New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-19
HEDGES GROWS STERN
TALKING OF TAMMANY
Mere Shift of Figureheads in
Suffers Nomination, He
Points Out.
STIRS REPUBLICAN SPIRIT
Welcomes Back the Increasing
Army of Men Who First
Stood for Colonel
Roosevelt.

Job E Hedges, Republican candidate
for Governor. made flying campaign
trip into Nassau and Suffolk Counties
yesterday, preaching an anti-Tammany
gospel Although Long Island is recog-
nized by the Republicans 6s strong
Roosevelt territory, the meetings were
good ones, better In point Of attendance
and responsiveness than those addressed
by Henry L. Stimson. Colonel Roose-
velrs candidate for Governor. two years
ago.
The candidate began With an early
morning meeting at Mineola- There
followed meetings at Hicksville, River
head, Mettituck. Southhold and Green,
port. From there he returned to this
city jeremiah Wood. candidate for the
Assembly In Nassau County. spoke at the
meetings there Assemblyman George l..
Thompson, Of Suffolk County, the candi-
date for Senator in that district, spoke
at all the meetings.
Much attention was devoted by Mr.
Hedges to The Republicans who have
strayed into the Bull Moose fold. He
urged them to come back and be "po-
litcally decent by taking part In an
anti-Tammany movement through the
Republican party, where their votes
would count He said that he sometimes
thought maybe Colonel Roosevelt himself
was little sorry he had left the party,
and he was sure the voters would be II
they stayed outside and saw Tammany
grab the state government for two years
more.
THE Republican party has not been I'M
kind to Roosevelt" said Mr.. Hedges.
Continuing. he said:
Uncle Sam has been a kind of foster
father to him. brought him up, educated
him, and he was q good son, and then as
a kind OF a fnisher in education, as they
say, sent him abroad for a couple or
years, where he met kings and queens,
princes and princesses,, tigers and Gle
thing, and he came back, and he said 70
the old man: Uncle Sam, / have studied
this socialistic thing since have been
away and / don't like the cut OF your
clothes: your trousers bag at the knee;
you haven't the latest socialistic cut OF
garments. and won't stand for H. :
Everything is comfortable here" And
Roosevelt said he couldn't stand II any
longer. and he did what he had 2 per
and up 10 that point even. ! haven't any
radical differences with him. because II |
want to leave. ! am going TO leave but
when he went out, he turned back once
10 look at the old place. He just couldn
help IT, II was ordinary. everyday hu-
man nature and belief, so In his heart
Of hearts he gave little sigh. and then
10 Justify himself 20 himself, he began
throwing stones through the windows:
and he hadn't any right TO do that; that
wasn't fair that wasn't a square deal
because. take Il from mo. that human
virtue and mental Integrity don't lie IN
the hands OF mortal man for their JUS
tincatiOn. -,
In the providence OF God. we have laid
/ down 10 us certain rules for living among
ourselves. and IL IL not for any liVlnB
mortal man to make his Judgment the
| test OF moral uprightness
| Tammany said the candidate. was an
| Institution whose members had very
| largely solved the problem or living WIN
out work. a. a result; Tammany gov
| eminent was a lamentable thing Tor the
! state The only thing To be said in TAM
mnny's favor was that"rt was not hypo-
| critical In its operations.
Just think" said he. the party that
| talks about the constitution has removed
| a fun court OF judges In Albany for the
purpose OF patronage. They have refused
| TO 20 into a non-partisan judicial plan
for nominating judges OF the Court or
| Appeals, and last night read nj Car :
1
| man than Austen q. Fox, sturdy
| Democrat, who was asked 70 join an as
| ISOLATION 10 bring about my election. lie
| said he ,would have, ana at the same tlne
| rebuked men who we're trying to- De-
mocratize the Court OF Appeals OF the
State Of New York"
Another instance Of the way Tammany
played politics. said Mr.. Hedges, was its
handling OF certain phases Of the work
of the State Fair at Syracuse. He con-
tinued:
I am not farmer. but have passed
| the summer with them. i want the state
to be In the best position TO instruct on
! the economy of farming, politically and
| financially. ] want to take the clutch or
| Tammany of the agricultural schools OF
the State OF New York. Why, up here
| i'm Morrisville the other day two new
| trustees were established and named by
| the Governor only because they were
| Democratic During HugheSs time at the
| great fair at Syracuse, the object lesson
| OF agricultural interest In the State of
sfty boys nom each town, farmers sons
and high school students, should be sent
TO this fair at public expense to observe
and learn and be instructed; and this
past year out Of hundred, with the
made conditional on the boy belonging TO
a Democratic family. 1 haven't any OBJ
lection to raising the moral Intelligence
| of~a Democratic family, but ] don't care
| to DO Il at the expense OF the State OF
New York: It costs too much money.
The meanest thing Tammany ever did.
though, said Mr.. Hedges, was TO turn
down Dix for denomination after he had
served Murphy faithfully. But Tammany
took the precaution TO keep on the ticket
the state Engineer and the State Con-
troller, rather important offices. One ap-
propriates the warrant, the other says
what may be put IN II for work done"
The candidate will make another trip
on Long Island to-day. this time along the
| South Shore.