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Show DELL MAKES CHARGE I AGAINST ROOSEVELT Dfclarps President and Higgiii Are frying to Wreck the Party. NEW YORK. Dec. 21. Pormer Gov. B B CMH - halrman of th Republl an State committee, made s statement today to-day m whlch h9 charged President Roosevelt and Gov. niggms with a de-"brato de-"brato attempt to wreck the Rcpubll-can Rcpubll-can party of this state for their own Personal ambitions He de, ared t),nt l( XoZUCl lhe b Mr. Ode Us , , usatlons "ere a part of out nfm,h 4,01 ,h" ,tuatn crowing rartv i, ,r;r"Ust ln tne RPuMicaS parti In this State for the Bp ikershlp or the New York Assembly. Mi idell declared himself )n favn, of E Mer-ntt Mer-ntt Jr. several days ago Higgins Out for Wadsworth 0. ,? "Monday last Gov. HlKgln came , Mr sai'' ,0,:" 1 that '-o Hlgglns said . ,..,., WM f0 Merrill Shortly after the election r went to Gov. Hlggln and asked him whom he was fm for Bpeaker He eliminated all but Bterritt and said that I neither New York nor Hufralo . mild nave It because it would stir up opposition opposi-tion against the cities 1 asked him if Merritt would be satisfai toi y to him ar.,1 he asked me to see Merrltt and ask him some ,ii,.- i,,h i saw Merritt and roporte,! (ll t)., Qovernor and h,. , , he was satisfied. Switched His Trolley. "I dearly understood h,- was for Merrltt Mer-rltt and was never so surprised as when be switched his trolley. This Is the worst case of duplicity in politics 1 have ever known. Merritt Is absolutely right In Haying that the Governor agreed to support him. He offered to the I !ov -ernor to stay out of the contest if u. Governor wanted him to do so. "Led by the oollarleas and costless young man who took un all to defeat in 1S91 (apparently referring t,. j si,,t Fassetti. William BArries Jr., Col George W. Dunne and others with n-thumbs, n-thumbs, felted Washington and stirred up this t rouble Should Have Sent for Him "If President Roosevelt had the good of the party at heart he could have sent for me at any time, and I would have been glad to confer with him for the sake of obtaining harmony 1n the party If that had been don.- all this trouble would have been avoided without warfare war-fare l charge President Roosevelt and b,v Higgins with deliberately trying to wreck the party In this State for their own pergonal ambitions If this means party disaster, they, and not I and my friends are responsible. They and not 1, are to blame " |