Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-01
BARNES IS SHOCKED
Denounces Plan to Oppose
Sherman for Craftsmanship.
GRISC0M MAKES REPLY
Roosevelt Attitude Called Affront to
Vice President.
ALBANY PAPERS EDITORIAL
Says Delegates to New York State
Convention Have Right to Fight
Colonel's Selection.
GRIscoM MAKES REPLY
PAPERS EDITORIAL

NEW YORK. September 1.-The an.
nouncement Of friends OF Col Roosevelt
that they will offer his name to the
state convention In opposition to WIGS
President Sherman for the temporary
Craftsmanship came in for much discus
sion at the republican state committee
rooms, when william Barnes, jr.. drop
ped in from Albany yesterday to confer
with Chairman Woodruff. The state
chairman had nothing TO say. but Mr..
Barnes said:
4 am shocked to learn that certain
forces in the republican party in this
state contemplate an attempt to undo
the action Of the state committee in
recommending Vice President Sherman TO
be temporary chairman of the state con-
vention. Such a proceeding as this
threatened affront to the man between
whom and the presidency of the United
States there stands but a single life
should meet with universal condemna-
tion and defeat by the convention
Lloyd c. Griscom, to whom President
Taft recently addressed his letter in re-
gard to the selection OF temporary chair
man, made the following statement yes
terday afternoon when he learned what
Mr.. Barnes had said:
mo one deplores more than that the
Vice President of the United States
should have permitted his name to be
used in an effort to perpetuate. the power
of particular faction of the republican
party in the state, or that he should
have disregarded the advice of the Pres
ident to consult with Mr.. Roosevelt.
In Untenable Position.
q still confidently hope that Mr.. Sher-
man and his best friends will see that
he cannot accept an election surrounded
by such deceit. Mr.. Barnes and his
friends have drawn Mr.. Sherman into
an untenable position. and / can well un-
derstand that they would like to make
further use OF him.
After Mr. Barnes had read Mr.. Girls
CONS reply, he added:
Il am certainly satisfied I'm my mind
with the course which 1 pursued in this
matter, and / trust Mr.. Griscem is equal
ly content with the part which he played
between the President and Mr.. RoOse-
Welt"
Resolutions commencing Lloyd c. Girls
com, president of the New York county
committee. for his stand against the old
guard and his support of Taft, Roose-
welt and Hughes. were passed here last
night by the district committee OF the
twenty-third assembly district republican
organization. The resolutions also say:
I'VE denounce the trickery and mis-
representation which resulted In the de-
feat of Col. Roosevelt before the state
committee; and we hereby urge delegates
from this district to the republican state
convention to vote for Col. Roosevelt for
| temporary chairman"
Editorial In Barnes Paper.
ALBANY. n. Y. September 1.-The
leading editorial In yesterdays Evening
Journal, edited by william Barnes, jr.,
headed "Ne Compromise" says:
Mr.. Roosevelt has said much about
fight at the Saratoga convention. About
what"
THE action Of the state committee In
selecting Mr.. Sherman instead of Mr.
state convention Is then set forth, and Is
followed up with this decision:
THE republican people Of this state are
Indifferent whether Mr.. Sherman or Mr.
Roosevelt presides over the temporary
deliberations OF their state convention
But IL Mr.. Roosevelt Is to act as tenn
porary chairman, and to use that position
to make an address such as he has beer
making In the west. his selection would
not be at all satisfactory to the repub-
licans Of the state.
However, those republicans who be-
lieve that in his activity at the present
time and his possible candidacy for the
presidency there Is a menace to the wei
fare OF every business man and every
wage-earner in the country have a RICH,
as delegates to that convention to oppose
his selection. Is this Mr.. Roosevelt
fight?'