The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-03
The Democratic Candidate Charges Former President
 With Fa|sehood
ROOSEVELT IS DUBBED
 INSI|GATOR OF PANIC
MT. Dix spenks At Carnegie Hall and Letter From Mayor Gaynor Is Also Read showing His stand
 on the State Ticket

New York. November 2.-The democrat tc state campaign here reached flood tide tonight at meeting in Carnegie hall, where John A. Dix, the nominee for governor, made his first public ad- dress in the city. The meeting also served as the occasion for Mayor Gay nor's long expected formal announcement Of his support of the ticket The mayors voice still being weak, this came in the form of letter to the chairman of the committee.
 The rally was held under the auspices of the independent business mems league and Herman Ridder, president of that organizations presided There were also speeches by Martin H. Glynn of Albany. former state comptroller; by pr. Mel enohthon w. Strycker president of Ham, ilton college, who recently announced that although a republican he would support Dix, and by Herbert H. Bissell of Buffalo.
 Mr. Dix devoted the greater part of a 5000 word speech to a denunciation of Theodore Roosevelt He charged the for mer President with willful falsehood in repeating the accusation for which MT. Dix in his Buffalo speech demanded an ! apology He declared that Colonel Roosevelt, because of what he deems to be his political necessity of the hour, struck hands and made political allies with William R. Hearst. whom four years ago Roosevelt had publicly branded as responsible for the assassin's bullet which sde him President"
 Republican Extravngance
 
 candidate returned to charges of repub- lican extravagance. He promised that a democratic administration would reduce taxation and "once more make it pos sible for the average man to save enough for rainy day" He denounced the re- publican policy and declared himself for a downward revision of the tariff.-
 This campaigri. said .ar. Dix, like so many in the past. involves questions of policy and expenditures; of reform and retrenchnent and the other ques- tions which necessarily have to do with carrying on the well ordered business of government
 such questions would have been set fled in the usual way by appeals to reason and to experience and by that application to common sense judgment which is so distinguished an attribute of the average American. But this was not to be. Into the interior of the stage nave nate vanity, the dangerous ambition and the reckless conduct of a man who has become the apostle of the tumult and the protagonist of misrepresentation-the rnomentous question of whether or not our very republican institutions should survive, or under the assaults Of the asi- tator and the egotist should go down to destruction, as have other great coun- tries under similar assaults.
 <v.ns.r na<tue C.round.
 ssFortunately for our country, the hat tie ground chosen for this fight was that which combined patriotism, intelligence and public spirit in their highest form, and the decisive defeat which lies before this creator of unrest, this instigator of panic and this destructive agent of bus iness depression will not alone retire Him to a sphere of well earned and un- envied seclusion, but will serve for many years to come as signal warning to all other men who may let their ambi- ton blind their judgment to the fact that this is and must remain govern ment by the people.
 Never beiure have we, in our history, had so much occasion to blush for the conduct of a man who had been the first citizen in our country and no great CT and more striking difference could be found in our history between the last. republican President and the illustrious men who preceded him in office, than is found by their conduct after they had retired from the great office which they had held
 Search all through the history of our country-examine and study the charac- ters and careers of all those who have been chosen to fill this greatest of human positions-and where shall we find in all the long line of men who have stood forth in their day and generation, each as the foremost American citizen-where shall we find a man whose qualities, whose conduct, whose career after leaving office has been so lacking in dignity and in self-respect?
 Rushing Up and Down
 Look for moment upon the man who is now rushing up and down the state shouting, threatening, abusing and wilful- ly misrepresenting, bringing contempt and ridicule on the great office he has held and avoiding the discussion of all the is- sues of this campaign, and then upon his great predecessors. who never forgot that they owed to their countrymen the duty of bearing themselves always with dignity and with honor. Look first on the man whose every thought of himself, regardless of the fortunes, welfare or the reputation of his fellow citizens and then upon the men whose every thought was of their country and in whose conduct all of their countrymen, regardless of party differences, took pride.
 Look first upon the man whose reck- less utterances and misrepresentation con cerning one of the most distinguished turists of the country may have him dragged to court to answer the charges of wilful islander. and then call to your minds the men who weighed their every word lest they should do injustice or harm to those who differed with them on questions of governmental policy or pub lie affairs. <
 Look on the one hand at the man who typifies assaults on our courts, the bull warks of our liberties and the freedom of the press, than which no right is more sacred to free men. and then upon the men whose every thought and act taught respect and regard for lawfully consti- tuted authority and say with which of these men and their policies you would prefer to stand for.
 verdfc. of. History
 T say to you, my fellow citisens of New York, that when the shouting and