The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-09-30
ROOSEVELT IS
GIVEN PLACE
Named for Chairman of New
York Convention.
OLD GUARD IS ROUTED

Voting on Disputed Position Follows
One Of the Most Remarkable Scenes
Ever Witnessed in a Political Gath
erirg-Ex-President Denounced to
His Face by Men Who Were His
Former Supporters.
! Saratoga, n. Y, Sept. 2S.-Colonel
Roosevelt was chosen temporary
chairman OF the state Republican con
vention e. Vice President Sherman,
the choice of the state committee,
more than an hour being consumed in
polling the 1,015 delegates. From the
parent that Vice President Sherman
had no chance to win and his defeat
was conceded by William Barnes be-
fore half the delegates had been
polled. The vote was Roosevelt SGT,
| Sherman AS.
A most remarkable scene preceded
GlC OotiStIuo. iOl hoplo w
nunciation was heard from the plat
form and for the first time in his life
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was de-
nounced to his face by the men who
| successfully elected him member Of
assembly, governor, vice president
and president.
Timothy l.. Woodruff, the man
Roosevelt made chairman Of the state
committee by the sheer weight OF fed
eral patronage, read a letter from
Roosevelt, which he claimed showed
that Roosevelt had tacitly endorsed
the selection OF Vice President Sher-
man as temporary chairman.
Abe Gruber, facing Roosevelt,
poured forth a stream of denuncia.
ton, the like OF which has seldom
been heard before eve in a ward
convention, and Roosevelt himself
had personally to appeal to the con.
vention TO let the New. York attorney
be heard and give him a square DEAL"
Roosevelt was warmly defended by
Comptroller Prendergast of New York:
who %repudiated the suggestion that
Roosevelt is playing for the presiden-
tial nomination in 1912.
Oratory Holds the Floor.
The first two hours of the conven-
ton were taken up with o%ratorical
pyrotechnics. 1t seemed apparent
from the start that the 'old guard"
| knew it was beaten and there was no
note of hope in the address of Chair
man Woodruff. defending the state
central committees choice of Vice
President Sherman for the temporary
craftsmanship, or in Colonel Gruber's
vitrio!ic speech in which he assailed
Colonel Roosevclt's record. even going
so far as TO style him The American
Jack Cadc."
Chairman Woodruff called the con-
vention to order at 1906 and after
the aisles had been cleared, which the
one policeman available for the task
found difficult in doing, the convention
took up the regular order of business.
When the roll call had been COM
pleted Chairman Woodruff announced:
The next order of business is the
election of a temporary chairman"
There was an instant hush. then a
ripple of uncertain applause, after
which Chairman Woodruff, addressing
the convention, said:
II have been instructed by the Re-
publican state committee to recon-
mend TO this convention a temporary
chairman.
"The election of a temporary chair
man of this convention is a crucial
act and calls for the most careful con-
sideration by every man who is about
to vote on 1t.
Reason for Naming Sherman.
president Taft deeply desired that,
his party here in convention assem-
bled, representing the largest and
most potential Republican constitu-
ency in the United States, should I'M
%equivocally endorse his administra-
ton. This l know from personal
knowledge as a result of a visit made
two weeks ago, before the meeting of
the state committee, to the summer
capital at Beverly. There he made
known not only his desires but also
his app%rehensions.
ITO allay these apprehensions what
more natural than the selection to
make the keynote speech as tenn
porary chairman of him who has been
sent to speak for the administration
to all parts of the country, even into
the presidents own state of Ohio, the
vice president of the United States,
James S. Sherman? Who else, indeed,
could the state, unless actuated by
some Interior motive. have even
thought of to speak for the national
administration in this, his home state,
which with unanimity and enthusiasm
presented, him WI years ago at Chi
cago as the choice for the second
highest office in the gift of the peo-
ple?"
Committee Had Precedent.
"a precedent for the designation Of
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