New-York tribune., 1910-10-31
N THE BONDS OF NONSENSE.

N THE BONDS OF AOASENSh-
Senator Root kept within the bounds
OF moderat ion when he said on Friday
night of the people who are proclaim
ing with Mr.. Dix that n victory for the
Democratic state ticket this year Is the
only thing w ilich will save the Republic
from shipwre, TX: Il venture 10 assert th3C
If. three months hence. they Will HOOK
hack at their utterances. they VIII them-
selves see that this is arrant nonsense
The whole Dix campaign has been based
or the idea thua the public has neither
intelligence nor Il sense of humor. 1t lS
hard 10 imagine anything more prepo6-
ferrous than Dr. DiX's colossal aSSuInp-
lion that he is fitting with "A public
enemy i'm defense of the nations insl-
tutions and lil,erties. Don QuiXote
charging the windmillS is not i'm ii with
the Knight of Reconsideration rally
inc 70 the defence of the old flag and a
higher duty on wallpaper. AS the SELF
advertised forloVlf hope of a nation
about 10 he subyprted he will live to
tickle the fancy even of those who are
NOW accepting his pretensions with the
wondering credulity of Il SanchO fanZa-
Republicans are asked to vote for Mt
Dix as the only means of rebuklnS
Colonel Roose7,alfs leadership i'll this
state and eliminating him as a factor
i'm national politics. But. as Senator
Root pointed slt. Colonel Roosevelt 5
leadership i'm this state was Of enormous
value i'm turning the scales here III
favor of larger popular rule and better
government He took MP the fight made
hy Governor Hlrhps for greater free
dom and more direct responsibility in
Marty management and for the puriti"I-
fion of Legislative and administrative
met hpds at Albany. He drove the Oh
sfrrlctionists and corrUptiOnists out OF
power in the Republican organization
and helped 10 set the party on neW
course That service WAS one ot the
1,rc;ttcsf which he has ever done for the
DcopIe of New York. Yet. having put
them In his debt by finishing the admi-
rable reformatOry work begun by GOV
ernor Hughes. the voters of the state
are DOW entreated to rebuke him ny
putting i'm power at Albany an opposition
nartv which has not only refused TO
clean house. but accepts with more SER
vilitv than ever the orders of the I'M
regentant boss of an unregenerated Tam
many.
In national politics. too. the Dix
Murphy ConStitutiOn-saverS say. COlonel
Roosevelt must be dealt with as pub
lie enemy" But in national politics,
also. Colonel Roosevelt has been a potent
force for progress and betterment. His
administration will loom large In our
political history, because il marked
break with the older order. 1t faced
the future, not the past, and Colonel
RooseSelt'S great strength with the c0ul-
Iry is due TO popular recognition OF the
fact that he reflected in his adminlstrd-
tion the ideas of the voters themselves
rather than the ideas of the political
middlpnban and of the special interests
which so many of these middlfmen rep
resented To impeach Colonel Roosevelt
as II public enemy" Is to impeach the
! intelligence and patriotism of the great
mass of the American people. Some per
sons herealsputs do not seem to rea lie
Ills ana nave i'eFSuitueu 'AehA>ei''> 'i'''
! Colonel Roosevelt and what he stands
for can he disposed of in single tilt
with an opponent whose only record in
national politics consists of den0uncinS
Oh the stump the excessive duties of the
! Payne tariff law after having, aS a
business man. pleaded for still higher
duties on the particular product which
/ he manufactures. When their sense Of
humor returns they will see that they
! have been dreaming dreams and talking
1 -, Fg-a It nonsense