The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-05-17
ROOSEVELT IS PUT
| with SOCIALISTS
by BOSS" BARNES
Stale Chairman Makes Colonel
Hot Shot Target at Repub-
- Z lican Club Dinner.
NO CHEERS FOR TAFT.
Gloom Marks the Occasion
and Presidents Name Is
OnlytMentioned Once.
NO CHEERS FOR TAFT.

"o hunorsu ana forty very sober
minded Republicans attended . dinner in
eonor Of State Chairman William
Dafns IT.. at the Republican Club, last
esSht expecting 10 learn which way
SarAS thoasht the Naw York delssa-
On should vote WHEN II got to Chicago.
tnsy were Disappointed. Barnes made q
ena'osophical speech dealing with the
Issues. read Theodore Roosevelt into the
socialist party by indirecton and mover
ence mentioned the name Of President
Tsft.
Only once during the evening was
the Presidents name mentioned.
FORMER Congressman J. Van vechten
olcott the toastmastsr. aid not speak
o. him nor propose . toast to him.
1arnes omitted all reference 70 him.
FORMER Senator Depew spoke at length
without mentioning him. and when Job
hedges. the next speaker. declared that
49, delegate he would vote for Taft,
mere was . fee BILE cheer-only Q little
handclapping-and ono diner piped up:
Murray for Teddy"
There was an air Of gioom about
the club and the dinner similar to that
prsvanng after the party has suffered
defeat at the polls. Only for Barnes
WAS there any enthusiasm. Mr.. Olcott
introduced him with q few eulogistic
Semarke. terming the State Chairman
. philosophical politician or q political
philosopher.
HANDS IT OUT HOT TO THE GAL.
LIANT COLONEL.
STARTING with the assertion that the
party In this State 10 stu imbued with
~ same spirit and devoted to the game
PRINCIPLES which gave the party birth.
ne State Chairman took his first slap
at Roosevelt by declaring that "he who
We1ves cobwsbs IN the brains OF others
commits the greatest indignity upon
them which can be conceived" He de-
elared that the primal wlckedness OF
tho demagogue - that ne seduces the
mind Of his listener with vain hone
ana sense OF outrage" and continued IN
ne same strain at some length, finally
declaring:
The public man or the Newspaper or
ne individual citizen who in his public
Stterances or his writings strikes q false
note or makes an appeal not true to his
ewn mind IL the greatest enemy of man.
hind who walks the earth"
The speaker did not mention Roosevelt
~ name at this point. He continued
with an attack on the Presidential pri-
mary. saying 1t was absurd to hold a
primary and then q convention. He
could zee no benefit In the system:. he
said. unless the increase in the circula.
tion Of money 10 looked upon A. a
Vublic benefit" He also declared:
The exigencies of this abnormal sit
uatton have compelled the President of
the United States. for the preservation
Of his party. to make a personal cam
pAign in order to undo the damaee
caused by reckless and mendacious op-
Vonsnt."
This was the only mention he made Of
ths President. He was not applauded.
BARNES ATTACKS THE DIRECT
ELECTION OF SENATORS.
Continuing he attacked the direct cleo
don of Senators. asserting that IL the
Senators were to be 20 elected there was
no need OF a second house In Congress.
He declared that Individual liberty is
now assailed in this country as never
before. He spoke of those whose minds
ere incorporate politically" and said:
p"How unreliable Is such a mind was
exhibited at Carnegie Hall when heard |
Mr.. Roosevelt say that It took seix years |
to amend the Constitution Of the State, |
when he. an Ex-Governor, ought to know
u takes three" |
He could not help but be suspicious. he |
aid. OF mind that dwelt always on the |
shortcomings OF others. and then assert |
ing that Socialism narrowed down to the |
contention that the electorate had a |
right to take liberty and property with
out due process Of low. ne continued:
IF In due process of time the Socialist
party Is able to secure a two-thirds ma
5ority In Congress and amend the bill
of rights of the Constitution. ana gs,
that amendment adopted by three
feurths OF the States. then Soc.alIstie
legislation will be possible. but this
should not be attempted under false
colors. under the gulse OF Republican
Ism. because II 10 not Republication.
GAYS NEW POLITICAL ALIGN
MENTs MUST SOON BE MADE.
Asserting that a new alignment must
come politically. he concluded:
TT Is entirely clear to me to-day, as
Il has been since the death OF William
Mckinley. that the political alignments
growtng out o. the attempted cataclysm
Of secession must In time wear away
and that new alignment will gradually
take place. 1t ,p'rst come through sheer
force of hunS-.s nature between those
Wu1O DcitNt,A Us tho kNtPuDliCdH party |
has always believed. that this democ-
racy should be sef-controlled under the
form Of q constitution, with courts to
protect tie individual and those who
consumed with madness, envy. malice
or inspiration hurl themselves against
the wall OF orderly governpent and II
successful In beating It down disclose.
not the promised land. which can never
be, but the autocrat. to whom they turn
n despair. appalled, by the results of
their own license"
Barnes had been very warmly received
md he was literally cheered when ne
concluded. Senator Depew spoke next
and then Hedges. Both expressed
Doubt of the outcome at Chicago. and
both expressed the hope that the party
would get together after tho nominal
lions were made. Depew suggested that
I3arnes would mako an excellent chair
man of the committee on platform.