Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14
ROOT WOULDOUST
WOODRUFF IN NY.
IT IS UNDERSTOOD RESIGNA-
TON WILL BE DEMANDED
C. o. p. SITUATION STILL OBJ
SECURED IN HAZE
Taft's Lack of knowledge Of Empire
State Politics Contrasted Adj
verseIy with RooseVelt's Ger.
tainty of Attitude

LdlntJ OF AbLltNuS
ASSOCIATED Pressl
NEW YORK, March 13.--After day
of conference and compromises the
situation in the Republican party of
New York state is still in the clouds.
Hostilities have been postponed. The
partisans of Senator Root, Governor
Hughes and Senator Human on the
one hand and of Timothy l.. Woodrut1,
chairman of the state committee, on
the other. preserve a truculent mein.
There is no desire to duplicate in
the Republican party the situation
over the state Craftsmanship that late
ly afflicted the Democratic party. II
is not wished in endcaVoring to elm
mate Mr. Woodruff to make him
Corners, and Mr.. Root in attempting
it does not wish to be Murphy.
Yet on the fate of Mr. Woodruff the
fate of the Republican party in the
elections next fall is felt to hang.
Senator Root, Lloyd G. Griscon,
president of the county committee, and
the new school of Republican leaders
at large believe Mr.. Woodruff and his
allies are direetlv responsible for the
election of Aids as president pro tenn.
of the state senate in the first IN
stance. and when that proved mis-
take OF senator CoDu W SuNNtcd iiiiii'
Election an Affront
The election of Cobb they feel to be
not only a personal atfront to Senator
Root but a mistake of less weight only
than the election of Aids. There is a
strong inclination to demand that
Woodruff retire, and it is understood
that it is with the expectation of de-
handing his resignation that Senator
II. = a.vs1s 1sae iuh
Senator Root would not say directly
that such was his purpose, but he Writ.
ually admitted it,
What do you, as judges of politics,
think | came for?' he asked the news
pa per men. And when they told him
what the general understanding was
he added:
Il seldom fail to accomplish what l
set out to accomplish"
In this purpose. he held conferences
this afternoon with Mr.. Griscom and
with James w. Wadsworth, speaker of
the assembly. and tonight, with Mr..
Woodruff himself. Neither lie nor Mr..
would discuss the outcome of
these conferences, but Mr.. Woodruff
was more communicative. lie con-
scented to interview himself for the
newspapers.
Woodruff Talks
you may say this" he said. when
Mr. Woodruff was asked if Senator
Root had demanded his resignation he
ASK Root
When Mr. Woodruff was asked If
there was any question of retiring
him he answered with even more EN-
phasis, Ask Root
when Mr.. Woodruff was asked if
he intended to resign Of his own ac-
cord. he answered with an emphasis
almost bordering on belligerency,
ASK Root
In spite OF the wide diversion of
opinion as to what 1t is proper TO do
in the present crisis, both sides are
anxious to avoid an open
breach at the primaries. The adher-
ents of Woodruff sum il up in one
Word-hysteria.
Down at Washington" said one of
them today, they are always hostile
to Albany. That much is history; but
now there is an added element of diff
fculty. I have always felt that the
administration at Washington in its
attitude toward the Albany admins
tration might be compared to the man
on the back seat Of cdrryall who
can't see the horses. Every time the
wheels go over a bump he breaks into
a cold sweat, but the man on the front
seat, who controls the reins, is too
busy to worry. That is the trouble
down there now.
Lauds Roosevelt
"When we had Roosevelt we did not
at all times like what he did, but we
knew that he had at all times the con
fdence of his convictions. He knew
politics i'm this state from the ground
up. But President Taft. with all due
respect to his ability, could not tell
you to save your soul what counties
are in the congressional district of any
one New York representative, and
Senator Root for years has been out
of touch with details here. since the
DAYS. i'm fact, when he first took "A
cabinet position with the Mckinley
administration.
They are frightened to death in
Washington. They say to one an
other: What are they going to do with
the Aids trial"
"They believe the administration
has the affair all cut and dried in ad
vance and that an acquittal is in the
cards. Now ! submit that it is all
wrong to prejudice Senator Aids be
fore the evidence is all in, and I be-
lieve the verdict of the senate will be
On the merits of the evidence. There
fore, all we who stand by Woodruff,
say: Hysteria.'
ON the other hand Senator Roots
followers believe that when he sent his
telegram advising tho senate to elect
Hinman president. pro TEN, he acted
only as might any individual member
Vt the party, however humble, who
had its best interest at heart. They
feel sure that he does not wish to be
q boss" and they instance the very
with state politics cited
by his enemies.
It was learned also that Woodruff
adherents arc right i'm assembling to
Senator Root and to Mr.. GrscOm the
gravest concern over the outcome of
the crisis. For the Root supporters
private adyces are indeed that Sen
ator Aids will be acquitted and they
fear this would be interpreted by the
voters as WhteWash