The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-17
TWO ROOSEvELTS
AS seen BY BLACK
One Stands Pat and Other In
surges, and He Asks Audience
Which They Are For.
SAYS HE IGNORED PRESIDENT
State Chairman Silent on Charge
That He Sought More Duty
on Wall Paper.

New York, October 16.-Winheld 4
Huppuch, chairman OF the Democrat
state Committee. declined yesterday t
comment on the charge made by Henri
L. Stimson, Republican candidate 70
governor, that the wall paper concer
IN which he and John A. Dix, TIL
democratic gubernatorial nominee
were interested had asked Congress t
increase the duty on wall paper.
have no controversy with Mr.
etlmson,' said Mr.. Huppuch, and de-
ollne to have any. I am not a candi
oa.e' I am merely managing cam.
| paign.'
The Democratic managers are pre-.
pairing to offset Friday nights Repup-
lican ratification meeting at Carnegie
nan with n rally next Tuesday night
at Iammany Hall. Mr.. Dix Will not
speak there but addresses Will be made
ny other prominent Democrats, includ.
ing Martin w. Littleton, Congressman
" llilam Sulzer, Congressman Francis
burton Harrison, William Sohmer and
1ohn r. Mcintyre. John F. Calvin Will
preside. AT the same time there Will
De outdoor rallies at four different
places In the neighborhood of Tam
many Hall.
II was announced at the speakers
bureau at Democratic headquarters
Yesterday that Congressman Sulzer
and Augustus Thomas. the playwright.
VIII make an independent tour OF the
state In support of the Democratic
tlcKet, speaking In all the large cities
and towns.
Yesterdays MONDAY meeting of the
commercial Travellers League at 6sy
broadWay was the largest meeting tina,
mas been held there since the cam.
was William Harmon Black, former
commissioner of accounts and presl.
cent of "rhe Association for New
York. He said in part:
II You are for Roosevelt and against
the Supreme Court that he denounced
as 1osiltzed, which Roosevelt are YOU
LOT! The Roosevelt who denounces the
Inaletactors OF great wealth or the
roosevelt who permits the last com
Petltor OF the steel trust, the Ten
hessee Coal and Iron Company, to be
absorbed by the steel trust in direct
violation of the Sherman law? Are
you Tor the Roosevelt who denounces
the rich violators of law or the Roose-
velt who called off Judson Harmon
from the trail of the rebaters? Are
you for the Roosevelt who threw open
the Panama Canal contract to the
worlds bidders or the Roosevelt who
BY mere might took 1t from oliver.
who made the lowest bid?
Are you for the Roosevelt who
sWore at taX-paying time that he was
resident OF Washington or the Roose-
Velt VINO was driven by Tom Plat into
accepting the nomination for Governor
u the State that he said he did not
i've IN? Are you for the Roosevelt who
vent TO Cannon. hat in hand, to ask
pace on the Ways and Means Com |
nittee for Nick Longworth, his son.in-
a"' or for the Roosevelt who shortly
utter denounced Cannon and Cannon
SIN? Are you for the Roosevelt who
Old the people of the United States to
iect Iaft or are you for the Roosevelt
Who has ignored him ever since his
eturn from Africa?
Are you for the Roosevelt who
lands pat or for the Roosevelt who
nsurges? Are you for the Roosevelt
i the interests or the Roosevelt of the
masses? Are you for the Roosevelt
Vho wrote the Bellamy store letters
r the Roosevelt who afterward denied
nelr contents? Are you for Roosevelt
mo took the s250,000 Hartman cam
align contribution or the Roosevelt
no afterward denounced Hartman?
Let me temporarily allay your fears
roosevelt will not run in 1912. In the
rst place, he knows that he could not
acure the nomination against Taft,
nd In the second place he knows IL he
Id that some sterling Democrat like
lillian ]. Gaynor or Judson Harmon
'ould bury him in defeat"