The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-25
Old Guard Is still Defiant
and Prophesies
Disaster
SCHEME IS TO DEFEAT
ROOSEVELT At POLLS
Barnes and His Followers Profess Con-
ndence In Controlling the State
Committee and Choose Their
OHcers


IF Roosevelt wins he can name the
whole ticket and elect it IL he can,"
fs the practically unanimous response
of old guard leaders to queries as to
whom they will put forward for gov
ernor and other state offices.
Should Roosevelt dominate the con-
vention let him run for governor him
self II he dares," Is the revengeful sug-
gestion of former superintendent OF
Insurance Luis F. Payne.
I'VE have no choice for governor. We
are simply fighting against the Roose-
velt proposition of making the repub-
lican party as radical as Bryan tried
to make the democratic party" Said
Old Guard Chief Barnes: I'VE expect
10 win; IL we are beaten the respon-
sibility for the nomination and election
of the ticket must remain upon other
shoulders than ours"
Congressman william s. Bennett of
New York seems as yet practically the
only avowed candidate for governor
He wants the nomination and is doing
his best to get 1t. Henry L. Stimson,
who has been the real Roosevelt favor
ite for months, continues in receptive
mood. Senator Brackett is boosting
Superintendent of Public Works Fred
ericl Stevens. Roosevelt supporters who
fear break in the Renssaeler dele
cation are dangling the governorship
bait before Mayor Mann of Troy Boss
Greiner of Buffalo is still playing At
torney General o'Malley to make sure
of knocking out Superintendent of In
suranoe Hotchkiss. SHOULD OMalley fall
of the nomination for governor his re-
nomination as attorney general seems
assured. Secretary of State Koenig,
State Treasurer Dunn, II he desires it,
and State Engineer and Surveyor Will
Hams are also slatsr for second trial
Rooscveir's Plans
IT is re,.orted today that Roosevelt
should he carry the convention may
throw over N v. V. Franchot for state
chairman and try to make Superin-
tendent OF Prison Collins his right hand
man. Woodruffs successor, Franchot.
is being assailed as the Standard Oil
man whose election would mean bid
for big pot of Standard Oil dough.
Barnes and the old guard still per-
sist that whatever the convention may
do on the ticket and platform they
will control the new state committee
and choose such officers as they please.
Woodruff is still coy as to wheth-
er he will stand for recollection in
A case his friends hold the state COM
/ mittee.
1 THAT depends upon conditions that
\ may prevail when the issue confronts
4 me-" he answers to all queries.
| At this hour the Roosevelt and old
] guard managers are stoutly predicting
4 triumph for their respective factions.
/ Superintendent of Prisons Collins and
\ Boss Greiner of Buffalo, who will con-
duct the Roosevelt skirmishes until the
colonel arrives on Monday, maintain that
on temporary craftsmanship, as well as
4 on direct nominations, the crucial issue,
\ they have the Sherman Barnes Woodruff
!: alliance beaten by 100 majority.
' Barnes major generalissimo of the an
4 ti-Rooseyelt forces, retorts that he and
his allies will throw at least SIG OF the
1015 votes against Roosevelt, and that
they will repudiate any Cobb. Hinman,
4 Green or other legislation inimical to the
4 retention Of state conventions by an even
j larger majority.
Il No One Too Confident
That neither faction is too confident.
n however, is manifested by the eagerness
R with which scouts for both watch the In
4 coming trains and escort delegates on
\ the fence to the headquarters to which
\ they are attached and then turn them
i over to the arguments Of the ''men high
\ er up
4 While the warning factions were en-
4 Dloying every means known to the po-
A ktical game to bolster up this and that
l delegation and steal enough from each
n other to clinch q majority In convention,
\ there were renewed disputes over conf1n-
4 ing a recognition OF President Taft to a
II mere approval of his administration up
Il to date or indorsing him for renomi-
u nation In 1912
A Former Deputy Superintendent OF In
Il eurance Robert H. Hunter, whose Ouch
II ess county convention declared for Taft
Y for q second term, is laboring to accom-
4 plish this IL only to smash the harder
| Roosevelt and his supposed aspirations
\ for Taft's job.
Il seems to be generally understood
\ that in the draft of the platform John
II "A. sieicher Is preparing for Colonel
II Roosevelt will coEtain not only pledge
II 20 put through the Cobb bill at the forth
II coming legislative session, but to improve
II the income tax, denounce Albany graft
II ers, call for conservation of natural re-
II sources, as advocated by Roosevelt, and
HI heartily commend the Roosevelt new
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