The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-26
TEDDY WILT. COMPROMISE.

New York. Sept. 26-Prepared. if forced, to accept the various com promises on the progressive issues he has faided, Colonel Theodore Roose- welt today started for the Republican
 State convention at Saratoga for the final round of his fight with the Old Guard.
 The reports of his many scouts throughout the State, and his leaders three days, convinced the Colonel that he can hardly hope to control the con- vention on the direct primaries plank, and various other issues. He feels that a compromise in the direct I9ri- mary may be necessary. The Colonel believes that New York is a, conserva-s to take up the advance, ultra-radical policies that have been put into eff feet in some of the Western States.
 Immediately Upon upon his, his arrival arrival at at tailed reports of the situation from State Superintendent of Prisons c. " and Lloyd c. Griseom. He is certain of election as temporary chairman, but the difficulty will come on the various progressive policies he will attempt to have included in the platfoFnI On several of these he doubts that he will be able to control majority~ef the delegates.
 His upstate delegates have reported that many instructed for Roosevelt and pledged to support him, will not line up behind radical platform or even arrange primary plank.
 Saratoga, N. r., Sept 2e-when Col oneI Roosevelt rolls into this village| late this afternoon one of his first call- CTS will be Lou Payn, of Chatham. one of the leading veterans of the Old Guard. He will visit the new Boss" of the Republican organization to ap- peal to him to be merciful
 The Old Guard is 'Hcked to a fraz- zle'' and they admit it in private al though outward1y they are still insist !, En VnT 1OlYTr wi ask Roosevelt not to force an issue on the temporary chafrmanship. He will point out that the vast majority of the upstate delegates want Sher- man to act as chairman and will ex- plain to Roosevelt that the turning down of Sherman will harm the party
 more than anything that may be put in the platform. Roosevelt will not give an inch.
 Sherman will stand pat and the re- suit will be a. test vote when the con- vention meets tomorrow. Payn said:
 tsRoosevelt will have to take ali of the responsibility. not the friends Of Sherman. The fight here is not for today and not for tomorrow. but for generations to come. Out of this con- vention, whether the Old Guard wins or loses, is to come a, little army of the nucleus for the old time Repub- 1ican party of this State. These cour- ageous Republicans intend 4o run the party without interference from Wash ington or any outside source. Roose- welt and I have been and are friends and I shall tell him just what he is facing
 Roosevelt will have a majority of the delegates with him if he forces Vice President sherman out of the chairmanship. But that Is far as Roosevelt can go. So far as adopting an out and out progressive platform that will follow the lines of the @New majority of the delegates are opposed
 No matter what else the Old Guard may say about Roosevelt they admit he is the best comprorniser that ever lived and they say that he will prob ably follow his old plan of expediency in the present case. The first active move to ernbarrass sthe Roosevelt men was made by the old Guard leaders just before noon- They announced that they will de- mand an open session of the commit lee on resolutions so that the debate shall be public. It was admitted that the debate will be lively and it is claimed that the Roosevelt followers will be t'put in a ho1e'' by the revi- val of statements they have previous Iy made regarding direct primary leg
 The candidate of the anti-Rooseve1t men for the chairmansFlip of the 1 committee is Speaker Wadsworth. | chairman, intends to name United | States Senator Elihu Root for the job. l Wadsworth and Barnes intend to de- 1 yelop that. Roosevelt told them when 1 the Q1f6cL Issue was Td1Seu by Governor Hughes that such 1egis- lation was absurd and designed to be a weapon for the demagogue and the l They will urge that this 1 is still the private opinion of Roose- welt but that he has taken up the i scheme to aid his candidacy for the i Presidential nomination in 1912.
 That there is real dissention in the l ranks of the progressives over the pc sition of candidates as well as over fhe proposed platform, developed when I lao heinz | brought to bear upon Congressman I izkzk1l iam &. Bennett to have him with-1