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Show EXCITING SCENES 101!! A SPEECH Wsl BY iE f THE' OLD GUARD Jeers and CaKalls Directed at a Speaker Who Denounces Roosevelt Prompts the Colonel to Leap to His Feet and Call for a Full Hearing for His Detracter. I winch was made accotdiug to the law Ajid which to this day Is unchanged. When the I'nlted States appellate court reversed Judpe I Hindis, the same shoot or, not from the head of a barrel, bar-rel, but from the White House, sane-tilled sane-tilled by Abe Uncoln, told the people of the I'nited States thnt the judges had been guilty of miscarrying Justice Jus-tice Appeals to Laboring Men. "Worklnmen of the United States, do you recall that when Hajwood and Mover were on trial for their lives, I this same shooter, with all the power of the President of the United States, sought to Influence the Jury by hold lng tin these lenders of labor as uu-desirablo uu-desirablo citizens? "A French king once said. 'I am the state.' No sane man may ever sa.' 'I am the United States." The lungs of the emmtry are not Its brains. Men who a few moments ago believed, no iv disbelieve, men who worshiped then now execrate, and throughout the country the business men as such arc facing panic, and as lovers of , their rights, and liberties, are fearing revolution From Caesar to Napoleon, from Napoleon to the American Jack Cade "When given power to shoot the Irusts, he drew a line between the good ones ami the bad ones. The steel and sugar trusts were the good ones; the that would not help along the (Continued on Page Seven.) Saratoga, N. Y., Sept. 2S. Theodore Koo-ievelt was today chosen temporary chairman of the Republican Btate con veoiiou after a bitter light on the floor. The declsiv'o vote came on a motion to substitute Col. Roosevelt's name for that of Vice President Sher-nnin Sher-nnin as candidate of the regular organization, or-ganization, known as the Old Guard The balloting early dtrfclosed Roosevelt Roose-velt In the load and this steadily Increased In-creased until his election was assured by a decisive majority. I Chairman Woodruff announced 1.012 votes were cast of 'which Roose- volt received 567, and Sherman Ho, i three not voting, giving Roosevelt a majority of 122 for the temporary chairmanship. , Saratoga, N. Y., Sept. 27. Col. Th'tuloro Roosevelt will be elected temporary chairman of the state convention con-vention which was scheduled to meet, at noon today. William Ha rues, Jr., leader of the Old Guard in a statement state-ment to the Associated Press shortly before 10 o'clock said; v"Vice President Sherman will have 4fH) votes out of 1,015, which will be cast on the floor, i That Is my guess. It may be that a few of the , lino countk-H In the roll call, seeing .' the way things are going, will owitcb I over to the progressives." I Although Panics concedes the de-feat de-feat of the vice-president for temporary tempor-ary chairman, he Intimated that there would be a fight on the floor of the convention. State Chairman Woodruff will make a statement defining the position of the old guard with respect to the selection se-lection by the state committee of Vice . President Sherman nnd It Is not unlikely un-likely that Mr. Barnes will have some thing to say. St!rrd by the action of the Ilepnb- I Mean state committee, which hjist j night resolved by a vote of 22 to 1,1 1 ihat no deceit or fraud had been practiced prac-ticed by the selection of Mr. Sher? man as temporary presiding officer. Col, Roosevelt early today authorized the following statement: Roooevelt's Statement. "The conduct of a majority or tbe Hate committee last evening puts in Ihe clearest light what this contest really Is. The statement of Messrs. Crlsooiu. Crulewieh. Kracke. Wana-maker Wana-maker and He.nkell prove conclusively the trickery that was used in the effort ef-fort to win a majority and keep the management of the party under the control of the men who have discredited discred-ited Ii by their action There has never been a slate convention to which It was bettor worth going than Is this one, for never before has an isfue been so clearly drawn between honesty and -cleanliness in public life and that peculiar baseness in political manRgcment which has made the very word politician obnoxious to the people. peo-ple. Our fight Is sojuaroly agninst corruption and the unclean bossism, ihich has bred corruption. "The men who by trickery kept control of the state committee, and who now come here In an effort to dominate the convention, are the very men who are responsible for tbe ror-luption ror-luption which produced Allds. and for nil that has Aeen discreditable in the party management; and now these deeply discredited bosses resent the tfort of the people, the effort of the Plain people who make up the great bulk of the Republican partv, to res- cue that party from the factions which i have used it only to further their own base and selfish purposes." Old Guard Late. Saratoga, N. Y, Sept. 27 The legend leg-end that statesmen are punctually late applied with equal force today to Ihe leaders of the old guard and the pio-gross! pio-gross! ies who gathered tardily at the opening of the Republican state convention, con-vention, Not so the delegates or the spectators, who swarmed into everv I nook and cranny of the convention hall, filled all tho