The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-09-30
held a month before the convention.

held a month before the convention.
LAS chairman of the Republican
state committee no one had suggested
to me, or, as far as l know, to any
other member of the committee. the
name of any other person than the
vice president as temporary chairman
until Mr.. Griscom, sitting in the COM
mittee as a proxy, moved to substi-
tute another lame for that of Vice
President Sherman after the latter's
name had been properly presented.
What was the object of this action?
"The correspondence between Colo
mel Roosevelt and myself just after
the meeting of the state committee
shows more clearly than can other
wise be presented that his opposition
to the selection of Vice President
Sherman was not based on any per-
sonal grounds. but because he desired
an opportunity to present his views
as to the policies which should here
after guide the destinies of the Repub-
lican party"
Reads Some Correspondence.
Chairman Woodruff here read sew.
eral letters between himself and Colo
mel Roosevelt and continued:
Colonel Roosevelt manifestly meant
that he desired to PROFOUND the doc
trine of the new nationalism, admit.
ting with his characteristic %frankness
that we were right in selecting the
vice president il we preferred the ira
ditional Republicanism of the admin
~istration of William H. Taft, founded
upon the great national administration
of Lincoln, Grant, Mckinley and
Roosevelt himself, for which James S.
Sherman, with his quarter of a CEN
tury of splendid services in congress
and as vice president. has always
stood and stands today.
'In accordance with the instructions
of the state committee. | present as
temporary chairman of this onven
ton Hon. James S. Sherman"
Chairman Woodruff added to his
speech the letter written by Vice
President Sherman to the state COM
mittee asking that the committee in.
vestigate the charges that his selec-
ton had been made by misrepresenta.
ton and the committee action on the
matter.
The committee, Mr.. Woodruff said,
decided that Vice President Sherman's
selection was made without deceit and
Misrepresentation.
Pays Respects to Roosevelt.
Abraham Gruber of New York, who
had been selected to fire the broad.
sides of the old guard against Colo.
mel Roosevelt's selection, was recog,
nized and made his way to the plat
form. Colonel Gruber made a bitter
attack on the former president. He
said, in part:
Twelve years ago on this platform
/ warned a Republican convention
against turning the executive mansion
into a shooting gallery. My advice
was not needed. Since that memora.
BILE day the man who has v e since
been shooting has cen his party or
%ganization divided in every state, his
party's candidate overwhelmingly de.
feated, business depressed and the in
telligent and honest workingman with
out employment and hungry. Look.
ing for other fields for shooting prac-
tice, this mar is now shooting at the
courts and its judges.
Himself posing as a lawyer, who
never had a case or drew a brief, he
now finds sport in holding up the
courts and judges to the scorn of the
mob. But this is not a new symptom.
It is an old disease. This apostle Of
Derringer practice, while he was presi.
dent, abused Judge Humphrey of the
United States court, a gentleman and
an honest man. for rendering a de-
cision which was made according to
the laws and which to this day is un-
reversed. When the United States ap-
pellate court reversed Judge Lands
the same shooter, not from the head
of. a barrel, but from the White House,
sanctified by Abraham Lincoln, told
the people of the United States that
the judges had been guilty of miscar-
Tying Justice"