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Show MEW TORK FIGHT EROMCiTI Sherman Is Beaten in His Own Ward and District; Claims State Victory. PROGRESSIVE LEADER SAYS TEDDY WILL GET THERE In Any Event Contest Will Be Close and One of National Interest iSTEW YORK, Sept. 20. Vice President Presi-dent James S. Sherman, candidate for the old gunrd for temporary chairman of the Republican state convention, -was defeuted in his own assembly district, the second of Oneida county, and in his own ward in tho city of Ulica, at the primaries today. Accordine to Tcports received at Republican Re-publican etatc headquarters the old guard forces carried the first and third assembly districts of Oneida county and will have the support of fourteen delegates, dele-gates, while the progressives will control con-trol nine. As the result of primaries held today in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, Troy and in other cities and counties up-state, Timothy L. Woodruff, chairman chair-man of the Republican state committee, and William Barnes, Jr., at Albany, tonight to-night predict Mr. Sherman's election as temporary chairman of tho state convention con-vention by a substantial majority. Griscora Takos Issue. Lloyd C. Griscom, president of the New York Republican committee-, leader of tho progressives, doclarcd tonight thac Mr. Barnes's claim that Mr. Sherman Sher-man would have a majority of fifty-five in the convention was absurd, and expressed ex-pressed conhdenco that Colonel Roosevelt Roose-velt would bo named. Mr. Griscom said: "Tho action of tho Republican voters of Mr. Sherman's own district in repudiating re-pudiating him at tho polls will have a profound effect on the party throughout tho state of New York. President Taft's letter to me of August 20 fully exposed the misuse of his namo and tliQ deceit by wIikU Mr. Sherman's election by the stato committee on August 1(5 was accomplished. The voters of his own homo have shown their disapproval and voiced in a practical way tho general gen-eral sentiment of the best element in the party throughout the state. Hard Rap at Sherman. "Mr. Sherman cannot oven go to tho state convention tts a 'delegate from the district in which ho lives." Chairman Woodruff was advised of tho results in Oneida countv by State Committeeman Daniel F. Slrobel of Herkimer, and ex-Mayor Thomas Wheeler Wheel-er of Utica. "They report," said Mr. Woodruff tonight, "that- tho organization has elected twenty-three out of thirty-two delegates in tho Oneida-Herkimer congressional con-gressional district and thoy express themselves as entirelv satisfied with the result in view of the tremendous fight made against them. "Mayor Wheeler said that Vice President Pres-ident Sherman would head the delegation delega-tion from tho first assembly district and I have no doubt that ho will be elected temporary chairman of the state convention con-vention by a substantial majority." |