The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-06
FIGHT IF ROOSEVELT WANTS IT
BARNES or ALBANY CONVEYS
MIS- SENTIMENTS TO Y. N.
Thinks Republicans % This state Are
Tired % "Popuiistic Pads and OuIsi
smash the Cobb Blll Af saratsga-
Talk Of Clark Williams for Isat ernar

talk % clark Williams for Go' ernor
William Barnes. Jr.. Republican leader
of Albany county. had a conference yes
| tsrday afternoon at the Republican Club
in New York city with william l.. Ward
national committeeman for the State:
Chairman Woodruff OF the State COM
mittee. Jacob Bremen. chairman of ths
Kings county Republican organization.
and others Early in the day MIR Barnes
had talked with Collector Loeb MIR
Barnes il To sail for Europe this morning
and IL 10 return on July 81 IL was learned
that ex-President Roosevelt in the closing
days Of the extraordinary session OF the
Legislature at Albany had invited Mr.
Barnes TO visit him at Sycamore Hill. hut
that Mr. Barnes had written in reply that
he was preparing to sail for Europe and
resretted greatly his inability To Accept
the Invita- ton at the time MIR Barnes
believed that Mr.. Rooseveh's letter to him
called for some sort OF an expression con-
corning the attitude Of Alr. Barnes aud
other Republicans in the State organize
ton and in the Legislature toward the
Cobb measure for primary reform and
direct nominations. In his letter to the
or President he took the liberty Of saying
that the Cobb measure was very much
worse than the Hinman-Green bill and
that should Mr. Roosevelt and his friends
in the future decide TO stand by the Cobb
measure as one of Republican party policy
in the State the Republican organization
OF the State as at present constituted
would be compelled. a. a matter OF prin.
ciple. 10 oppose them IN the State conven-
ton which is to be held in the early part
OF September at Saratoga SPRING.
Ex-Presidcnt Roosevelt in his telegram
20 Lloyd Griscom. president OF the New
York county committee. came out for the
Cobb measure. and this was followed nv a
petition to the Assembly supporting the
same measure signed by Collector Loeb.
Representative William W. Cocks. otto
7. Barnard. Henry l. Stimson. Naval
Offioer = Kracke. Representative will
lam Calder. Frederick X Hazard Of
Syracuse. william II Wilcox and Comp
troller William 4. Prendergast. all per-
sonsl friends OF Mr., Roosevelt
i do not know said Mr. Barnes NJ the
Republican Club.yesterday. it there is To
be a further fight in the corning State con-
vention over the Cobb measure Some
times think see evidsnces of plan on
the part OF Lloyd Griscom and Postmaster
Greiner OF Buffalo to organize a coInbina-
ton looking to the selection of delegates
IN next falls convention in support ~ tho
measure IL - also evident that some
sort OF a fight - To be put up against MIR .
Woodruff in Kings county. and PERHAPS
one would he inclined To believe that Mr.
Roosevelt. Mr. Calder. Mr. Loeb and the
other gentlemen who favored the Cobb
measure at Albany were seeking to con
troll the next State convention, having
for a basis their support Of the measure
II any such fight IA preCipitAted. con
tinued MIR BaTner. I believe | arm free To-
.Ay that the measure will ~ opposed To
the bitter end You see IN thes" DAYS
in the State of New York and .
in other States in the fear ~
defeat have been jumping from one Dem
ocTAtic populiHtic fad tn the other and the
With whom have talked he
ieve that II Is time for a return io ths. con
sentative policies ~ the Republican PARTY
The Cobb measure A. n populi-'iC meas
Ire II II had been adopted u was the
Of the initiative and the refer
-ndum. The Republican con-~rN atives at
Albany defeated IL
Tho interest IN the coming state
at SaratoRa Springs will
Ds in the committee on resolutions
In that COMMITTEES on resolutions there
must he IN my Judgment and in the opinion
" Republicans with whom I have
alked. a plank calling for complete pr
nary reform IN the state based on m.
ines ~ the Meade Phillips bill There
must also bs put in this platform. accord
nR to nv opinion. a plank which shall
INSIST on non-interference with the biIsi-
hess interests u the state. for upon