New-York tribune., 1912-03-17
SOLID FOR Taft "--KOENG
Attempt to Get Roosevelt Dele
gates Here Has Failed, He Says.
MANAGERS HAVE BUNGLED"
Fraud Disclosures and Efforts of
Disgruntled Politicians the
Causes He Ascribes.

Samuel s. Koenig, president Of the New
York County Committee, declared IN d
statement last night that the attempt 10
get Roosevelt delegates In this county hao
fallen fat and had degenerated on the part
OF many of the Roosevelt supporters into
an attempt to break into the regular or
ganization as district leaders.
Opening his statement Mr. Koenig said:
The disclosures of the immense number s
OF frauds in the Roosevelt petitions pas p
stirred up resentment among the ne
publiCans in this city. which practicdiy
punctured the Coloners boom, SO iar as
New York County i,d is nSeers e2heeerso supporters
claimed so loudly at the beginning OF ina
week. but rather the cause Of disgrunt,eu
small politicians who sought to use no
name to further their own interests: NJ,
The contestants who are running tor uls-
trict leadership under the Roosevelt EN-, en-,
blem are almost without eAcep'lotti ,annt
who have been making the same d airepe ~ the
every year for several years, ana III t tne
same proportion they are men WHO'LL tno
people OF the districts turned down naI.S ~
every time they stood as candidates Ut t"'
primaries I'm past years. IL.
Two things more than anything else that
contributed TO the downfall OF the move
ment so far as New York County Is con, OF
cerned are, first, the disclosures Oh lue
frauds and forged signatures in the peu-
9isorn ai9iI, In making instead OF fight for
national delegates a series OF vengeiui az AZ
tempts to get even by ulssI not,,.o P'''
ticians who have been defeated oelore'
After declaring that Oscar Straus was
the only representative Republican OF Ne"
York County now connected with the
Roosevelt movement, Mr.. koenlS went oii
TO say:
I, is now privately admitted by some OIL
the Roosevelt adherents that ms New LII ~,
County managers have so bunSleu III lo,Sa,
uatlon here that II Is r. duesuiNInI ,yiII aven re-
main open until Primary Day. MI ho33oS h3oe
veIt himself I have been given 10 unusi unosi,
stand, believes now that ne Was,gsastions was
I'M advised when he adopted the susgesuHIDn,s, HI,,
of the people who are running IIs -" 20
York County fight to make an atteilpt, ,,oD ~
upset the entire Republican orgahi~a''''
This course has precipltated a series OK
Aphts throughout the county wnich t.o
colonel can now see have praC1Irn'Sa'.S 1r' on go
shadowed his own candidacy. lhs nm. r,,n on
lected by his New York advisers 70 ~" .ya T.,
the district tickets under his emoie'n ie nrdep
now kicking the colonel overheard IN Oh oiue, g.,
10 gain strength for their peas4qit,eA '"'
most cases spiteful district hsh'9'
..Tbe trend Of this wave against koose'e''
{, what the country generally looks upon aS
his own county" Mir Koenig went on "
saw. was most clearly demonstrate" W
,no foot that the advertised appeal for
small subscriptions on behalf ol 'he INV
nent fell so nat that his promoters "e'o
,o,, forced 10 turn 10 the interests lhat
are reported TO he behind his canaIoAcy'
Mr.. Koenig reiterated his statement 'na,
IN snite OF the fraud that had been iouuu
in the Roosevelt petitions there woulu po
no attempt on the part OF the RepubHcah
orranization OF this county to deprive the
co,oners forces OF getting their votes re-
corded on Primary Day. THE Kooseven
ticket will not go through in a single MS
,ric, " he declared. This county Will send
a solid delegation for Mr.. TAFT to Chicaso'