New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-27
'O[D GUARD STANDS
BY WCE-PRES|DENT
State Committee Endorses Him
for Temporary Chairman by
Vote of Fl to IS.
SHERMAN SENDS A LETTER
Previous Division Was 19 to Is,
but Belts, Dunn and Fassett
Switched-Public APP
plauds Fight.
rRy Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

BY Telegraph to The Tribune.l
Saratoga Springs. ". Y, Sept 26.-Un-
der The leadership of William Barnes.
jr. State Chairman Woodruff and
Speaker Wadsworth. the odd guard"
forces in the Republican State Commit
tee at a hotly fought session tonight
demonstrates their control of that body
They reaffrned the choice Of Vice resi-
dent Sherman as temporary chairman Of
the state convention which will assem-
BILE tomorrow at noon The formal vote
came on a motion by Mr.. Barnes that
the committee declare that Mr.. Sherman
had not been chosen as the result Of
trickery and deception. On that the vote
stood u to 10
Previously the division within the COM
mittee had been much closer. on a vote
on a motion by Mr.. Barnes that the
committee be pOlled that each member
might tell whether he had been infiu-
enced by misrepresentation the record
stood 10 10 IS in favor of the "old
guard" When it came to the final vote
Messrs. Belts. Dunn. Of Binghamton.
and Fassett broke away from the others
who had been voting against the Barnes
Wadsworth- Woodruff combination.
The meeting was a we'll planned stage
effect for the discontinue of the Griscom-
ties. carried through by the "old guard
with cOnsummate skill. Like the recent
meeting of the committee i'm New York
when Mr. Sherman was selected. the
meeting, held in the big ballroom OF the
United States Hotel, was public. Women
in evening gowns f1ocked to it as to a
play. Political heeIers worked their wav
into the room and whenever Mr. Barnes
or the young Speaker made a particular
~ telling speech, or Chairman Woodruff
assailed his opponents. they clapped and
stamped and shouted like the best paid
claque that ever haunted an opera first
night
Woodruff and Kracke Have Tilt.
And there were moments tense and
dramatic enough to call for applause
even If il hadn't been forced. The lie
direct. clothed in slightly yelled Ian
guage. was passed on several occasions.
State Chairman Woodruff and Naval
Officer kraCke came 20 a direct issue.
Speaker WadsWorth, expressly saving
that he didn't desire to impugn Mr.. Girls
CONS motives or recollection. challenged
directly a statement made by the New
Yorker that he had told the Speaker that.
whatever happened. Mr.. Roosevelt's
name would be presented to the commit
tee in opposition TO the Vice Presidents
Thereupon Samuel KruIewitch said he
was present and heard Mr.. Griscom make
the statement he said he had made.
William L. Ward. of WestchAster
County. who maintained To various
members. of the committee that the
President favored the choice of Mr.. Sher-
man. declared that the President had
been consulted over the telephone.
When Herbert Parsons asked what was
said MIR. Ward absolutely refused TO
answer.
The fight tonight. a splendid washing
of dirty linen with the state committee as
the laundry, was forced by a letter Of
Mr.. Sherman To state Chairman Wood
ruff. This letter said that he had seen
the charges of treachery and deceit made
by the Griscomites and If they were
true he did not desire for one moment to
become temporary chairman Of the con
vention in such circumstances. II they
were not. he would run.
MIR. Shernsn's Letter.
To the members of the Republican State
Committee. Hon. T. l. Woodruff.
chairman,
NV Dear Governor Woodruff. As YOU
know, | had no ambition 20 preside over
the state convention 10 convene tO-mOr-
row. AS you also know, I was asked 70
preside, not alone because / was part
of the Taft administration. but because
1t was known that. in response 10 the
Presidents request. I had spoken of the
administration and for him on several
occa sions in different sections of the
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