New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-01
DIX LONG AN ASP|RANT
Candidate for Governor Never
Successful, However.
B0LTED TICKET IN 1906
Then Scathingly Arraigned Ele-
ment in Party Which Is Now
Supporting Him.

John A Dix, Democratic candidate for
Lieutenant Governor two years ago, recent
successor to "Fingey' Corners as chair
man of the Democratic State Committee
and now Democratic nominee for Gov
ernor, has for some years been an aspi-
rant for political Office, but has always
been unsuccessful Four years ago he
fought hard for the nomination for Gov
ernor at Buffalo. He received seventeen
votes, but W. r. Hearst won the coveted
prize. Mr.. Dix thereupon refused to sup
port the ticket and scathingly arraigned
the element that is now backing him so
strongly.
The Democratic party he said, is
passing through an ordeal the most daring
and disastrous in its history, but from the
shock received in the Buffalo convention
1t Is plainly evident an organization in New
York City which shall represent denoc-
racy and not demagogism must and will
be created. I shall remain true to Demo
cratic principles. but L cannot vote for
Hearst"
Mr.. Dix began his active career In party
politics as chairman of the Washington
County committee. His work in creating
q county chairman's organization won
him the nomination for Lieutenant Cover
=
does now. a system whereby the power
Of the county chairman should be more
absolute than at present.
After his unsuccessful campaign two
years ago, Mr.. Dix certified to the Secre-
tary Of State that he contributed 1888 so
for campaign expenses. of which $500
went to the state committee. Following
the ousting of Mr.. Corners last spring. Mr.
Dix was elected on June at a meeting
in this city to succeed the Erie County
boss as head of the Democratic organiza-
ton. At that time, it was feared the sup
porters of the Buffalo man would fight
Dix to the bitter end, but they are now
lined up behind him.
Soon after assuming the craftsmanship he
aroused the wrath of Oneida County Demo-
Gratis. who asserted that, though promising
to appoint William Townsend a member of
the executive committee, he deliberately
broke his word and failed to do so. Town
send was formerly an Assemblyman and
later Senator. Both he and August Mer-
rill,. chairman of the Oneida County COM
mittee, charged that Mr.. Dix had promised
Townsend the desired place. They say he
failed to keep his word because of sugges-
lions from Daniel T. Cohalan and Charles
F. Murphy, of Tammany Hall.
Mr. Dix is prosperous business man
and interested in various corporations He
IS president of the Iroquois Pulp and Paper
Company, at Thomson; associated with
the Moose River Lumber Company, at Nc
Keever; vice president Of the Blandy Paper
Company. in Greenwich; a director of the
Albany Trust Company, Glens Falls Trust
Company. National Bank of Schuylerville,
Standard Wall Paper Company Hudson
Falls and Adirondack Trust Company at
Saratoga Springs, and treasurer of the
American Wood Board Company, at Thom-
son.
The candidate comes from an old family.
He is a nephew of Governor John A Dix.
who served the state at Albany in 1873-'75.
Governor Dix was the Secretary of the
Treasury who issued the order before the
outbreak of the Civil War; If any man
attempts to haul down the American flag.
shoot him on the spot" He afterward
served as a major general in the war and
was the father Of the late Rev. Dr. Morgan
Dix, rector of Trinity Church.
The present John A. Dix was born in
Glens Falls In 1860. He was educated at
the academy there. and was graduated from
Cornell University in 1882. In 1889 he mar
RED Miss Gertrude Allen Thomson, the
daughter of a lumber merchant He began
his business career as a member OF the
firm of Reynolds & Dix. dealers in black
marble. and later became associated with
Lemon Thomson in the lumber business