The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-18


chester county, where the national
many years.
Resents Slight to Friends.
Ward stated in his communication
that since Prentice concluded not to
reappoint William Barnes, Jr., Of AL
bany, also Woodruff, members Of the
executive committee. he decided that
he, likewise. had no business serving
in that capacity. The slight put upon
his former collaborators he consider
ed an affront to him, which he felt
he ought to resent by refusing to act
as a member of the select committee.
whose function 1t is to run the CAM
paign.
He and Woodruff and Barnes and
others of the "old guard" have been
fighting together in common cause
for fifteen or twenty years, he ex-
plains, and since they have been
eliminated this year he also desired to
efface himself instead of co-operat-
ing with representatives of the new
nationalism and with men who for the
most part are comparative strangers
to him, and with whom he has moth
ing in common.
Two or three days ago Barnes
manifested his displeasure at not be-
ing reappointed on the executive COM
mittee by resigning as member of the
committee. Wards action today
shows that he has made the grievance
of the leader of the "old guard" at AL
bany his own. But it has deeper
significance, and that is that the old
guard is resolved to let Col. Roose-
welt elect the ticket which he nom
mated at Saratoga the last week in
September. In other words, they are
making good the grim threats they
made after they had been f1attened
out by the steam roller. Then they
declared. This is Roosevelt's con-
vention. Let him build the platform.
Let him nominate the ticket. and then
let him elect IT.
Big Money Raiser.
In and Of itself, the resignation Of
Ward from the executive committee is
not necessarily fatal to the success of
the Republican ticket this fall. But
1t assumes a large and menacing
significance when 1t is explained that
Ward has been one of the most effec-
tive politicians in the Republican par
! ty for a decade or two. He is mil
lionaire and has close connections
with the moneyed interests of the
metropolis. He has been one Of the
big money raisers for his party, and
in this respect rendered excellent
service in the last national campaign.
AS previously indicated, 1t was to him
that National Chairman Hitchcock
looked for results in this state, and
the returns on election night showed
how effective had been his efforts.
A few days before election Ward
predicted that Taft would have a
plurality of 100000 in New York state.
an coupled up with that forecast the
astounding prophecy that New York
city would also go Republican. Men
intimately connected with the cam
paign in this city smiled at Wards
optimism and especially in SO far as
the metropolis was concerned. but the
returns vindicated his judgment, for
his predictions were fully verified.
Allusion is made to this piece OF his
tory of the last campaign in order to
show Just how closely identified Ward
has been not only with the men who
have been directing Republican af-
fairs, but also with the rank and file
up state, as we'll as below the Harlem
river. Reference is made to it also
for the purpose Of suggesting the pos
sible effect of his self-effacement as
one of the managers of the present
campaign.
Taken to Task by Griscom.
Ward is the man, it may be recalled.
who was taken to task at Saratoga
by Lloyd C. Griscom, the new chair
man of the New York county commit
tee, and his predecessor Representa-
tive Herbert Parsons, for his alleged
attempt to create the impression that
President Taft was secretly opposed
to Col. Roosevelt's selection as tenn
porary chairman Of the state conven-
ton and favored Vice President Sher-
man instead. When he was confront
ed by these charges of misrepresenta-
tion by the Roosevelt members of the
state committee, he declined to be
drawn into a discussion Of the sub
ject on the ground that he would not
bring the name of the president into
such a controversy.
1t is from Ward that Mr.. Roosevelt
claims to have received letter, while
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