Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-03-14
RIOT ACT READ
TO TIM WOODRUFF
Senator Root Informed Him OPP
position to Gov. Hughes and
Measures Must Cease.
NEW YORK MUST NOT BE LOST
Federal Power VIII De- U-cd 90
ThWart such OPPOSITION It
II Continues.

New York March l4-With the de-
parturc of Senator Root to Washington
10 inform President TAFT OF the result,
Of his conferences with State Chairman
Woodruff and the local Republican
leaders on the question OF Woodruff
retirement from the chairmauship
looms political situation. which. in
its larger meaning. bears directly not
only on the coming state campaign
next fam but on the national cam
paign of 1912
The administration through songtor
Root has made 10 clear 90 the party
leaders IN this state that New York
must not be- lost TO- the Democrats iu
the gubernatofia. election. Tor such de-
feat would endanger tho partys sue
cess two years later.
OPPOSITION MUST CEASE
10 this end Senator Root informed
Chairman Woodruff that the opposition
20 Gov Hughes and his measures must
cease and the suggestion Is said Go
have been directly made that the fed
cral power would be- used To- thwart
such opposition If &c continued.
Whether Senator Root sought TO force
Mr. Woodruff from the state chair
manship is AN initial step 10 remove
from the control OF the so-callcd ma
chine leaders was the subject ~ much
conjecture at Republican state head
quarters today
ann affU hare 44IH Rtaf-rt.t,
Woodruff today. and then made 10 eYi-
dent that he would. az least, continue
as chairman until the end of his term.
There's much more than the
climax of the state campaign involved
In this matter said an upstate lead
er today President Taft and his
friends are setting the stage for the
national campaign OF 1912 and the adj
ministratiou feels that unless the pres
ent state organization joins with GOV
Hughes a party split viii follow that
VIII give the state 10 the Democrats
next Novem Der and seriously icopar-
die the partv's chance of capturing
New Yorl's 80 electoral votes for the
Republican presidential nomination.
Woodruff will remain chairman and
the opposition To Gov Hughes viii. IN
a large measure. cease so that no
split may occur if the Root plan Is
carried out. but the election Of Sena-
tor cobb as president pro tenn OF the
state senate has so strengthened the
hands Of woodruff and his friends IN
the organization that they may elect
90 advance such legislation as they
please at Albany, and so doing. may-
split the party wide open.
''Thcn our hope lies. in that event.
Zoe Theodore Roosevelt who viii De
asked 90 assume the leadership ~ the
partv-and his return rs only three
months away
INVASION OF STATE RIGHTS
Tho woodruff qdherents assert that
the efforts Of tho administration i'm
the present situation constitute an in
vasion of the rights of the state poll
teal control.
chairman Woodruff indicated today
that the OIds casc would bee Judged
solely on IT'S merits and Informed his
callers he had not even been able 20
learn how the Brooklyn senators stood
i'm the matter a close advisor Of Mr.
Woodruff said az the headquarters this
afternoon.
"The situation Is thoroughly under
stood nv Senator Root and the chair
man The telephone and telegraph viii
Dee placed under the public service COM
mission.
"Tho Hiuman-Grcen bin FOR direct
nominations won't go through, but the
bin drawn by the special committee.
which is modification of the Human
Greene measure. viii b. accented.
chairman woodruff tells me that the
stories told DIV certain congressman In
washington that Senator Aids Is 10 he
Whitewashed. have no basis in fact.
and that the case viii be fairly passed
an