New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-27
PARKER USES SCRIPTURE
Calls RooseveIt's Attention to the
Ninth Commandment.
JUDGE SPEAKS AT OSWEGO
Says Former President Would
Steal Good Name of Both
Dix and Baldwin.

oswego, n. Y, Oct. 2e.-Alton 3 Parker
in the course of a political speech here to-
night, referred at some length to Theodore
| Roosevelt's remarks concerning the al
legged political circular. alleged TO have been
mailed by somebody in Tammany Hall 10
some alleged person in Wall Street" Quot
ing Mr.. Roosevelt. Judge Parker said:
This is uhat our colonel saws: Now.
one Of the honest men Of Wall Street has
sent me letter, and in IL he has put one
of the circulars sent out hy Tanomanv Hall
TO the Wall Street ticker crowd THE cir
cular says that this campaign more than
any other will affect the business of the
man ought to give il serious thought" Oh
serve in passing that the colonel admits
that there Is one honest man in Wall
Street. So that will make two honest men
in this state that this campaign has thus
far developed. Possibly, with accustomed
modesty. he told you when here to-day who
The colonel is unnecessarily disturbed
He would make legitimate appeal for the
funds needed for the legitimate expendi-
lures of campaign the issue of the
hour vital ISSUE" as he puts it. No,
that won't do Nobody will take that seri-
ously. Everybody knows by this time that
the Democratic party in this fight stands
for tranquility and business peace and is
opposed TO the wild doctrines of Roosevelt.
which would unsettle values. disturb bust
ness and renew the panic from which the
country suffered during his administration.
That is the fact, the truth. Is the colonel
such stranger 20 truth that he doesn't
know It when he meets il?
The colonel also tells US that the big
Roosevelt doctrine" Is. thou shalt not
campaign for decency's sake. yet in the
same breath he renews his charge q charge
that every other citizen of the state now
knows is unfounded-that John A DIX was
part and parcel Of the Wallpaper Trust,
which was righteousy dissolved by the
courts. With that scrupulous regard for
teriZes all his business dealings. Mr.. Dix
solemnly declares the charge unfounded a
baseless example of the reckless manner In
which the former President of the United
States nlisuses the great standing which he
acquired by his election TO the Presidency
to misrepresent those who oppose him in
any way.
Mr.. Dix Is unaocustoned to this sort Of
thing in his business relations, and he is
charitable enough to admit that the ex-
President may have been led to make these
false reports by those around him. He
ASKS ASKS Tor an apology from his detractor
VIII he get it7 No. The colonel will cen
Dix. He Will continue TO tell you not to
steal This big Roosevelt doctrine re-
but do as I tell you. The king can do no
wrong" Is this waging g. decent campaign
for decency?
With that same disregard for fact, the
colonel has declared that the Democratic
party of Connecticut has nominated for
Governor a former Judge who was a man
who took the view that II was competent
for the workman, when driven TO accept
any employment, to bind himself not to
be compensated If he lost life or limb In
that occupation. The Democratic candi-
date in that state, Simeon z. Baldwin, is
known to the legal fraternity as of it's
most accomplished members. In the COM
munity in which he was reared his word
is known by its citizenry to be good as
his bond. Like John A. Dix, he is a citi-
zen above reproach. He, too, has not es-
capped misrepresentation. II never took
such a view" he writes eX-President
Roosevelt Il never stated that I took
such view. Such a view would be opposed
to the settled principles of law, and no
competent lawyer could or would take 1T
He, too, asks the eX-President for q re
traction. IF" says Judge Baldwin, you did
in fact make the charge against me or one
substantially of that character, [ write 70
request that you would retract 1t, II Is
one calculated to affect my standing as
lawyer, at least among those who do not
ton as a candidate for public Office" The
colonel would also steal Judge BaldWtn's
good name away from him. and the courts
may be invoked TO preserve to the Judge
what IS his own. -
IL this waging a decent campaign for
decency7 Let me commend TO Mr.. Roose-
veIts serious consideration q single
thought Thou shalt not steal" was only
one command that was Numbered from
the Mount There was another just as
plain, lust as clear. Just emphatic,
witness against thy neighbor.