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Show ACGUSES WILSfli OF BEKJHT. Senator Dixon Gives Out Statement of.J. W. Park Regarding;. Re-garding;. the Governor. By International News .Service.' NEW YORK, Oct. 12. Senator Joseph Jo-seph M. Dixon, manager of Colonel Roosevelt's cainpagn. gave 'out the following fol-lowing statement tonight: Iu tho latter part of September Mr. J . W. Park received a circular letter which had been sent to Princeton alum-tit alum-tit requesting money contributions U aid of Governor Wilson's candidacy. Mr. Park, replying, expressed hit high regard for .NTr. Wilson as a private citizen cit-izen nud scholarly gentleman, but ro fused to contribute on the ground that he considered Governor Wilson undemocratic undem-ocratic and unprogresrfivo in his attitude atti-tude toward social and economic questions. ques-tions. Ln support of his -judgment he cited quotations from statements made by Dr. Wilson in conversation with him. The Los Angeles Tribune secured this letter, which was written September Septem-ber 27. and published it on October 2. The cited quotations, were; "I do not believe in democracy, the rule of the many; I believe iu aristocracy, aristocra-cy, the rule of the few but an aristocracy, aris-tocracy, of brains, not of wealth." "I disapprove of the chautauaua idea, the attempt to jrivc a smattering of culture to everybody which results iu conceit without knowledge." "1 am opposed to higher education of the common people; somebody must do the dirty work of the world; why shouldn't, tho children of the working classes be brought up to do the work their parents are now doing7" J According to the Dixon" statement, when a copv of the letter was shown to Governor Wilson at Indianapolis mi October Oc-tober 3, he declared the statements In be nbsolutclv falfe. Mr Park thou wrote an open letter to the covcrnor rc-iteratinc rc-iteratinc the correctness of tho statements, state-ments, which he said had been made while he (ParlO was a university fellow in social science at Princeton. . This ouon loiter was shown to Governor Gov-ernor Wilson at Chicago on October 1. The governor again denied ever having made I he statements wherewit h he was" charged, lie added that while he thought ho remembered Mr. Parle, he was not certain of the recollection. The Now York American publishes the Dixon statement, with this comment: "Mr. Park's statement were first inndo public more than a week ago in the Tribuno, a new and not very important impor-tant paper in Los Angeles, (Jul. Mr, Park's unsupported word seems to have been deemed insiillieinnt to give much credence or political weight to his charge. It was not taken up by any other newspapers, substantiated in any way or credited bv any important, public pub-lic man until Senator Dixon gave it out tonight. He does not vouch for it, but merelv quotes Park." News Editor American. |