The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-13


Albany q number Of years ago when the
eighty cent Eas legislation was On the
carpet According 10 the story repeated
Yesterday Bracket aud Cobb went into
CAUCUS on this eighty cen, gas measure
and decided 20 vote against it but On the
nOOr Of the senate Bracket voted for the
measure and Cobb. according Ia the
original agreement. voted against ~.
When Senator Brackstt was asked about
his change Of front he replied. oh. don't
mind me: I'm like a weather VAne A
q result OF that legislation Gov Higgins
had tho appointment % three IOmEnIs-
sIonera Of 0As and Electricity. aud tho
Woodruff men saw that senator brAckott
expected 10 bs appointed ono 81 these
Commissioners. Cow Higgins appointed
Lucian L. Shsdden - PiAttSIsprg John
&. Davies of Camden aud Frederic h.
GunnisOn OF Brooklyn From thar time
TO this. IL Was declared lad blood has
existed hetw een Bracket and Cobb. and
William Barnes. National Commit tscnAn
Ward aud ~ hers have b-~n drawn into the
frAcAs
Will the Woodruff barnes combination
fight the national aud State admInistFa-
tons That was the question put 10 all
Republicans in town from upstate local-
tea yesterday There was no definite
answer II vas recalled that SENATOR
Platt only United States senator
easily put Jacob Worth out % business
snd Worth had been head OF the
Kings county Republicans FOR MANY
wears. that Presiden, Roosevelt. with
oui toe wink 1t an ~yelld.
turned out William Hslpin. Gov 'IdeII :
I.resident ~ the New York county cow
mitiee: that Roosevelt aud t'ov. IlIgRius
easily made James " Wadsworth D.
Speaker at the assembly aud the AM
versal NeuiiCt seemed To ~. after these
sNperisuces had been recount-,i thar
President TAFT and senator Ru"r can easily
displsra rimothv l. Noodr'il a, cEaI-
man ut the Rsptbl,can state COmmItte.
With Gov Hughes and his friends
aiding P,es,den' TafI .nd senator Root
the iOh would he all the easier The kings
county Republican organization. 'h-
New lurk county organization aud
ine OrgsnlyAt IA Queens The Bronx
and Richmond are h'iilt ~ 18th Fedora
and state patronage auf lie STATE or-
ganizs'lOn msmb@fS 81 the SiAts cUm-
mittes are dependent on the ma i"nsl
and state admin:stra' ions tor SCORES
on scores ~ places
But will Woo1TUh and hrs TRENDS Il ghi'
They said they would. aud thew Declared
that quite "a nunter II patriots stood
ready TO resign their Federal and state
places There are three direct WAYS
by which Chairman Woodruff can he got
rid Of. rh~ first being by his voluntary
resignation. which he declares he will
not give: the second 10 by th. signatures
OF twenty members 81 the State 'Ou.-
mites. which has thirty eight nIem',er.
calling q meeting ~ the committee art
boosting ont Woodruff. and Mr. Barnes
and other of Chairman Woodruff friends
said yesterday at Republican state head
quarters tina; IL would he impossible o.,
the opposition To get the signatures Vt
twenty State committeeman for anv such
purpose
The third way would be TO pat up
fight AZ The primaries all over the State
next fall and through these primaries
TO urhorse Woodruff in King- county
and State committeeman friendly 10 him
in ell other Congress districts There IN
another wav the old fashioned wAv
the withdrawal II Federal and State
patronage from the recalcitrant. This
10 the most effective method in dealing
With obstrsperous members Of tho o"s "a
zation.
For instance Naval OffcNr Er'cke
~ Brooklyn. Just reappointed nv President
Taft and not vet confirmed by the Sc nate.
who supported that resolution II con-
iidence gwen to Chairman Woodruff nv
the KingS county organization. has had
one or two interesting talks over the long
distance tslephone. 10. too there have
been other long distance telephone CON
vsrsations concerning Federal and State
places. The Woodruff Barnes comhins-
ton admitted yesterday that they we're
perfectly aware Of the cohesive power ot
public patronage IN situations ~ This
kind
When senator Root informs Mr. Wood-
r,Ih that President Taft desires his
retirement Mr. Woodruff will "i,her
decline to resign or say that he desires
e. confer with hrs friends. AMI then Mr.
Woodruff will talk the matter over with
Mr. Barnes. Mr. Ward Speaker Wsds-
worth and older Republicans from up
state a. well az Republicans ia New York
city Many IL these Republicans have
bean and are rather tlmid in accepting a
proposition 20 stand nv Chairman Wood
run only To sec him in tn" end run away
and leave them IN the ditch
They have had personal experiences
~ this kind with Chairman Woodruff
and some Of them confessed Yesterday
that they were in quandsry. They said
that only . month ago az the dinner given
by Vice-Prssident sherman in Washing
ton sgery'hing was harmonious. bur
suddenly after the visit Of senator BracE
EFT en- Washington confusion arose and
Barnes and others who were favorable
20 the selection OF senator Human for
president pro tenn. OF the Senate con-
sidsrsd thar they had been forced into
an attitude OF opposition. Their view -
that q great trouble has been forced upon
their party organization AZ q time when
the party in 'he State ~ in Rrea' danger
Of defsat and thar conciliaforv measures
should have been adopted. Nj. Barns-
said that the talk % q movement to white
wash either Conger or Aids or both ~
Albany was merely a makeshif' Of the
opposition and that Coneer and Alias