Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-13
DEMOCRATIC HIDE TANNED
Roosevelt Asserts Party Represents
Special Interests.
DEMOCRACY HAS NO POSITION
Vacillates from Extreme Rndicaiism
20 Equally Extreme Reaction, and
Forfeits Respect OF All by
It's Corruption.


In New York as an 'unholy alliance be-
tween Wall street and Tammany hall"
in a speech here tonight and attacked
the democratic party in Missouri by calling
II the party that represents the special
interests and special privileges"
| Colonel Roosevelt also defended the pres
ent position OF the republican party in
regard to the tariff. He did not discuss
the Payne-Aldrch law, saying that he
wished the people TO look forward and
not backward. He said that the party
was united on the doctrine that the tariff
shall be such as to equalize the cost Of
production here and abroad and that It
should be regulated by a commission. He
said that under The present system It was
impossible TO obtain satisfactory results,
and added that when the commission sys-
tenn was established there should be gov
ernmental supervision to determine
whether the workmen were getting the
benefit they were supposed to have from
the tariff
1t was Colonel Roosevelts first speech
in the present campaign. The great coli
scum was crowded to the doors with
throng which cheered him frequently.
COmmends Governor HadIey.
He began his speech by commencing
Governor Hadley 'as an upright and fear
less public servant"
Governor Hadley," no continued, has
represented that kind Of party loyalty in
! which / most believe-the kind OF loyalty
to the party which hnds expression by
seeing to it that that party Is the most
| loyal servant Of the people as a whole.
And so I am glad, indeed, to come here
| tonight to speak for you here in this great
state. And 1 have a peculiar and added
| I MI hot
conditions Of your fight here are substan-
TALLY akin to the fight we are making in
| New York state-in my own state
! In New York state our opponents call
| themselves the democracy They have the
very slenderest relation to any historic
national party bearing that name For
| in New York state what calls itself de-
mocracy consists in reality of an unbolv
alliance between Wall street and Tammanv
hall. 1t is enough to make Andrew Jack
son Of Tennessee and Tom Benton of Mis-
souri, turn in their graves to realize what
the organizations are that claim to be
their spiritual heirs ana representative
at this present day.
Republican Party for the PeopIe.
And as 1t is in New York, so it is hero
IN MISSOURI the genuine party of the peo-
pie, the party that stands for non,,Iar
| In
the republican party, and the party Of ra-
action and of Bourbonism, the partv tba+
| represents the special interests and sne-
| cial privilege, is the party that srrogatas
to itself, forsooth the name OF dance
rscy.
i was interested in pair OF anaIogies
| between the situation in New York ara
the situation here is Missouri. One of
the particularly democratic papers of New
York-it is democratic with a string 70
it-representng the Wall street democ-
racy. which ID more sensitive to the pocket
nerve than to any abstract principles, de-
scribed very truthfully the democratic con-
vention that registered the DEGREES Of the
head of Tammany hall in nominating the
| present so-called democratic ticket in New
York. It. after mentioning the fact that
| all OF the Notwithstanding its own
| by the way-came hat in hand to Mr.
Murphy to know IL he would not be good
enough to nominate them, stated that
what occurred in the convention was really
Of no consequence because the only ac-
| ton that counted was what went on in
Mr.. Murphy's room. 1t continued, saying
that the most sinister feature Of the sit
uation. however, is the fact that you could
not throw a brick in any direction with
out hitting a lobbyist or a corporation at
torney. They all arrived before the dele
gates did
Interests Use Democrats.
I'm New YorR the special interests. all
the powers that hope to keep or acquire
| privileges to which they are not entitled
have gone with our antagonists, because
they feel quite properly that in their ranks
! is the place for every man who believes
in either crooked business or crooked pol
itics, especially in the alliance between
crooked business and crooked politics
well, was reading the other day a
statement of what had gone on in the
legislature of your own state last year,
and the author, speaking merely. descrip-
lively and without laying any special
stress on the matter, mentioned the fact
that there was a large group Of very in
fluentisl lobbyists who were there at the
capitol to antagonizs the measures advo-
Gated by Governor Hadley, and as a true
piece OF news the writer went on to say
that this group Of lobbyists included
far greater proportion Of the genuine demo
cratic leadership Of the state than was
to be found in the entire legislature.
You know the people OF this state
/ know, that am speaking the simple and
literal truth when say that IL you wish
to see the reign OF honesty continued in
| this state, II you wish to see special privi-
] lCboo hSAAAeA ~ oil men anu GQudl OppOI-
Ltunities, so far as possible. secured to all
men, you must continue in office the party
which has as its head in this state, Gov
! ernor Hadley."
! Colonel Roosevelt then turned to dis
cussion Of New Nationalism," every prin-
| clple Of which, he said, was to be found
In the profession and the practice of Abra-
! ham Lincoln.
This was followed by his remarks about
the tariff. In this connection Colonel
Roosevelt said:
! las to the tariff II seems to me that the
situation is much clearer than some peo-
pie would have us believe. 1 fully admit
| that there was a time when, II our Oppo-
nents had acted with reasonable wisdom,
/ they could have made us trouble. But
| they let the opportunity slip by and did
not act with reasonable wisdom.
THE republican party is united on the
doctrine officially set forth In it's national
/ platform two years ago, that the tariff
shall be such as substantially to equalize
the cost Of production here and abroad.
! AS the cost OF production is mainly
labor cost, this means primarily that tho
duty should be great enough TO continue
! to give 10 our laborinE men that higher
! standard NJ vyaRe without which there can