Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-08-18
NOT ROOSEVELT
FOR OLD REGULARS
Refuse to Make Colonel Chairman Of
Convention.
NAME SHERMAN tINsTEAO
They Threaten to Keep Roosevelt
out Of Convention Unless He
Agree to Their
Terms.

New YORK, Aug. - Ae'7AuOUuUAS
Roosevelt was tourned down flatly
here in, his race for temporary chair
man Of the state convention Septem'
bor n and the committee substituted
Vice.President J. A. Sherman.
Sherman finally defeated Roosevelt
In the state committee. The Roosevelt
supporters had previously been beaten
on a proposition to defer action until
the convention met.
The Old Guard GIesful.
Sherman was finally chosen unani'
mously except that Chairman Lloyd
crlscom Of the Republican county
committee who led the fight for the
former president who was at the meet
ing: Judge Charles H. Murray OF the
court of claims and Harry W. Mack
sullenly declined to answer the roll
call. The old guard leaders greefully
declared that Roosevelt has now been
completely dethroned from the dicta'
torship which they accuse him Of set
ting up on his return from Africa
They even threatened to keep him alb
solutely out Of the state convention
unless he pledged himself to quit
smashing at his old political partners
and desert the insurgents" with
whom he has recently affiliated.
Charge Change Of Front.
"Old Guard" officers charged the
Sycamore Hill man with deliberately
violating written agreement OF Sen
ator Henry Cabot Lodge, National
Committeeman W. L. Ward and Post
master Fred Greinier before his de-
parture for his hunting trip that he
would not interfere in politics on his
return: switching from an ardent anti
direct nomination advocate to an ad-
vOcate Of Hughes theory after a I'VE
minute conversation with the COVER
nor of New York aud deliberately
placing himself at the head Of a band
of Amateurs" to drive out OF ONCE
and politics, stalwarts who made him
governor vlce.presldent and president,
Roosevelt admitted that he had
changed front on direct nomination
very suddenly.
But he avowed his purpose to go to
the Saratoga convention, from his
home district, and speak in the con
vention. In this he plan to name
the right kind Of man" for cover
mad. I'VE will name our own con-
ditions and frame our own platform,
This Is a fight for our very existence"
declared the old guard.
This stormy and bitter fight in the
state committee Is regarded as merely
the forerunner OF the most tempestu-
Gus state convention perhaps ever
held by the New York Republicans.
The ''old Guard" program had been
secretly arranged the night before at
conferences between Vice-President
Sherman, Chairman Woodruff, Ma
tional Committeeman Ward Francis
Hendricks, William Barnes, Jr, and
Speaker Wadsworth at the hotel Man
haitian. They had been warned that
the Roosevelt men whore Boosting
that they had secured nearly enough
votes TO Gust Woodruff and put in N.
v. v. Francho for chairman of the
state committee and make Roosevelt
ing. temporary chairman Of the Sara
toga convention and that the coup
was to be sprung at once. 1t was
concluded to thwart this by Jamming
through a resolution making the vice.
president temporary chairman and
thus save Woodruff. The resolution
was entrusted to William Barnes, Jr,
who had been the most belligerent
leader Of the AntI'Hubhes forces since
the governor declared war upon the
organization.