The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-08

Reed, Co Square Isimsels Win Gssssnsr
Eject Baldwin.

Sgw HAVEN, Dec = Here 10 the st,ia-
ton UP To date OF the attempt 20 patch
up q truce In the controversy between
Col Roosevelt and tiov. elect Baldwin
pr,or to the banquet Of the New HAVEN
Chamber OF Commerce where Col. Roscoe
Welt is TO make the principal addr es,
and where Gov -eleCt Baldwin will also
speak II the truce efforts succeed.
Col Roosevelt has not offered 10 apollo
gize TO Judge Baldwin for alleged de-
rogatory remarks made by the Colonel
in n campaign speech in Concord. y. II.
just before the recent election
He il preparing to make n public re-
traction of the charges that Judge Bald
win was retrogressive as a jurist 40 il
was announced Tonight by one who is
familiar with the truce plan
But there is a hitch over the wording
Of the last sentence or two in the proposed
public retraction. IL that hitch can be
adjusted to the satisfaction OF the two
men 1t is likely that Judge Baldwin will
attend the Chamber OF Commerce dinner
and there will be no necessity for him 20
get after Col Roosevelt in the courts in
suit for Islander. n he says he intends 20
do. the retraction being sufficient to wipe
out the alleged Islander.
II was said tonight that Col. Isaac II
ullman. president Of the Chamber II
Commerce. was officiating a. peace envoy
between Roosevelt and Baldwin. He
desires very much thar the Colonei and
the Governor elect shall break bread in
peace Al the banquet With that purpose
in view Col Ullman automatically APP
preached the belligerents
In the first place he found out that
Governor elect Baldwin WAS not at all
likely TO attend the banquet II Roosevelt
was Ia bs there unless the latter made a
public retraction Of what Judge Baldwin
regards as a slanderous attack upon hun
Then the New Haven Colonel realized that
IT was up to him to extract that public
reiractlon from the Colonel 81 Oyster Kay
tllman got into the action at once and
sounded Mr. Roosevelt and ascerta ined
that Roosevelt was agreeable To the plan
IL public retraotion. bur II depends on
the wording of the retraction. Not iine
Of correspondence has passed between
Col. Roosevelt and Governor elect Bald
win, all the negotiations being conducted
by Col. Cllman.
Governor elect Baldwin was requested
to prepare rstraction that would b..
sat isfactory to himself and this was TO
he submitted 10 Col Roosevelt for aP-
prevail or disapproval Judge Baldwin
wrote out a retraction and turned IL over
to Col Cllman. who turned u over III
due time 10 Col Roosevelt The doc,I-
ment was satisfactory except IN the last
sentence or two, which conta in~d sub
stantally a statement to the effect that
[ ol Roosevelt " ne had cared to could
have very easily ascertained all the in
formation needed to set him right before
h. made his charges against Judge Bald
" in in that Concord Add reSe
Mr. Roosevelt did not like thu wording
Of those s.ntances and the document
Of retraction was returned tn Col tll-
man with explanations There tho matter
stands to-day. according To- The SrS's
informant Tonight
II is said that Col Ullman hopes thar
h. will be able eventually 10 prevail on
Judge Baldwin tn change the language
a trihs. so as IN o. rcorne the objections
raised nv Col Roosevelt to the phrase
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