Milford chronicle., 1910-09-30
ROutS Old Guard in Fight For
Craftsmanship.
STRUGGLE WAS BITTER
Gusts Bosses Followers From Com
mittees and Appoints ProaressiVeA
Roosevelt's Speech.

BIOL Day uEAEdLGu III AnE AAEHuDAAE0A
state convention at Saratoga, ~ Y,
Vice President James S. Sherman, OF
Utica for the office of temporary
chairman Of the convention by a vote
OF 567 TO AS
Vice President Sherman and Cornell
ius V. Collins were designated TO es-
cort Colonel Roosevelt TO the plat
form. Mr.. Sherman congratulated Col
onel Roosevelt on his election.
The old guard leaders, headed by
William Barnes, Jr.. Speaker James w.
Wadsworth, Jr, and their friends said
that they We're not at all dismayed,
not at all overcome by Colonel Roose-
velt's victory.
Colonel ROosevelt's selection was
followed later in the convention pro-
ceedings by performances which are
without precedent in Republican con |
ventions held in the state of New York /
since the organization of the party a /
little over fifty years ago. During all |
those years it has been the practice
IN selecting the various committees Of
the convention, like permanent organ
ization, credentials. rules and platform
for the delegates OF each congressional
district to select the committeeman
for those committees, subject to ap-
proval by the state committeeman OF
the congressional districts, and these
committeeman are thereupon accepted
by the convention
After Colonel Roosevelt's victory no
Eanauofa ha old I'd
was permitted to offer the resolutions
calling for the appointment of these
committees. Only delegates friendly to
Colonel Roosevelt and his adherents
offered the resolutions for the appoint
ment of a committee, and these RoOse-
welt delegates introduced their resolu.
tions for the appointment of the com
mittees with this final clause "and
that the temporary chairman of this
convention have authority to name the
meaning the committee
on credentials, the committee on rules ]
the committee on permanent Organiza-
tion and the committee on platform. /
Colonel Roosevelt as temporary
chairman, celebrated the unlimited
power given to him by first striking
at Vice President Sherman. The
Oneida-Herkimer congressional dis
trict delegation, the vice presidents
own delegation. had recommended for
The platform committee William H.
a Sherman follower. Colo
nel Roosevelt struck out Mr. Schweit- :
ser's name and substituted that of ex !
Assemblyman Mervin X. Hart who
Senator Davenport. Z
Colonel Roosevelt. following up this I
stroke, displaced Timothy L. Wood
'uff from the committee on platform
md substituted the name of Comp j
roller William A. Prendergast, and for I
Jacob A. Livingston, state committee II
nan, who had been recommended by D
lis delegation for a place on the COM E
nittee on platform, Colonel Roosevelt o
ubstituted Marcus B. Campbell. e
Roosevelt's Speech. o
The main points in Colonel Roose- u
elts speech are the following: n
During the last eighteen months
long list OF laws embodying legisla- D
ion most heartily to be commended
S combining wisdom with progress, 7
ave been enacted by congress and
pproved by President Taft"
These, and similar laws, backed up ty
y legislative action. reflect high cred N
upon congress and to our able, up
ght and distinguished president, W
William Howard Taft" II
"Of course, with a party as long in ri
ontrol of nation and state as ours has TO
cen, there have been individual in w
ances of misconduct and corruption. 70
ut there is no need of any other par
raising the cry of Turn the rascals tn
It, for we have turned our own ras- is
us out" &c
I'VE are against corruption in poll is
cs; we are against corruption in bus be
ess, and, above all, and with all our N,
rength, we are against the degrading
lance of crooked business and crook
politics, the alliance which
rengthens the already powerful cor
pt boss and to the already powerful IN
rrupt head of big business, and
1ich makes them in their dual capa-
y enemies against whom every pa bu
otic man should stand with unwa- col
ring firmness." ce'
Let no man say that this is an as Hii
ult upon the honest business man.
lat is as foolish as to say that it is
assault upon the upright political
der" Ger
In short, our attitude is merely that day
stand for honesty as well as for 700
and for efficiency" Ger
It is absolutely essential that the 2S,'
,ple should exercise self-control and cen
f-mastery, and he is a foe to popu- Pa.
government who in any way caused per
m to lose such self-control and self.
stery"
We should at once introduce IN c
state the system of direct nomina- son
IL in the primaries, so that the peo way
shall be able themselves to decide nal
D the candidates shall be, instead last
being limited merely to choosing eacl
ween candidates with whose nomi tife
lon they have had nothing to do" Jacl