The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-12
ROOSEVELT JUMPS
 ON TIE DEMOCRATS
New York Party is Denounced
 In St. Louis Speech
DEFENSE OF THE TARIFF
No Excuse Is Made For the Payne AIdrich Law, But Speaks For What a Tariff Commission
 May Accomplish


 St. Louis, October 11.-Theodore Roose- welt denounced the democratic party in New York as ''an unholy alliance be- tween Wall street and Tammany hall' in a speech here tonight, and attacked the democratic party in Missouri by calling it the party that represents the special in terests and special privileges"
 Colonel Roosevelt also defended the present position of the republican party In regard to the tariff He did not dis cuss the Payne-Aldrich tariff law, saying that he wished the people to look forward and not back. He said the party was united on the doctrine that the tariff shall be such as to equalize the cost of production here and abroad and that it should be regulated by commission. He said that under the present system it was impossible to obtain satisfactory re- suits and added that when the commits sion system was established there should be governmental supervision to determine whether the workmen were getting the benefit they were supposed to have from the tariff.
 It was Colonel Roosevelt's speech in the present campaign. The great coliseum was crowded to the doors with a tnrong which cheered him frequently. He began his speech by commenting Governor Hadley as Ian upright and fearless pub lie servant"
 Governor Hadley," he continued. 'has hot Iyip in which I most believe-the kind of loy- alty to the party which finds expression by seeing to 1t that the party is the most loyal servant of the people as a whole. And, so, am glad to come here tonight to speak to you here in this great state. And have peculiar and added pleasure in it because I think the conditions of your fight here are substantially akin to the conditions of the fight we are mak- ing in my own state. ih
 Democracy Criticized
 In New York state our opponents call themselves the democracy They have the very slenderest relation to any his- toric national party bearing that name For in New York state what calls itself
 
 alliance between Wall street and Tam many hall. It is enough to make Andrew Jackson of Tennessee and Tom Benton of Missouri turn in their graves to re- alize what the organizations are that claim to be their spiritual heirs and rep resentatfves at this present day
 And as it is in New York, so is it here in Missouri-the genuine party of the people, the party that stands for popular rights. that stands for all the people, is the republican party; and the party of reaction and of bourbonism. the party that represents the special interests and special privilege Is the party that arro- gates to itself forsooth, the name of the democracy.
 T was interested in another pair of analogies between the situation in New York and the situation here in Missouri One of the democratic papers of New York-it is democratic with a string to it-it represents the Wall street democra- cy which is more sensitive to the pocket nerve than to any abstract principles described truthfully the democratic con- verition that registered the decrees of the head of Tammany hall in nominating the present so-called democratic ticket In New York.
 Choice of Candidate
 After mentioning the fact that all of the candida idates-including Its own, by the way, came hat in hand to MT. Murphy to know if he would not be good enough to nominate them-it stated that what occurred in the con- vention was really of no consequence, because the only thing that counted was what went on in MT. Murphy's room. It continued, saying the most sinister feature of the situation. how ever, is the fact that you could not throw brick in any direction without hitting lobbyist or a corporation at torney. They all arrived before the delegates did.
 "In New York the Special interests, all of the powers that hope to keep or to acquire privileges to which they are not entitled, have gone without an- tagonists because they feel quite prop erly that in their ranks is the place for the very man who believes in either crooked business or crooked pol ftics and especially in the alliance be- tween crooked business ana crooked politics.
 Well. I was reading the other day an account of what had gone on in the legislature of your own state last year and the author, speaking mere ly descripttvely and without laying any special stress upon the matter, men, tioned the fact that there was a large group of very influential lobbyists who were there at the capitol to antagon- ize the measures advocated by Governor Hadley and as true piece of news the writer went on to say that this group of lobbyists included far great CT proportion of the genuine democratic leadership of the state than was to be found in the entire legislature
 You know, the people of this state know that I am speaking the simple and literal truth when I say that If you wish to see the reign of honesty continued in this state, if you wish