Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-27
ROOSEVELT RULES
SARATOGA MEETING
ELECTED TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN
OF STATE CONVENTION OVER
VICE PRESIDENT SHERMAN.
OLD GUARD ADMITS
DEFEAT AT LAST MOMENT
Following Temporary Victory in State
Committee, Sherman's Followers Are
Routed on Floor Of Convention
Roosevelt Issues Red Hot Statement
Scoring Corrupt Politicians.

Scoring Corrupt Politicians.
Roosevelt was elected temporary
/ chairman of the republican convention
which met at noon today. William
Barnes, Jr, leader Of the "old guard, y
| in a statement to the Associated Press
| this morning said:
"Vice President Sherman will have
400 votes out Of LOIS which will be
cast on the floor. That is my guess. 1t
may be that a few of the last coun-
ties in the roll call, seeing the way
things are going, will switch over to
the progressives."
Tho Barnes comedies the defeat
Of Sherman he intimated that there
would be a fight on the floor of the
convention. State Chairman Wood
ruff will make a statement defining the
position of the old guard in the Sc
| lection of Sherman by the state COM
mittee. and Barnes may have some
thing to say.
Stand BY Sherman.
The "old guard" last night scored
tenn porary victory over the Roosevelt
Griscom forces when the republican
state central committee reaffirmed its
selection of Vice President Sherman
for temporary chairman of the state
| convention which opens today.
This action came after Chairman
Woodruff had read to the committee
! a letter from Mr.. Sherman in which
he asked that the committee inVestl-
gate the charge that his selection as
temporary chairman was brought about
thru trickery, and saying that If the
charges were substantiated he would
not serve.
The letter and proposals brought out
a heated argument which lasted two
hours. Then the committee, by vote
Of % to Is, resolved, that "Mr. Sher-
man be informed that his selection was
made without misrepresentation as an
answer to his letter"
Red Hot Statement by Roosevelt.
Stirred by the action Of the republi-
can state committee which last night
resolved, % to Is, that no deceit or
fraud was practiced In the selection OF
Sherman as temporary presiding off,
Ger, Roosevelt today authorized the fol-
lowing statement:
| "The conduct of the majority of
the state committee last evening
| puts in the clearest light what this
contest really is. The statements
! of Griscom, Krulewitch, Kracke,
Wanamaker and Henkel prove
| conclusively that trickery was used
in the effort to win a majority ana
| keep the management OF the party
under the control of the men who
h1y f1Nh
| action There has never been
state convention to which 1t was
better worth going than it is to
this, for never in another has the
| issue been so clearly drawn be-
tween cleanliness and honesty in
public life and that peculiar base
ness in political management
which has made the very word
politician obnoxious to the people.
Our fight is squarely against cor
ruption and unclean bossism which
| has bred corruption. The men, who
by trickery, kept control of the
| state committee and who now
come here in an effort to dominate
the convention are the very men
who are responsible for the COR
ruption which produced Aids and
for all that has been discreditable
In the party management; and now
these deeply discredited bosses re-
sent the effort of the people. the
effort of the plain people who
make up the great bulk Of the re-
publican party, to rescue that par
ty from factions which have used
it only to further their own base
and selfish purse"
Woodruff Names Sherman.
The republican convention was late
in assembling. Roosevelt was the first
Of the leaders to arrive, Sherman
coming in soon after. Both were warm
ly received. Chairman Woodruff call
ed the convention to order. Presenting
the name Of Sherman for temporary
chairman, he made q statement setting
forth the reasons for the committee
naming the vice president. The prin-
cipal reason, he said, was that Presi-
dent Taft desired that this convention
should unequivocally endorse his ad-
mlnlstration and the committee con-
sidered it but natural to select for tenn
porary chairman, the man who was to
sound the keynote, the man who had
been sent to speak for the administra-
ton all over the country, even in the
presidents own state of Ohio, Vice
view the incidents attending the op-
position to Sherman. He said corre-
spondence between himself and Roose-
welt showed the latter's opposition to
Sherman was not based on personal
grounds, but because he desired to pre-
sent his views as to the policies of the
republican party and to announce the
new nationalism.
Wild Cheers For Roosevelt,
There were cheers for Sherman. and
Joseph Hicks. Nassau county, IN q
short speech nominated Roosevelt.
The convention broke into wild cheers
and continuous applause. the delegates
waved their hands, while the band
played q fanfare.
Abraham Gruber. Of New Yos(k. took