts of the
was appointed federal District Attorney
on February l. 1906, end I took the oath
of office at 10 o'clock in the morning OF
that day AT II o'clock in the morning OF
that dav after ! had been in office just
one hour ! was engaged in an examination
of the evidence against the Sugar Trust
under the interstate commerce law, in re-
Iation TO reba ting. and ] was beginning a
series of prosecutions against the Sugar
Trust which lasted nearly one year from
that date without interruption. AMI which
resulted in the collection from the Sugar
Trust of a fine of s16S,0o0, four times as
large as had ever been collected against
Relating up to that time | think that
pretty fairly accounts for my time for a
year
"Every Living Participant Punished"
7 was pretty busy, and | was pretty busy
against the Sugar Trust Almost imme-
dia1ely after the cessation of those prose
cutions which resulted in a complete Vie
tory over the trust and the stamping out Ot
the crime of Tebating, 1t was discovered
that the Sugar Trust was engaged IN another
kind of crime, cheating the government on
the docks which was the case ! first re-
ferred TO. That case was not brought into
nv office until some months after the dis
covery of the fraud. 1t was placed first In
the hands of another district attorney, and
tE.r sla.a fret f~inl IF al