The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-24
TIE SPLIT IN NEW YORK.

The long Taft letter printed yester-
day morning in the dispatches merely
emphasizes tho trouble i'll New York.
1t clears the position of President Taft,
however, with regard to that split, To-
eating him definitely on the Roosevelt
side of it. AT the same time, being
there, he is necessarily on the side OPP
positc to that occupied by Vlee-Prcs-
ident Sherman, Sherman is with the
New York "machine.' Roosevelt is
against it and Taft is with Roosevelt.
Necessarily this division will make
bitter fight for the capture of the
New York State convention, and
whichever side wins, the other side will
take revenge; so that we judge there
is little chance for the Republicans to
carry New York this year.
The New York machine men. under
the leadership of Tim Woodruff, arc
definitely and positively against Roose'
welt. They hoped to so shape things
as to carry President Taft with them.
They had good reason to hope for this.
since Taft changed his position radi-
callv on the tariff law of last year, first
demanding that his promises in his
campaign speeches for revision of
the tariff downward should be kept,
and then turning his back squarely
upon that position and commencing a
tariff law that was not in the least
shaped on the lines of those speeches.
But President Taft, it appears, did
not dare to break with Roosevelt; he
would rather break with the New York
machine, He hoped, of course, that
matters would so shape that he would
not have to break with either. This,
however. was ii futile hope, because the
New York bosses are just as earnest
and Just as aggressive in their way as
Roosevelt is in his way. And so when
the crisis came il was impossible to
avoid taking sides with one or the 9th
er. There was no middle ground. And
Taft embraced Roosevelt
President Taft and Mr., Roosevelt
therefore are definitely arrayed against
the Republican bosses of New York
State. They hope TO wrest the control
of the Republican party away from
those bosses at the coming Republican
State convention. it is hardly posi-"
BILE, however, to conceive of any hope
State of New York at the November
election in case they do this. Prob
ably, however, they are willing, in the
interest of the partys future and OF
party cleanliness to forego the hope
of immediate victory, if they can SO
purify the party that it may hope to
win later. Such purification would, of
course, involve the elimination OF
Payne, Woodruff, and all those who
control the party in New York, and
it would necessarily imply an honest
revision of the tariff, which that old
gang have persistcntly. definitely and
successfully resisted thus far. They
are, however, up against it now, anc
it will be miracle indeed if they are
able to maintain their ground against
the combined attack of President Taft
and Mr.. Roosevelt, AT the same time
| they will easily be able to knife the
candidates put up by the Taft -Roose
welt combination and get square will
them in that way. After the election
there will doubtless be a demand fol
harmony, reconciliation, and a reorgan
ization of the party, in which both side
will receive such recognition as theil
strength will enforce,