New-York tribune., 1910-11-05
ST|MSON FINISHES 1R|P
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pria tions for good roads, or for the AsIi
cultural Department, or for schools, nos
pitfalls. insane asylums. or for the resui"
tion of big public service corporations
He continued:
call attention TO these things because e., =
points out so clearly the hypocrisy oL Oo ~
opponent After these three weeks ,iT
silence last night my opponent, MT 1c onr
went on the stump in New York CITY HD~
he said this:
We have suffered much of late IRON IRON
overtaxation / cannot insist too strons - =
that in my opinion Unnecessary taxatIon i1 :.
UNJUST taxation and should be vigorouSlSS -
opposed by an enlightened and an arouSTIc
public opinion that will require from P"o, =,
ic of1clals the same watchful scrutiny -
PUBIC business as would be exercised pE
prudent and careful business man IN NE
own private affairs" -
What are the facts in regard to that.
| Here is candidate Of a great party IoI
great office who goes on the stump an, an
makes q general statement or tnal s0I
without pointing out anything in respect u
the taxation which he would crtt1ciSe Spe-
clhcaily 1 have here in my hand tables Oh ;I
| taxation. and they show that, whereas ln
| 1903 we raised by direct taxation more thaL
one-quarter of the state revenue, ten years
later we did not raise any by direct TAXA
tfon and II shows that we have succeeded
| In raising our state revenues wholly from
Such sources as the corporation tax, the
".
| brokers transfers OF stocks ana the eX-
else tax, and not one penny of It comes
from direct taxation.
l call upon Mr.. Dix to point out which OF
| these forms of taxation / have read 70
| you he considers to be an overtaX- Would
/ he relieve the corporations of what they
/ of what they pay? Would he relieve any
! of the others. and If he would. would he
take the responsibility Of going back to
| dlrect taxation? ] think we should have
answers TO those questions in campaign
IKE this when man gets up and talks
ABOUT overtaxation. He goes on:
| have done away with the selfish and waste
! ful extravaganza which has added so
/ greatly to the burden imposed in recent
! years"
Now, think of ii, the man whom I have
| been asking for three weeks to point out
single item of selfish and wastefui ex-
| weeks to point out single item-think of
the ny tnyPoerisy 4c. s, Of such @ man going down
ing off talk like that in general terms.
! Why the business of the government of
! this state, like any other business is a
matter of bookkeeping and detail. There
are facts and figures available to all men.
a matter to be discussed item by item and
detail by detail, and I have been trying
now for three weeks to get him to do it,
and all ] get now is this blast in general
terms against the extravaganza and waste
when he won't point out a single item.
Turns Attention to Tammany.
Mr.. Stimson turned then to Tam
many's record in New York City in the
matter Of economy" After that splen-
did example. he asked. did the people
want Sohmer. a Tammany man, for
State Controller, and Bensel, another
Tammany man, to handle the big jobs
in the State Engineers office? Did they
want Grady. who was mentioned as hav-
blers boaSle, TO help Dix clean out the
black hCGSe cavalry'2' Why did Dix
try to tern away from those questions?
Why did he try to avoid the question Of
tariff revision downward on his own
product wallpaper. though he professed
to he for a downward revision in his
platform and speech of acceptance?
with what face can such man come
before the people of the state and talk
such buncombe?" asked Mr. Stimson.
Superintendent Hotchkiss caused much
enthusiasm by a reference to ex-Presi-
dent Roosevelt
In 1898" he said. "Tammany Hall
had put UP a Democratic respectable,
and behind him was laying its plans to
steal into control OF the state admins
tration. That mans name was Van
Wyck over in ireland there was
man, who as soon as Van Wyck, this
Tammany respectable. was nominated,
came over to New York and began a
march up the Hudson, the Tigers ad-
vance on Albany. That mans name
was Croker.
But down in Cuba there was another
man, and he. too. came to New York.
He said to the people: Well turn this
Tiger back to New York City; maybe
they can stand him there, but New York
State can't have him at Albany That
mans name was Theodore Roosevelt.
And he did turn the Tiger back, and he's
going to turn the Tiger back this time,
for behind Dix are just the same tiger
ish influences and interests as were be-
hind the other Tammany respecta BILE
when Roosevelt sent Croker back to
New York"
From Catskill the Stimson party
crossed the ferry, in the teeth of a gale.
and went down TO Poughkeepsie. The
Collingwood Theatre there was we'll
filled, despite the rain and the fact that
1t was an early afternoon meeting. Mr.
Stimson declared that to his mind the
issue of the campaign was very simple
an issue between the forces of progress
and reaction. Reaction. he said, was
finding it pretty hard to talk"
Dzf
L stand" he said. for a continue
ton of the policies which have been car
ried on by the Republican administra-
tion under the leadership of Charles E.
Hughes Sheer bombast and wind
Mr.. Stimson termed the latest campaign
utterances of his opponent. Said he:
our opponents started out with a great
blast of trumpets against the so-called
extravaganza of Governor Hughess adj
1t was the main point in their platform;
and IL was dwelt on at length in Mr.. Dix's
speech of acceptance Well | at once took
that up with him Nobody denies that the
have greatly increased. That is not the
question. No one denies that those expend-
ltures nave increased, and no one denies
that the income Of this state has increased,
no one denies. who has studied il, that the
efficiency of the state government has tre-
The real question Is not whether the
state is paying out more money, but
whether il is getting its moneys worth
Tor what It pays; and so my very first
challenge to my friends on the other side
was to point out 10 them the different de-
partments of the state in which there had