The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-28

gallant fight. but after several viva voce
test votes in which IL WAS mighty difficuli
20 ascertain the verdict. which Col Roose-
welt always decided IN favor of hls fol
lowers. Speaker Wadsworth felt It was
useless To continue the struggle.
QUICK usE or THE RIu STICK.
Cot Roosevelt as temporary chair
man celebrated the unlimited power
given To him 10y first striking At Vice
President sherman The Oneida Herki-
mer Congress district delegation. the
Nios-Pr.sident's own delegation, had
recommended for the platform committee
william II. SChwsitze'. a Sherman fol-
lower Col Roosevelt struck QUA Mr
Schweitzers name and substituted that
Of et-Assemblyman Nerwln X. Hart.
head of the Lincoln League Of Oneida
county. which has Supported senator
Davenport Col RoOsrv-lt following mp
this stroke. dl-pIa ced Timothy l.. Wood
run from the committee on platform and
substituted the name 81 Comptroller
william A Prendergnst. For Jacob 4.
Livingston. stat. committeeman from
the Fourth Congress district Of Kings,
who had been recommended 10y his dele
ga tion for a place on the committee on
platform. Col Roosevelt substituted Mar
Gus T. Campbell
Col Roosevelt. as temporary chairman
Of the convention. then took hand in
SINAI hing President George Cromwell
81 the borough - Richmond, who had
been recommended by the delegates 81
the Eighth Congress district for "a plaC"
on the committee on platform. In Mr.
CrpmWelrs plsce col Roosevelt sub-ti-
'uted senator Josiah I N-wConh Mr..
Cromwell. Mr.. Livingston, Mr.. Woodruff
and Daniel p S'roh.l state committee
man for IN. Oneida Herkimcr district.
had voted in the state committee for
Vice President Shermau 20 be temporary
chairman Of the convention.
Col Roosevelt and his friends salopt ed
these drastic measures. according to In
iuential rnemlD-rs ia the Roosevelt camp,
b,,ca lse they lacked the necessary votes
TO control the committee ON platform
UsrRPATIoS, CRIEs BARNES.
william Barnes. Jr. in the presence %
speaker James W. wsdsworth. Jr.. and
numerous delegates who had opposed
Col. Roosevelt. dictated the following
The result ~ entirely satisfactory.
That as delegates out Of Ois wi'hstood
the charge which tried to ride roughshod
over their convictions and their sense Of
orderly volitical procedure is Of ever
lasting credit TO them.
NO man in political life should ever
have la mind what the future will be. He
should act with "A heart single to the per.
Torrance Of the hour. but I cannot fail
az this moment to he prophetic in NV
reading Of what Is to come. II will be
these men or their Successors in the cause
of true conservation who will guide the
course Of the Republican party in this
State in the future.
That Mr.. Roosevelt was opposed for
temporary chairman for good and sum
Gent reasons has been made entirely
clear by the outcome Hts action in leav-
ing on the committee on resolutions
delegates chosen by the delegations from
their Congress districts to ct upon that
committee using prerogatlve never
before exercised Ia the proof. Especially
convincing ~ the vindIctiv-ness and dis
orderly quality exhibited in substituting
Mr. Hart for the man agreed upon by the
delegation from the Twenty seventh
Congress district. comprising the counties
Of Oneida aud Herkimer. in which Vice
President sherman resides. " n
Schweitzer
Not sufficient was it 10 Mr. Roosevelt
Ia have defeated Mr.. sherman aFie- he
had been recommended unanirno IIsly
by the state committee bat he has pro-
cee,I.d 10 Use his Cudgrl against the
regularly elected Delegates from that
congress district "" tried To- punish
them because Mr sherman dared Ia OPP
pOse him.
instinct. although sufur~ hat subdued
to day. j. plainly apparent 10y this act
Of an unwArrau'-l usrrpation upon the
delegation from Mr. sherman district
GREAT CRUsH IN CoNvFSTIoS NAIL
II il the opinion ~ Ell political experts |
that there has never Teen a Republican !
state convention in New York III" that |
II to-day. Probably there ~ ~ Cnuveu-
ton hall in III" stat" which could have |
80 splrndidlv u convention |
" this character The first session was
10 have b-.n called a. order a. /? O'Clock |
noon For thra- hours before there
gallery Not crossroads town ~ the
state not the humhlest hamlet WAS with
lr IT. representativ. IA his gathering
About every man YOU saw had a haS
About every woman IN the great audience
II OOU and more had a rag
liner. was great ilut'er ~ color ana
he constant crashing II the band aud
he howl for thus favurite delegate or
hat faVorit. son ~ some lucal R.pub-
lean community Ia" platform was
amm-d tu IT, utmost limit men and
Somen sitting on the ,'dg-s with their
'eet dangling Their" wer" Bs' news
Japer correspondents. all pukinR their
shows into one another 49, crowded
or. ;h- accommodations These men
the great newspapers ~
he United States and EUROPE al! sent
irr- to record the proceedings 81 " hat
many R.uuh'can- insist - t. mark the
greatest departure 10 the annals ~ the
rational Republican parry
II l. known that the Western insurK~ni
states and their leaders. like La Toilette.
Iimmiu-. stubs ami Brlstow have
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