The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-13
TAMMANY BAD, SAYS SIIHSON
O.. a. q. IINDIDtTE TILkS 10
rOII uHIl STI DENTN

saN, tharEe 80 INtra,agAnee y Net
sincere, ~ VII Ne shawn 70 Dens-
rrats Win nrPabiirans Have Paid n
the, HA,e Zone HrRRet Not ssrr.
Henry l.. Stim=on the Republican
candidate for Governor opened his
campaign yesterday afternoon by al
dressing the Columbia University Re-
publican Club m Earl Hall on the college
campus The burden - MS address was
an attack upon Tammany Hall and the
mart which Mr. Siumson thinks It PLAYS
IN the State Democratic ticket He
said that the ono great issue ~ the pres
snt campaign was the choice between
the reactionary Democratic policies a.
represented 10y Charles p. murphy and
William J. ConnerS and the proge-siv"
splrit 1T the Republican party which was
expressed in the Saratoga platform.
Mir Stlmson raid also that II elected
he would consider himself pledged /"
carry out all of the Hughes policies. par-
ticularly that promise ~ the direct pTi-
mAries which Was made AZ the Republican
convention
The candidate entered the hall just
81 the time that Congressman William y
Rennei was saving that he didn't mind
hlt having had the steam roller pass
over him ~ the Saratoga Convention
MIR Stimson was an old friend they had
worked together. and he liked the choice
Of the convention for the first place on
the ticket
What IL all this talk which Is most
emphatic IN some of the newspaper
about violation Of the States rights
and infringement on the part of the
Federal Government Mr. Stimson asked
1T ~ strange that those who talk the
loudest about the infringement of the
States rights 10y the Federal Government
are Just the ones who do nothing To- make
the State assert it, own self and bring
itself ont of the atrophied condition
of do nothingness
The speaker then brought in review
the chief legislation enacted through
the influence ~ Gov. Hughes 10 reGute
the assumption that New York state
might he relinquishing its right To govern
itself He cited a. one % the chief
achievements 81 the recently retired
Governor the passage of the public ser
vice act. and he said that John A. Dix
Democratic candidate for ne Gov
ernorship. had been a candidate for
Lieutenant -Governor on the Democratic
ticket at time when the party poncv
was opposed to the public service Jaw.
The platform upon which MIR. Dix 10
running nov advocates in an equiv
way the reasonable regulation II public
service corporations. said Mr. Stimson
Now ] ask Mr. Dix TO answer in behal II
81 his party and ia the light of his can
didacy on a platform which openly op-
posed this measure two years ago what
is meant nv reasonable regulation Do~s
he favor the repeal of this act which has
stood az one at the greatest pieces 81
legislation passed IN recent years.
while the Democratic platform con-
tains provisions In favor Of certain items
az advanced legislation, continued Mr.
Stlmson. almost none % them have bee n
issues upon which there has been public
discussion or difference % opinion. and on
those which have been the subject -
Gov Hughes : advance the platform tax IS
the position OF reaction
1t protests vigorously against the
increase ~ governmental expenditures
well knowing that every item Of such
increase was made necessary by the
increase of Government activities and
that not a penny came from waste II
contrasts the expenditures under The
present administration with those Of the
last democratic Governor. well KNOWN z
that the difference ~ an accurate measure
" the present state 81 progress and the
old state ~ irAHicienry and tnaction
Let me state right here that transi
ton from the extravagance % Gov
Hughes to the economy o. Tammany
Hall would he some'hing that the citizens
NJ New York city could accurately Judge
NJ beforehand Rear IN mind that
through the influence Of Charles r
Murphy the Rochester ron ention noni 70
mated for the two positions most int.
nnatelv associated with the great Hughes
adminlst ration 81 reform the Offices q
Comptroller and State Engineer men
al OF whose former training and "Sy.ri.
ence has been a. Iammany once holde ~
IN a lammanv government l. there any
promise nf economy IN that action
Mr. Stimson said that u had b..en the
policy ~ the Hughes Administrations To-
MY for improvements not specifically
provided for Nv Legislative sppropria ton
u'It ~ lts current income and not hv
selling bonds the interest On which would
nave IN 10 paid by a succeeding genera D.
ton One of the most interesting bits az
.nfo rnation that the COMMITTEES 81 i,a
had To exhibit prior 20 the last Mayorality
Campai gn IN New YORK had been pronf
that under Tammany administrations tn.
city had been bonded for soap and bonded
FOR music on the rscrea ton piers tn.
Iast strains ~ which hsd died away fiv.
wears before, hut the interest on which
the city - ztill paving
The candidate said that the Democratic
party this year had sought to turn the
State over to Tammany and introduce
into State government the methods oT
Tammany that best known exemnIa r
NJ the alliance between venal politics nd
corrupt business, which ~ the curse 81
our public life and against which the new
progressive movement has been chiefly
aimed
Congressman Bennett said.
Some say Mr.. Roosevelt IL a boss
admit ~ II had had the same power IL
nv hands a. Mr.. Roosevelt did al nd wanted
~ have nv man chosen tn head the ticket
| would have done the same thing he did.
Mr.. Stimson has promised tn make an
address at the West Side Republican Club.
2sO7 Broadway. tonight. Henry A. Wise
will preside and j. Van Vechten Olcott
and William VI. Bennett are IN the list ~
speakers.