The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-03
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FOR. .C0NDUCT,Ig |
COL ROOSEVELT /:
He Merits Nothing But
Pity Of Decent
Men.
LIAR, W'ILF' ULLY
AND KNOWN Y GLY
Candidate Dix Denounces Ex-
President, Brands Him as
Disseminator Of Falsehoods,
and Withdraws Demand for
Apology campaign at
Flood Tide.
Apolog Campaign at
Flood Tide.


New York, November + The Demo-.
cratic state campaign here reached
floodtlde to-night8at a meeting in
Carnegie Hall, where John A. Dix, ths
nominee for Governor, made his first
public address In the city, The meet
Ing also served as the occasion for
Mayor Gaynor's long expected formal
announcement of his support Of thes
ticket. The Mayors voice still being
weak. this came in the form Of lets
ter to the chairman Of the meeting.
The rally was held under the
auspices ofSthe Independent Business
Mems League. and Herman Ridder,
president of that organization, pre-
sided.
Dcnounces Roosevelt.
Mr.. Dix devoted the greater part OF
a 3.000-word speech to a denunciation
Isof Theodore Roosevelt. He charged
1.-the former President with wflful false
hood in repeating the accusation for
which Mr.. Dix. in his Buffalo speech.
demanded an apology. He declared
THAT Colonel Roosevelt, because Of
what he deems to be his political
necessity of the hour, struck hands and
made political alliance with William
r. Hearst. whom four years ago Roose-
Welt had publicly branded as respon-
sible for the assassin,s bullet which
made him President
Leaving the subject of Roosevelt,
the candidate returned to charges of
Republican extravaganza. He prom
Ises Ethatga Democratic administration
would reduce taxation and once move:
make It possible for the average man:
ITO ssaYe enough b for a rainy day 10.
Edenouncc a the epuhlican tariff policy
and declared himself for downward
Isreviston OF the tart II.
This campaign said Mr.. Dix, ike
I so many in the past, involves questions
I3of policy and expenditure: of reform;
and retrenchment and the other ques-,
lions which necessarily have to do
with carrying on the we'll ordered bus
1ness of government.
such questions would have been set-s
tied In the usual way by appeals to
reason and to experience, and by that
application to common sense Judgment
which is SO distinguishing an attribute
tof the average American. But this was
mot to be-. Into the centre of the stage
there has been hurled-by the inordi- ~
nate vanity. the dang gerous ambition.
the ecklessE Econductsof a man who has
become the apostle OF tumult and the
sprotagohtst2so of MISREPRESENTATION
not our very Republican Institutions
should survive, or, under the assaults
of the gitator and the egotist, should
go d down to distinctions, as have other
lgreat4countries under similar assaults.
Unfortunately for our country, the
battle-ground chosen for this fight was
that which ombined patriotism. In
5telligence and public spirit Ii their
highest form. and the decisive defeat
which lies befores this creator OF in ;. >,
rest, this nstiga tor Of panic and this
destructive agent of business depres i
sion will not alone retire him sto Il a
sphere sof well-earlied, and unenried
Iseclusion, but will serve for s many
Years to come as a signal warning Co
all$other men. who may let their amhi-
stion blind their Judgment to the! fact
that there Is and must rema in a gov
3ernment of the people and by the
people. ss5
Must Blush Nbr Him.
ever 4 before have we In our hiss
tory had So; much occasion to blush
for the conduct % a man who had n
been the first citizen OF our country, II
and no greater and more striking dif f-
ference could s'be found in our history
between the last Republican PRESIDENT
and the illustrions men who preceded
him In office, than Is found by their
the great office which they had held
Loo k for Il nlonaent upon Il. he man
who is & n oW. rushing TIP and down he!
State shouting threatening, abusing
contempt and dicule e II pom the great
office he has held and avoiding the dis e
cussion OF a II "A her cal Issues ssof this Il:
campais en- and 81 then Il upon his great 4
they owed to their eotintrymen tha 4
duty Of bearing themselves always with sE
dignity and with honor
Look on the one hand at the man q
the 8bulwarks of our liberties and upon
the freedom OF the press, than which
no right Is more sacred to treenlen.
and then upon the men w no se every ii
gard for lawfully constituted author.
ity,g and saS3Fwiti which OF these men
and their policies you would fer to os
stand.s $ ~ 4
IT say TO you. my fellow citizens Of
New York. thAt when, the sllonting s ana @s
verdict of Impartial history shall nave
been rendered, n would u thousand
times prefer to stand With the lain.
country rather than with tn g man who,
publicly branding anot err as respoYl
stble for the assa ssirlss hul wh'c n 3s
made hin, President las. Within al few AZ
years thereafter. because of wha ms n
deems to be his political necessity OF u
the hour. struck hands and made po,
lltical alliance with the maj & whom
he had so branded ~
"Let his friends take whenever
efforts and htsevantty to cho osa 81 my
opponents nomnatorS eithef shameful-
~ and shamelessly helied a fellow +
altizen When he had Ms Root ma
deserves the condefnna Ion OF self
men In king an alliance ssi