Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1910-09-27

he claimed showed that Roosevelt had
tacitly endorsed the selection Of
Vice-President Sherman as temporary
chairman.
Abe Gruber facing Roosevelt pour
err forth such a stream of denuncia-
ton the like Of which has seldom
been heard before even a ward con
vention and Roosevelt had 70 appeal
personally to the crowd to lei the
New York attorney be heard and give
him a square deal"
II was 12.40 before Chairman Wood
run called the convention to order.
At 1915 Woodruff introduced the
! Rev. d. Joseph r. Carey. of Saratoga,
who delivered the opening invocation.
When the prayer was ended, former
Attorney General Davies demanded
| that the aisles be cleared. Then a
! delegate demanded that the seats be
cleared OF all who are not delegates.
Woodru< appealed to the police 10
put out all not entitled TO seats. The
crowd was too much for the ushers
and police and everything stopped for
a time.
It was 1856 when Chairman Wood
run began his speech naming James
] -. sherman as Ahf InOl't VI AhN eAe''
committee for temporary chairman.
Applause for Taft.
When Taft was named there was
forty seconds Of applause which was
confined to the delegates and the
Utica and Albany men in the galleries.
Roosevelt sat impassiycly through
the Woodruff speech.
Woodruff said
The next order Of business is the
election of the temporary chairman.
President Taft desires that his par
~ here in convention assembled. rep
resenting the largest and most potent
Republican constituency OF the United
States. should uneauivocally endorse
his administration. This ! know from
personal knowledge as the result o
a visit made two weeks before TN
meeting of the state committee TO IN
summer capital at Beverly.
ITO aliay these apprehensions, wha
/ more natural than the selection,
make the keynote speech as temporar
! chairman. Of him who had been sent
speak for the administration TO a
parts Of the country, even into Il
; Presidents own home state OF Ohio
:, the Vice-President OF the Unite
y States, James S. Sherman.
4 ct want to make clear once for al
= why the Vice-President was selecte
= and also TO indicate the propriety. an'
! indeed. the necessity of the selection
J by the state committee OF the tempo
/, rary chairman at the meeting held 70
fixing the time and place of the con
y vention This precedent was wisel.
established two years ago. when Sena
tor Root. the premier OF the then ma
, tional administration, was selected a
: the meeting Of the state committee
held month before the convention
Such a course was, and is. necessar,
/ for the proper and digniiied conduc
of our conventions.
5 AS chairman of the Republican
Y gested TO me. or, as far as / know
{ 10 any other member of the committe
n the name of any other person tina
r the Vice-President as temporary chair
e man until MIR. Griscom, sitting in tn
r. committee as a proxy moved TO sui
stitute another name for that of Sher
man, after the latter's name had bee
properly presented. What was tn
object Of this action?
e THE correspondence between Co
z onel Roosevelt and myself just afte
the meeting Of the Senate Commit
: tee shows more clearly than ca
u otherwise be presented. that his OF
: position to the selection OF Vice
= President sherman was not based o
z any personal grounds, but becaus
- he desired an opportunity to presel
: his views as TO the policies whic
= should hereafter guidA the existenc
. of the Republican party.
: Perhaps I had better read my le
:. ter to him and his letter to me:
- August IL, 1910.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oystc
re- Bay. l.. /.
y My Dear Col. Roosevelt:
i ut cannot be possible that it
necessary for me to tell you that Il
action OF the State Committee yeste
day I'm which ] participated was
in no sense intended as an act of hosti
~ ity toward you or one Of refecuc
~ upon you.
le Il saw Ward and Barnes after the
talk with you and they told me VIII
you and they had said about III
: whole matter, and hope you kno'
- despite some things to the contral
which the newspapers contained tn
morning, that they told you the eXa
HUB ANUl Ouf VI ur cuVHnotu AAi
D your name would be presented wit
: out your notifying Ward, the nation
committeeman, or me, the charm;
u of the State Committee, that "
e. wished it done.
ID Believing that you must Apr
ne ciste the position in which. under Il
N circumstances, we suddenly -four
to ourselves, after having agreed up'
~ the selection OF Sherman, I'm comic
:, nifty with the precedent establish
AZ by the selection Of Senator Root "
ca years ago, as temporary chairman,
al beg to remain with best wishes,
I'D Yours respectfully.
he Timothy L. Woodruff.
bv Colonel ROOseyelt's Reply.
"The Outlook, 2S7 Fourth aven'
~ New York, August 18th, 1910.
Us, MY Dear Governor Woodruff:
he "'You seem 10 me to be under m
for apprehension I'm the matter. l v
am not notifying anybody about the m
- ter and neither Griscom nor
,e any idea that the question was