The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-17
THE RTRtL REVOLT.

To door asted the inhabitants OF thls
rural county for their opinions Almost
without exception the opinions expressed
by these farmers indicated the reasonn
why a renominat ton was necessary. Many
% the reasons thus Expressed proved TO be
general enough among Rspublicansan over
the State 10 control nc Saratoga. To-day
I repeated the drive. and the conclusions
hero set forth are based upon the frank
statements OF thess farmers
First among these conclusions IL tho
interesting fact that so far as Genesee
county is concerned the direct primary
u iudorssd. Championed. demands by
a surprisingly large percentage OF farm
ers Of the dozen or two with whom
talked at least half were earnest advocates
Of the Governors policy. Several OF them
made II condition To their Endorsement
OF the Republican ticket. All agreed that
Il was a measure which commanded the
general and strong support Of the kepub-
lican farmers.
Second IN the list oI opinions was
that familiar elsewhere. that the Repubh-
can party would be defeated At the state
election. Il il dinicuIt to set forth
all tho reasons upon which the opinion
was l'huutu Aifh w VIZ $780,
case. of the direct nominations struggle.
hut generally there was a common agree
ment that the time for change had come.
i shall vote for any good Democrat.
was statement made by several who said
= that u would Ira their first Democratic
vote
/ Equally frequent Was the comment, i
believe that the time has come for
/ change In the Aids case. in the Bedell
case W. have learned something; there
must he more To learn. IL ~ time To clean
house
| To the question as to whether pro
! gressivs- victory at Saratoga would
change the Republican prospects there
were various answers. On the whole
/ the more independent in political thought
! the speaker showed himself to bs the more
satisfied he was that there was no pallia-
tive in convention action. over and over
again there was expressed the stubborn
: conviction that the unrest. the di-satis-
faction among Republicans had become
I too intense to tie placated. Not matter
for discussion. not "A subject for debate.
but a very general conviction based on
feeling on personal emotion rather than
public policy, this belief in the coming
Republican overthrow seemed 10 he.
/ II should not he understood that every
| farmer was in revolt That was not the
case. A good third were prepared to
continue a lifelong habit 81 voting in the
Republican column; but each 81 these
/ knew neighbor down the road or over
! the hill who was dissatisfied and talking
| treason.
John Smith SAYS he won't vote for a
damn man on the Republican ticket said
u right there where you are standing.
with several other people listening This
was n statement heard frequently IN loyal
Republican dooryards
The attitude toward Mr. Roosevelt
bore expressed was on the whole the most
surprising detail 81 this experience Mr.
Roosevelt has manifs-tly retained more
loyalty. more Of his old time admiration
here than IN the cities: vet II G-n-see
. county - a sample. the Roosevelt reaction
notable IN Rochester - not less real m
/ IL Roy
L like Roosevelt have always voted
I for h. m: but think this time he has gone
a little too far Thus vas an opinion
expressed by several.
F Here is another quit" a. frequently
heard
About Mr. Roosevelts Western
sr-..ch-- ". don't know; they are some
thing 20 he thought about hut don't
YOU think yourself that they are bit
.1trams. Gone a h,tls far. hasn't he7-
leaning over the stone wall. pitchfork
in hand. one sturdy old farmer with the
stage complement " rural whiskers
summed It up even more dec.sively. He
SAID
. 4 have voted for Roosevelt for every
once for which h. has been candidate.
but he has had every office III. American
peopl. can give him and think h. ought
10 step aside now
In general these farmers all expressed
sympathy with past performances 81 tho
~ President bat with his recent utter
auoes ~ was clear they had vastly less
sympathy The explosions at Denver
and Osa watomic had unpleasant echoes
on the hills Of Gene~es Summed up
briefly. the unmIstakabls notion was that
he had gone too far In word. for
the Roosevelt leadership there was no
enthusiasm. no notion that IL would solve
party troubles and save threatened
PARTY On the contrary. everywhere
Their. vas the convection that IN. diric,il.
ties we're insoluble and the party not
now To ~ saved from defeat bv any
leadership or 10y any new platform
declarations
Fauallv apparent. however was the
fact that in this section Of rural New York
no sympathy was felt for the old guard
The party control exercised by Barnes.
Aldridg- and Woodruff IL ~ unpopular
a. the new gosp"l 81 Roosevelt ~; IN fact
more obviously -. The control ~ IN.
Republican State convention by tn. old
guard would bs tremendously unpopular
among the Republican voters Of Geneaee
I The declaration against direct primaries
will 10 the signal for Open slaughter in
Gener.e: hut the control 10y Griscom aud
Grsiner quite a. obviously will fail utterly
Ia bring back estrhnged Republicans.
Here ia IL Roy. as ia Rochester and
| Buffalo. Republicans are the chief boom
ars for Mayor Gsynor. The Mayor ~