Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-17
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New York, Sept. 16.-County politicians
from all parts of New York state gath
cred today at Theodore Roosevelt's edi-
torial office to tell him where they stand
In the fight now going on within the Re-
publican party. The colonel talked from
morning to night with leaders on each
side but at the end of the day all that
he would say was:
II cannot discuss it at ALL Some Of
those who saw Col Roosevelt today
brought back word that he had been in
formed of disaffection within his own
ranks but none of them was willing to
go on record by name. George Cromwell.
president of the borough of Richmond
and member of the Republican, state
committee, was the only one who did not
hesitate to say where he stood, although
he declined to speak for anybody else.
I'm going to vote against Roosevelt"
he said.
Does this mean that you are against
direct nominations?"
Pm in favor of some mild form Of di-
rect nominations, but I'm an anti-Hughes
man anyway
Mr.. Cromwell's stand provoked more
comment in that he has spoken Of his
friendship for Col. Roosevelt, dating from
their boyhood days. and because his
statement was made today directly after
a long talk with him.
Col. Roosevelt took dinner tonight at
the Press Club and spent the night in this
city with his brother-n-law, Douglas
Robinson. He is to leave tomorrow MORN
ing for Syracuse. where he will speak at
the state fair in the afternoon.
Mr.. Roosevelt told the members of
the Press Club how it is that he can
breakfast. dine and sup on work, and
then top off with more work. He said
he liked it. He liked private life and
he liked public life. He enjoyed every
job he had ever had and he begged his
hearers to be under no anxiety as to
what should be done for this ex-
President" because he could do for
himself.
Among the guests of the club were Sir
William Purdie Treloar. former lord
mayor of London, and the colonel took
advantage of his presence to refer to his
famous Guild hall speech delivered last
sping in London. He said
"One of the cherished ornaments in my
house is the box which contained the
freedom of the city of London, and, Mr..
Mayor. l have always foreborne to exer-
else my mind with the query as to wheth-
er or not I would have been given that
freedom if I had delivered by Guild hall
speech before it instead of after.
"Allusions have been made to the
impending state convention. When I
arrived at home 1 had no intention
whatever of taking any more part in
public life. l have gone into the fight
about the state convention-the fight
in state politics Increasingly because
could not keep out of it and having
got into it 1 shall see it through.
II trust we shall be able to finish it
up this year. But if not, then. am
for it right along after, and I am for
it on elementary principles. The two
cardinal features of the policy with
which I stand are, in the first place,
that we have no room for the crook
in public life and in the second place
that the people are entitled to govern
themselves.
More than once I have been intro
duced as the friend of the poor man.
I always said: Now hold up. Say
the friend of the honest man and I
am with you The friend, I hope, Of
the honest man, rich or poor. the foe of
the crook, poor crook and rich crook -