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Show ROOSEVELT , IN NEW YORK He Again Attacks D x as a Director of j a Trust I Ithaca. N. Y.. Oct." 2 1. -To Inspect I abandoned farms in this seciion of the I sia'e. ex-I'resl.b nt R..oseve lt i-toppe d i here today at the beginning of his I campaign through N-w York Mate ! v.hlch is to extend until the last of I the week. Col. Roosevelt was to ride bj automobile tor more than 1'.' miles I during the day with Represent! I e Cocks of Nassau cuun'y. John Wright and Frof L. H. Bailey of Cornell, who was prescient of the Country Life commission appointed by President Roowevi It. Mr. Wright and Prof. Bailey met Col. Roosevelt here and took him to bteakfast. The aiitoruoldle Inpcctlc.ti trip was to occupv most of the day, with Cn-o. I,. Monroe,, government Inspector In-spector of abandoned farms, as guide. I The trip was to extend over part of Tompkms, Chemung. Tioga and Broome counties, en liig at Ulnghamp-ton, Ulnghamp-ton, where Col. Roosevelt Is to ar-rle ar-rle at o'clock and where he Is to make a campaign speech Ihls even-ir.g even-ir.g Before starting on his trip. Col. Roosevelt addressed a large crowd in tront of his hotel, rtlt-tatlng his charge of last Thursday that John A. Dlx, the Democratic; candlelptc for governor, was a dlre-ctnr of a corporation corpora-tion (the Standard Wall Paper coin-1 coin-1 panyl, which was a copiponent part of j the s-called "wall paper trust." thar-j thar-j acterlzcd In a decision by Judge Lur-I Lur-I t n as one of the most oppressive monopolies ever created. Col. Roosevelt said Mr. Dix's denial j that the Standard Wall Paper com-I com-I pany was affiliated wlih the Continen-I Continen-I tal Wall Paper company, showed that the Democratic n imlnee either knew nothing about the company of which he was a director or else was not I rank In his statement. "If," said Col. Roosevelt, ": ou will turn to pages 227 to 274 of volume 212 cf the Tnlled States Reports, you will find th final decision of the supreme su-preme court, declaring Illegal the trust of which Dlx's bUiuJard Wall Paper company wa. a member. This I decision waj rendered !n February, I 1509, nmr than a year an I a halt after Mr. Dlx stated he became a director of one of the c.r.ipnles which vas in the trusL "In the volume to which I refer, is found a contract between the Continental Contin-ental Wnll Paper company. Ihe trust, ami the Standard Wall Paper company. com-pany. Mr. Dlx's company. Justice Harlan, speaking for the court, stated that the Continental Wall Paper com binatlon was a clear violation of the' Sherman law. and be quoted as ap- J proved by the supreme court. Judgi Lurton's language abjut the wall paper pa-per trutt." ' |