New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-20
Republican Candidate DlScov-
ers Three Perfectly Good
Reasons for Success.
ADVICE TO PRoGRESSIVES
Would Be Wiser for Them to
Consider Danger to State
Should Tammany's
Decoy Win.

ECgdlUCk gilt. II was pISS0H'ou W w
while he was stumping the South Shore
NJ Long island by James Payton' Long
island Railroad brakeman. who also
toured the island with Colonel Roosevelt
when he was making his campaign LOT
Governor.
The second was that his name begins
with H as did that Of Higgins ana
Hughes. Republican candidates TOT the
of5cs which he seeks. And everybody
knows what happened TO them. II
The third was that the ProgTesslVes
vysran"t going 10 be so false to their pro-
fasslons az principle 81 to turn the state
over N Tammeny Hall. He said many
f,,,os be was perfectly certain OF THIS
"a hat WAS exactly what they would do
a. +boy didn't vote the Republican ticket
not because it happened 70 Do Repuohcah
ord bsve his name at the top, although
bs was & good progressive out because
the Republican party this year was the
only instrument for divorcing Iammahy
from the State Treasury.
In TO date the chief trouble with the
Progrssslves, Mr.. Hedges argued, was
that they had been suffering from self
contemplation"
.rToyy. II that self-contemplaton makes
,ben better" he said. God give them
strength to think Of themselves all the
time" Blt he thought II would be wiser
for them, and better for the state, II they
thought G lot about what would happen
10 the state government IL Murphy's crew
retained their hold upon IT.
Il say to you," he declared very earn
l,a IN
this state until we get rid of what Is now
at Albany"
Mr.. Hedges left this city early yester-
day morning for his second days cam
ralgning in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
He spoke first at Freeport, later at Baby
Ion. aPtchogue. southampton and Sag
Hsrbor. Thence he returned to address
series Of meetings last night in this
city.
The Republican candidate devoted most
Of his time in this strong Roosevelt ter
ritory TO arguing with the Progressyes
that they would only be playing Murphy's
game If they continued outside the Re-
publican party.
"Do you suppose Sulzer would have
been nominated" he asked "if Murphy
hadn't thought the split in the Republi-
can party insured his election? Why OF
course not. You Progressives are the
easiest things ! have ever met. declare
II had to choose I'd rather be wicked
than silly"
He continued:
It IS not a question Of sulzer It Is a
question Of anybody. NOW, MT % NC
candidates were, relative 70 civil SERVES.
He says: Il am in favor OF the men
system, and have been a conslstent trleIu
OF civil service reform all my lie. IN
1910 he said. Il am firm believer In M,
doctrine TO the victors belong the spol!S,
And In 1898, when he was Speaker Oh .s sae
Assembly, the third most potentlal 9i! III
In the State OF New York, he SAID az
legislation came from Tammany Hall ana
was dictated by that great Statesman
Richard Croker, and he has further sa .I
and not retracted II, that IN the Sl az
Democratic party. Now, I say TO you
people who are not within the llnes "
the Republican party that the ntAt Lef ps-
lature OF this state Is going 10 DC ~
publican or Democratic; there, ism any
doubt about that, not the sn8htesl on
earth. Our Progressive and DerhoSi a a. 10
friends can make every Senator ana r. ~.
semblymAn for New York city IneIilDet
Of Tamn1any Hall. and they can beat
many OF the Republican nominees IoI 40
semblyman and Senators In the I,Sn
parts Of the state, and they can lpsu Ido
that the majority control OF the lIia 1.
iority shall be in Tammany Han: NOW,
the question for you ProgresslFeS' IL
there are any in this audience, IS 10 ue
eide whether you think II more L nn ns per
than 70 maintain the State or Ne" io'h
in a decent condition.
The record Of the Dix administration
eontrasted with the record OF the HueheS
administration, declare Mr.. Hedges
showed what Tammany Hall was capaoie
OF. Said he:
During the last two years the people
VINO are up there have recalled an eHtit o
court and substituted q coInIIls -hov have
In their state convention they . ~
turned their backs on the propOsltIoiiito ~
tie Court of Appeals ana the JuulIpGjtScSS
generally should be kept out Oh po iaII
There isn't q single department IN AIDoiIy
TO-DAY that the polluting hand OF the
spokesman has not been laid upon W." 90
deadly effect. IL Is q very easy tIlhe Lod
we RepU blicans to tax about IaHldii aa :,
Hall and 20 wave ten req nag diu -,
that here Is our common enemy. 90 not
say this for political effect not only as ~.
Individual, but as canoludle Vi "a"
party. / want to weigh my r MTIui e. not a
saw 10 YOU that Tammany Han Is h9t q
uoIitIcai organization at all in the ma. i
ANALYSIS: II is a band OF men met t0Se'tnte 5a
for mutual financial advantage uuucV va "a
p7Iiee of politics. They tax polltlCs anu
Sa,tsI iarneny In New York county
b,, yord ~ mouth, without printed line.
on tWenty-four hours notlce, tah! inc ~,
Han can cast fifty thousand votes LOT vi
against arv candidate, for or agalnst any
rIatforro and the voters VIII not know
Inc dif1erence or care. Now OBJECT -
that organization, because 1t mas no PEI pa I
in the theory Of American goN al M ~ -, y,
II has been my pleasure 70 nght II 81 ss T,y
llfe. and once J participated IN an v ,,ao &c
that wag successful. and Tor lhree SJ" 20
some distinguihesd Tarnmany iiTn ,5ic,eS
90 TO work At another time i lnuiiCtedd
about a hundred Of them and convicted
them. and sent them 10 work peslue9' '''
voting more than once
81 hate a liar and hate hypocrlte'
said the candidate. That was the reason
he hated Tammany Hall, he said. ne
laughed OF the contention OF Mr. strauS'
the Progressive candidate thaI '"'
bosses will get me-" 4.
In passing he paid his compliments 10
Colonel Roosevelt and the RooseVeltlaHi
method Of campaigning.
at is not for me 10 find Iault win
Roosevelt for trying 10 be President Goa
knows I'm trying hard enough 70 De Gov
ernor." ne said amid laughter am III
no position TO cast the first stone out
object that while he is trying TO be pleas
ant he wines most everything briught out
OF other peoples lives He doesn't auiiii'
there Is anything good. 1 nave never
heard him describe really good thing IN
American life since he left the party