Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-02

Gay at Albion, going thence to Lock-
port and on to Niagara Falls and
Buffalo. More enthusiasm was shown
during his tour today than on almost
any other day of his campaign.
Every where he was welcomed by
crowds and the demonstrations att
Niagara Falls and in Buffalo were
notable ones. Only Il small traction
Of those who wanted to near him
could squeeze into the theatre at
Niagara Falls in which he spoke.
The others blocked the streets and
cheared until he made a speech on the
corner. When he arrived in Buffalo,
crowds lined the streets and cheered
as he drove from the station to his
hotel.
The colonel spoke in the Broadway
arsenal here tonight, and then in Con"
vention hall, both times to great
crowds. After the second rally h" start
ed for New York, whence he is to de-
part for Iowa three hours after his ar
rival there in the morning. In his
speech tonight. Mr.. Roosevelt said:
Tho man against us-well, the real
man against us is Mr. Murphy Mr..
Murphys nominee, Mr. Dix has no
record he apparently wishes to estab-
lsh an aliIi. Mr.. Stimson has spoken
every night. in every section of this
state and lie wishes the people to Judge
him w what ne says and by what he
has Gone
II call your attention. as showing
Harry Stimson's straight -forwardncss.
20 the way he has dealt with the queS-
ton of the high cost of living. which
| is ono OF the arguments advanced by
our opponents as the reason for put
ting Tammany Hall in power at AL
bany.
''Fourteen years ago ! was in Buff
falo speaking in the campaign for. Mr..
! Mckinley against Mir. Bryan. and at
that time O,lr opponents held the Re
pubiicans responsible because prices
were too low. You remember that Mr..
l5rvan's great complaint was that VIC
never would get wheat up to the dol
lar limit. Now. IA years after the
complaint is that prices are too high.
Real suffering has unGuestionahly been
caused by the fact that prices have
gone up, that the cost of living has in
creased.
AS Mr.. Stimson pointed out the 9TH
| or night there has been a Worldwide
| movement toward higher prices DURING
the past few years. 1t is not i'm it's cs-
Sencc movement that affects only
ms country 1T affects other countries
| Just as it affects ours. Nevertheless
there are one or two artificial causes
that in given cases in our own country
tend to make prices improperly high
IN ways that it is possible that we can
cure"
Il have no questions" the colonel
continued, hut that sometimes bic
combinations. big trusts nave raised
prices. No man in this country has
taken more effective action against
those big trusts during the same
length Of time than Harry Stimson
did While he was district attorney in
New York. AS a result every big
financial corporation of the type that
We speak of as a trust is now doing
al it can to back np Mr.. Dix and to
| oppose Mr.. Stmson. If Harry Slim
son We're not a menace to the big
trust YOU would not find every big
trust controlled newspaper Of New
| York City against him. If Mr. Dix
was not wanted in office by the great
corporations which have more effect
! in raising the high prices of living
| than any other agency of purely nat
ional. as distinguished from inter
| national significance. you would rot
| find them supporting Mr. Dix as
| eagerly as they are supporting him
! in tEis campaign.
| "Who have been the people who at
| tackled me most violently? The plain
| people. or the men who represent the
| trusts? 1t is the representatives. Of
| the great corporations, their repre-
sentatives in the press, their repre-
sentatives in public life. their repre-
| SentativeS in private life. t-le big cor
| poration lawyers: and Harry slim
son is naturally feared by the great
combinations which are either doing
an illegal business or which are so
| close up 10 the edge of an illegal
business that they are always afraid
| that they will be hauled up for step
ping over the line and by the cor
| porations which. if not doing any
thing illegal. nevertheless are enjoy
| ing special privileges which ought to
be made Illegal
Col. Roosevelt said that the cor
| pOrationS which Mr.. StimSon had
| caused to be fined in the aggregate,
| nearly 100000 could Wen afford 70
| nav a considerable per cent. of that
amount to prevent Stlmson's election.
| Mr. Stimson. ne said, was the man
| who was most likely to obtain some
measure of relief from high prices.
"Stimson doesn't tell you. he said.
that if elected he can put stop to
| the high cost of living: he cannot and
no one else can. But ne does say
| that on certain big necessities. by
| carving out the course that lie has
consistently carried out in public life,
a certain Improvement can here and
there he made as regards certain COM
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