The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-23
Republican PIOgreSSiVeL Lead CTS Give Assurance of
 Victory At Saratoga
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Platform Has Been Discussed But Not Yet OutIined--Roosevelt Is Very Quiet on the BelIamy Storer
 Correspondence

Oyster Bay, N. T., September 22.-The
 utter rout of the 'old guard by Theo-
 dore Roosevelt at the republican state
 convention in Saratoga was predicted to-
 day by Colonel Roosevelt himself At the
 conclusion of a long conference at Sag
 amore Hill today with half dozen of
 his lieutenants, Colonel Roosevelt said:
 ''I think I may be reasonably safe in
 saying that we shall have 100 majority"
 Reports from all parts of the state were
 received at Sagamore Hill today. Otto
 T. Barnard of New York, LlcydtC Gris-
 com, president of the New 4'oraxT unty
 republican committed; J. KrnTe Of
 Brooklyn, naval officer of the pxttls Wiz
 Ham F. Calder of Brooklyn, Controller
 William A. Prendergast of New York city
 and Herbert Parsons, MT. Grscoms
 predecessor, motored down from New
 York late in the afternoon for final
 survey of the field of battle. All through
 the fight which began with the Sherman
 incident the colonel has refused to ex-
 press an opinion as to the outcome, and
 none was expected from him today, but
 the representatives convinced him that
 it was all over but the shouting. Unless
 some unexpected reversals do come, he
 was positive that the republican organ
 ization would be forced to give ground
 before the progressives next week. His
 estimate of 100 majority was concurred in
 by the others who attended the confer
 ence.
 Views of Barnard
 The attitude of the Roosevelt forces to-
 ward the Taft administration was out
 lined by MT. Barnard. .aea Tn my opinion, said he, '"the Saratoga
 convention will adopt resolution strong
 ly indorsing the administration of Pres
 ident Taft. In accordance with-the Pres
 ident's wish, no mention will be made
 of any renonlination In 1912. No opposi-
 ton to an indorsement of the admnistra-
 tion will come from delegates friendly
 to MT. Roosevelt and MT. Griscom."
 MT. Bannard's statement coming di-
 rectly after the conference, was taken
 as plain indication that MT. Roosevelt
 had agreed with the others this pro-
 gramme
 MT. Griscom said that he had brought
 good news to Sagamore Hill
 II reported to MT. Roosevelt" he said,
 "that there had been several accessions
 to our ranks, among them delegates from Duchess and Montgomery counties. 1 There may be more. Rr. Roosevelt will | be temporary chairman. There is no | question about that. We shall have a l majority of more than 100 delegates.
 No Candidate Selected Colonel Roosevelt said that the names of several candidates were gone l over once more but that no agreement | on any of them had been reached The platform also had been discussed, but | 1t had not even been tentatively out | lined, aside from the understanding | that it would be progressive. The | colonel feels that no action can be | taken until the upstate men have been heard from at Saratoga
 He understands that his forces plan to go to Saratoga without slate, to find out there what a majority of the | delegates want and to settle upon can didates and a platform in accordance with those wishes.
 Colonel Roosevelt said from the be- ginning he was trying to find out what the people of New York state want ed. He disclaimed any idea of at tempting to force his own ideas on the convention. In his speech at Syra- cuse last week, he pointed out, he had outlined in general way his own ideas as to the programme. What | would be the nature of the plank on l direct nominations he had no idea, but he felt that such plank would be placed in the platform. What form 1t would take would depend upon the de- sires of the delegates.
 MT. Parsons said that an effort would be made to force roll call of every | delegate to the convention in the vote for temporary chairman. He explained that it was proposed to put every man on record flor all time' either for. or against Colonel Roosevelt. By this method, he believed, Roosevelts ma jority would gain from the ranks of the trimmers.
 Upstate Man Favored | The feeling that an upstate man would make the strongest candidate for governor was expressed more de- cidedly than ever today. During the last few days the names of several such men have been presented. One just brought forward and now receiv- ing some attention Is that of Elias Mann. former mayor of Troy; Freder ick c. Stevens, state superintendent of highways; State Senators Frederick M. Davenport and Harvey D. Hinman; Will liam H. Hotchkiss, state superintend- ent of insurance, and Jacob Cchurman, president of Cornell university, are other possibilities. Henry L. Stimson and Representative Bennett of New York and Representative Cocks of Mas sau county are the three men from the lower end of the state whose names most are heard.
 For lieutenant governor a boom has started for S. D. Donnelly of Brooklyn, appointed house printer by President hoosevelt and strong labor union man. When the correspondence with Arch bishop Ireland was given out yesterday, in which Mrs Bellamy Storer was men, toned. Colonel Roosevelt said he did not intend to be drawn into a renewal of that controversy. He declined to make any extended reply to Mrs. Storer and confined himself to this comment: -Four years ago, when was Presi- dent and Bellamy Storer was ambassa- dor to Austria, all the letters to the Storers and from them to me were pub lshed The letters must speak for them selves."
 In his opinion. Ne added. "the corre- spondence formed record against which