The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-10-02
ROOSEVELT URGES
NEW YORK VOTERS
TO SMlTE BOSSES

dress before the state Committee OF the
progressive party here today Colonel
Roosevelt declared thai IN the election
I n New York state this fall the domin-
prevent TammaRy from obtaining
complete control Of the state and that
TO this the lesser issues must give
way.
He argued that the ''predicament in
which the state finds its public affairs
is due to the failure OF the people to
elect last faIl a governor and legisla-
tture pledged 10 the carrying u OF
progressive policies"
In voting against Tammany, how
ever, Colonel Roosevelt urged the voter
ITO support the progressive party candi-
dates TO the end that they might de-
feat Tammany without enthroning
the Barnes republican machine In Its
place
Four Important Matters.
This year the Colonel said, there
are four matters OF supreme political
Import forsdecisson before the people of
the comnonwealth the first the election
q an assembly. stands BY itself. The
First, the attempted Impeachment
* 2 governor OF the state; second,
the city election In the great city Of
New York. and third, the election OF
two Judges OF the court OF appeals.
q 8 70 each OF these four issues the
overthrow OF Tammany is the chief
After emphasizing that the progress
siye party was waging war against
corrupt machines" Colonel Roosevelt
Sat this moment that which contains
most o1 TO all our state Is Tam
many hall, In New York City we pro-
EressiSes are doing all that we AN to
elect a nonpartisan ticet, headed by q
progressive democrat. q tried and ex-
celIent public official, John Parroy Nit
chel, so as to keep the municipal gov
ernnlen out OF the control Of Tam
many hall and make 1t an instrument
not only Tor securing honesty in NUM-
cipaI affairs, blu for lettering the liv-
ing and working conditions of the men
and women who toll with their hands.
Two Kinds Of Recall.
I'm the same fashion we battle
against Tammany hall, in the govern
orship fight, because Tammanny hall
II attacking the governor not for what
ne may have done before election, but
because since election he has stood fol
honesty n the rights OF the people
4 wish to call the attention OF the
conservatives who have ~professed such
horror OF the progressive doctrine OF
the popular recall to just what has
been done by Tammany in the abcenst
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consider whether you prefer the re,
call exercised by the people thmselyei
at the polls OF the recall exercised by
Murphy at the end or a telephone.
Tammany always Knew.
II am not now discussing the merits
OF the charges nor the evidence against
4 Governor Sulzer. / am not now speak.
Ing OF any matter pending before the
court Of impeachment. nor Of the ale,
cations that win be considered by the
court Of Impeachment. These ailega.
tons afford only the nominal reason
for this impeachment. All the matters
now produced before that court were
well known 70 the leaders OF Tammany
hall at n time they We're calling Coy
ernorS ulzer a second Andrew Jackson.
They remained silent about them until
the governor refused to take his or.
ders from the boss OF Tammany hall
The real reason for the governors i'm.
parchment may not come before the
body now trying him.
n intelligent and honest mar
doubts that the attack upon the gov.
ernor has been made not because oil
any thing he did during the
or before he took office, but because
through his officials. he hunted down
corruption after he took office and be.
cause he championed the cause Of
popular government and the rights q
the people against the mandate OF
Tammany hail.,
500 Delegates Present. &
Progressive leaders. state and ma
tionai, Including Theodore Roosevelt,
were here today for the state confer
ence Of the party to name candidates
Tor chief Judge and associate Judge OF
b state court OF appeals and formu-
late plans for the future OF the party
IN the state. About 500 delegates were
Ia attendance.
After d meeting of the executive
committee, IL was predicted that Uni-
ted States District Judge Learned
Hand and supreme Court Justice Sam
uel Seabury, both or New York, would
be named for chief judge and assoc
ctata Judge, respectively.
EplGnel Roosevelt spent the night at
q local hotel This morning he took
nm automobile ride about the city. He
VIII leave for New York at 10 O'clock
tonight.
a rurnor that a boom for Roosevelt
Tor governor would be launched at to-
days conference vas denied.
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