The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-09-26
.OlDGUARD DARES
COL. ROOSEVELT
DECLARES If HE WINS HE MUST
NAME STATE TICKET
AND ELEcTlT.
FIGHT FOR COMMITTEE
Old Guard Has No Choice--conares
man Bennet Is the Only Avowed
candidate--Woodruf is
Holding Back.

Saratoga. N. Y, Sept. 25.---''If Col
Roosevelt wins he can name the whole
ticket and elect ii IL he can" is the
practically unanimous response OF old
guard leaders to queries as to whom
tney will put forward for governor and
other state officers.
Should Roosevelt dominate taa
convention, let him run for governor
himself If he dares, is the revengeful
suggestion of former Superintendent
of Insurance Louis r. Payne
1--WE have no choice for governor.
We are simply fighting against the
Roosevelt proposition of making the
Republican party as radical as Bryan
tried to make the Democratic party"
said old Guard Chief William Barnes,
Jr. I'VE expect to win. II we are
beaten, the responsibility for the nom-
ination and election OF the ticket must
rest upon other shoulders than ours"
Congressman William s. Bennett OF
New York seems as yet practically the
only avowed candidate for governor,
AT least, he Is the sole man who has
opened headquarters. He wants the
nomination and is doing his best to
get it. Henry L. Stlmson. who has
been the real Roosevelt favorite for
months, continues in receptive
mood. Senator Bracket Is boosting
Superintendent of Public Works Fred
2rick Stevens.
Some Other Candidates.
Roosevelt supporters, who fear a
break In the Renssaeler delegation, are
dangling the governorship belt before
Mayor Mann of Troy. Boss Greiner Of
Buffalo is still playing Attorney Cen
aral O'Malley to make 'Spfe of knock
ing out Superintendent of Insurance
Iotchkiss, Should oMalley fail Of the
nomination for governor his renomina-
lion as attorney general SENS as.
sured Secretary of State Koenig
State Treasurer Dunn, If he desires
IL, and State Engineer and Surveyor
Williams are also slated for a second
trial.
1t is reported today that Roosevelt
should he carry the convention, may
throw over N. V. V, Franchot for state
chairman and try to make Superin.
tanlent OF Prisons Collins his right
hand man" WoodruTs successor
Franchot, is being assailed as the
Standard Oil man, whose election
would mean a bid for d big pot Of
Standard Oil money.
Barnes and the old guard stiIl per
sist that whatever the platform, they
win control the new STATE committee
and choose such officers as they plea
ana choose such officers as they
please
Woodruff is Coy.
Woodruff is still coy as to whether
he will sand for reelection In case hi3
friends hold the state committee.
THAT depends upon conditions that
may prevail when the issue con
fronts me-" he answers to all queries,
Roosevelt and old guard managers
lare stoutly predicting triumph for
their respective factions. Superin-
tendent of Prisons Collins and Boss
Greiner Of Buffalo, who will conduct
the Roosevelt slsirmishes until the
colonel arrives on Monday, maintain
that on temporary craftsmanship, as
well as on direct nominations the cru
cial issue, they have the Sherman.
Barnes-Woodruff alliance beaten by a
hundred majority
Barnes, major generalissimo of the
| anti-Roosevelt forces, reports that he
and his allies will throw at least SIG
of the 1915 votes against Roosevelt,
and that they will repudiate any Cobb,
fiinman, Green or other legislation in.
imical to the retention of state con.
ventions by an even larger majority.
| Big Fight Is On.
That neither faction Is too confident
Is manifested by the eagerness with
which scouts for both watch the in
coming trains. escort delegates on the
fence to the headquarters to which
they are attached, and then turn them
over TO the arguments Of the slnen
higher up
| While the warning factions we're em-
ploying every means known to the
political game to bolster up this and
| that delegation and steal enough from
each other to cinch majority In
the convention, there We're renewed
disputes over confining recognition
! Of President Taft to mere approval
" his administration up to date or
Endorsing him for denomination in
1912.
Former DeDuty Superiutendeut oS