The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-09-17
Republicans Have Little Hope
Of Settlement
OF THEIR DIFFERENCES
And the Danger Of Their Defeat at the
Pools ncreases--Gruber Stirs New
York County Meeting-Sris-
com Reelected.

New York, Sept. i7.-Quite aside from
the result OF the Maine election, til,
Republicans OF this state. whatever theii
affiliations with one or the other Of tbs
warning camps, are approaching a stage
Of despair over the prospects Of the
state campaign. The growing snimosi-
ties which this situation encourages arc
forcing the factions further and further
apart, until now one hears in Republi-
can circles more about placing the blame
for the sad pass that things have
reached. than about an. effort to get
a man to lead the state ticket and a
set Of issues to run ON. The Saratoga
convention is hardly more than week
away, and there is little to show where
the control viii rest Accordingly, We
have in prospect one OF the most lively
political contests Of the generation Here
are the elements OF Republicanism in
New York at the present time: First,
the adherents Of the old guard. who are
battling now only with view to con.
trolling the state convention, as il that
were the end Of al political activity.
II may be said IN an seriousness, ii with
another meaning, that the state conven-
tion viii Be the end Of the old guard, win
OF lose, for no ticket nominated by
Barnes and Woodruff would stand a
show Of winning and if, on the other
hand, Colonel Roosevelt and his friends
dominate the situation, that domination
means that the old guard meets its
fate on convention day, instead Of eIee-
ton day. There is no confidence in the
camp Of Barnes, Woodruff ct al They
blame Hughes. because according to
them. he wrecked the organization by
refusing to run the Office OF governor
their way and by stirring up sentiment
against bosses and bossismi Roosevelt
they abhor, because he came back from
Eufope and got in on the wrong side
81 the fight.
On the other hand are the Roosevelt
men, Griscom, Herbert Parsons and 9TH
<ers. who are having some little consola-
tion in shouting Down with the bosses.
but have to stop and wonder once in a
while what they will shout after the
convention, If, perchanee, their leader Of
the present moment should control that
gathering. For supposing that Rooze-
welt dominates the convention and
names a ticket; what could such ticket
run on Nothing, so far as state issues
are concerned, but the Hughes policies
and the Hughes accomplishments. II
will do not good after the Saratoga con-
vention to talk about bossism within
the Republican partyi that win be an
issue for the opposition. So viii Cam
nonism and conservation and all the
other isms OF the early autumn politics.
Supposing that the Hughes policies are
taken up: II is certain that the Demo
Gratis will 20 further in the direction Of
statewide primaries than the Republic
cans, under Roosevelt's domination, will
be disposed to DO and if the Saratoga
convention should declare for a limited
application Of the principle and the Dem
ocratic convention, as is not unlikely,
for d statewide application, the Demo.
Gratis could turn the whole line Of
speeches made by Governor Hughes
down to the time when he finally ac-
cepted the Cobb compromise bill, and
pass back the Hughes arguments one
BY one for their Republican friends to
answer. Nor are these so-ealed Roose-
welt Republicans better pleased when
they consider the past then they are in
contemplating the future. They, too,
blame Governor Hughes for not having
treated the organization right