Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-07
0R0zC0 TAKES 0ATA|PLANN|NG THE FIGHT
Assumes Command of Rebel White House Conference Over
Army of North Situation in New York.
F0RMALITY AT CEREMONY TAFT PEOPLE CONFIDENT
Picture Woodruff President Will
Scene at chihuahua Eighty Out of Ninety Delegates
EXPECT MADERO TO RESIGN COL. ROOSEVELT CONSIDERED
camped Thirty to Have Been Talked Over
of Mexico Chiefs
TAFT PEOPLE CONFIDENT
Woodruff Says President Will Get
Eighty Out of Ninety Delegates.
COL. ROOSEVELT CONSIDERED
His Candidacy and His Methods Said
to Have Been Talked Over
by Party Chiefs.

at the White House this afternoon deal
ing with the political situation in Kings
and New York counties of the Empire
state, and especially with reference to
the election of delegates at the primaries
to be held throughout the state March 26.
The Taft people have walked away
with the state in the preliminary work
of naming the delegates to be voted for
in the primaries, but the Roosevelt men
are to contest practically every district
by petition, placing their own choice of
delegates upon the ballot.
Under the New York law the congress
sional committees of the parties author
lied by the law meet and nominate dele
gates to be voted for in the primaries.
AS practically all the congressional COM
mittees OF the republican party were con-
trolled by Taft people. the delegates nomi-
mated are Taft men. There are exceptions
in only a few districts. Under the law
the Roosevelt men, to oppose these dele
gates, are compelled to put their men on
the ballot by petition. and this they are
now arranging to do.
Have Until Saturday.
They have until Saturday night to file
their positions, and in almost all the dis
tricts they are diligently at work Sc
curing per cent Of the republican vote
cast at the last election.
President Taft and his workers under
stand the great advantage they will have
throughout the country if they succeed in
carrying New York and they do not
gained. They know that the Roosevelt
forces will fight, and fight hard, and they
propose to do some fighting also.
The conference this afternoon will bring
together number of the New York
leaders. F. ]. X. Kracke. representing
the Kings county. or Brooklyn, repub-
licans, has been summoned. So has Sam
Koenig, chairman of the republican
county committee of New York. Ex-
Lieut.. Gov. Timothy Woodruff of Brook
lyn spent the night with President Taft
and will remain in Washington, a guest
at the White House, for a day or so
longer.
In Kings county, Brooklyn. there is less
people than elsewhere. but the probability
is that there will be battle all along
the line.
Col. Roosevelt's Plant.
Col. Roosevelt whose friends helped
make the primary law of the state, is out
in declaration that the law does not
permit real representative expression
of public opinion-a statement it is point
ed out, that virtually admits defeat in
the state.
What the conference this afternoon will
do to strengthen the Taft cause and inure
to the election of Taft delegates has not
been guessed in advance. 1t is probable
that several big Taft meetings will be
arranged for in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
In New York county distinguished sup
porters of the ex-President are to be put
upon the tickets by petition. Ex-Secretary
Oscar 8. Strauss, who served in Roose-
vef.' $ cabinet as Secretary of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor, is to be
put on one Of the delegate tickets in the
East Side of New York, where 1t is be-
lieeed that his prominence as public man
and as leader of the Hebrews win put
him through. The same plan is to be
tried throughout New York. 1t Is a
game that promises to net delegate here
and there for Col Roosevelt. who is
fighting for every delegate to be had in
any direction.
Tim Woodruff Is Confident.
Timothy Woodruff was confident today
that New York is for Taft.
''Over eighty out of the ninety delegates
from New York will be for President
Taft he said. 1.-The indications are that
Col. Roosevelt will have little support
from the Empire state. In his own con-
gressional district, for instance the two
delegates nominated BY the republicans
are personally friendly to the ex-Presi-
dent. but the district is said to be
for Taft. Here and there
through the state Roosevelt man has
been put upon the tickets already nomi-
mated out Of courtesy to the colonel. but
/ reiterate that he will not have over ten
votes out of the ninety
when / left Brooklyn yesterday my
information was that there would be no
contests in the primaries against the six
teen delegates selected in the eight con-
gressional districts. l did understand
that there would be contests in New York
county and In the districts up the state.
So far as Kings county is concerned. /
cannot see that contests would amount to
anything or promise any success to the
Roosevelt cause. for in all the eight dis
tricts the delegates already selected to
be voted for in the primaries March 26
were unanimously chosen.
THE primary election under which the
voting is to be done will cost the state
and cities hundreds of thousands of dol
lars. The law was demanded by the re-
FORM forces of the state. 1t is no more
representative of general sentiment, not
as much SO, l believe, as the old method,
by which the real sentiments of the peo-
pie were ascertained through the repre-
sentative convention system of selecting
delegates to national and state conven-
tions and Of adopting resolutions indicat-
ing preferences or instructing delegates
Remarks by the Way.
I'VE hear much these days about the
initiative and referendum" Mr.. Wood
ruff continued, land yet we have had the
referendum in New York for fifty years
AT the last election several important
constitutional amendments were submit
ted to the people under this referendum
Some of them concerned only judiciary
questions, and yet the proposed amend
ments were defeated by the people, who
showed they had not made themselves
familiar with them.
1T Is not the purpose of the friends of
President Taft to fight Col. Roosevelt
We are standing for our principles the
same as he is. and we believe the people
of New York are with us in what we be-
lieve to be right and best. This is not a
fight of the organization. 1t is a cam
paign for reason and right. and those of
us who are supporting President Taft
are confident that we will be successful in
nominating and 'electing him."
Gov StlIhhS Asks AffifIldn