The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-07
Appeal Is Made to Laboring
 Men for Their Votes
AGAIN ATTACKS DIX
ciaI Interests Are Attacked as the Allies of Dix in the
 Political Battle


 ly solicitous of the welfare of all it's people, I wish to make a final appeal to all my fellow citizens to stand for Henry L. Stimson in this fight which he is waging so gallantly for clean and honest politics and for genuine popular rule. I regard this as far more than a mere party contest. l appeal not only to republicans for feel that in this con- test we have the right to appeal just as strongly to all upright and far-sighted men. democrats and independents, no less than republicans.
 "The election next Tuesday turns on moral questions affecting the whole fu- ture of this state, and of our people; and. therefore, 1t is our right and our duty to appeal to the whole body of honest citizens, irrespective of party ties. The powerful and crooked political or ganization against which we are pitted Is now working hand in glove with all the great sinister interests of crooked finance. the breath of whose nostrils Is special privilege.
 Sinister Interests
 "The sinister financial interests fatten on political corruption and the bi-parti-
  Hall is fraught with a grave menace to the welfare of the plain people of the state.
 Against this bi-partisanship of cor rupt politics and corrupt finance we have right to expect the whole-hearted non partisan support of all honest citizens and particularly of all men who believe in honest politics and honest business.
 MT. Stimson has made his campaign fearlessly and sincerely in the open; his promises square with his record; he has stated his position on every question; MT. Dix derives his sole importance from the fact that MT. Murphy picked him as being the man most capable to carry out the purposes of Tammany Hall. He has TO public record, and he has not dared to state his position fully and freely on single vital question. He dared not answer Stimsons questions and could not frame question which Stimson would fear to answer.
 Stimson's Record
 MT Stlmson, as district attorney. made a record which other man In that position has ever approached. He dealt as dangerous blows to corruption and special privileges as have been ever dealt them; he successfully prosecuted some of the most powerful corporations in the land, including the sugar trust
 
 and recovered for the people nearly $4,- 900 0O0. Naturally. they hate him, and conspire for his undoing and their bitter hatred is the measure of the regard which the people should feel for their champion. fs ft
 Remember that Stimsons work against these trusts was an effective blow against the high cost of living; where- as the wall paper trust and the efforts by MT. Dix to have the tariff on wall paper raised, represent just the move ments that are responsible for so much Of the high cost of living as is not due to worldwide causes
 Contrast this with MT. Dix's record, Of public record he has none. In his private record the most salient points are his efforts to get the tariff raised on his own product and his working his employees 13 hours a night.
 Dix's Labor Record
 q call the special attention of the wage earners to MT. Dixs labor record. Our aim Is steadily to work toward an eight-hour day; to guard wage-workers against being required to labor an excess sive number of hours under unhealthy conditions to secure an adequate work ingman's compensation act; to put a stop to the labor of children; to regulate hours of labor for women.
 ''Mr--Dx is supported by the men who openly boast that they are nullfying the child labor laws. He has declared himself in favor of the judicial reasoning which would nullify the right of the state to limit hours of labor under un- healthy conditions and would nullfy all Wor kmens legislation, including compen- sa ton laws prepared by the present leg islature. He works his own men 13 hours a night for scanty wages. Listen to what John Mitchell says in his letter | of yesterday
 | Here Mir Roosevelt quoted in full the statement given out by Mitchell, printed | in the Sunday papers, and also letter of Timothy Healy, president of the Inter- national Brotherhood of Stationary Fire men. written to Samuel Gompers some days ago, in which he recites his efforts for the eight-hour day in the paper mills, and says the Dix mills are still in the Il | or 13-hour class
 | Continuing, Colonel Roosevelt said | Wage Workers Battle Every wage-earner should stand with tus for we are fighting the wage workers battle. Every honest citizen should stand for us. for we are fighting the battle of Abraham Lncoln's plain people. The Wall street-Tammany cam naien has completely collapsed; they have I i sons. They have not advanced a single honest argument in their turn; they have been hammered out of every position they have taken. Their sole chance oi heating Mr. Stimson and his policies. as frankly stated in the campaign circulars distributed by Tammany Hall through wall street, lies in a large outlay oi money
 | Against the frank appeal to the forces of corruption we make our appeal to the conscience and the reason of all good citizens The drift is overwhelmingly oul way for the good citizens of the state have begun to realize how vital are tho tissues at stake. Fundamentally the issue lIs between right and wrong; between honesty and dishonesty; between the rule of the people and the rule of a corrup land boss-ridden political machine. acting as the ally and instrument of the grea financial powers that owe their existence to special privileges firmly believe w shall win for 1 confident our people will not tolerate such an alliance, and
 wish for the sake of the honor our state to see the triumph overwhelming; for w I owe it not only to ourselves but to tn, children who are to come after us tt mark our utter abhorrence of the sordit evil which would follow the success O such condition.
 THEODORE ROOSEVELT"