Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1910-09-30
Routs Old Guard in Fight For
ChairmanShip p.
STRUGGLE; WAS BITTER
Gusts Bosses Followers From Com.
mittees and Appoints Prosressives.
Roosevelt's Speech.

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, of Oy-
ster Bay, defeated in the Republican
state convention at Saratoga, N. Y,
Vice President James S. Sherman, of
Utica, for the Office of temporary
chairman of the convention by vote
of SGT to AS.
Vice President Sherman and Cornell
ius V. Collins were designated to es-
cort Colonel Roosevelt to the plat
form. Mr.. Sherman congratulated Col
onel Roosevelt on his election.
The old guard leaders, headed by
William Barnes, Jr., Speaker James w.
Wadsworth, Jr., and their friends said
that they We're not at all dismayed,
not at all overcome by Colonel Roose-
velts victory.
Colonel Roosevelt's selection was
followed later in the convention pro-
ceedings by performances which are
without precedent in Republican con-
ventions held in the state of New York
since the organization of the party
little over fifty years ago. During all
those years it has been the practice
in selecting the various committees OF
the convention, like permanent organ
izatiOn, credentials, rules and platform
for the delegates of each congressional
dist;ict to select the committeeman
for those committees, subject to ap-
proval by the state committeeman OF
the congressional districts, and these
committeeman are thereupon accepted
by the convention.
Al i Colonel ROoSevelts victory no
delssu,e representing the old guard
was perm tie 10 offer the resolutions
cali. g for tIe appointment of these
CumiHit; re9. Only delegates friendly to
{ lel il rDsevclt and his adherents
o., .ed t,t' resolutions for the appoint
l..cnt ~ u committee, and these Roose-
N>lt dc.c.,a:cs INT oduced their resolu-
ton Tor t2 appointment of the com.
mi .cC5 V tn ills final clause "and
/ t the Temporary chairman of this
'Cntiuu have authority to name the
{, .rniit,,, 81 meaning the committee
On ed, n'iala, the committee on rules.
I committee on permanent organ1Za-
{ n and the committee on platform.
tD!unel Roosevelt. as temporary
C!tu1nan, celebrated the unlimited
power given to him by first striking
at Vice President Sherman. The
Oneida-licrllimcr congressional dis
trict delegation, the vice presidents
own delegation. had recommended for
the platform committee William H.
Schwoitzer. a Sherman follower. Colo
mel Roosevelt struck out Mr. Schweit-
zer's name and substituted that of eX-
Assemblyman Mervin X. Hart, who
supported Senator Davenport
Colonel Roosevelt, following up this
stroke, displaced Timothy L. Wood
ruff from the committee on platform
and substituted the name of Comp
troller William A. Prendergast, and for
Jacob A. Livingston, state committee
man, who had been recommended by
his delegation for a place on the COM
mittee on platform, Colonel Roosevelt
substituted Marcus b. Campbell.
RooseveIt's Speech.
The main points in Colonel Roose-
velt's speech are the following:
During the last eighteen months
a long list of laws embodying legisla-
tion most heartily to be commended
as combining wisdom with progress,
have been enacted by congress and
approved by President Taft"
These, and similar laws backed up
by legislative action, reflect high cred