The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-01
COL. ROOSEVELT
PRAISES STIMS0N
Urges Election Of the Party Nominee
as a Man Efficient, Honest
and Fearless.

new ANEht VT IL MAUNof& NNNnf
welt, addressing the national Republican
league, in session az Carnegie hall yes
terday, delivered his first speech OF the
state campaign. Praising the platform
and Henry 4. Stimson, the Republican
nominee for governor. be compared the
Republican state convention with the
Democratic convention being held at
Rochester, and asserted that the Repub-
licans had the right 10 appeal to every
decent citizen, without regard to party
affiliations TO vote their way.
The Saratoga gathering he styled a
peoples convention free from the In
flueuee OF special interests
John Hays Hammond rs president OF
the league, introduced the ex.president,
The attendance was not large, and Colo
mel Roosevelt was somewhat hoarse after
his labors at Saratoga. But said Mr..
Hammond, even his whisper is heard
around the world, and we win follow
him up any San Juan hin he may lead
us
II am here to report progress. We
have just held the Republican state con-
vention at Saratoga. There never has
been held in the state of New York a
convention that was more methodical, a
peoples eonvention--not a lobbyist, not
a representative Of single great special
interest exercised finger weights in
iluence IN that convention
THAT convention represented abso-
mtely the opinions, the reasoned convic-
tions and belief of the plain, everyday
men who make up the rank and file Of
the Republican party in the state OF
New York; and it represented equally
the reasoned faith Of the independent
voters.
"Three especial points were made IN
our platform of principles, the three
points upon which the contest this fall
/ in New York il to be waged. In the
/ first place, that we stand, not timidly,
not half way, but aggrassively, for hon
esty in public and in business life.
"In the next place, that we stand
for governmental efficiency; and, in the
third place. that we stand for the right
of the people to control themselves and
not to be controlled BY someone else.
@Those are in sum the three essential
points Of our platform.
Now, our words count only in so far
as they are made good by our deeds; and
we ask that our words be tested by our
deeds; for upon that platform we place
man whose whole life has made him
typical example of that public servant
who is absolutely efficient, absolutely
I fearless absolutely honest, and in the
/ highest and best sense the servant, as
well as the leader, OF the people.
I fTba+ Is x-hat otss action, xuas Thu
/ is what our platform is And that is the
kind OF a man that our candidate, Harry
/ Stimson, is"
4 Mr.. Roosevelt read fro<A newspaper
clipping, which he said was from the
/ New York Times. "a leading representa-
4 tive of the Wall street Democracy" 4
representative Of the Democratic conven-
tion at Rochester.
1t said;-
\ "All day and night the Democratic
+ leaders have been going, hat in hand, "a
Mr.. Murphy, and asking him humbly
( to favor this or that candidate"
1 Mr.. Roosevelt quoted The Times as
4 saying editorially:
Never before has Tammany hall been
/ in such unquestioned control of a state
z ttlkAtiiiUH Dtttk Vi murphy N0HNfJ
are rumors Of strange and sinister influ,
enee You cannot throw brick in amy
direction in Rochester without hitting
some lobbyist or railroad attorney"
q have read to you the absolutely
4 truthful statement made by a leading
! Democratic paper in describing the Dem
ocratic convention at Rochester, | have
given to you the absolutely truthful
statement OF what our convention was
of what it did, and Of whom it nomi
mated and / feel we have the right K
appeal to every decent citizen in this
state, without, regard to party, SO Ions
as he is a good American and an upright
and honest and far-seeing man, t.
stand with us Mt the polls and TO put
Harry Stimson in the governors cham
Der at AlFany."
The convention adjourned until X
o'clock this morning, when a platform
will be adopted. Tonight there viii b
a banquet at the hotel Aston, at which
President TAFT will be the principa
speaker.