The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-14
Senator Root Has Demanded That Woodruff Reign Lead-
 eTshIp ii New York
ROOT TACITLY ADMITS
 PURPOSE IF HIS TRIP
Republicans Are Up in the Clouds Over the Situation and Fears Are .Ex- pressed Tint Party Will Lose
 Heavily By the Split

New York, March 13.--After a day of conference and compromise the situation in the republican. party of New York state is still in the clouds Hostltes have been postponed. Both the partisans of Senator Root, Governor Hughes and Sen ator Hinman on the one hand and of Timothy l.. Woodruff, chairman of the state committee. on the other, preserve truculent and glum silence. There is no desire to duplicate, in the republican party, the situation over the state chair manship that lately afflicted the dem- ocratic party It is not wished, in en- deavoring to eliminate MT. Woodruff, to make him a Corners and MT. Root, in attempting it, does not wish to be a Murphy.
 Yet on the fate of Woodruff large measure of the fate of the republican party in the elections next fall is felt to hang.
 Senator Root, Lloyd c. Griscom, chair man of the county committee, and the new school of republican leaders at large believe that Woodruff and his allies are directly responsible for the election of Aids as president pro tenn. of the state senate, in the first instance. and when that proved mistake, of Senator Cobb to succeed him, which they felt to be not only personal affront to Senator Root, but second mistake of only less weight. Therefore there is a strong disposition to demand that Woodruff retire, and it is understood that 1t is with the express intention of demanding his resignation that Senator Root came to New York last night.
 Senator Root would not say directly to- day that such was his purpose, but he virtually admitted it.
 Root Answers Query
 What do you as judges if politics, think came on for? he asked the news paper men. And when they told him what the general understanding was, he added:
 ''I seldom fail to accomplish what set out to accomplish.
 In this purpose he held conferences this afternoon with Mir Griscom and James w. Wadsworth. speaker of the assembly. and tonight with MT. Woodruff himself. Neither he nor Mir Griscom would discuss the outcome of these conferences. but Mir. Woodruff was more communicative.
 He consented to interview himself for the newspapers. You may say this," he said:
 When MT. Woodruff was asked if Sen ator Root had demanded his resignation be answered Ask Root
 When MT. Woodruff was asked if there was any question of retiring him, he an- swered even more emphasis, Ask Root
 When Mir. Woodruff was asked if he intended to resign of his own accord, he answered with an emphasis almost bor- dering on belligerency, Ask Root" "
 Anxious to Avoid Breach
 In spite of the wide divergence of opin- ion as to what ie proper to do in the present crisis within the republican party of the state and wh is the proper way to do it, both sideA are still sincerely anxious to avoid an open breach at the primaries
 The adherents of woodruff sum 1t up in one word-hysteria.
 Down at Washington" said one of them today, they are always hostile to Albany, That much is history, but now tl.ere is an added element of difficulty have always felt that the administration ct Washington in it's attitude toward the Albany administration might be compared to the man on the back seat of carry all who can't see the horses. Every time the wheels go over a bump he breaks into . cold sweat but the man in the front seat who holds the reins is too busy to worry.
 That's the trouble down there now. When we had Roosevelt we might not always like what he did, but at least we knew that he had full knowledge of the consequences of his own acts He knew politics in this state from the ground up. But President Taft, with all due respect to his ability, couldn't tell you to save your soul what counties are in the congress oional district of any one New York repre- sentative, and Senator Root for years has been out of touch with details here since the days, in fact, when he first took . cabinet position with the Mckinley ad- ninistration.
 Party Is Frightened
 ''They're frightened to death in Wash lugton. They say to one another, What are they going to do with Aids trial?
 They believe the administration has the anair all cut and dried in advance and that an acquittal is on the cards. Now I submit first that it is wrong to prejudge Senator Aids before the evidence is all sn ana secondly. I believe the verdict of the senate will be on the merits or .' evidence. Therefore, we who stand py Woodruff say, .sdysteria.'"
 or the other side. Senator Roots fol- lewers believe that when he sent his now famous telegram advising the senate to elect Hinman president pro tenn, he acted only as might any individual member of tne party however humble, who had its oest interest at heart They feel sure he does not wish to be boss, and in support of their argument they instance tre very unfamiliarity with state politics cited by his enemies. It was learned also that the woodruff adherents are right in ascribing to Senator Root and Mr rsrts- com the gravest concern over the outcome of the present crisis. for the Root sup- rorters' private adyices are indeed that Senator Aids will be acquitted. and thev fear that this would be interpreted by the voters as g whitewash verdict. AwaitfmG fhe Outco,,,~