The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-07-02
New York Legislature Votes DeCisiVe|y Against the
 Primary Bill
ROOSEVELT MAY GET INTO
 POLITICAL GAME AT ONCE
While Legislature Defeated the Cobb Measure the Party Leaders Are Not Antagonistic to the
 Former President

Albany, N. Y, July 1.-Theodore Roose- welt is to be asked to get back into har- ness again. His decisive defeat in bosjl the senate and the lower part of tho assembly creates situation which may force him to take an active part in the politics of both state and nation.
 Hardly had the gavel descended when the members who shared in the lost cause of primary legislation began planning to make MT. Roosevelt the leader of the party In the state, whether he wanted to be or not. Once he plunges into the contest in the state, it is said, he will become involved in politics of the nation, owing to the prominent part which the Empire State is expected to play in the congressional campaign in the fall.
 The republican organization moved swiftly and smoothly today in finishing the york in the senate begun in the lower part of the assembly. In less than two hours after the organization men had started up Capitol hill this morn ing they were victorious in their work and were ready to come down again.
 The Cobb direct nominations bill, kno wl as a Roosevelt measure, was put to death with 25 against it. Twenty-six votes were necessary for passage. but only 19 votes could be marshaled. The suasion of MT. Roosevelt failed to shake out the follow ing of the opposition.
 Colonel Roosevelts defeat was in no wise a repudiation of his leadership or any indication that his power is on the wane, it is stated, and those who stood with him say he will come again.
 A majority of the republican votes in both branches of the legislature are care- ful to respect the wishes of the former President at all times.
 Assemblyrpan Green said today he had already begun prepara tionsrto carry tsa fight into the state convention before Mir. Roosevelt was questioned on the sub ject.
 Governor Hughes is known to take a hopeful view of the situation. although he says nothing for publication. Lloyd c Griscom, to whom MT. Roosevelt sent his telegram indorsing the Cobb meas ure had the following to say:
 ''The first thing of all which stands out clearly is of national character. II is the consolidation absolutely of three men, men such as Hughes, Taft and Roosevelt. The situation has brought about such a condition as to warrant strenuosity. It will be difficult to imag-
  both in the state and in the nation when the big three are gotten together.
 Next falls prospects would be seri- ously affected if the three were not con eoidated In harmony after the recent ac- tion of the legislature.
 The point I wish to emphasize is that it was the action of the minority of the republicans who bottled the caucus up in the senate and bolted to the dem ocrats which created situation wherein party affiliations were lost to view and wherein personalities counted"
 Speaker Wadsworth, who has led the fight for the organization without apolo- gies to anybody, said he had nothing to add to his previous expressions of opin- ion.5
 Asked his views of the probable effect of the action of the legislature on the political situation at large he replied it was too early to speak with any degree of certainty on the point
 Roosevelt Explains Action.
 New York. July 1.~-Although silent upon his arrival here, Cioonel Roosevelt told on the train while coming from. Boston how he had been drawn into the direct primary fight.
 q had fully made up my mind not to interfere in any wise with Legislation pending before the extraordinary session of the legislature, said the former Pres ident, until I met Governor Hughes 1t Harvard. He urged upon me the impcr- tance of making some definite statement as to how I stood on the direct pri- mary bill. He told me that silence on my part might be construed as indicative of being opposed to it."