The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-12
WOODRUFF FORCES LINE UP
STiTE CHiIRMSS CANS FOR
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! The ruinpus ~ the Republican camp
over United States senator Roots tele-
gram 10 state senator Frederick NJ
Davenport urging the election ~ state
Senator Harvey u Hnman a. President
pro tenn. ~ tho state senate AZ Albany
which was followed Ivy the first oficial
Iitsrance hy tiov. Hughes affecting legis.
latlv~ matters sInce hs took the chair
/ ''h- Governor indorzing senator Roots
position and the election of state senator
George ". Cobb to the place. was the talk
hereabouis yesterday of politicians 81
all camps
state Chairman Timothy L. Woodruff
lsf, Albany IN Thursday evening Just
hsfuTa the Republican state Senators
went INTO caucus and had that all night
session which resulted in the election Of
Cobb hurried into town nv the Empire
| EKp,css. and NJ a. O'Clock by prearran Re-
nen' the Assembly district leaders Of
'he Republican organisation ~ Hinge
met him ~ conference AZ Republican
state headquarters. q West Thirty ninth
street
Of the twentv-three Assembly district
leaders seventeen were present. The
absent once were Representative william
NJ Calder who IL put down As distinctly
Woodruff State Senator Reuben
L Gledhill who was in the Senate caucsAs
a. Albany and voted for Cobb. Naval
Oficer Kracke. who was OUT Of town.
Postmaster Edmund " VOORHEES,. who
has been recently appointed bv Pr~si-
dent Taft. Philip ? Williams and Jacob
4 Livingston
Chairman Woodruff made q short ad
dress in which he vent over the situation
AZ Albany and announced that before
the night vas over Cobb would BE- elected
There was 4 zood cIeal 81 talk about al
leRed Federal interference and Jacob
brenner. Mr. NOodruh's right hand man
IN the organization. asserted We resent
and will no, submit ~ any interference
IN our home AFFAIRS on the part Of any
authority outside ~ Brooklyn We are
for autonomy IN Kings county
Chairman Woodruff wanted a show ~
haris ard requested all 70 indicat~wheth.r
they " ~" With HIM or Sgainst him They
responded unanimously that they were
with him and co'Ild not stand for Federal
interference 4 resolution TO that eject
was unanimously adopted Al during
the pToceedings which lasted until :,
o clock esterdav morning the long die
tanC" telephone vas worked overtime
between Republican state headauarteru
and Albany Chairman Woodruff read
90 HIS followers n telegram from Senator
Root three pages long. wherein the
senator laid that no regretted he was q ~
alnl ia
hut hs was TIN busy "a leave Washington
He added that he hoped 70 see Chairman
Woodruff next SUNDAY senator Root
went IN 10 saw that ne a. sorry hehAd not
cent his telegram 20 Albany IN favor of
Senator Human. and the Senator closed I
his despatch Nv asking Mr. WOODBURY. \
20 support senator HInman
senator Root and h .riuan Woodruff I
N was stated yesterday are w have a
where IN New York next SUNDAY Ne--
terdRy when " became known that the
seventeen LEADERS had met Chairman
Woodruff ~ headq,la r,ers the night be-
fore. Naval Omrer Kranke. Mr.. Williams I.
and NJ Livingston three of the alb
sentsea. 'elephon~d n Chairman Woodruff
az headquarters that they wanted u 10
counted N az supporters of the resolu-
ton expressing the confidence 81 the
Kings county Republican organization
in rhsirrnsn woodruff Unitad State
srshal HAubert also sent the same
word
The great question among Republican
state organisation men Yesterday was a.
% Chairman Wo~druhs support m the
Stat COMMITTEES. Chairman Woodruff
and hls friends reiterated that under NO
nces would hs resign and in
sisted that he had a ma joTity ~ the com
mitt~e az he hack and that ne could not be
retired before the State convention il
held in the fall. providing a state conven-
10 held at all some thought that Gov
direct nominations bill would
20 through AZ Albany and IN that event
shsre would b no state CONVENTION and
nonlinB 'l0ns for a full state ticket would ,
b. made BY the state committee
The Barues-Woodruf faction IN the
Republican State organization Included
Representative George n. Nalty. John
z. O'Brien. F-apCss Hendricks. George
y Aldridae AMI nearly oil others IN the
outside - Representative
2 Sloa' Fasesst. Representative John
" Dwight. Representative Herbsrt Par ,
sons and senator Edgar l. Rrackett
Indeed the Rarne~-WoodrIlf men a.
serted that al The recent Conferences
m Washington had bern attended 10y
Senator Root Representatives Dwight.
Fas-ett ard Pansons. and state senator
Brackstt. and that ~ was ~ the last %
hs-s conferences that senator Root
.ent hIS telegram to state senator Daven-
Dort urging tho SIppou 81 state senator
Sinman tor president pro TEN of the state
senate
While Lloyd Z. Gri-Con. president If
he New York Republican county COM
nittse indorNs-d senator Roots telegram
here was no way vest erdav uf a-car- ,
aiming how the View York Republican
'ounty organization felt IN the matter. .
md there can bc no way. u was added. }
latl "a meeting ~ the county cOnImitt~e I
) held N Was the universal belief. how I
'ver. that majority - the oTganiza-
'oFn binati0n. {
Representatives Dwight and Fassett |
lad extended talks IN Owego on Nednes- .