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Show jppresi(leiit Defies Politi-roncii(s Politi-roncii(s to Come Out Bd Figlit in Open. . MS ATTACKS MADE Hprom AMBUSH ON HIM ffij That He Is Going to iSWfwiiole Thing, in New tjyifork, at Least. WBfiSE. Scpl. 17. Coming into rifcld of ilic oppositon, cx-Prcsi-1 tKevclt today boldly challenged' Bpnts o his political doctrines aiSHjput J" ihe i)cn a,ul ?'igI,t if jjMfaV He prophesied that, if Uiey jyould bo beaten. uSjHfciacr president also gave warm SjEftipu of I'resiilcnt tafat as a Keial and expressed bis ap-ijPimmibcr ap-ijPimmibcr of tbo aeoomplish-' aeoomplish-' Rho Taft administration. Col-ttyBvclt Col-ttyBvclt did not indorse tbo ad-lKon ad-lKon as a whole. What he did JjHLay. however, placed him on JBr the first tune in regard lu KiKc more important features VjBreaking the silence which lie Ktoincd steadfastly on the sub-jkBEbt sub-jkBEbt for his few brief refer-aJijKuis refer-aJijKuis successor made while- ho KMfrb' western trip """ftands by His Guns, t p 'defended his recent c.ril-'two c.ril-'two decisions of the United preme court, made in a 'speech r ami quoted the words of II. (Taft. written when he was io. support his contention that lo'' have the right- to criticise 'of'ilio courts." polbnel Ivoosevelt arrived, the jf grounds, where he spolte, n;cd with a crowd which Smorc Hum forty thousand, pjyent lo five speakers' stand, foosevelt rode around the Tiiile jtlic head of a parade and re-xordial re-xordial welcome, (all of (he members of the !V Tvhtcli will have the colonel luring his stay here are ideu-Vjllio ideu-Vjllio Onondaga county Ho-.organization Ho-.organization of which 1mt:ii-icks, 1mt:ii-icks, ex-suporintendent of in-I'the in-I'the head. Mr. Hcndrielis is vfof the Republican stale com-H1 com-H1 1 voted against Roosevelt i.-.H.tate committee refused to m for temporary chairman of bjican slalo convention, iny Hands of the Enemy, inel spent the evening at the flacntcnant Governor 'Horace lip' gavo a dinner for him. Kj;lie was in tho hands of (are talcing part in the light lini, Timothy L. Woodruff. fo the Itcpubiican state coin-id coin-id 'one of the leaders of the to Colonel Roosevelt, was j T. shook hands with tho col-I ate dinner with him. Colonel j .'and adversaries inei. each i tlj cheerful faces and jested J Jr. differences. ant Governor "White made j iC .shortest speeches on record j (introduced Colonel Roosevelt ir, grounds. rclicre today to welcome and Theodore Roosevelt' ho said iwas all. oriel who had just sealed him-10' him-10' rear of the. stand to wnit pViTnto had linished his speech, f'-in surprise as ho saw the governor backing from the fspcalc now 2" he asked. iJn Fighting Mood, bite naid that the time had If the colonel arose. He was g.trini us ho faced the crowd. ml said so. He shook his was in tho air and thundered aPHiago with all the energy tcpuhl muster Several times ia from tho text of his prc-to prc-to inject remarks to show Wtly ho meant what ho said, ft that my opponents would h he open," ho said, ittoot from tho bushes, " he ?t another point, "but vou crmuke them come into 'tho flight the issue." r7 "mark which caused the 'Cficor was made just as ho Marcd his opponents to put F qn i record as against him. f they won't do it." said W may criticise me, but they 'As tliouh they were trcad-J trcad-J before they take tho other !? "Socialistic" Creed. had asserted that leaders s must :H.t 80rvnu,s of P ' '"id that the corporations M i real tiro and not the master CP(J. hp said ar,hraBe the words of Pat, of it 1jc Koci:ilis" ""'be- f S !ll,ler, l,(J ! declared ! S'n,. .CI!,l,,nviIcKc for "oho. ft?"' L H' " any roa-8ud roa-8ud the boss, and they both poosevclt sin,! that ho had Ste wc,cxaet,' f have feoSti,Sor?10,,( ,t,lh0 0,,t' TctS7l', nL 1 ,,avc uot f !,ho,ltl a in the k .C0 0nuI said, .navo to tay ia to ,.lho awny ptfnuea on Page iVo. V TEDDY EMPHATIC IN CHALLENGE Continued from Pago Ono. any excuse from those who misrepresent misrepre-sent my words. It is not for mo to explain. It is for them." The colonel slightly modified his definition of "new nationalism" today. to-day. He called it "tho efficiont application appli-cation to new conditions of certain old-time ami fundamental moralities." The word "efficient" he inserted today. to-day. lie then proceeded with a defenso of his attitude, an exposition of "now nationalism" nnd a repetition of his declaration of war on crooks and bosses. Roosevelt's Address. Colonel Roosevelt spoke in part as follows; "Tho new nationalism," he reifer-nted, reifer-nted, "means nothing but. an application applica-tion to new conditions of certain old and fundamental moralities. It means an invitation to meet tho now problems prob-lems of tho present day in precisely th'o spirit in which Lincoln and tho men of his day met their new problems." prob-lems." To his critics he put this issue: "Is any party willing o take tho other sido of tho propositions of