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Show TAMMANY HAS A BAD REPUTATION FLM1RA, N. Y., Oct. 14 With one j broadside for Tammany Hall and an- j ether for Wall street, Theodore Roosc- . velt opened his campaign toaay for j Henry L. Stlmson and the rest of the j Republican state ticket. The text of his speech was "Wall street and Tammany Tam-many Hall have slruck hands." Hla slogan was "You are wonted in room 212. Are you going?" Room 212 lo a Rochester hotel was occupied by Charles F. Murphy, leader lead-er of Tammany Hall, during the Democratic Dem-ocratic state convention. Made Many Speches. Mr. Roosevelt started things going In his flrat speech of the day, at Dun kirk. He spoke at Frcdonla. Stnclalr-vllle. Stnclalr-vllle. Gerry, Jamestown, Salamanca, Wellsville, Hornell, Corning and El-mlra. El-mlra. It was what he termed the alliance between Wall street and Tammany Hall, which he said was the most complete alliance between corrupt business and corrupt political bosses which the state had teen since the days of Tweed. If the Democrats should win the election, he said, Tammany Hall and Wall street would nominate the state to the detriment of the people. Opposed Op-posed to that, he pictured the Repub- Ucan party as the true representative j of popular rule. He discussed no concrete con-crete issues, but clung to the statement state-ment that the Issue was Tammany Hall and Wall tttreet against the people. peo-ple. Sayo What He Believes. "If my career, if my life means anything," he said at Jaructown, ' It means that I never say anything on the stump I do not say in private, tha I never sav anything I don't be lievc, and that I don't make a promise, prom-ise, unless I try to keep it. So I I ask you to take my words at their face value when I speak to you." Then he declared that Wall street was a unit for the men nominated at the Rochester convention, ' because they know they cannot handle the men nominated at Saratoga ." Tammany Has Bad Reputation. In his speech at Wellsville rCoIo-nel rCoIo-nel Roosevelt said that when was abroad he heard one name connected with everything that was bad In this country, and that was Tammany Hall. Next to the name of Tammany, he said, people abroad associated the name of Wall street with things that were bad Leaving Elmlra late tonight, Mr. Roosevelt Is due back In New York tomorrow morning. |
