The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1910-11-04
DIX GAFFS
ROOSEVELT
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR
GOVERNOR OF N. Y. P0URS
OUT HOT SHOT
PREDICTS GREAT, VICTORY

New York, Nov. 3.-The Democra-
tic State campaign here reached flood
tide last night at a meeting in Car
negie Hall, where John A. Dix, the
nominee for Governor, made his first
public address in the city. The meet
ing also served as the occasion for
Mayor Gaynor'S lOng-eXpected formal
announcement of his support of the
hsket The Mayors voice still being
We>k, this came in the form of
lettes to the chairman of the meet
ing. Vhe rally was held under the
auspicS of the Independent Business
Mems Asague and Herman Ridder.
president\ of that organization, pre-
sided \
Mr.. Dix devoted the greater part of
3,O0O-word speech to a denunciation
of Theodore Roosevelt. Hhe charged
the former President with willful
falsehoOd in repeating the accusation
for which Mr.. Dix in his Buffalo
speech demanded an apology. He de-
clared that Colonel Roosevelt. ''be-
cause of what he deems to be his po-
1itica1 necessity of the hour, struck
hands and made political allis Se
with William R. Hearst, whom f---f
years ago Roosevelt had publicly
branded as responsible for the assas-
sins bullet which made him Presi
dent
Leaving the subject of Roosevelt,
the candidate returned to charges of
Republican extravaganza. He prom
ised that a Democratic administration
would reduce taxation and once more
make it possible for the average
man. to save enough for rainy day.
He denounced the Republican tariff
policy and declared himself for a
downward revision of the tariff.
"This campaign said Mr.. Dix,
like so many in the past, involved
questions OF policy and expenditure;
of reform and retrenchment and the
other questions which necessarily
have to do with carrying on the we'll
ordered business of government.
1<Sucn questions would have been
settled in the usual way by appeals
to reason and to experience and by
that application to common sense
judgment which is SO distinguishing
an attribute of the average American.
But this was not to be. Into the CEN
ter of the stage there has been hurled
by the inordinate vanity, the dan
gerous ambition, the reckless conduct
of a man who has become the apostle
of tumult and the rotagon1st of mis-
representation-the momentous ques-
ton OF whether or not our very Re
publican institutions should survive.
or, under the assaults of the agitator
and the egotist, should go down to
destruction, as having other great
countries under similar assaults.
Fortunately, for our country, the
battle 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 un-
rest, this instigator OF panic and this
destructive agent of business depres
sion will not alone retire him to a
sphere of well-earned and unenvied
seclus1on, but Will serve for many
years to come as a signal warning tC
all other men who may let their am
bition blind their judgment to the fact
that there is and must remain a gov
ernment of the people, and by the
people
Never before have we, in our his
tory had so much occasion to blush
for the conduct of a man who haG
been the first citizen of our country
and no greater and more striking diff
ference could be found in our history
between the last Republican Presiden
and the illustriOus man who preceded
him in office. than is found by theil
conduct after they had retired from
the great office which they had held
Look for moment upon the man
who is now rushing up and down the
State shouting, threatening, abusing
and wi1fully misrepresenting-b
ing contempt and ridicule upon the
great office he has held, and avoiding
the discussion of all the real issues
of this campaign and then upon his
great predecessors who never forgo
that they owed to their countrymeI
the duty of bearing themselves alway:
with dignity and with honor.
Look on the one hand at the mar
who typifes assaults upon our courts
the bulwark of our liberties, and upo1
the freedom of the press, than which
no right is more sacred to freemen
and then upon the man whose ever!
thought and act taught respect ant
regard for lawfully constituted au
thority, and say with which of these
men and their policies you would pre-
fer to stand.