which complaint com-plaint is made1? If so, it would be a good thing to have the issue before the peoplG for in tho cud the people would most certainly decide in favor of tho principles embodied in the new nation-.alism, nation-.alism, because otherwise this country could not continue to be a true rcpub-1 lie, a truo Democracy." xTho speaker followed this with a justification of his attacks on tho supremo su-premo court of the United States. Ho choso two arguments one, that in his criticisms he had merely echoed the minority mi-nority opinions of the court itself, tho other that he had illustrious precedent tho example of Abraham Lincoln, who, ho said, had been far more outspoken out-spoken than ho himself had over been and the example of President Taft, from whoso utterances fifteen years ago in favor of public criticism of the courts he quoted. "Take for instance," ho continued, "what I said in refcrcngo to lato decisions de-cisions of the supreme court. Ono decision de-cision was in the1 Knight Sugar caso, in which, according to tho dissenting opinion of Justice Harlan, tho court placed the public, so far as nnlional power is concerned (tho onlj' power which could be effoctiyc) entirely at the mercy of the combinations which arbitrarily control tho prices of articles purchased to bo transported from ono state into another. With Dissenting Justice. "I merely took the view which the learned justico had taken in his dissenting dis-senting opinion. m Thoso who criticise me are also criticising a justico of tho supremo court, Mr. Harlan. So my critics take the position that the people peo-ple shall not be able to control tho nativities and mnngement of these great monopolistic corporations doing nn interstate busiuess? Tf so, let. them frankly avow their position. If not, lot them cease thoir criticism." Tho other case mentioned was one prohibiting New York stato to regulate regu-late hours of work in bakeshops; and again the speaker said, he had based his criticism on a dissenting opinion within the court itself. "Fifty-three years ago," he continued, con-tinued, "Abraham Lincoln was assailed for his repeated criticisms of the supreme su-preme court in the 'Dred Scott case.' As regards this decision he announced, not once, but. again and againt that he held it to be not merely the right, but the duty of citizens who felt that judicial ju-dicial decisions were erroneous and damaging, loyally to abide by the decisions de-cisions as long as they stood, but. to try hard to secure their reversal; his language on one occasion being as follows: fol-lows: 'We do not propose to disturb tho rights of property thus settled. We propose so resisting the decisions as to have tho question reopened if wc can. nud a new judicial rule established upon tho subject.' "He repeated this statement in slightly differing language in speech after speech. Moreover, he used vory strong language about the decision fur stronger than I dream of using or thatit would be proper to uso about the decisions with which I now deal. But his view as to his right and duty to call attention to an orrpnoous dicis-ion dicis-ion which vitally affected the rights of tho people was, I think, entirely sound. At any rate, if I have erred, in commenting com-menting as have commented upon the decisions in question, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln". The criticism of mo is perhaps well summed up in the following speech of an eminent public man: Denies Fighting Court. " 'Ho makes war on the decisions of the supreme court. I wish to say to you, fellow citizens, that I have no war to make on that decision or any other ever rendered by the supremo court. I am content to take that decision decis-ion as it stands, delivered by the high-n.t high-n.t judicial tribunal on earth, a tribunal tribun-al established by the constitution of tho United States for that purpose and heueo that decision becomes tho law of the hind, binding on you, on me and on evory other good citizen, whother wo likn it or not. Hence I do not choosu to go into an argument to prove beforo this audience whether or not ho (the chief justice) understood tho law better than Theodore Roosevelt.' "Nowj gentlemen, I have made one change in the above quotation. The lust words wero not 'Theodore Roosevelt,' Roose-velt,' the last words were 'Abrnham Lincoln,' and this attack made nearly 53 years ago, against Abe Lincoln, is prccisoly and exactly tho kind of attack at-tack made tipon mo at the moment. Abe Lincoln felt and professed throughout through-out liis life tho samo profound respect for the supreme court that of course I feci, and that I have again and again in public speeches and messages ob president ot the United States expressed. ex-pressed. An upright judgo is a higher and bettor pablic sorvant than .any other man can possibly be, and it is a causo of prido to every American cit-isen cit-isen that our supreme court is tho most influential judicial tribunal