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Show ROOSEVELT SPENDS BiRTHDAYAT UTICA UTICA, X. Y.. Oct. 27. Theodore Roosevelt spent his fifty second birthday birth-day in the thick of the fight for the Republican state ticket. It was a ralney, dreary day and Colonel Roosevelt Roose-velt had no time to celebrate. He continued his attacks on John A. Dix, Democratic nominee for governor, whom he assailed in his speech here tonight more severely than ever. Tho colonel also criticized Winfleld A. Huppuch, chairman of the Democratic state committee, saying that he was a man who should not be trusted. Colonel Roosevelt was welcomed everywhere by large crowds. He spoke at Fonda, Johnstown. Gloversville, Amsterdam and Little Falls during the day, returning here and making two speeches tonight. On Mr. Dlx's labor record. Colonel Roosevelt said: ' Last Sunday there appeared In the New York American an address written writ-ten by Mr. Hearst and read by Mr. Sheurn, in which it was alleged that Mr. Dix and his partners employed hundreds of men In paper mills; that those wen worked 12 hours a day for $1.G5, and that when the other paper millo of the country had given their men eight hours a day and raised their wages to over $2, Mr. Dix as a concession con-cession raised the wages of the rnen ten cents a day and provided as an loffest that they should work 13 hour a day for five days in the week and 12 1 hours a day on the sixth. I "Mr. Dix has not den:ed these state-1 state-1 ments. Unless they were true, ho would have Tlenied them tho minute they were made." Colonel Roosevelt enumerated the bills benefitting the workmen passed during his term as governor of New-York New-York and as president and said that Henry L. Stimson. Republican nominee nomi-nee for covernor. stood for the conviction convic-tion of this work. "How well the worst enemies of labor la-bor understood " he went on, "that Mr. Dix is really against this movement move-ment is shown by the action of James H. Oluey, the head of the Canned Goods Fackers association, who has announced that he Intends to support Mr. Dix Mr. Olney has not been the moat persistent enemy of the child labor law which wo have had In New York for years nnd has done ever thing he could to secure special ex-emntion ex-emntion of th rannintr industry from einpuon oi tne canning inciusiry iron) the requirements of the child labor law." Colonel Roosevelt said that .Mr. Huppuch, Mr, Dlx's business partner, and othfr? of tbe Democrats were say-Inc say-Inc that the tarl'f was too high. "I anneal to what Mr Unpnncli ha done In the p.-st as provincr the truth of what I sav," he continued. i "A man who dccrales publicly that the tariff dutlop are too hlph, ind j who for his private business tries to ! g"t them rnarje higher such a man I cannot be trusted and you cannot trust a party which puts him forward as Its official and active head and mauuger In this campaign. |