seats and overflowed overflow-ed Into the aisles. The word had gone forth that the old guard were beaten in their fight to elect Vice President Sherman tbe temporary chairman and every one waited for the fireworks. Col. Roosevelt was the first to come. His appearance started rounds of applause. ap-plause. Shortly after Vice-President I Sherman took h's soil and liie dem-I dem-I onstratlon shook the building for sev- oral minutes. William Ramos, Jr., the old leader, came iu for much applause. Chairman Woodruff railed the con ventlon to order at 12:05 and the convention took up the regular order of business. When the roll call ha.1 been com pleted Chairman Woodruff announced ; "Tbe next order of business is the election ot ar temporary chairman." There was an Instant hush, then a ripple of uncertain applause, after which Chairman Woodruff addressed the convention. Added Sherman's Letter. Chairman Woodruff added to his speech the letter written bv Vice-President Vice-President Sherman to the state committee, com-mittee, asking that the committee investigate in-vestigate the charges that his selection selec-tion had been made bv misrepresentation misrepresenta-tion and the committee's action on the matter last night The committer, Mr. Woodruff said, decided that Vice-President Sherman's selection was made without deceit and mlsrepiesentatlon There weie cheers for the vice-president, and then Jos Hicks of Nassau county, who in a short speech nominated Col. Roosevelt Roose-velt for temporary chairman. Tho convention broke into wild clleers and continuous applause, dele gates waving their hats and clapping their haDds while the band played a fanfare. Roast for Roosevelt. Abraham Gmber of New York, who had been selected to fire the broad sides of the old guard against Col. Roosevelt's selections, was recognized and made bis way to the platform. Col. I Gruber t,aid in part: J "'Twelve years ago on this platform , I warned a P.epubllcan convention i against turning the executive man-J man-J sion into a shooting gallery. My ad-i ad-i vice was not heeded. Since that mem I orable day, the man who has ever i since been shooting has seen his party par-ty organization divided in every state, bis party's candidates overwhelmingly overwhelming-ly defeated, business depressed and the Intelligent and honest working-man working-man without emplovmeul and hunyry. Looking for other fields, for shooting shoot-ing practice, this man Is now shooting shoot-ing at tho courts and its judges. Himself Him-self posing as a lawyer, who never had a case or drew a brief, he now finds sport in holding up the courts and Judges to the tcorn of the mob. Rut this Is not a new symptom. It j Is an old disease. "This apostle of Derringer practice, I while he wa president, abused Judge Humphrey, a gentleman and an hon I est man. for rendering a decision NEW YORK REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION NAMES ROOSEVELT (Continued from Page One.) shooter's political schemes were tho bad ones. "And now those who cry "Vive le Roi' aro good Republicans and those who are putting patriotism above all clde and therefore will not join the cry, aro bad Republicans. Cox and Lorlmer. "While under the table I touch Cox's feet, I cannot with lxrtruc-r sit down and eat Fellow citizens of New York, has the correspondence with Harrlman passed from your minds? While the firm was Roosevelt and Harrlman Har-rlman and not Roosevelt and Lincoln, Lin-coln, the shooter an drallroad man were engaged In a Joint plan to get money, and, in writing, the senior members of the firm assured Harri-man Harri-man that they were both practical men and had better keep the partnership under cover. "Every generation gives opportunity to tho patriotic and brove to keep our ship of state headed In the right direction direc-tion and all of us, business men, farmers, farm-ers, laboring men. professional men and, yes, even the women of the country may now. If they will, join in the great fight begun in the convention con-vention to prevent a third term or something worse" Roosevelt Enjoyed It. No one enjoyed Mr. Grubor s speech morp than Mr. Roosevelt, who chuckled chuck-led repeatedly. The delegates hissed Gruber s statement that it would be found that two-thirds of Roosevelt's strength In the convention came from federal office holders. At ono point the jeers and cat-calls became ro great thai Col Roosevelt, leaping to his feet and waving his hands at the delegates, cried: "I ask a full hearing for Col C ruber. The speaker continue!, but hisses almost drowned his attacks on Col. Roosevelt. Speaks for Roosevelt. Col Gruher concluding. Comptroller Prendergast of New York was recognized recog-nized to speak for Col RoosevHt. 'Mr. Prendergast congratulated Col. Roosevelt on Col. Oruber's speech. He said he knew of nothing better to fchew the line of cleavage between Col. Roosevelt'o friends and other people peo-ple in this convention Tho speaker assailed the action orv the 6tate committee com-mittee last night A roll call, on the chairmanship was ordered at 2:22 Chairman Woodruff Interrupted the roll call at 2: !.-, salng that at tho rate the roll call was being made It would lake an hour to complete. Tie suggested that the call b, concluded In the regular way, hut the delegates protested that each man cast hid voto as an Individual. |