Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-29
IN NEW YORK

ATO better evidence could De had
~ that the east-at least the masses
AN of the east-are as insurgent as
any other part of the country than the
victory of Colonel Roosevelt in the
New York Republican convention
against all the resources of a powerful
machine under the combined leader
ship of a half dozen of the most as
tute bosses in the country.
The archaic convention system,
which gives to the bosses a tremen-
dous advantage, as we know very we'll
here in California, still prevails in the
Empire state, and those practiced po-
litical crooks, Barnes, Odell Ward,
Woodruff, Aldridge and Wadsworth,
well know how to make the most of
it. When this convention system, for
titled by the immense financial in
terests of New York that were willing
to spend any amoust of money to
down the hated Roosevelt and all he
stood for, proved such a weak citadel,
after it has been for years impreg-
nable, the force of insurgency must be
something to reckon with in the state
last expected to show it.
Apparently Roosevelt won his fight
by majority of 125. But consider
the circumstances. The convention
after the manner of most nominating
conventions in the past-was packed
with as choice a bunch of heelers and
pap-suckers as might be expected from
the roster of bosses. Some of them
might object to such Characterization,
but they were all engaged in the busi-
ness of defying and trying. to defeat
the will of the people, all meekly sub
servient to the same bossism, and must
go on a level together. Read this
list of federal off1ceholders who sat in
the convestion and of whom the ma
jority acted as the mainstay of Barnes,
ct al:
Michael H. Blake, port warden; Fred
erick l.. Marshall, collector internal
revenue; Marcus Braun, port warden;
George w. Wanmaker, appraiser of the
port; William Henkel, United States
marshal; Anthony p. Ludden, special
agent custom house; Daniel Kelly,
custodian postoffice building; William
]. Whitaker, paymaster, custom house;
Charles K. Lexow, deputy appraiser,
custom house; John H. Gunner, port
warden; Henry r. Wise, United States
district attorney; Robert C. Morris,
referee in bankruptcy; Charles w. An
derson, collector of internal revenue;
Richard Parr, deputy surveyor, GUS
tom house; Morris Levy, port warden;
Chauncey M. Depew United States
senator; Henry L. Stimson, special
United States prosecutor; Henry B.
Stowell, i.ppreiser, custom house; Sam
uel Krulewitch, appraiser, custom
house; William M. Ward, federal re-
ceiver; William Barnes, jr., surveyor,
port of Albany; John f. O'Brien, col
lector, port of Plattsburg; George w.
Dunn, federal receiver; Joseph e. Ned
jedly, paymaster, custom house; John
A. Merritt collector port of Niagara
Falls; Fred Greiner, postmaster, Buff
falo.
These men rallied to the bosses sum
mons in plain violation of the federal
civil service rules, but let that pass.
What we wish to show is that if you
subtract these henchmen who repre-
sented nobody and nothing but their
own pockets and desire to perpetuate
a system of chicanery, the majority of
delegates representing real, thinking
constituencies that were back of
Roosevelt was overwhelming.
1t will be apparent from this list
that there is something for insurgency
to do besides electing a governor. 1t
has a job to do in cleaning out a large
political rats nest that extends all the
way from New York to Washington.
To all the friends of good govern
ment there is, despite the defeat of the
New York bosses, a large fly in the
ointment. 1t consisted of the appar-
ent desire of the insurgent element to
temporize, to throw sops to the van
qulshed in the platform and otherwise