Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-09-30
BOSS MURPHY
FIXES SLATE
Names Candidate for Gov
ernor Even Before Con-
vention Convenes
JOHN A. DIX IS SELECTED
VIII Accept Nomination if Lead
ers Promise to Support Him
in Campaign.

Rochester, N. Y, Sept. 30.-John A.
Dix, the Democratic candidate for gov
ernor will be asked if he will take the
nomination. Alton B. Parker or D.
Cady Herrick will be named if he will
not, This, 1t as learned today, is the
slate favored by most leaders of the
conference which adjourned in
Charles F. Murphy's room at two
o'clock this morning. Mr.. Dix, who is
chairman of the state central commit.
tee, intimated this morning that he
could not make up his mind until he
had discussed the matter further with
the other leaders.
Outside of the decision as to the
governor, the Democratic state con-
vention which will meet for second
session at one o'clock this afternoon
has no semblance of a slate before
it. The only other definite result of
the night conference of the leaders
was the endorsement of the direct pri-
mary plank which will be one of the
leading features of the platform. Her
bert P. Bissell, of Buffalo, will be the
permanent chairman of the conven-
tion.
Dix viii Take 1t.
Rochester, N. Y, Sept. SO.-Shortly
before noon, Mr.. Dix announced he
would accept the nomination if the
other leading candidates give him
their personal assurance Of their sup
port. 1t is understood he already has
such assurance from Edward N.
Shepard and Thomas M. Osborne and
promise of the hearty support OF
the Democratic leaders.
Address BY Temporary Chairman.
Rochester, N. Y. Sept. 30.-Herbert
| P. Bissell, as permanent chairman, ad-
dressed the convention in part as
| follows.
1--WE have come together as a rep
resentative body of Democrats-or
progressive Democrats who are faith
| full to the sound principles of govern
ment advocated by the founders OF
the American republic and the franz
ers of The American constitution, but
who are progressives in the purpose
to apply those principles to the solu-
tion Of present problems and the rad
f, ioation of existing evils.
At the present time we find through
out the country many Republicans
iwho call themselves progressives, and
when we analyze their progressive
ness, we are gratified to find that in
most cases it consists in the condem-
lation of their own party's standpat
dishonesty tariff revision and their
advancement to the advocacy of tariff
reform, SO long and so consistently
urged by the Democratic party.
I'VE are pleased too, to find that
this progressiveness has led to the
adoption of recommendations made by
the last Democratic president for the
Regulation and control of interstate
public service corporations and of
| the recommendation so eloquently
urged by the last Democratic candi-
date for president, for the prevention
of corrupt practices and the interfer'
ence of corporations in politics.
To-day we find the profigacy and
recklessness of Republican admins
tration calling for the appropriation
by each congress of the fabulous sum
of two billions of dollars. A compari-
son of the last four, years of Demo
cratic administration with the last
four years of Republican administra-
ton illustrates with graphic and tell
| ing force, the strenuously spendthrift
phase of Roosevetism, and it's feeble
proxy Taftism.
TT is our duty to present to the
people the plain facts and l cannot
believe that their attention will be di.
verted from the real and momentous
questions to be determined at the No
vember election by any amount OF
spectacular clap-trap or copybook
platitudes about honesty and virtue
unanimously reiterated by the unique
and entertaining lion hunter who in
the wilds of Africa or in the midst of
the splendors of European courts,
seems to have entirely forgotten his
share of responsibility for this carni-
val of extravaganza, excessive taxa
| ton and dishonest tariff revision.
"The Democratic party is now and
always has been loyal to the princi-
pies advocated by the founders of the
republic. We are not in sympathy
with the doctrines of so-called new
lnationalism' which disregarded loyal
self-government and forget the limita-
| tions of the constitution.
I'VE are opposed to this dangerous
tendency to a further Capitalization of
power in the national government.
| We are upholders of the democracy
| of old nationalism."