The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-17
Struggle for Leadership In New York State Is Be-
 coming Strenuous
SOME PARTY LEADERS
 DESERT ROOSEVELT
Conference Is Held in office of MT. Roosevelt Which Lasts All Day and Part of Night But Ap-
 pears Indecfsive

New York, September 16.-Count, politicians from all parts of New Yorl state gathered today at Theodore Roosevelt's editorial offices to tell hin where they stand in the fight now or within the republican party. Int colonel talked from morning till nigh with leaders on both sides. but as ht was leaving at the end of the day ths only statement he would make wa. that he had not a word to say.
 "I cannot discuss it at all,' he sait emphatically, when pressed for some word as to what he had learned abou the strength of the forces he is mar shaling against the old guard. Some o1 those who saw Colonel Roosevelt to- day brought back word that he hat been informed of dissa tisfaction with, in his own ranks, but none of then was willing to go on record by name George Cromwell, president of the Dor. ough of Richmond and a member oi the republican state committee, was the only one who did not hesitate tS say where he stood
 I'm going to vote against Roose. velt.'' he said. q have taken that reso' lution after thinking 1t over carefully and I hear nothing but commenda tior from my people in Staten Island"
 MT. Cromwells stand provoked com, ment in that he has often spoken o1 his friendship for Colonel Roosevelt dating back to their boyhood days ant L. r+a 5o Jo .4- rectly after a long conference witt him. X ls
 Colonel Roosevelt took dinner to- night with the Press club and spen !. the night in this city with his brother in-law. Douglassst7obinson. He is tt leave tomorrow for swracuse, where he will speak at the state fair in tn, afternoon.
 Theodore Roosevelt told the mem bers of the New York Press club to- night how 1t Is that he can break fast, dine and sup on work and ther top off with more work. He said h' liked 1t. He liked private life ant he liked public life. He enjoyed every job he had ever had and he begged his hearers to be under no anxiety as to what should be done flor this ex President" because he would do fol himself
 Whereat his auditors laughed and cheered.
 The colonels day was an example oi his precept His day began early and did not end until midnight There had been few empty minutes in it.
 Among the guests of the club was Sir William Purdie Treloar, a former lord mayor of London, and the colonel took advantage of his presence to refer to his famous Guild hall speech delivered last spring in London.
 After stating that one of the cherished ornaments in his house is the box which contained the freedom of London, Col Roosevelt said:
 T have always forborne to exercise my mind with the query as to whether or not I would have been given that free dom if I had made my Guild hall speech before it instead of after 1t.
 q shall never forget" he said, "the more than courteous hospitality witf which I was treated in England, and which was shown perhaps particularly by the city of London.
 "Allusions have been made to the pend- ing state convention" continued the colonel "When I arrived at home I hat no intention of taking any more part ir public life. I have got into the figh about the state convention simply be- cause I could not keep out of 1t, ant having got into 1t. I shall see It through
 More than once I have been intro, duced as the friend of the poor man Say the friend of the honest man and am with you. The friend, I hope, of thu honest man, rich or poor; the foe of the crook poor crook and rich crook.
 ''The friends I have made among thu reporters, the newspaper men who have to collect the news that stands as thu basis of newspaper work, represent tt me not merely friendship on my part but an increased respect for American citizenship and human nature.
 .'I have been, perhaps, less happy in m! experience with those at the top of th' profession and would rather a hundred fold trust to the news columns than thu editorial pages of some of the most emf nent New York newspapers
 Politicians Are Gathering
 Syracuse, N Y, September 16.-Politica leaders and politicians from all section of the state are gathering Ill Syracuse t hear the address of Col. Theodore Roose welt at the State Fair tomorrow after noon. Belief is current that the colonel speech will be his most important utter ance since his return from Africa.
 State Chairman woodruff of the repub lican state committee will hear MT Roosevet's address. and it is expecte' they will meet They have not met sine the state committee selected Vice Presi dent sherman for temporary chairman o the Saratoga convention. Assembl Leader James w. Wadsworth. in an in terview here today. stated that there wa no doubt that the Saratoga convention would ratify the selection of Vice Presi dent Sherman as temporary chairman.
 Thirty thousand persons attended tn State Fair today. The exposition close tomorrow with Roosevelt day and tn commissioners are preparing to handle crowd of at least 50.000 people.