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Show BARNES SAYS TEDDY IS POLITICAL WELCHES ALBANY. N7- Y.. Sept. 20. A clear ma-jority ma-jority of lirtv-nve votes for the selection of Vict; President Sherman as temporary chairman of tho Now York state Repub- i llcan convention over Colonel Roosevelt was claimed tonight by William Barnes, Jr.. as a result of the up-state primaries Mr. Barnes, who has been leading the light for lh; "old guard." declared that the real contest at Saratoga will be in tho committee on resolutions. This committee com-mittee will consider the question of direct di-rect nominations. Mr. Barnes gavrj out this statement: "Mr; Itoospvi.'lt was defeated in the state committee by a vote of 0 to 1, and then Br. Sherman wns unanimously chosen as tho temporary presiding otricer by Die state committee. To (juestlon that determination on the floor of the convention conven-tion ls equivalent to bolting a nomination. nomina-tion. , "fills is known as political welching, and hud Mr. Roosevelt defeated Mr Sherman in tho slate committee, that would have been the cntl of that con-trov'Tsv. con-trov'Tsv. Mr. rtoosevclt has not acted as Mr. "Sherman would have done In uos. tlonlng the unanimous action of the committee. com-mittee. Thoy are equal before the party. Mr. Roosevelt has no superior righto as a man to any other man." |