in tho en-tiro en-tiro world. I hnvo quoted Abo Lincoln; let me quote him again. Takes Lincoln's View. , " 'We believe in obedience to and respect for the judicial department pf government. We think its decisions on constitutional questions, whon fully settled, set-tled, shall control.' "I agree absolutely with this son tonco of Abo Lincoln, not tho less because be-cause I also beliovo in what Lincoln said immediately afterward: " 'But wo think this decision erroneous, er-roneous, and we shall do what wo can to have it overruled.' "Nor do I have to go only to tho statement of the past for precedents. Tho president of the United States, Mr. Taft, has served his country honorably and uprightly in ninny positions as judge, as governor of the Philippines, us secretary of war, and now as president presi-dent for to him and tho cougrcss acting act-ing with him, wo owe the creation of a tariff commission; tho adoption of maximum and minimum tariff law treaties with foreign powers tho prop-er prop-er treatment of tho Philippines under the tariff; the increase in tho efficiency ef-ficiency of the interstate commerce law; the beginning of a national legislative legis-lative programme, providing for tho exorcise ex-orcise of tho taxing power in connection connec-tion with the corporations doing an interstate in-terstate business; n postal savings bank bill; tho constitution of a commission to roport a remody for over-capitalization in connection with the issue of stocks and bonds; but few of his services are more deserving of record than what he said in this matter of criticism of the judiciary. ' ' And Thon Quotes Taft. Speaking as a United States circuit judge fifteen years ago, ho said: "Tho opportunity frcoly and publicly public-ly to crilicise judicial action is of vastly vast-ly more importance to the body politic than tho immunit3p of courts and judges from unjust aspersions and attacks. Nothinq tonds more to render judges careful in their decisions and anxious to do exact justice than tho consciousness that evory act of theirs is to bo submitted sub-mitted to tho intelligent scrutiny and candid criticism of their follow men. Tn the ease of judges having a life tenure, indeed, their very independence makos the right freely to comment on their decisions of greater importauco becauso it is the only practicable and available instrument, in tho hands of a free people to keep such judges alive to the reasonable demands of thoso they serve. " Dropping tho personal pronoun, tho colonel took up an exposition of what "wo who work for tho now nationalism" nation-alism" believe. Ho rcitoratcd his belief be-lief in government by party, his recognition recog-nition of tho necessity of corporations in business, Jiceompan'icd by the elevation eleva-tion of the workinginon by unions; but all these agencies, ho was convinced, must be under the control of the whole people. The one vital and ossential matter in all public life was honesty. All good citizens must join in warring on the crook, whether giver or taker of bribes, as a traitor to domocracy. Down to Local Issues. The address closed with tho only words that could bo construed as having hav-ing any bearing on the immediate political po-litical situation within tho Republican party iu this state a dissortation on popular self-control and party leadership, leader-ship, a distinction between the boss and the leader. "It is necessary and desirable," said the colonel, "that there should bo leaders, but it is unnecessary and undesirable un-desirable that there should 'be bosses. The loader loads the people; tho boss drives the people. The leader gets his hold by opou appeal to tho reason and conscience of his followers; the boss keeps his hold by manipulation, by intrigue, by secret, aud furtive appeal to many forms of self-interest and sometimes to very base forms. "Progress there must be. but it must be wise, sober and moderate if it were to be permanent. Prosperity must be preserved, for material well-being was a great food; but it was only a foundation founda-tion for a lofty national life, raised in accordance with tho doctrine that 'righteousness cxalteth a nation.' " After Colonel Roosevelt had finishod speaking Mr. Hendricks stepped up to him. The colonel and the leader of the organization or-ganization shook hands cordially. . "I was never in better fighting trim in my life," tho colonel told. him, with a smile. 'J'11? "deling 0f Colonel Roosevelt and Mr, Woodruff occupied only a few seconds. The men shook hands and said they were glad to see each other, and thon Mr. Woodruff walked on. The colonel stayed at tho fair grounds for an hour to watch the automobile au-tomobile races and an airship flight. He saw Ralph De Palma drive his car n mile in faster time than anyono oJso had oyer traveled in an automobile around a circular track, and later shook hands with De Palma and congratulated con-gratulated him. He will return to New York tomorrow. |