Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-03-14
WOODRUFF NOT
TO RESIGN YET
New York State !. Chairman
Defies Senator Root
Serve Out His Term.
CONGER AND ALLDS GO

New York. March 14.0pen warfare
is declared IN the Republican state or
ganization.
Accepting the challenge made by
Senator Root on behalf of the federal
administration, Timothy l.. Woodruff
has refused to resign as chairman Of
the state committee and served. notice
that he and his hackers were ready to
resist any attempt made by the ma
tional leaders in Washington to oust
him
Senator Root told the state chairman
that things had come to such a pass
in New York state that strong, posi-
tive action must be taken without fur
ther delay to save the situation. He
told Mr.. Woodruff that the best thing
to do was to reorganize the state party
along new lines and in substantial sup
port of Governor Hughes. But he
found Mr. Woodruff obstinate in his
determination TO continue his present
policy
As result 1t is said, Mr. Woodruff
must be allowed to serve out his term
Republican to be elected by the new
state committee elected in the Repub-
lican state convention
Leaders at Conference.
Senator Root had one of his busiest
days receiving Republicans and talk
ing with them over the New York state
situation at his home, He conferred
with Lloyd C. Griscom, president of
the New York Republican county com
mittee; Speaker James w Wadsworth,
Barnes, Jr., besides others of lesser
significance.
The episode at Albany by which
Senator George II. Cobb defeated Sen
ator Harvey d. Hinman for the place
of president pro tenn. Of the state SEN
ate and the friction which followed 1t
led Mr.. Root TO come here from Wash
ington.
To all Of Senator Roots visitors he
made it emphatic that President Taft.
the senator himself and most other
Republicans in Washington had no de-
but at the same time Chairman Wood
ruff and his friends at Albany and
elsewhere must be made to under
stand that their attitude toward GER
tain Of Governor Hughes measures
and their general holding off from
everything that Governor Hughes de-
sired would not be tolerated and that
Chairman Woodruff and his friends
must get to work and pass legislation
in sympathy with the desires Of the
people and in order that the Repub-
lican party can go before the voters
next fall with issues good enough to
make fight on.
Bargain For Cobb's Election.
Senator Root had been Informed in
Washington by Senator Brackett Rep
resentatiye Dwight, Representative
Fa7sett and President Grlscom of the
New York county committee that the
election of Senator George III. Cobb to
be president pro ten. of the senate
was the result of bargain and that
Cobb was merely another name for
Aids, who had been forced to resign
as president pro tenn. of the senate;
that Cobb was interested with Wood
ruff and Barnes and others in white
washing Aids, no matter how the tes
timony turned out:
Senator Root WAS deeply incensed
over this information, for he believed
and he so stated to all of his visitors
that there must be no tillydallying
with Aids If he is guilty, and for that
matter both Senator Conger and Sen
ator Aids must walk the plank if the
evidence justlfes it,, and Senator Root
was rather inclined to believe that
the evidence thus far justified ex-
treme action with both Conger and
Aids.
Anxiety as to Aids Trial.
Senator Root went on to tell his Wis
;tors that the Republican party of
the state, its loyal followers for many
years, were watching this trial at Al
bany with the keenest anxiety for its
effect upon the party. 4re -,"'
Senator Root further said that he
believed that Senator Hinman was the
right man for president pro TEN. Of
the senate, as Hinmans election would
have dispelled the slightest suspicion
Of deal between Senator Cobb and
Senator Aids and their friends and
would have dismissed the thought
from the minds of many Republicans
that Senator Cobb'S election meant the