Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-17
MARTYR, NOT BEATEN MAN
Know in Advance His Name Would
Be Rejected by State Committee.
FIGHT ON IN THE CONVENTION
Empire Republican Conservatives
Not So Sure of Victory After
the First Blush.
Special Prom a stan Correspondent.


NEW YORK. August 17.-After their
first glow of satisfaction over walloping
Col. Roosevelt yesterday some Of the
more thoughtful politicians are asking
whether as a matter Of fact Col. Roose-
welt may not derive more benefit than
humiliation in the end.
They are moved to this query by con-
siderstion of the fact that Col. Roosevelt
allowed his name to be presented yester-
day when he knew that he would be de-
fested. Griscom told him there was
clear majority against him and he could
not possibly win. Go ahead anyhow"
ordered the colonel, and Griscom obeyed
orders grimly. Now the politicians are
asking what was the coloners object in
throwing himself under the wheels. -One
suggestion advanced Is that he deliberate
ly allowed himself to be 'martyred" in
order to emphas asize his position as a pro-
gressive. Another is that he was not un-
willing to draw an ostensible line of de-
marcation between himself and Taft and
Sherman.
Il fear that Roosevelt has planted his
banner for 1872" said a conservative re-
publican today. land that he invoked yes
terday's martyrdom to rally his follow
ing
Two Views o. Throw Down"
Two considerations moved the old guard
In throwing down Col. Roosevelt yester-
day. The first was one Of self-protec-
ton. 10 prevent him from obtaining
position of vantage in politics to their
own obscurement. The second Is ex-
plained in the language OF one of the old
guard as follows:
NO sincere well wisher of President
Taft should contemplate the possibility
OF allowing Theodore Roosevelt to DOM
mate the republican convention OF this
s;ate. What would such domination
mean? IL would mean the complete
eciipsing of Taft and the ascendancy Oh
Roosevelt in the first state of the Union.
1t would mean that instead of New
York republicans adopting a ringing in
dorsement of Taft and his administration
as they should, they would be dragooned
b. Roosevelt into adopting either nan-
j. arted Endorsement. such as Rooseveit
wanted Garfield TO put through the ONO
convention. or possibly deliver sap IN
TIE face as was done in the Iowa con-
Neltion.
Such a proposition Is unthinkable In
fns state. We will have to stand Dy
raft and the administration or declare
ourselves unworthy of public confidence.
Every candid man must acknowledge
that IL Roosevelt were made temporary
chairman of that convention II would De
Roosevelt from start to finish"
rhis man called attention TO Col. Roose-
yelt.s own statement. issued yesterday, In
which the colonel. he claimed, made II
plain that he would stand for the most
radical progressiyeness. That statement
was as follows:
ITO the various persons who asked me
whether / would accept the position or
temporary chairman of the state conven-
ton / said that 1 would do so only II they
were sure after knowing my attitude.
that they desired me, because my speech
would be of such a character that II might
help IL the convention nominated the right
kind OF man on a clean-cut. progressive
platform. but that IL would hurt If neither
the right kind of man were nominated
nor the right kind of platform adopted.