New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-12-15

want to return to direct taxation if we
can help it.
Harks Back to His Algebra.
1.-THE problem of what the deficit Will
| be reminds me of when ] used to strug-
gle with that unknown quantity X in
algebra as boy The difference between
the amount to which we are able to cut
the expenditures and the income OF the
state now figures in my mind as *. L
have just taken up a stpdy of the prob
] lem and purpose to give 1t my most Sc
rious attention.
Mr. Dix does not think il is quite fair
| to saddle upon his administration the
cost of the new state prison that is TO
be put up at Dover Plains at an esti-
mated cost of 100000.
1T seems to me- he said. that as
| long as the peopl- expressed so forcibly
their desire for change in the state adj
ministration it would be no more than
fair for the Republicans to put the let
| ting of the contract for the prison over
until after the first of the year. There
/ is nothing that We can do about it, how
ever, so far as / can see. l understand
that they intend to open the bids and
let the contract for the prison before the
| end of the year.
/ August Belmont was a caller upon Mr.
Dix after the latter's return to the Man
haitian. Mr.. Dix said his only mission
was to urge him to attend a luncheon
/ that has been arranged by number of
men interested in the preservation work
of the Department of Forest, Fish and
1 Game. Among others who are to be at
the luncheon, which is TO be held at Del
monico's at ] o'clock on Saturday, are
| DR.. W. T. Hornaday, chairman of the
| legislative committee Of the Campfire
Club: A. D. MaIloy, of the State League
| of Fish. Forest and Game Associations;
Ottoman H Van Norden and Mr.. Pier
son, secretary of the Audubon Society.
Sherman's Brother a Caller.
Among others who called upon Mr.. Dix
Yesterday We're Richard W. Sherman, of
/ Utica brother of Nice-President Sher-
man. but Democrat, who was men
toned as a possible candidate for State
Superintendent of Public Works; David
Morey. of Troy: Theodore Sutro, H. G.
Higley. chairman of the. Ontario County
| committee: Thomas w. Hogan. of Troy:
Mayor Nelson of Hornell, Senator-elect
| Ferris. of Oneida County, and E, E. Rig
; ney, of Holcomb, and Gerardus Smith,
of Schenectady, members of the state
committee.
/ In the morning Norman E. Mack,
/. Sheriff Jerge. of Buffalo; Mayor Daniel
Sheehan of Elmira, Mayor Raymond Of
| New Rochelle, Congressman Driscoll, Of
Buffalo, and John ]. Daley, chairman Of
the Monroe County Committee, were
among the callers.
Charles F. Murphy did not see the
| Governor-elect yesterday, but received
suggestions regarding the Senatorship at
his new headquarters in the suite of the
Democratic State Committee, No. ] West
34th street. Congressman-elect Henry
/ George. jr.. gave out last night letter
which he had addressed to Mr.. Murphy
urging the election OF Edward NJ. Shep-
ard He said he did SO at the request
/ OF number of men who looked UPON
/ Mr. Shepard as the representative Of ad-
vanced Democratic ideas. He pro-
nounced as false an impression that
such a selection would offend the rad1-
Gals in the party.
Refutes Corporation Argument.
Mr. Shepard's corporation affilia-
TONS" wrote Mr.. George, ARE alluded
to as constituting a bar to his selection
I assert Of my own knowledge that the
corporation argument and the implica-
4 most unjust
to Mr.. Shepard. with whose opinions
and character / have been well acqualnt-
ed for number of years
Il can testify that Mr.. Shepard's in
stincts are fundamentally Democratic
and that he holds opinions that are both
! brave and broad, as has been shown IN
recent years by his unqualified public
utterances on many occasions In SEN
| timent he is a hater Of injustice, a lover
of his kind. a believer in equal rights
and an enemy of privilege.
Looked at from a political point of
view. I believe Democratic leadership
would gain greatly in prestige among
the independent voters If you were to be
instrumental in securing for them the
recognition which Mr.. Shepard's cleo
ton would indicate. 1t would help ma
| terialIy to fill up the chasm which has
! divided the two wings of the Democracy
| in the past. To make peace oHerlng
| when YOU are not obliged to do it would
| be regarded as an evidence of leadership
quality of a type higher than New York
| has had for many a year
| Mr. George told Mr.. Murphy that he
! wrote to him because / recognize you
as the Democratic leader whose advice
will be more potent than that of any
other man not holFing public Office In
| influencing the Judgment of the Demo-
| cratic LEGISLATURE in the selection of a
Senator
| Charles Z. fireman, who is to be the
State Superintendent OF Public Works
under Governor Dix. is a graduate OF
: Cornell University and a member of the
| board of trustees OF that institution DE
| is a member of the wholesale hardware
| firm of fireman, King Co. and
a director in number of financial in
stitutions in Ithaca. He would have
! been elected chairman Of the Democratic
State Committee at the time when Win
field A Huppuch was chosen last fall.
had il not been that his physicians
would not allow him TO take up the work.
DIX AT SLEICHER DINNER