Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-11-12
G0FERNOR.ELECT DIX on RO0SF.
WELT.

Now that the election has become a
matter Of history 1t is not iamiss to re-
call the scoring that the next Governor
of New York, Dix, gave to Roosevelt,
who had libeled him in various speech
IS and even after the facts had been
presented refused TO recognize them
and ignored the demands for with
drawal of his political canards and
vicious personal assaults. Dix, in his
last speech in New York City, gave an
analysis Of Roosevelt that is well
worth a re-reading at this juncture,
when the former presidents own state
has set the seal Of its confirmation up
on Mr.. Dix's uttterances regarding
him. Dix did not mince words nor
hesitate to carry his analysis of Roose-
Welt to the end. Said he:
This campaign, like so many in the
past, involved questions of policy and
expenditure. of reform and retrench-
ment, and the other questions which
necessarily. have 10 do with carryfng
eminent
Such questions would have been
settled in the usual way by appeals tc
reason and to experience and by thai
| application to cOmmOn-sense Judgment
which is so distinguished an attribute
| OF the average American. But THU
was not to be. Into the center of the
stage there has been hurled-by The
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ton, the reckless conduct of a mar
who las become the apostle of tum
ut and the prota gonist of misrapre.
sentauon-the momentous question d
whether Or not our very republican in.
situations Should survive, or, under the
assaults OF the agitator and the ego.
tist, should go down TO destruction
as have o1her great countries under
similar assaults.
Fortunately for our country the
battle ground chosen for this fight wa.
that which combined patriotism, integ.
1gence, and public spirit in their high
est form and the decisive defeat whicl
lies sefore this creator of unrest, thi!
insttg3tor OF panic, and this destruc.
tive agent Of business depression will
mot alone retire him to sphere d
| W2li-earned and unenvied seclusion
but will serve for many years to come
as signal warning to all other meI
who may let their ambition blind theii
Judgment to the fact that there lis anC
must remain government of the peo
PIE and by the people.
| Never before have we, in our his
tory, had so much occasion to blush
fer the conduct of man who had
been the first citizen of our country
| and no greater and more striking diff
ference could be found i'm our history
between the fast Republican Presbdeni
and the l!ustrious men who proceeds ed
him in office, than is found by theiI
conduct after they lad retired from
the great office which they had held.
Search all through the history OF
our country-4eXa anime and study the
| characters and careers of all those
who have been chosen to fill this
greatest of human positions-and
where shall we find in all the long line
OF men who have stood forth i'm their
day and generation, each as tie fore
nfost American citizen-where shall
We find a man whose qualities, whose
conduct, whose career after leaving Of
flee has been so lacking in dignity and
in self-respect.
Look for moment upon the man
who is now rushing up and down the
State shouting, threatening, abusing.
AMI wflfuly misrepresenting bring
ing contempt and ridicule upon tie
great office he has held, and avoiding
the discussion of all the real issues Of
this campaign, and then upon his great
predecessors who never forgot that
they owed to their countrymen the
duty of bearing themselves ALWAYS
Wits dignity and with honor"