New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-01
Speech krraigning the Demo-
cratic Convention Cheered-
Uses News Item as Keynote.
NAMES THREE ESSENTIALS
Dwells on Republican Platform
Planks Adopted by Peoples
Convention" and Urges the
Election of Stimson.

Cub this afternoon. and again at dinner
at the Hotel Astor this evening. and Henry
L Stirnson, Republican candidate for Gov
ernor. IS expected TO be a guest at the din
ner to President TAFT this evening.
The meetings yesterday were devoted 20
routine business until the time came for
Mr. Rooserelt's speech in the afternoon.
The speech was a strong indictment of the
Democratic convention at Rochester and
pIea for the election of Mr.. Stinson as Gov
ernor. He entered the hail few minutes
after O'Clock and was introduced by John
Hays Hammond, president of the league,
who said
eve stand behind Colonel Roosevelt in
al endeavors 10 purify American politics.
and we viii follow him up any San Juan
Fill he may lead us"
Roosevelt Reports Progress.
The delegates cheered Mr.. Roosevelt for
several minutes before they would allow
him 10 begin his speech. When silence was
at last restored he said:
1T am here 10 report progress. We have
Just held the Republican State Convention
At Saratoga. There never was held in New
York a convention more emphatically
peoples convention. Not a lobbyist, not a
single representative Of a great special in
terest. exercised a finger weights influence
there. That convention represented abso-
lutelv the opinion, the reasoned conviction
end belief OF the plain. everyday men who
make I'D the rank and file of the Republi-
can marty in New York. and II represented
the reasoned belief Of the independent
voters.
There We're three points three essential
points. made in the platform adopted by
the convention-the three on which the con-
to &c lo first
was that we stand. not timidy not half
way. but sggressively for honesty in poll
tics ard business life The next was that
we stand for governmental efficiency. in
the third place We stand for the right of
the people 10 control themselves. and not
10 be controlled by some enc else. Those
are the three essential planks OF our plat
form.
Now. cur words are counted only in so
far as they are made good by our deeds,
and We ask that our NO IS be tested by
our deeds, for on that platform we have
placed a man whose whole life has made
him typical exemplar of the public ser
want who is absolutely efficient. absolutely
fearless, absolutely honest and in the high
est aud hest sense the servant, as well as
the leader. OF the people.
THAT is what our action was That is
of man our candidate. Harry Stirnson, is"
Arraigns Democratic Convention.
Having thus described the Republican
convention and the platform ard the candi-
date, Mr.. Roosevelt then took Up the Dem
ocratic convention, using for this purpose a
clipping from The New York Times of
yesterday. from which he read. with his
comments interiected The audience re-
oeived the description OF the Rochester con-
vention with delighted applause While the
ex-President fired out his comments with
characteristic energy.
Nov" he said, 1.-The voters of the state
viii have to choose between that on the
one side and on the other side this Chere
he held aloft the newspaper clipping,
which 1 shall now describe TO you in the
language Of The Times one of our most
envenomed foes, a leading representative
Of the Wall Street Democracy, which this
morning describes the Democratic conven-
tiOn now sitting Now. mind you, ] am
reading what appears in mis- Democratic
PAPER, The Times our enemy. our bitter
\ enemy. and am reading its description of
aE is partys convention, and ] ask you TO
" listen 70 the words in which that party's
convention is described bv its friend:
All day and tonight the Democratic
leaders have been going hat in hand TO
Nr. Murphy and asking him humbly 10
favor this NJ that candidate
But in it, editorial Mr.. Roosevelt COM
mente6. The Times fails in line with
the other Democratic leaders and asks for
the nomination Of a candidate by the con-
Ycution
Nov lie continued. ii goes on:
Never before has Tammany Hall Ioen
IN such, uuquestioned control OF a stale
convention. Never before has any Tam
manv boss been enthroned as the state
leader I'm the unlimited way in which
Murphy IS recognized to-day The conven-
1ion IS in the hollow OF his hand -
Mr.. Roosevelt here intcrjectod another of
his comments. 10 the Ereat enjoyment OF
his audience.
such a statement from me might seem
extreme" he said. But / am merely quot
irC the testimony Of a leading Democrat
in speaking 81 The Democratic State Con
vention. ] viii go on:
Back q Nurphy's control are strange
and sinister influences he read again
You cannot throw brick IN any direc-
ton in Rochester without hitting a lobbyist
or railroad attorney.
Vow. this is not what ] am saying he
interiected again 1t IS A Democratic pa
per The Times continues:
The woods have been full Of them from
TIC start. They got here before the dele
gates did
Colonel Roosevelt held the clipping up
while the convention cheeTed.
IT then asks q question and answers ii"
he said. when ne was allowed 10 continue.
and once more he read:
What was back Of the secret candi-
cacy Of another leading candidate never
sprung until the Gayuor movement was out
q the way. but carefully planned weeks in
advance There are forty answers, and none
or them favorable % the theory that the
Democratic convention Is 2 peoples con-
Vention.'
A Democrat says that, mind you" said
Ny Roosevelt
The writer OF this dispatch has at
tended many conventions state and na-
iional. and he has never seen more gen<
eral air Of distrusi and suspicion than pre-
walls throughout Rochester to-day as TO
THE action Of The convention The conven-
lion session meant nothing. The real con-
ventiOn was in Mr.. Murphy's Toon.'
Gentlemen" said M Roosevelt, laying
aside the Times clipping. Il have read
10 you the absolutely truthful statement
made by 2 leading Democratic paper de-
scribing the Democratic convention al
Rochester. I have given to You the abso-
luteIv truthful statement Of what our con-