The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-14

DEMAND WOODRUFF RETIRE
SENATOR ROOT BELIEVED TO
HAVE THIS OBJECT IN VIEW.

New York. March Batter a day of
conferences and compromises the situation
In the Republican party Of New York
state is still in the clouds. HOstilities
have bsen postponed. The partisans of
Senator Root. Governor Hughes and Sena-
tor Hinman on the one hand. and of
Timothy l. Woodruff chairman of the
state Republican committee, on the other,
preserves a truculent mien.
There is no desire to duplicate, in the
Republican party, the situation over the
state Craftsmanship that lately afflicted
the Democratic party. 1t is not wished
in endeavoring to eliminate Mr.. Wood
ru1f to make him Corners, and Mr.. Root
IN attempting it does not wish to be
Murphy.
Yet on the fate of Mr. Woodruff the
fate of the Republican party delega tons
leXt fall is felt 20 hang
s. Senator Root, Lloyd 9. Griscom, presi-
dent of the county committee, and the
new school OF Republican leaders at large
believe that Mr.. Woodruff and his allies
are directly responsible for the election of
Aids as president prO-tempore of the state
senate in the first instance, ana when
that proved a mistake, of Senator Cobb
TO succeed him.
Are After Woodruff.
The election of Cobb they feel to be
not only a personal affrOnt to Senator
Root. but a mistake of less weight only
strong inclination to demand that Wood
ruff retire, and it is understood that it
is with the express intention of demand
ing his resignation that Senator Root
came to New York last night.
Senator Root would not say directly
that such was his purpose, but he Vlr-
tually admitted it.
What do you. as judges of politics.
think 1 came on for?" he asked the news
paper men, And when they told him what
the general understanding was, he added;
Il seldom fail 10 accomplish what l set
out to accomplish"
In this purpose he held conferences this
afternoon with Mr.. GriscOm and with
James w. Wadsworth, speaker of the as
sembly. and tonight with Mr.. Woodruff,
himself. Neither he nor Mr.. Griscom
would discuss the outcome of these con-
ferences, but Mr.. Woodruff was more
communicative. He consented to inter-
view himself for the newspapers.
Interviews Himself.
'You may say this" he said. When
Mr.. Woodruff was asked if Senator Root
had demanded his resignation, he an
swered: ASK Root"
when Mr.. Woodruff was asked if
there was any question of retiring him,
he answered with even more emphasis;
ASK Root"
s'When Mr.. Wood ruff was asked if
he intended to resign of his own accord,
he answered with n emphasis almost Dor
dering on belligerency; ASK senator
Roo"
In spite of the wide divergence Of opin-
ion as to what it is proper to do in the
present crisis, both sides are sincerely
anxious to avoid an open breach at the
primaries. The adherents of Woodruff
sum it 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
there is an added element OF difficulty.
1 have always felt that the administration
at Washington in its attitude toward the
Albany administration might be compared
to the man on the back seat of a carry
all who can't see the horses. Every time
the wheels go over a bump, he breaks
into a cold sweat, but the man in the
front seat, who controls the reins, Is too
busy to worry. That is the trouble down
there now. When We had Roosevelt We
did not at all times like what he did, but
we knew that ne had, at all times the
confidence of his convictions. He knew
politics in this state from the ground up.
But President Taft. with all due respect
TO his abilities, could not tell you to save
your soul what counties are in the con-
gressiOnal district of any New York rep
resentative, and Senator Root for years
has been out OF touch with details here,
since the days, in fact, when he first took
d cabinet position with the Mckinley ad-
ministratiOn.
''They are frightened to death in Wash
ingtOn. They say to one another:
What are they going to do with the
Aids trial.?
They believe the administration has
the affair all cut and dried in advance,
and that an acquittal is on the cards.
Now / submit that it is all wrong to
PREJUDICE Senator Alllds before the evil
dence is all in, and l believe the verdict
of the Senate will be on the merits of the
evidence. Therefore, all who stand by
Woodruff say, 'HysteTia. -
On the other side, Senator Roots fol-
lowers believe that when he sent his tele-
gram advising the Senate to elect Human
president pro-tempore, he asked only as
might any individual member of the
party, however humble, who had its best
interest at heart.
1t was learned, also, that Woodruff ad-
herents are right in ascribng to Senator
Root and to Mr.. GriscOm the graVest con-
Germ over the outcome of the crisis For
the Root supporters private adYices are
indeed that Senator Aids will be ae-
quilted and they fear that this would be
Interpreted by the voters as a whitewash.