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Show PEDPLElirir FIGHTTAMMANT Roosevelt Urges Votes to Prevent Pre-vent Tigers From Obtaining Obtain-ing Complete Control. SUPREME ISSUES Four Matters Vital to New York Progressive Policies Should Be Carried Out. Rochester. N. , Sept. 27 I'ro r--ssie leaders, state and national, including Theodore Roosevelt were here today for the state conference of the party to name candidates for chief judge and associate Judge of the staie court of appeals and formulate plans for the future of the party In the state Alter a meeting of the executive committee. If was predicted that United Uni-ted States District Judge Learned Hand and Supreme Court Justics Seabury, both of New York, would D nominated for chief Judge and asso ciate Judge respectively A rumor that a boom for Roosevelt for governor would be launched at today's conference was denied. Colonel Roosevelt was the guest ol the Chamber of Commerce at lunch eon and delivered an address in whii I) he discussed big business and the government attitude towards it From the luncheon he was driven to Convention Con-vention hall to address tho conference of Progressive delegates. Rochester, N Y., Sept. 27 In an address before the state committee of the Progressive party here todav, Colonel Roosevelt declared that in the election in New York stat'.- this fall "the dominant concern of the people should be to prevent Tammany from obtaining complete control of the state," ami that "to this the lesser Issues must give way" He argue'i that the "predicament In which the state finds Its public affairs Is due to the failure of the people to elect last fall a governor and legislature pledged to the earning out of Pro gresslve policies." In voting against Tammany, however. Colonel Roosevelt urged the voters to support the Pro gressive party candidates to the enJ that they might "defeat Tammany without enthroning the Barnes Republican Re-publican machine in Its p!aci-." "This year," the colonel said, "there are four matters of supreme political I iiupoii lor ui-u;iuu ui-iuie uif pvuijiv i of the commonwealth, the first, the election of an assembly, stands by li self The other three are: first, the attempted impeachment of the governor gover-nor of the state: the second, tho election elec-tion In the great city of New York, and third, the election of two Judges of the court of appeals "As to each of these four issues, the overthrow of Tammany Is the chief issue. ' Aft'r emphasizing that the Progrea sive part was waging war again.nt "corrupt machines," Colonel Roosevelt Roose-velt said "At this moment that which contains con-tains the most menace to all our sta'.e Is Tammany Hall In New York city we Progressives are doing all that we can to elect a nonpartisan ticket, headed by a Progressive Democrat, and a tried and excellent public of f 1 ccr, John Purroy Mitchell, so as to keep the municipal government out of the control of Tammany Hall an! make It instrument not only for securing honesty in municipal affairs, but for betterlug the living and worl-: ing conditions of the men and women who toil with their hands, "in the same fashion wc battle aeainst Tammany Hall, in the gover norehip fight because Tamman Hall Is attacking the governor, not for what he ma) have done, before elec tlon, but because since election he haa stood for honesty and the rights ot the people." I wish to call the attention of the conservatives who hav: professed fucb horror of the Progressive doctrine doc-trine of the popular recall to Just what has been done by Tammany in the absence of the popular recall 1 ask yon to consider whether you prefer the recall exercised by the p( ople themselves at the poils or the n call exercised by Mr Murphy at the end of a telephone Sulzer Case " am not now discussinc th merits of the charge? nor the evl-dniee evl-dniee against Governor Sulzer I am not now speaking of any mattei p adlng before the court or impeachment impeach-ment nor of the allegations tnat will be considered by the courr of Im-pcachment Im-pcachment These allegations afford only the nominal reason for his impeachment. im-peachment. All the matters now pro-duced pro-duced before that court were well known to the leaders of Tamman Hah at the time the) w en- . ; 1 1 1 i n e; Governor Sulzer a seconcr Andrew Jackson. They remained slieui about tbTU until the governor refused to take his orders from tne boss of Tammany Hall The real resolution for the governor's Impeachment may not come before the body now trying try-ing him. But these real reasons, these real charges, must be passed on bv the people. "No Intelligent and hone&t man doubt that the attack upon the gov-' ' emor has been made not because of I anything he did during the campaign. I or before he took office, but be- cause, through his officials, he hunt-I hunt-I ed down corruption after he took office of-fice and because he ciiampioned the cr.ise of popular government and the rights of the people against the mandate man-date of Tammany Hall." no |