The San Francisco call., 1910-09-28
WE BEAT Them
TO A FRAzzLE,'
SAYS COLONEL
Progressive Leaders Majority
on Floor of Convention
Is Us Votes
Bitter Attack of "OId Guards"
Spokesman Moves Teddy
to Mirth
Continued From page 1


Z Fassett.
Talk OF gubernatorial candidates
. was submerged during the day by the
contest over the temporary chairman
ship. but tonight friends of Represen-
= tative Bennett Of New York. Frederick
J. Stevens. state superintendent of
. public works and Henry L. Stimson.
former United States district attorney
: IN New York. were out scouting to
SECURE votes for their candidates.
ROOSEVELT RELIES
:. stirred by the action of the repub-
liean state committee. which last night
resolved by a vote of % to Is that no
deceit or fraud had been practiced in
its selection OF Sherman as temporary
p presiding officer Roosevelt early today
authorized the following statement:
-. The conduct OF a majority of the
state committee last evening puts in the
clearest light what this contest really
is. The statement Of Messrs. Griscom,
.. crulewich. Kracke. Wanamaker and
Henkel prove conclusiveiy the trickery
that was used in the effoTt TO win a
majority and keep the management OF
the party under the control of the men
-:who have discredited it by their actions
: There has never been state conven-
= 4lon TO which it was better worth going
than it is TO this, for never in another
has the issue been so clearly drawn be-
tween cleanliness and honesty in public
life and that peculiar baseness in polit-
zeal management which has made the
very word politician obnoxious to the
people.
FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION
Our fight is squarely. against corrup-
ton and the unclean bossism which
had bred corruption. The men who by
frickery kept control Of the state COM
mittee. and who now come here in the
effort TO domiqate the convention, are
- the very men who are responsible for
the corruption which produced Aids
and for all that has been discreditable
in the party management; and now
these deeply discredited bosses resent
the effort of the people. the. effort of the
plain people who make up the great
bulk Of the republican party, TO rescue
that party from the factions which have
used it only to-further their own base
and selfish purposes"
GREAT CROWD
The legend that statesmen are pune
tuaIly late applied with equal force to-
day to the leaders of the old guard and
the progressives. who gathered tardily
a. the opening OF the republican state
convention. Not so the delegates or
The spectators, who swarmed into every
nook and Granny of the convention
hail, filled all the seats and overfiowed
into the aisles.
The word had gone forth that the old
guard were beaten in their fight TO
elect Vice President Sherman the tenn
pOrary chairman, and every one waited
for the fireworks Colonel Roosevelt
was the first to come. His appearance
started rounds OF applause. Shortly
after Vice President sherman took his
seat and the demonstration shook the
building for several minutes. William
Barnes Jr., the old guard leader, came
in for much applause.
Chairman woodruff called the con-
-vention TO order at 1905 and the con-
- vsntion. took up the regular order of
business.
=. WOODRUFF NAMES SHERMAN
When the roll call had been com
. 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 addressed
the convention He said:
:. :rI- have been instructed by the re-
publican state committee to recon-
mend 10 this convention a temporary
chairman, and in doing so / ask your
.indulg gence for 4 moment.
President Taft deeply desires that
his party here in convention assembled,
representing the largest and most po
tent republican constituency of the
United States, should unequivocally
indorse his administration. This /
know from personal knowledge is the
result Of a visit made two weeks be-
fore the meeting Of the state commit
tee to the summer capital at Beverly.
There he made known not only his de-
sires but also his apprehensions.
!. URGES CANDIDACY
TO allay these apprehensions. what
more natural than the selection TO
make the keynote speech as temporary
+ chairman Of him who has been sent to
speak for the administration to all
q. parts Of the country, even into the
presidents own state of Ohio, the vice
president of the United States, James
;. s Sherman
W no GlS6s lnO66Qs EDulQ lNe Stdlt
unless actuated by some ulterior mo-
tive. have even thought of to speak
for the national administration in this
his own state. which with unanimity
and enthusiasm presented him two
years ago at Chicago as the choice for
the second highest Office in the gift
OF the people?
CLAIMS PRECEDENT
a precedent for the designation of
the vice president as temporary chair
man Of the convention by the state
committee at its meeting last night"
woodruff continued. was wisely es-
tsblished two years ago, when Senator
Root then premier of the national ad-
ministration. was selected at the meet
ing of the state committee, held a.
month before the convention.
AS chairman of the republican
state committee, no one had suggested
to me, or, as far as I know, TO any
other member of the committee, the
name Of any other person than the vice
president as temporary chairman until
Mr.. Griscom, sitting in the committee
as proxy, moved TO substitute an
other name for that OF Vice President
Sherman after the latter's name had
been properly presented. What was