The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28

| a man, for rendering a decision which was made according to the law, and which l to this day is unreversed.' When the I United States appellate court reversed | Judge Lands, the same shooter, not from | the head of a barrel, but from the White | House. sanctified .by Abraham Lincoln, l told the people of the United States that | the judges has been guilty of miscarry- | ing justice"
 | MT. Gruber attacked Colonel Roosevelt | for his attitude toward Hayward and Mover accusing him of having sought with all the power of the President of | the United States, to influence the jury by holding up these leaders of labor, as undesirable citizens"
 Change of Sentiment | "A French King once said: T am the state No man may say: I am the Uni ted States The lungs of the country are not it's brains. Men who few months believed, now disbelieve, men who wor- shipped then, now execrate, and through out the country the business men, as such, are facing panic, and as lovers of their rights and liberties, are fearing | revolution. From Caesar to Napoleon, from Napoleon to the American Jack Cade.
 | "When given power to shoot the trusts, he drew line between the good ones and | the bad ones. The steel and sugar trust were the good ones those which would not help along the shooters political schemes were the bad ones. So too, those who cry 'Vive le roi' are good republi- cans and those who are putting partiot- | ism above all else, and therefore will not 1 join the cry, are bad republicans.
 .eWhile under the table I touch Cox's feet. eat.
 "Fellow citizens of New York, has the correspondence with Hartman passed | from your minds?" While the firm was Roosevelt and Hartman and not Roose- welt and Lincoln, the shooter and rail- road men were engaged in a joint plan to get money and, in writing, the senior
 member of the firm assured Hartman that they were both practical men and had better keep the partnership under 1 cover
 "All classes may now, if they will, join
 in the great fight begun in the conven-
 ton to prevent a third term or some | thing worse.'
 No one enjoyed Gruber's speech more than Colonel Roosevelt, who chuckled re- peatedly.
 Reply to Onslaught | Comptroller Prendergast of New YorK city was the champion of the progress
 siye fight and made warm and spir- | tied reply to the old guard onslaught. The convention had been well pre- pared for the outcome of the contest | for temporary chairman, William
 Barnes Jr leader of the old guards
 forces, having early in the day con- ceded the election of Roosevelt. The | roll call took what seemed an intermin- able time in that densely packed and superh eated convention hall and nearly four hours had passed from the time of the opening before State Chairman Woodruff formally announced that Theodore Roosevelt was the choice of | the convention for temporary chair man.
 | The victory of Colonel Roosevelt in | the first counting of noses did not ap- pear to dishearten the old guard for they continued their fight on the con vention floor when the progressives submitted resolutions whereby the com mittees should be made by representa- tives from each congressional district | the members to be named py the tem- 1 porary chairman.
 Seeing that this gave absolute power | 10 Colonel Roosevelt, Speaker Wads- worth of the assembly strongly opposed | the resolution. He took the position | that each congressional district should name its own members as had been done in previous republican conven- ! lions for many years. The progress sives. however, were in the ascendency and the resolutions. as drafted by friends of Mr. Roosevelt, were carried
 Committees Named
 There being no contests before the convention, the makeup of the commit | fee on credentials was with out signifi- canoe and 1t was quickly named and announced by Colonel Roosevelt as was the committee on permanent organization The makeup of the com | mittee on resolutions which has to | thresh over the important direct pri- mary plank caused Colonel Roosevelt | to hold up the convention until he could Ego over the names before him. He "a He'd Representative Herbert Parsons of New York to the speakers stand and after striking out three of the names submitted announced the resolutions | committed, among whom were William Barnes. Jr., Speaker James Wadsworth of the assembly, George w. Aldridge, Senator Cobb, author of the recently defeated primary bill; former Mayor Seth Low of New York, Jacob Gould Schurman. president of Cornell univer- sity. Senator Bracket, Representative Sereno E. Payne and Representative James Sloat Fassett
 Talk of gubernatorial candidates was submerged during the day by the main contest waged over the temporary chairmanship, but tonight friends of Representative Bennett of New York. Frederick c. Stevens, state superin- tendenr of public works, and Henry l.. Stimson, from United States district at- torney's office in New York, were out scouting to secure votes for their can- l didates.
 Colonel Roosevelt in his speech as