The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-25
Griscom Says Roosevelt
viii Have $40 Dele
gates.
AFTER THE UNPLEDGED
Barnes Forces Put Their Trust
In Them Names for
Governor.

village. with i's early autumn tlnts
and gray slsnts. begins TO MI up
tonight with those who are directly
and many whu are indirectly inter-
es'ed IN the result Of the Republican
State convention which IL 20 nominate
a complete State ticket from Governor
down and To- adopt a platform which
I promises Ia h- 1T vita interest n the
country a. large
| The Washington correspondents turned
up Tonight and 80 have correspondents
81 the great newspapers ~ the West.
the Northwest the Pacific Slope, and
indeed there arr correspondents hero
who are To cable the results Of the con-
veniion 10 their journals in Great Britain
and throughout Europe. Most Of the
Republicans on the field tell you that
| the Convention. the first session Of which
IL 10 IT, held on Tuesday. will be- more far
reaching in its conclusions thap any con-
vention Of their party in the stat. since
1880. when at Utica senator Roscoe Conk-
ling. then in the zenith 70 his power and
fame. forced that convention 70 adopt
resolution committing the Republicans
II the state Ia the denomination Of Gen.
Grant
The fact that Vice-President Sher-
man has been selected 70 be tempor-
AIRY chairman of the convention by
the State committee. and the further
fact that Cot Roosevelt and ms
frta Ii l.. n -
com Of the New York Republican county
committee. have determined. II possible,
90 unseat Mr.. Sherman. II considered
here 81 little or no moment.
The question h. Shall Col Roosevelt
and his friends control the operations
Of this convention, including the enuncia-
ton of its principles and to send broad
cast 10 the world that the ex-President
will be- IN position to name IN 1919 the
seventy eight delegates from the State
Of New York to the national conventions
Some 81 the Republicans who discussed
recent events in their party and its inne-
diaie future were william Barnes, Jr..
Of Albany. Chairman Timo'hy l.. Wood
nIn William l.. Ward. national COM
mitteeman OF the State: ex- Representa-
tive LIcius y. Littaner. job r. Hedges.
Louis 2. Payn Of chat ham. col Michael
J. Dady - Brooklyn. William Berri.
Jacob Bremen. Secretary ~ state koenig.
Robert G. Morris. Cornelius V Collins
Of Troy whom col Roosevelt has srg.
g-s,ed Mr. Woodruff successor a.
head " the ~ ate commit eei Assembly
man james y. Parker 81 Washing q on,
senator Emerson ~ Warren. James ".
Forsyth Of Owego. and in addition there
!. =
for every scrap Of news anxious 70 learn
= he inside drift Of ansr-
Many 81 these Republicans went over
I ~ ground since the state coInmIttee
selected President sherman ~ 10
temporary chairman % tho convent ION
aud all agreed that the selection 81 Mr..
sherman was not a. all contrary TO GUS
tom. a. in IsOs the State committee.
fully a month before the conveni ION was
held. met and unanimously selected
Flihu Root hen Secretary Of state in
President Rooseveli's Cabinet Tor chai--
ma.uSI the convention and never a word
of SsPect ION a. made
The Barnes Woodruff people reiterated
to-day that they Wer. ,Inawa until
fifteen minutes before the state COM
Mite. met that Col Roosevelt was an
aspirant for the temporary chairmanship,
and by that time a ma iority 90 the COM
Inittee had decided for Mr. sherman.
The Roosevelt -GriScom people retort-
ing say that they were unaware that
a temporary chairman % the State con-
ention was to have been selected al
h. meeting Of the state COMMITTEES and
4 they had known that such was the
Intention Postmaster Greiner's state COM
would not have been absent
The Barnes Woodruff people. replying
@ this. say that IL was the duty Of all
state committeeman TO attend an impor-
ant meeting 81 the COMMITTEES on the
we " conv ention. and they recall that
after Col Roosevelt had been beaten in
he committee by a vote Of 70 tn Is Mr..
3herman's selection was made unani-
nous. even by the votes of Federal and
state officeholders and Others now ar
aged against Mr.. sherman.
The general conversation over this
natter was joined in tonight 10y Mr..
jriscom. Ezra p. Prentice. Postmaster
Ireiner and George II. Daniels. one -
er. 0reinsr's state committeeman. No
nding whatever could be reached
" the opposing force. Not even the
,reced@nt established by the selection
& Mr. Root I'm I0Os would have any weight
With the Roosevelt Griscom people. and
o the fight h to proceed. and II h 10 bs
fiGht 90 a finish. AZ an evidence Of the
,i,tegreaA existing over this matter 70
. only necessary to quote Mr.. harness